fiction

A Woman of Pleasure

By: Kiyoko Murata
Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power... Read more

I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

A Novel

By: Mariah Stovall
Narrated by: Trei Taylor
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who's perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it's a meaningless job and a... Read more

Green Frog

Stories

By: Gina Chung
Narrated by: Jeena Yi, Sue Jean Kim & Hannah Choi
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

ONE OF NPR'S 2024 "BOOKS WE LOVE"

From the author of Sea Change comes a short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformation as a means of survival.

"The stories hit, each one, and land with such seeming perfection. Chung’s book sits next to my all-time favorite story collections by masters of the... Read more

Help Wanted

A Novel

By: Adelle Waldman
Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s... Read more

Memory Piece

A Novel

By: Lisa Ko
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“I finished Memory Piece on a family trip, and found myself thinking of it when I woke up and itching to get back to it. I’ll remember Giselle, Ellen, and Jackie — their friendships, art and community making, and survival — for a long time! Read more

The Morningside

A Novel

By: Téa Obreht 
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

“There is so much to unpack in The Morningside and all coming at you through the eyes of an 11-year-old. Do you remember being 11? Having fantastical adventures solving all the "mysterious" happenings going on around you. Being rebellious and knowing you understand all the things that your Mom can't possibly understand? Obreht precisely uncovers... Read more

Like Happiness

A Novel

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

“As a young university student, Tatum fell in love with a book and wrote a letter to its author. Thus began a decade long relationship between the two. Now living happily far from him, she is forced to re-confront their relationship when a reporter calls her for an interview, hoping to find evidence to support accusations of sexual abuse made... Read more

I'm F*cking Amazing

A Novel

By: Anoushka Warden
Narrated by: Esther Smith
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever?

Her body used to work perfectly. For years, she tallied her orgasms, maintained a Top Humps list, and rated men on whether they excited her more mentally or physically—all with the purpose of finding the ideal love match. 

Now, as she moves into her thirties... Read more

The Rock Eaters

Stories

By: Brenda Peynado
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Ines del Castillo, Sunil Malhotra, Alejandra Reynoso & Jane Santos
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

An NPR Best Book of 2021
NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021

A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia
 
What does... Read more

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

An Oprah’s Book Club Novel

By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton & Prentice Onayemi
Length: 29 hours 48 minutes

“This book really won me over with its brilliant writing and entrancing story. Honestly, I was intimidated by the length and title (especially as someone who doesn't love poetry) but the blurb was so good and it sounded right up my alley. The narrators, Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton & Prentice Onayemi, all have gorgeous voices and immediately... Read more

Olga Dies Dreaming

A Novel

By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Armando Riesco & Inés del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“What a debut! If you’re looking for a compelling, well written story about a woman at odds with her heritage, her family and trying desperately to figure out her place in the world Olga Dies Dreaming is the book for you. I couldn’t put it down-I stayed up until 2:30 in the morning because I had to know what happened to Olga! Read more

When We Were Birds

A Novel

By: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Narrated by: Sydney Darius & Wendell Manwarren
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.

"Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and] ... in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is... Read more

Beasts of a Little Land

A Novel

By: Juhea Kim
Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim & Raymond Lee
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

“A saga spanning over fifty years, Beasts of a Little Land will whisk you away to the streets of Seoul, the forests of Manchuria, and a wealthy courtesan school in Pyongyang. Following two friends of drastically different backgrounds throughout the Korean independence movement, this epic story will have you rooting for love and redemption. A... Read more

Memphis: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Tara M. Stringfellow
Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo & Tara Stringfellow
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“Centering Black joy above all, Stringfellow’s life-affirming debut follows three generations of unforgettable women in a gifted but tested family. Readers will cry, laugh, and sing. I hope we read Stringfellow for a long, long time. Read more

The Not Wives

By: Carley Moore
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Set in Occupy-era New York City, this novel follows sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance in the lives of three women: "A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall... Read more

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

A Novel

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted: Book #1

By: Jayne Allen
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“It’s a good thing that this is only the first book of a trilogy, because after getting to know Tabitha, you won’t want to leave her at the end. . . . Written intimately as if you’re peering into the mind of a close friend, this book is a true testament to the stresses on women today and how great girlfriends (and grandmothers) are often the key... Read more

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

A Novel

By: Claire Vaye Watkins
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NPR, ESQUIRE, AND KIRKUS

“There’s some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It’s startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns, finally transcendent. Watkins writes like an avenging angel. It's thrilling and terrifying to stand in her wake.” —Jenny... Read more

Animal

A Novel

By: Lisa Taddeo
Narrated by: Emma Roberts
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“Wow, what a read. Every woman will see herself somewhere in Joan, in her rage, her heartbreak, her desperation. Animal made me feel like a raw, exposed nerve, but I couldn't stop listening. Lisa Taddeo gives voice to all the things that are breaking us. Read more

Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen.Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her... Read more

The Fifth Wound

By: Aurora Mattia
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.



The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a... Read more