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My Education

By: Susan Choi
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's restroom and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But... Read more

The Adult

By: Bronwyn Fischer
Narrated by: Emma Love
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.  Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal... Read more

The Laughter

A Novel

By: Sonora Jha
Narrated by: Christopher Grove & Deepti Gupta
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

""Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping away, he can’t see the ground shifting beneath his feet. A deliciously sharp, mercilessly perceptive exploration of power, The Laughter explores how ‘otherness’ is both fetishized and demonized, and what it means to love something—a person, a... Read more

The Unfortunates

A Novel

By: J K Chukwu
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing.Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year, she already feels like a failure:... Read more

Magic for Liars

A Novel

By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“Xe Sands gives the performance of a lifetime. Tense. Moody. Perfect. This book HAUNTS me! Read more

I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

“Great for lovers of podcasts and true crime Read more

Old Enough

A Novel

By: Haley Jakobson
Narrated by: Jenna Kray & Haley Jakobson
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

“Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue

A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown

*Isle... Read more

My Last Innocent Year

A Novel

By: Daisy Alpert Florin
Narrated by: Sarah Bierstock
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

“Academic/Campus novels (novels set in and around universities) are my favorite genre, so I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one. Set in 1990s New England, this quietly propulsive novel explores an artist coming-of-age as she navigates the grey areas between agency and coercion, desire and power, loyalty and betrayal. Incredible. Read more

The Incendiaries

A Novel

By: R. O. Kwon
Narrated by: Keong Sim
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“R.O. Kwon’s debut knocked me sideways. The Incendiaries is a serious reckoning with the problem of fanaticism and the violence of blind devotion. The story of Will and Phoebe is told with an extraordinarily smart and soulful style. I was amazed at how perfectly Kwon’s spare language fit her novel’s expansive scope. A stunning portrait of what... Read more

The Female Persuasion

A Novel

By: Meg Wolitzer
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

“I never could have anticipated this book, and now I can't imagine a world without it, especially at this moment in American history. The Female Persuasion follows the ambitious but shy Greer Kadetsky, her boyfriend, her best friend, and the feminist icon who launches her into the world. Through these vivid, complex, and lovable characters,... Read more

One Last Stop

By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“McQuiston delivers a delightful sophomore novel that surprised me. Though similar to Red, White, and Royal Blue, One Last Stop adds a science fiction time loop element that makes it fun and different. I had major missing-Brooklyn-feels while listening to this! McQuiston perfectly captures the magic of Brooklyn and the MTA (both good and... Read more

The Marriage Plot

A Novel

By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011

It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is... Read more

The Idiot

By: Elif Batuman
Narrated by: Elif Batuman
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

“I read this and its follow-up Either/Or back to back. I'm not always a fan of the classic bildungsroman, especially the college variety. I don't need to be reminded of how dumb I was at 19. But THIS! It felt esoteric and yet completely relatable. Like it was written specifically to me, even though I didn't share any of the protagonist's actual... Read more

Real Life

A Novel

By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award 
 
“A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington... Read more

The Truants

By: Kate Weinberg
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Top Ten Best Crime Novels of 2020
One of USA Today's Best Books 2020

"[A] hypnotic debut. . . .[An] uncommonly clever whodunit."--New York Times Book Review

Perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History, The Truants is a seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written debut novel of literary... 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

Vladimir

A Novel

By: Julia May Jonas
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“Vladimir is a get-under-your-skin story about obsession, power, the ivory tower of academia, and 'PC culture' movements told from the point of view of a female professor whose husband has been accused of sexual misconduct by many of his former students. As her husband faces hearing committees, she becomes fixated on Vladimir—the young, new (and... Read more

Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“Ishiguro is a master at transporting readers viscerally into his settings, and this book is no exception. It's dreary and haunting, brooding and intimate, and the nonchalance with which he presents the biggest twist of the novel can be quite jarring on your first read. Read more

If We Were Villains

A Novel

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

“The quintessential and mysterious dark academic tale about the events leading to the murder and subsequent years-long inprisonment of two of the group's castmates at a prestigious university. The group, then fractured by substance abuse, flaring egos, uncontrollable lust, rippling jealousies, and outbreaks of violent rages, is now unsure of the... Read more

Straight Man

A Novel

By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Sam Freed
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that... Read more