Mind-Bending Books

The Silence of the Lambs

25th Anniversary Edition

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Listen to the silence...
An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer courage of a young F.B.I. novice, who risks her life... Read more

The Girl on the Train

A Novel

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.
 
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
 
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair

“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller... Read more

The Woman in the Window

A Novel

By: A. J. Finn
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

“The Woman in the Window is being touted as one of the hottest releases of early 2018, and with excellent reason. A modern take on Hitchcock's Rear Window, with many nods to classic noir film, A.J. Finn's debut novel is told through the eyes of a narrator trapped inside her beautiful house by a severe case of agoraphobia and separated from her... Read more

Along Came a Spider

Alex Cross: Book #1

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: Taye Diggs
Length: 11 hours

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series and is the inspiration for the original series Cross on Prime Video! 

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed... Read more

The Da Vinci Code

A Novel

Robert Langdon: Book #2

By: Dan Brown
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 17 hours

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.

“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times

“A pulse-quickening,... Read more

Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

In Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in... Read more

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A Lisbeth Salander Novel

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series: Book #1

By: Stieg Larsson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry... Read more

My Sister, the Serial Killer

A Novel

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

“Korede’s sister, Ayoola, seems to have a recurring problem: She can’t seem to keep a boyfriend for very long before he winds up dead. Korede is always there to help - as family is an important aspect of her Nigerian culture - but when her sister’s gaze lands on Korede’s crush, she must decide if family is worth cleaning up so much blood. This... Read more

The Quiet Girl

By: S.F. Kosa
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Patricia Santomasso
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Good girls keep quiet. But quiet girls can't stay silent forever—and the consequences are sure to make some noise.



When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch things up with his new wife, Mina, he finds an empty wine glass in the sink, her wedding ring on the desk, and a string of questions in her wake. The police believe that Mina, a successful... Read more

Flowers for Algernon

By: Daniel Keyes
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“One of the best and most heartbreaking books I’ve read in a long time. The story of a man who is mentally handicapped and goes through an experimental surgery to make him smart. It works and he becomes a genius, but only temporarily. Just long enough to give him a taste of what he has been missing, realize that people always laugh at his... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 8 hours

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. “One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street JournalCloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately... Read more

The Vanished Birds

A Novel

By: Simon Jimenez
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

“This book has stuck with me in a way that I know can only be attributed to masterful storytelling. In The Vanished Birds, Earth becomes uninhabitable and humankind spreads out into space using technology that is all of our capitalist, designer-baby, smart-everything, social-media-age fears realized. But this new world is also beautifully poetic... Read more

The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

“Shannon Moss is a member of Naval Criminal Investigative Services (NCIS), but she is from a branch of the Navy few have ever heard of. Shannon is part of Naval Space Command, a clandestine organization that sails deep space and time. Shannon is on the hunt for a killer: NSC officer, Patrick Mursult, who seems to have been driven mad during his... Read more

All Our Wrong Todays

A Novel

By: Elan Mastai
Narrated by: Elan Mastai
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

“Tom Barren is a time traveler. From 2016. A different 2016 from ours, that is. It's complicated. You see, he traveled from his techno-perfect utopian 2016 back to 1964 and really messed things up, leaving us with our current world. Now, the 2016 Tom-in-our-world, given the chance to return to 1964 and fix what he broke and return the world to... Read more

Rant

An Oral History of Buster Casey

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: James Yaegashi, Stina Nielsen, Andy Paris, Julia Gibson, Nick Landrum, Norman Dietz, Kevin R. Free, Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Jonathan Hogan, Johnny Heller, Ed Sala, Cynthia Darlow, Ruth Ann Phimister, Henry Strozier, James Jenner, Alan Nebelthau, Tom Stechschulte, John McDonough, Danielle Ferland, George Guidall, Richard Poe, Andrea Gallo, L.J. Ganser, Nicole Poole, Greg Steinbruner, Angela Rogers, T. Ryder Smith, Melanie Martinez & Lizzy Cooper-Davis
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to... Read more

Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

“This was my first time reading Octavia Butler. To say I was unprepared for the character study and journey she would take me on would be a great understatement. Dana, a black woman living in 1970s California mysteriously travels back in time (repeatedly) to the antebellum South and must find a way to stay put in her own time with as little... Read more

This Time Tomorrow

A Novel

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Emma Straub
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

“Straub brings her trademark humor, insight, and disarming charm to a time-travel novel that is at its core a love letter to her real-life dad, novelist Peter Straub (who died after this book was published). Alice, a rudderless almost-40-year-old is not necessarily happy with her life, but is not sure of what her happy life might look like. When... Read more

Thrust

A Novel

By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek, Ron Butler, Cassandra Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Darrell Dennis, Dominique Franceschi, Kathleen Gati, Graham Halstead, Austin Ku, Omar Leyva, Karen Murray & TL Thompson
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

THRUST IS:
“Epic.” –The New York Times
“A triumph.” —Elle
“Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast
“Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books
“A book to take in wide-eyed.”  —Rebecca Makkai

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

As rising waters—and an encroaching police... Read more