February Staff Picks

The Tatami Time Machine Blues

A Novel

By: Tomihiko Morimi
Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on... Read more

Rejection

Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte
Narrated by: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, Dan Bittner, André Santana, Marcha Kia, Eunice Wong & Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Bonkers! 🤯 A book that is intense - detailed and meticulously niche, it all gets out of hand real quick and you’re in it for the ride of discovering hidden desires, designed deliberately to cause a reaction one way or another, that will have you wondering if there is an endgame. If so, what then? Rejection is incredibly well written - dark,... Read more

Foundation (Apple Series Tie-in Edition)

Foundation: Book #1

By: Isaac Asimov
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
 
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator... Read more

Blood Sugar

By: Sascha Rothchild
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

“Since listening to Blood Sugar on a road trip, I've been recommending it to everyone! I have not read a book like this before. The narrator, Ruby, is fascinating. She is the epitome of a morally gray character, and I was rooting for her the entire time even though I knew her faults and questionable life decisions. Ruby is a therapist. She has... Read more

How Not to Kill Yourself

A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin
Narrated by: Clancy Martin
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.”

“If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say... Read more

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Jonathan Haidt
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“A real paradigm-shifter. So glad I read it! Read more

Malas

A Novel

By: Marcela Fuentes
Narrated by: Christine Avila & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

A Bookpage Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024

“A vivacious, page-turning novel of rebellion and rebirth.” —Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a... Read more

House of Glass

A Novel

By: Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by: Laura Benanti
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“House of Glass is a terrifying story that you won’t be able to stop listening to as Stella Hudson, a best interest lawyer for children during custody disputes, tries to learn as much as she can about 9 year old Rose Barclay’s family and what really happened the day Rose’s nanny fell to her death from a third story window. The more she learns the... Read more

On the Road: the Original Scroll

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long,... Read more

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)

A Novel

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.

One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century

The basis for the acclaimed original Prime Video series... Read more

All the Blues in the Sky

By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

“All the Blues in the Sky will break your heart and then show you how to piece it back together. Readers will quickly immerse themselves in Sage's grief as the novel in verse storytelling guides us along the healing process. Watson's writing is beautiful, uplifting, and deeply sad. But helps reveal that grief is different for each of us, but... Read more

Away

Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman
Narrated by: Andre Bellido, Michael Crouch, Angel Pean, Alejandra Reynoso & Eunice Wong
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

A group of children investigate the threat that prompted large-scale evacuations in this powerful and dramatic companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Alone told in multiple POVs.

After an imminent yet unnamed danger forces people across Colorado to leave their homes, a group of kids including an aspiring filmmaker and a budding... Read more

The Last Dragon of the East

By: Katrina Kwan
Narrated by: Eric Yang & Feodor Chin
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Inspired by Chinese myths of ancient dragon gods and threads of fate, Katrina Kwan’s dazzling fantasy debut is a propulsive adventure perfect for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Hannah Whitten.

At the spry young age of twenty-five, Sai has led a quiet life, keeping the family teahouse up and running—even if that means ignoring the past-due notices—and... Read more

Three Days in June

A Novel

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

“Look no further. This is the perfect audiobook. Short enough for 1 sitting. Outstanding actress as narrator. Lovely, amusing, touching story. Read more

Black Woods, Blue Sky

A Novel

By: Eowyn Ivey
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

“Eowyn Ivey brings her dark fairytale craft back to the Alaskan woods. The fierceness of motherhood and the roots of primal desire grow together in the places we can only imagine. Read more

Good Girl

A Novel

By: Aria Aber
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“This book was a call out to the girls who live bound by their own identity. I found the FMC to be both endearing and insufferable, wishing for her to wake up and accept the love and life her parents have tried to give her. But as someone who craves revolution and rebellion, I understood Nila's restlessness and urge to run from her problems and... Read more

Strike the Zither

Kingdom of Three

By: Joan He
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.



The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and... Read more