Featured Titles - June 2024

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

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel: Book #1

By: Hisashi Kashiwai
Narrated by: Hanako Footman
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?


Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

A Novel

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Arina Ii
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“If you had a chance to travel in time, would you? Even if there were multiple rules that must be followed, including you cannot change the present, and the cost of breaking the rules means losing your life. Would you do it? In Before the Coffee gets Cold, you follow four different customers who have come to a coffee shop, hidden in the alleys of... Read more

Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jeena Yi
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist. Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a... Read more

The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

A Novel

By: Laura Imai Messina
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami

When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from... Read more

The Cat Who Saved Books

A Novel

By: Sosuke Natsukawa
Narrated by: Kevin Shen
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

AN INDIE NEXT PICK!From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm... Read more

Once There Were Wolves

A Novel

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“Inti has always relied on tough, talkative Aggie, whether they're with one parent surviving in the wilderness of North America or with the other, a tough cop in Australia. Her sense of security, constantly undermined by her rare neurological disorder - a tactile form of synaesthesia, is fragile at best. We can all relate to Inti's growing fears... Read more

The Paper Palace (Reese's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Miranda Cowley Heller
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

“Elle and her family gather each summer at the ‘Paper Palace’ family cabins; but this one day will be anything but a relaxing vacation retreat. This will be the buzz of book clubs and a perfect traveling companion for summers by the seaside. Read more

Fellowship Point

A Novel

By: Alice Elliott Dark
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

“Fellowship Point is a quiet novel that reaches deep into the heart, exploring the bonds created in lifelong relationships and the depths of connection to place. Told through the relationship between two 80-year-old cousins who are also best friends, we bear keen witness to women's lives, their expected roles, and the difficult decisions these... Read more

The Overstory

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

“The Overstory is a difficult novel to encapsulate in a sentence or two. It is an epic novel of interconnected stories that all revolve in one way or another to trees and our kinship with the natural world. I listened to this over a few months and found it captivating, especially the sections of the stories that deal with the non-violent direct... Read more

Barkskins

A Novel

By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

“This multigenerational saga follows the fortunes of the Sel and Duke families from early Colonial days to the present, spanning centuries and continents as they make their living not only from the bounty of the land but also from the ravaging and destruction of it. As always, Proulx is brilliant at creating a story that flows impeccably, and her... Read more

The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Donna Tartt
Narrated by: Donna Tartt
Length: 22 hours 2 minutes

“Moody, tense, and perfect for autumn. The Secret History is rich in character, setting, and Donna Tartt's narration will have you hypnotized. One of my favorite audiobooks of all time! Read more

The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

By: Donna Tartt
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 32 hours 24 minutes

“The Goldfinch was always one of those books I was intimidated to start. It's so long! And sprawling! Was I really going to commit to thirty hours of a book about a painting? The answer is: I waited much too long to get to this truly incredible story, and if you--like me--are daunted by this book's length and scope, the audiobook is for you. Read... Read more

If We Were Villains

A Novel

By: M. L. Rio
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

“Each year, when Fall finally comes around, I find myself wanting to revisit this book. Seven thespians studying Shakespeare, a murder, and the dark academia genre that has become so very popular these days. What more could you ask for in a book? Read more

In Memoriam

A novel

By: Alice Winn
Narrated by: Christian Coulson
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

“The voice acting/reading was perfect! Now for the actual story: This book made me cry at three separate sections. Winn has written such an accurate account of what happens in times of war, especially when those fighting are yong people who are supposed to be at start of their lives. Interwoven is a story of love and stories of friendships... Read more

Everything I Know About Love

A Memoir

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

“Everything I Know About Love was a joy to read and relatable to me as a young woman in her early 20's. Dolly Alderton gives a transparent, brutally honest look at herself at the various stages of her 30 years of life. She accurately depicts the hedonistic nature of being young, somewhat clueless, and attempting to navigate through life's... Read more

Dear Dolly

Collected Wisdom

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

From the author of Everything I Know About Love and longtime Sunday Times Style columnist comes advice and answers to your questions about dating, love, sex, family, friendship and more.“One of the foremost ‘it’ writers of our time. . . . There is no writer quite like Dolly.”—Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Nora... Read more

Good Material: A Read with Jenna Pick

A novel

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Arthur Darvill & Vanessa Kirby
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • From the best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both

“Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist….Delivers the most delightful... Read more

First Love

Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger
Narrated by: Lilly Dancyger
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

A “vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays” (Associated Press) that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are, from the critically acclaimed author of Negative Space

“A tender, unswerving homage to her found family, but also an insightful study of friendship as identity-crafting.”—Elle

Lilly Dancyger always thought... Read more

Normal People

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

“What a treat to discover Sally Rooney! This novel stands out shining from the current onslaught of mediocre prose and less-than-suspenseful thriller plots. Normal People is the story of a relationship between two high school classmates in a small town in Ireland, and how it changes over time, through their last year of college in Dublin.... Read more