2025 New Releases

Don't Sleep with the Dead

By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby.

“A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence.”―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful

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The River Has Roots

By: Amal El-Mohtar
Narrated by: Gem Carmella
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“The River Has Roots is one of my highest anticipated novellas of 2025. Amal El-Mohtar's solo debut, this story has so much to offer - a strong bond between two sisters, a magic system modelled after the same magic we use in language, and a trip to the Faelands. An enchanting morsel that will transform you. Read more

Salutation Road

By: Salma Ibrahim
Narrated by: Kosar Ali
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’

'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West

‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, author of Fundamentally

Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman... Read more

Immortal

By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

“What an emotional roller coaster this romance fantasy is! It is rich in world-building, with complex characters and unexpected twists that keep you on the edge of your seat. The female main character, Liyen, is stubborn, brave, determined, calculating, yet extremely vulnerable. Her grief over her grandfather is so emotional and real. Her family... Read more

Happy Land

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Ashley J. Hobbs
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

“I always love when I come across a Historical fiction novel about a story from real history that isn’t widely told or known. This is a story of hope, determination, and finding yourself through your ancestors. Read more

Fundamentally

A Novel

By: Nussaibah Younis
Narrated by: Sarah Slimani
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“This book is funny, witty, and moving. It was a joy to listen to and kept me wanting more each time I had to take a break. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys strong female leads and witty, emotional, informed writing! Read more

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)

A Vera Wong Novel: Book #2

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

“In a stellar follow-up, Jesse Q. Sutano delivers another delectable tale of a quirky, confident amateur sleuth. Like Vera’s suspects — I mean, persons of interest — readers will be eating good with Sutano’s latest treat. Read more

We Do Not Part

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“A feverish story, in a state between dream and reality, this novel lays bare the pain, wounds and trauma of a dark event in Koran history: the massacre of the Jeju uprising in 1948. I loved how past and present are skillfully intertwined in this unexpected and beautifully written story that shows we can’t and shouldn’t look away. There are... 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

“I was blown away by this book! It's a cross between EE Cummings' The Enormous Room, Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward, and Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. It's a strange combo, but it works! In the near future, the Risk Assessment Administration assigns all citizens a risk assessment score. If your score exceeds 500, you are subject to... Read more

The Unworthy

A Novel

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

“Bazterrica has done it again! In this shockingly vile but somehow deeply moving portrait of a woman at the end of the world, we are treated to casual cruelty, societal collapse, cultish debasement, and impetuous, frenetic love. I genuinely didn’t want this fraught look into a convent-style apocalyptic encampment to end. Read more

Good Girl

A Novel

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

“For a young woman so eager to stick her head in the sand of toxic sex and drugs, Nila is unflinching in her assessment of herself and her context. Often hard, always riveting. Intelligent and far-reaching. And the narrator is perfectly suited. Read more

Hunchback

A Novel

By: Saou Ichikawa
Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement in disability literature but great literature period” (Johanna Hedva)

“A literary phenomenon in Japan,... Read more

Goddess Complex

A Novel

By: Sanjena Sathian
Narrated by: Rukhmani K. Desai
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Named a Most-Anticipated Book of 2025 by TIME and The Millions

“Inventive . . . astute . . . sharp and unexpected . . . Haunting and hilarious, Goddess Complex is at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel of ideas, a character study. Like any individual life, the book bristles with possibilities.”... Read more

Death Takes Me

A Novel

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times... Read more

Hammajang Luck

A Novel

By: Makana Yamamoto
Narrated by: Jolene Kim
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build a better one—unmissable for fans of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo.Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a... Read more

Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Death of the Author is a book within a book. It’s genre-bending. It’s a masterpiece. It’s not what you expect. And it will be hard to beat as my favorite book of 2025! Read more

Water Moon

A Novel

By: Samantha Sotto Yambao
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“For fans of Studio Ghibli films or Neil Gaiman books, look no further. This novel takes your hand and walks you into another world, as gentle and irresistible as a child. Beautiful prose, endearing humor, magical worldbuilding. Read more