fiction

Ghost Music

By: An Yu
Narrated by: Vera Chok
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. When she married, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child.

Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province... Read more

Candelaria

A Novel

By: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Narrated by: Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man... Read more

Yellowface

A Novel

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“One afternoon, I picked up this book intending to read a chapter or two only to find myself completely engrossed with this fast paced, quick witted tale for the rest of the night! I finished it the following morning. I found the unreliable narrator to be really compelling and I was intrigued by the scathing take down of the publishing industry.... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

A Novel

By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“Zhang’s gorgeous prose sets a stark contrast between a world destroyed and a seemingly pristine utopia. While darkness pervades this literary thrill ride, thoughtful questions about humanity save the reader from total madness. Read more

Wrong Way

By: Joanne McNeil
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

For years, Teresa has meandered from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time, unable to move ahead in any field or career, the dreaded move from one gig to another starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a “good” job. It’s a... Read more

The Skin and Its Girl

A Novel

By: Sarah Cypher
Narrated by: Victoria Nassif & Haneen Arafat Murphy
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt’s secrets in this “enchanting, memorable” (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.
 
“As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this bold, vivid novel will speak to readers across genders, cultures, and... Read more

The Vaster Wilds

A Novel

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

“This thrilling survival story of a girl fleeing a 17th century Virginia colony again demonstrates that Lauren Groff is a literary force of nature. As the girl fights to survive in an unknown, dangerous, yet beautiful wilderness, we learn of the girl’s life in Elizabethan England, and the patriarchy of the colony. Highly recommended! Read more

Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Narrated by: Chloë Sevigny
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“Obsessed!” —Chloë Sevigny
“I am literally obsessed.” —Busy Philipps

Hailed as “richly intimate” and “wickedly delightful” (The New York Times Book Review), this steamy and incisive debut adult novel follows one woman’s affair with her daughter’s best friend, testing the limits of love and ambition.

It’s the opening night, but Alice’s performance... Read more

The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus & Jordan Waunch
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

“This was one of my favorites of 2024! Read more

Bright Young Women

A Novel

By: Jessica Knoll
Narrated by: Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill & Chris Henry Coffey
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

“WOWZA. Bright Young Women is based on the real murders of a serial killer. If you have any background knowledge of true crime in the 1970s you will know which killer Knoll has used as the basis of the defendant . HOWEVER, unlike the numerous books, TV specials, and movies, Jessica Knoll gives us an intense literary crime novel that focuses on... Read more

Evil Eye

A Novel

By: Etaf Rum
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian & Gail Shalan
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

“A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community BoardThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

Family Lore

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo, Sixta Morel & Danyeli Rodriguez del Orbe
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

“Excellent family epic. The sisters and their daughters are a joy to spend time with. Read more

Yours for the Taking

A Novel

By: Gabrielle Korn
Narrated by: Jasmin Savoy Brown
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

“With multiple narrators with diverse backgrounds and ideas, this book kept me guessing. This story is all about how different decisions one makes (as well as society), no matter the intention, can negatively harm what follows. Read more

All the Little Bird-Hearts

A Novel

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic mother as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives.

I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it... Read more

Holiday Country

A Novel

By: İnci Atrek
Narrated by: Ayse Babahan
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“Holiday Country is a gorgeous and poignant bildungsroman of womanhood, motherhood, identity, and the nuances that stitch them together set against the resplendent Aegean Coast. A book to keep close to your chest in the cold months ahead. Read more

The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter’s name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches and searches until, spent from grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children behind. Bearing witness to the suicide is another... Read more

Your Driver Is Waiting

A Novel

By: Priya Guns
Narrated by: Priya Guns
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

“In this book full of snappy writing and clever digs, we follow a few days in the life of a queer Sri Lankan woman whose main hustle is driving for a ride-share in an anonymous big city. Constant urban protests capture the current zeitgeist and Damani's underemployed and over-educated friends want to fight oppression. This book examines class... Read more

Death Valley

A Novel

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“Unable to deal with the double grief of a father in the ICU and a husband with a debilitating, worsening illness, our narrator flees LA to hide out in a Best Western in an unnamed desert town. On a nearby hiking trail she comes upon a giant Saguaro cactus (a species which should not exist in the California desert) with a seam running along its... Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jimenez
Narrated by: Claire Jimenez
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“Jiménez’s debut is funny and moving. A Puerto Rican girl living in Staten Island, Ruthy, disappeared on the way home from school. Years later, her sisters think they’ve found her and plan to bring her home. I loved everything about this. Read more

She and Her Cat

Stories

By: Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
Narrated by: Winson Ting, Julia Strowski, Jacqui Bardelang, Hana Teraie-Wood & Nile Faure-Bryan
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.

Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a... Read more