January Staff Reads

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

A Novel

The Ernest Cunningham Mysteries: Book #2

By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch & Megan Smart
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“A must for lovers of classic mysteries. A story where all of the characters, suspects and victims are mystery authors, agents, or publicists. A locked room mystery taking place on a train which, as our author/ narrator reminds us, isn’t really a locked room mystery because none of the rooms on the train have locks. Brilliantly written,... Read more

The Connellys of County Down

A Novel

By: Tracey Lange
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

"Talented Barrie Kreinik narrates this complicated contemporary story about the hardships of the Connelly family." - AudioFile

From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love.... Read more

Never Whistle at Night

An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Narrated by: Erin Tripp, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Joelle Peters, Kaniehtiio Horn, Lisa Cromarty, Maika Harper, Shane Ghostkeeper, Sheldon Elter & Tara Sky
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“From spine tingling creatures to monstrous humans, this collection of short stories covers so many different tales from a group of Indigenous voices that I'm excited to read more from. Each new story had me on the edge of my seat with a variety of thrills, horrors and the constant reminder that darkness and evil exist in many shapes. Read more

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

A Novel

By: Katherine Arden
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy & Katherine Arden
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

“Such a captivating story set during WWI that touches on what it means to love someone and what you might give up for that love. This was a novel where the horror is war, real and daunting, and the ghosts were what kept you holding on and living. Katherine Arden has such a beautiful way with words that she pulls you into terrible moments and... Read more

The Getaway List

A Novel

By: Emma Lord
Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Inescapably romantic and brimming with New York Times bestselling author Emma Lord’s signature cheer, The Getaway List is an uplifting and romantic listen that will settle into your heart and never leave.

The day of her high school graduation, Riley realizes two things: One, that she has spent the last four years trying so hard to be a Good Kid... Read more

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

A Novel

By: Janice Hallett
Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Nneka Okoye, Gareth Armstrong, Sid Sagar & Kristin Atherton
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

“Sometimes you just need a twisting, British-set mystery — this is the perfect book for that reading mood! It unfolds in layers, told through transcripts and messages, raising questions to the very riveting end. Read more

Unlikeable Female Characters

The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice.



Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are... Read more

The Curse of Pietro Houdini

A Novel

By: Derek B. Miller
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

“This story follows a larger-than-life man and the young narrator he takes on as an apprentice to save Italian art from Nazi Germany. The narrator’s interiority is some of the best I’ve read and the character work is impeccable. Aside from being a technical masterpiece, the story itself is compelling and grounded. I found myself invested in every... Read more

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde: Book #1

By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

“When prodigy fae scholar Emily Wilde hauls herself off to cold and snowy Hrafnsvik for field study, she does so with a plan to finish the world's first definitive encyclopaedia of fairies. She doesn't anticipate Wendell Brambleby—her all-too-appealing academic rival, (unfortunately) her only friend, and perhaps a member of the fae himself if her... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

Fiction

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, Aaron Goodson & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

The Blueprint

A Novel

By: Rae Giana Rashad
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a... Read more

Martyr!

A novel

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

“Kaveh Akbar is a major new voice in American literature and Martyr! is his tour de force. In a mix of penetrating insight and profoundly funny stories, this entertaining and moving tale holds a mirror up to our society. Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Narrated by: Tom Weiner
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“A post-apocalyptic story about progress, regression, violence, ignorance, and the cycles that humanity seems doomed to repeat. After a worldwide catastrophe, a group of monks collects and preserves scientific relics and writings in a quest to rediscover lost, but fundamental scientific theories. The century-spanning story that follows looks at... Read more