2025 Staff Picks

Critical Role: Vox Machina--Kith & Kin

Critical Role

By: Marieke Nijkamp & Critical Role
Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Laura Bailey & Liam O'Brien
Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Explore the past of Critical Role’s daring half-elf twins, Vex’ahlia and Vax’ildan, in this original prequel novel to their adventures with Vox Machina.
 
Vex and Vax have always been outsiders. A harsh childhood in the elite elven city of Syngorn quickly taught them not to rely on others. Now, freed from the expectations of... Read more

Too Like the Lightning

Terra Ignota: Book #1

By: Ada Palmer
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 20 hours 19 minutes

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished... Read more

I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com

By: Kimberly Lemming
Narrated by: Hazel Addison
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“This was a fantastic book! Netflix, please make this into a series! Fun! Creative! Read more

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

A novel

By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen... Read more

That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

By: Kimberly Lemming
Narrated by: Hazel Addison
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Cheesemaker Brie has the worst luck in love, which is how she ends up falling for a lactose intolerant werewolf, in this raunchy, laugh-out-loud rom-com fantasy that's perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride. 

Anyone else ever thrown a drink at someone's head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? Then... Read more

Forest of Noise

Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha
Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

““What can you see when your eyes are closed?” A Gazan mother tells her children just that with the hope of quelling their fears, despite being surrounded by bombs and their eradicating light. Reader, open your heart if your eyes are unwilling. Everyone’s humanity is at stake if the suffering in Palestine doesn’t wake you up to witness the truth.... Read more

Pelican Girls

A Novel

By: Julia Malye
Narrated by: Polly Edsell
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.Paris, 1720.... Read more

You Need a Budget

The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

By: Jesse Mecham
Narrated by: Jesse Mecham
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Wall Street Journal Bestseller“Jesse Mecham has achieved the impossible: a book on budgeting that is fascinating, entertaining, and practical. Read this book, follow his advice, then watch your bank account grow and your financial worries fade.” —Josh Kaufman, bestselling author of The Personal MBA and The First 20 HoursExperience a life free of... Read more

The Art of Libromancy

On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

By: Josh Cook
Narrated by: Justin Price
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your vegetables are organic, your clothes made without child labor, your beer brewed without a culture of misogyny, then it should matter how books are made and sold to you."



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Mysterious Ways

A Novel

By: Wendy Wunder
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“Maya is a seventeen-year-old who can read minds. Her story addresses mental health issues and more with both seriousness and humor as she learns to cope with her unique skill. The pop culture references made me laugh out loud, making this book both insightful and funny. Read more

Rethinking Sex

A Provocation

By: Christine Emba
Narrated by: Christine Emba
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Part searing examination, part call to arms—a bold case against modern sexual ethics, from young Washington Post columnist Christine Emba.

For years now, modern-day sexual ethics has held that “anything goes” when it comes to sex—as long as everyone says yes, and does so enthusiastically. So why, even when consent has been ascertained, are so... Read more

The Rachel Incident

A novel

By: Caroline O'Donoghue
Narrated by: Tara Flynn
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

“The Rachel Incident is a delightful, messy, and painfully relatable story about love, friendship, and truly terrible decision-making. O'Donoghue delivers sharp humor, emotional gut punches, and enough literary references to make you feel smart while still being wildly entertained. If you’ve ever made a life-altering mistake over a pint or fallen... Read more

Long Live Evil

Time of Iron: Book #1

By: Sarah Rees Brennan
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

“This is honestly one of the best books I have read in years. It has ruined me in ALL the best ways. A young woman who is dying of cancer gets the chance to enter into the world of her favourite book, with the possibility of being miraculously cured if she can finish a specific quest. She wakes up in the body of one of the story’s villains - just... Read more