2025 Tusome Book Club Picks

The Perfect Nine

The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker PrizeA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book... Read more

Go Tell It on the Mountain

A Novel

Vintage International

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Joe Morton & Roxane Gay
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

“The narration made this book feel like a whole new story from when I read the physical copy years ago. I cannot recommend this book enough to first time Baldwin readers. Read more

Our Women on the Ground

Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

By: Zahra Hankir
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour

“A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent... Read more

Sanaaq

An Inuit Novel

Contemporary Studies on the North: Book #4

By: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in... Read more

Look Me in the Eye

My Life with Asperger's

By: John Elder Robison
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits–an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes–had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother or his father. It was no wonder he... Read more

There Are Rivers in the Sky

A novel

By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall & Elif Shafak
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

“A beautiful listening experience that I would recommend to anyone - especially lovers of historical fiction. I am an Elif Shafak fan for life. 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