Shelf Awareness for Readers' Picks

Stay True

A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hua Hsu
Narrated by: Hua Hsu
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“Stay True by Hua Hsu is a memoir set largely in/at Berkeley in the 1990s. A quietly profound look at the momentousness of the decisions you make as an emerging adult - about friendship, romance, art, music, activism, and family. Read more

Empathy Economics

Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All

By: Owen Ullmann
Narrated by: Christine Padovan
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

The trailblazing story of Janet Yellen, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of economics, and her lifelong advocacy for an economics of empathy that delivers the fruits of a prosperous society to people at the bottom half of the economic ladder. 

When President Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for secretary of the treasury, it was the peak moment... Read more

Fen, Bog and Swamp

A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England Book Award*

From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic... Read more

Fenian Street

A Mystery

A Collins-Burke Mystery: Book #12

By: Anne Emery
Narrated by: Ashley O’Connell
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

An unsolved murder investigation in 1970s Ireland from “one of Canada’s finest novelists.” — Ottawa Review of Books Shay Rynne grew up in the Corporation Flats — public housing — in Fenian Street, Dublin. He has always toyed with the idea of joining the Garda Síochána, the Irish police. But in the early 1970s, young fellows from the... Read more

I Walk Between the Raindrops

Stories

By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: T.C. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, Derek Perkins, Jeremy Arthur, Stephen Mendel, Johnathan McClain, Ewan Chung, Pete Simonelli, David de Vries, Nan McNamara & Rex Anderson
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer of Talk to Me and Outside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In “Thirteen Days,” passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And... Read more

Jacqueline in Paris

A Novel

By: Ann Mah
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

“Captivating...Mah channels Kennedy and brings postwar Paris to life with exquisite detail and insight.” -- PeopleFrom the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier’s college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American... Read more

Live Wire

Long-Winded Short Stories

By: Kelly Ripa
Narrated by: Kelly Ripa
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host.In Live Wire, her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter and as a mother, she brings a... Read more

A Merry Little Meet Cute

A Novel

A Christmas Notch: Book #1

By: Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone
Narrated by: Joy Nash & Sebastian York
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“What if a porn star was accidentally cast in a "Hallmark" holiday movie? This question forms the basis of the world created by this writing duo's 3-novel, 2-novella series (this is the first one!). Starring former good-girl celebrities, adult actresses, washed-up boy band members, and a whole cast of other fantastic characters, this sweet and... Read more

Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth
Narrated by: Adina Verson
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“Someone once told me that laughter is the human response to what makes them uncomfortable. This story is like Shirley Jackson and Christopher Moore had a book baby and Motherthing was the result. Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with his mentally ill mother as caretakers. Abby thinks this is her chance to win over her mother in law. She's wrong. Dead... Read more

Mr. Wilder and Me

By: Jonathan Coe
Narrated by: Kristen Atherton
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS' CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLAND



In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost... Read more

Nothing but the Night

Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King & Penny Wilson
Narrated by: Armando Riesco
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

"With the enthusiastic delivery of an entertainment news anchor, narrator Armando Riesco emphasizes the shocking and obsessive elements of one of the most sensational crimes of all time." - AudioFile Magazine

"This audio will appeal to listeners seeking a compelling, well-researched, historical true crime presented in an in-depth and engaging... Read more

The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

From “the great storyteller of Russian history” comes a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its foundingWho were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing from within the territory that would become Russia? Or were... Read more

Treasure State

A Cassie Dewell Novel

Cassie Dewell Novels: Book #6

By: C.J. Box
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“While Treasure State is part of CJ Box’s Highway series (the series ABC’s Big Sky is based on) it reads as a standalone and a great intro to Cassie Dewell, private investigator. An interesting dual storyline, great detective work, beautifully described Montana scenery and history, and a very, very satisfying ending all contribute to this must... Read more

The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles
Narrated by: Karl T. Wright, Imani Parks & P. J. Ochlan
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

"Timely, thrilling, and gripping from start to finish. An absolute page-turner." --Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is LyingJay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park.... Read more

The Two Lives of Sara

By: Catherine Adel West
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!

“An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves.” — Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee
 

In 1960s Memphis, a young mother... Read more

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

A novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“Listened to the ALC and it was riveting. Highly recommend the audio version. Read more

Nothing More to Tell

By: Karen M. McManus
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky & Andrew Eiden
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of One of Us Is Lying comes a new page-turning mystery. Be sure to keep your friends close . . . and your secrets closer.

Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the teacher’s body was... Read more

Less Is Lost

By: Andrew Sean Greer
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

“Sean Greer has done it again. In Less is Lost, Hapless Arthur Less leaves his lover, the narrator of Less's story, to set out across the country to complete jobs that are dubious at best. His attempts to interview a recalcitrant and iconic fantasy writer for a magazine article turns into a roadtrip in a tricked-out van with said author and his... Read more

Smart Brevity

The Power of Saying More with Less

By: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and... Read more

Attack of the Black Rectangles

By: A. S. King
Narrated by: Pete Cross, Gretchen Bender, Amy Sarig King & Jane Yolen
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write.When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged.Someone in... Read more