January 2025 Reading List

The Devil Behind the Badge

The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

By: Rick Jervis
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.Twelve days is all it took.Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to... Read more

Shake the Devil Off - Abridged

A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans

By: Ethan Brown
Narrated by: James Avery
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

From the war in Iraq to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this nonfiction account presents a stirring condemnation of America' s failure to adequately address PTSD among its soldiers.After years of military service— including a harrowing stint in Iraq— Zackery Bowen returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before... Read more

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

“Another major hit by Patrick Radden Keefe, one of the best journalists working today. This is the story of the Sackler family—the ones behind Oxycontin, and thus the opiod crisis. The book shows how the family founders went from small pharmaceutical company owners to one of the biggest in the country, to then the harbingers of doom in their... Read more

Booth

By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living

Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a... Read more

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 22 hours 40 minutes

“I'm sorry I hadn't gotten to this sooner. Wilkerson pulls together so much of what I already knew about the US but not necessarily why... a great audiobook, too. Read more

Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“A small and beautiful book of an Irish man and his discovery of a disturbing secret in the convent - highly recommended! One of my Top 3 Books of 2021! Read more

Public Enemies - Abridged

By: Bryan Burrough
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

The astonishing true story of America's first and greatest "War on Crime."
In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and an assortment of criminals who became... Read more

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter (ENG)

By: J.K. Rowling
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 26 hours 28 minutes

"You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord."Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are... Read more

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter (ENG)

By: J.K. Rowling
Narrated by: Jim Dale
Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

"There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways … their magical prowess - their daring - their powers of deduction - and, of course, their ability to cope with danger."The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter... Read more

Blue Nights

A Memoir

By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

“In Blue Nights, Didion again writes about loss and grief, this time focusing on the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo. There is an unflinching honesty to Didion’s voice and she holds nothing back. Her writing is also layered and rhythmic, so we are handed sentences and words that repeat and spiral so that the narrative is circular and... Read more

South and West

From a Notebook

By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Nathaniel Rich
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks—writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of... Read more

High Five

By: Adam Rubin
Narrated by: Adam Rubin
Length: 8 minutes

A #1 New York Times bestseller from the creators of the beloved Dragons Love Tacos comes a rollicking, rhyme-tastic, interactive high five competition--starring YOU!

Discover the lost art of the high five and improve your slapping skills just in time for the annual high five contest! From hand-limbering stretches to lessons on five-ing with... Read more

The Year of Magical Thinking

By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack.



This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had... 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