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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

Emily Wilde: Book #3

By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

“A wonderful end to a delightful series! I particularly loved the focus on folklore and the use of old stories as a way to impose order on what appears to be a chaotic land. This gave the story it's structure and the characters their purpose. All the while, keeping Faerie as magical and wonderous as I imagined it would be. Fawcett struck the... Read more

Scythe & Sparrow

The Ruinous Love Trilogy

The Ruinous Love Trilogy: Book #3

By: Brynne Weaver
Narrated by: Samantha Brentmoor & Eric Nolan
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

From the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the genre-breaking international TikTok sensation Butcher & Blackbird and Leather & Lark comes the final book in the Ruinous Love Trilogy—a friends-with-benefits dark romantic comedy packed with murder, mayhem, and spice.   Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart,... Read more

You Didn't Hear This From Me

(Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

By: Kelsey McKinney
Narrated by: Kelsey McKinney
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

“Thoughtful (and amusing) commentary on gossip - as a plot device, as a means of challenging authority, as a sin, and so much more. Lovers of pop culture, urban legends, and listening to couples fighting in public need to read this. Read more

First-Time Caller

Heartstrings: Book #1

By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: E.J. Bingham & Hathaway Lee
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

“This romance, inspired by Sleepless in Seattle, is incredibly charming and draws you right in. I was unable to resist falling in love with Aiden and Lucy. Aiden, a true romantic hidden behind his sarcasm and walls. Lucy, selfless, tough, and kindhearted, is searching for true love. I really love Lucy‘s 12-year-old daughter Maya who’s smart,... Read more

The Briar Club

A Novel

By: Kate Quinn
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the... Read more

Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

“Fun return to the Tipping Point. The audio version is great and includes some interesting interviews. Read more

Annie Bot

A Novel

By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“A sentient sex robot starts to believe there may be more to life. Her boyfriend, Doug, may never be able to see her as more than an object he possesses. Jennifer Jill Araya's reading of Annie Bot is amazing. She is precise and level, evoking the near-perfection of this high-tech being, while still delivering tenderness and vulnerability. Annie... Read more

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“Ignorant of the author, whose book I kept seeing on top seller lists, I thought I’d give it a listen. Narrated by Ina, herself. It’s full of ups and downs, opportunities, adventures, yummy conversations about food and Paris .. from a woman who learned “not to take “No” for an answer.” Read more

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“Say Nothing is a chilling chronicle of The Troubles of Northern Ireland and its aftermath, with special focus on the orchestrated disappearance of civilian mother of ten Jean McConville. Per the author, Patrick Radden Keefe, the book is not a comprehensive history, but as someone who knew virtually nothing about The Troubles going in, I found... Read more

We Solve Murders

A Novel

By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

“This was my first Richard Osman book, but it definitely won't be my last. A delightful, engaging cozy mystery, full of wonderful characters and fun locales. A great car ride book for a grown-up road trip. Read more

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“If you need a nice book, one that is generally feel-good but with a little depth and a very interesting perspective then this book is for you! It is an astonishing debut that finds three unlikely personalities - a lonely widow, a lost young man, and an aging octopus - in the same small town north of Seattle. Each one of them has had sadness in... Read more

Cellar Rat

My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

By: Hannah Selinger
Narrated by: Hannah Selinger
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back?

As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible. At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York’s most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that folded your napkin while you were in the bathroom, the... Read more

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

By: Sarah Harman
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

"The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he's a little shit."

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son... Read more

Wild Dark Shore

A Novel

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Cooper Mortlock, Katherine Littrell, Saskia Maarleveld & Steve West
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“A story set on an isolated island with a family tasked with protecting a vault full of seeds from around the world. Strange things have happened on the island, many of the researchers and scientists that had lived there began dying suddenly, leaving the family alone until a woman washes up on shore. She's taken in by the family but held at arms... Read more

Propaganda Girls

The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

By: Lisa Rogak
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

The incredible untold story of four women who spun the web of deception that helped win World War II.

Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in Tokyo. Marlene Dietrich,... Read more

The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

Sara has just... Read more

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

“This book can change the world. Well-written, expertly-read, and extremely accessible this narrative humanizes medical information and the cultural history around TB while calling us to action in a gently logical voice. Read more

Furiously Happy

A Funny Book About Horrible Things

By: Jenny Lawson
Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.

But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.

As Jenny says:

"Some people might think that being 'furiously happy' is just an... Read more

The Best of Me

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

“As if there is anything greater than a new David Sedaris, it's listening to David Sedaris read the new David Sedaris. This self-edited collection of essays from his prolific 25-year career is exactly what we need to boost the morale of 2020 and remind ourselves what a crazy world we've always lived in when viewed through Sedaris's keen... Read more

Yes Please

By: Amy Poehler
Narrated by: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Mike Schur & Kathleen Turner
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

“If you need a book that will make you think more deeply about self-growth, inspire you to engage more fully with your passions, and make you laugh so hard that you startle people around you, then this is the book for you. If you’ve never heard of this remarkable woman, then this book will make you fall in love with her—and if you have, get ready... Read more