Book Club Picks

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“Galaxy (Alex) Stern has had a hard life so when she is offered the chance to attend Yale free of charge, she is immediately suspicious. There is only one catch. She must join the mysterious Lethe House, which is tasked with monitoring the occult activities of the eight secret societies that are housed on campus. There is a reason that the... Read more

Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Dorothy Baker
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“Following the complex and dysfunctional relationship between twin sisters Cassandra and Judith, who have been inseparable until Judith's sudden engagement, forces Cassandra to confront her own individuality, her entanglement with her family, and the lingering grief of her mother's death. Intelligent, witty, and emotional in its exploration of... Read more

Your Absence Is Darkness

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

“I think I would have appreciated this more with the book in my hand, but the audio narration was tender and enjoyable. The narrative traces the lineage of a rural Icelandic community—one family in particular—a hundred years or so, meandering on its way. There is much talk of life and death, music, poetry, philosophy. There is much love and much... Read more

The Stardust Thief

By: Chelsea Abdullah
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani & Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn... Read more

Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro
Narrated by: Sally Masterson
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing... Read more

The Body in Question

A Novel

By: Jill Ciment
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***

From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner” —Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel.

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I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

“Wow, what a novel. The narrator was a teenager when she was added to 39 other females in an underground bunker. No one knows how they got there or why. This book is a puzzle that can't really be solved because we don't know why the women were imprisoned or even where they are - Earth? Maybe not as our narrator surmised. These women triumphed... Read more

Piranesi

By: Susanna Clarke
Narrated by: Íñigo Álvarez de Lara
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Vuelve la autora de Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell con una novela hipnótica ambientada en una realidad onírica. La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las... Read more

The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland.... Read more

The Empusium

A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“A brilliantly written horror novel in which the horror derives from very real topics like misogyny, lack of identity, and constantly being put in a box that you just don’t fit in. It’s also funny, uplifting, and life-affirming. That might sound like the book has clashing tones, but it actually maintains its feel and themes all the way to the... Read more

The Vegetarian

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A KIRKUS... Read more

Onyx Storm

Empyrean: Book #3

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton, Justis Bolding & Jasmin Walker
Length: 23 hours 52 minutes

“Magic, dragons, sex, and edge-of-your-seat action and excitement… The only con in reading this is having to wait for the next book to come out! Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“Here is a fascinatingly cerebral read with a highly unpredictable plot! Two brothers, (one an extrovert that things come to easily and the younger one who is a smart, chess playing "on the spectrum" introvert) face parallel challenges with women and their family. Filled with the exceptionally moody inner thoughts of both brothers and the very... Read more

All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“Heartbreaking and loving all at once, this gripping and fast paced thriller drew me in from page one. Silence of the Lambs meets My Girl with it's simultaneous horror and found family in 1970s Missouri. I couldn't put it down, and I'm not sure to forget it any time soon! Read more

A Master of Djinn

Dead Djinn Universe: Book #1

By: P. Djèlí Clark
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

“'This is not your grandfather's Cairo.' That's for sure! Clark brings us to his alternate history Cairo where the year is 1912 and djinn roam the earth. When magic is used in a mass murder, Agent Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities steps in to investigate. So much fun! I've already given this as... Read more

A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.



On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own... Read more

The Pisces

A Novel

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

“Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter 
 
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho... Read more

Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“This book got some very mixed reviews and I am in the loved it camp. Strange, poignant and a wonderful slice of life novel. Read more

North Woods

A Novel

By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter & Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“It is a rare thing to find a book i consider both literary and delightful, but North Woods is both and an amazing listen to boot. If you’re headed on a long solo trip or just searching for tale that will envelop you in its loveliness, this is the one. Read more

Rouge

A Novel

By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

“After the death of her mother, Belle finds herself lured into a dark secret her mother Noelle held. Belle has always been obsessed with keeping her skin beautiful and young, constantly going into digressions about her extensive beauty routine. When a stranger appears with information about her mother, Belle gets sucked into the world of a... Read more