The Open Book Mostly Fiction Book Club

Maybe Next Time

A Novel

By: Cesca Major
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

“A beautiful love story of a married couple who have become disconnected in the midst of their never ending to-do lists. Follow Emma as she must relive the day that ends in her husbands untimely death. The ending will leave you needing to hear more! This time-loop novel is the perfect listen for a cozy day at home. The narrator’s lovely British... Read more

Airplane Mode

An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib
Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence



The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.



The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history... Read more

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“A great retelling of Huckleberry Finn, giving Jim more depth and allowing us to grow in more understanding of the lives affected by slavery in the USA. Read more

Crossing the Line

A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever

By: Kareem Rosser
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

"Narrator Landon Woodson delivers the story perfectly, bringing out its range of emotions...Woodson offers the right inflections at the right times for the author's words--the emotional swings range from grief at the loss of a loved one to the pride Rosser feels in his accomplishments on the field." -- AudioFile Magazine

An inspiring memoir of... Read more

Looking for Jane

A Novel

By: Heather Marshall
Narrated by: Sarah Borges
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“Heavy and necessary book. Practice self care while reading and check content warnings for triggers. Read more

Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey
Narrated by: Sarah Naudi
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

“Worthy of all it's praise, this brief novel allows readers a glimpse into the personal lives of six astronauts even as it speaks volumes about our world and our planet. Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

“No matter how many times I return to this book, something new always stands out: a delightful quip or a reference I didn’t catch before. This is the ultimate comfort read and it never fails to cheer me up. Read more

Dream Count

A Novel

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae & Janina Edwards
Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

“Simply Stunning! My first 5 Star read of 2025 Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“I have a favorite Jane Austen book for every season, and there is no fitter pick for fall than Persuasion. It's nostalgic, bittersweet, melancholic, and always read best with a warm mug and soft blanket. Read more

Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)

A Novel

By: Danzy Senna
Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“What happens when "fake it 'til you make it" goes too far and doesn't pan out? Danzy did an exceptional job of developing Jane's voice as she navigates through a disaster of her own making. While I spent most of the novel anxiously waiting for everything to come undone, I could not stop myself from turning the page instead of turning away out of... Read more

The Lilac People

By: Milo Todd
Length: TBA

For readers of All the Light We Cannot See and In Memoriam, a moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves In 1932 Berlin, Bertie, a trans man, and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the... Read more

Last Night at the Lobster

By: Stewart O’Nan
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

A frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid work day world, soon to be the basis of a major motion picturePerched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall, the Red Lobster restaurant hasn’t been making its numbers, and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last... Read more

Come and Get It: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Kiley Reid
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

“Reading this feels like being unceremoniously dropped into the middle of a residence hall with all the doors thrown open to the everything-all-at-once already happening. An incisive character-driven campus novel with authentic-feeling dialogue and complex issues examined within tight, dorm-sized quarters...read this one for a slice of life that... Read more

Martyr!

A novel

By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Do not speed this one up! Narrator Arian Moayed is meant to be heard at 1.0. His reading performance is brilliant and so is the book. I listened to this one in two days, walking, running, baking -- anything to not have to hit stop. The writing is beautiful, the dialogue a treat, and the characters fully realized. Read more

The Sea Elephants

A Novel

By: Shastri Akella
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling street theater troupe, seeking to outrun the dark secrets of his past

"An exquisite novel destined to be a classic.” ―Eric Nguyen, author of Things We Lost to the Water

Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his... Read more

Tom Lake

A Novel

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

“This is a story of love for family, of past passions and people once loved, and their continuing influence on the present. With Ann Patchett’s wit and wryness finely tuned, Tom Lake is the perfect book for a summer weekend read. Read more

Behind You Is the Sea

A Novel

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Ali Nasser
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

“In these linked stories, three Palestinian interconnected families in Baltimore, caught between the values of their homeland while struggling to make sense of their American children, come to life. It’s a portrait of how class, gender, generations and traditional values both divide and unite them, with a different family in focus in each... Read more

The Last Ride of the Pony Express

My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

By: Will Grant
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

"Spellbinding" (Douglas Preston) and "completely fascinating" (Elizabeth Letts), cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the modern West on an adventure of a lifetime.  The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates both our mythic fascination with the Pony Express, and how its spirit... Read more

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hernan Diaz
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò & Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

“Who can you trust in the end? This 'brilliant literary puzzle' tells the story of the legendary Wall Street Tycoon Andrew Bevel and his enigmatic wife Mildred. Told in four interlocking parts, Trust is a novel within a novel, the fragmented notes for a ghostwritten memoir that Andrew hopes will set the record straight, the ghostwriter's own... Read more

The Rooster House

My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir

By: Victoria Belim
Narrated by: Amrita Acharia
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“On its face, The Rooster House is about Author Victoria Belim's return to her childhood home in Ukraine to research her family history. Truly, however, it's about Belim forming an adult bond with her Grandmother Valentina and the people of Ukraine whilst coming to terms with her father's suicide. What initially began as an attempt to solve the... Read more