April's Bookseller Picks

Nine Lives

A Novel

By: Peter Swanson
Narrated by: Jacques Roy & Mark Bramhall
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

“It’s impossible to describe the experience of reading Nine Lives as anything other than edge-of-your-seat. Death truly lurks around every corner, around every page. It eats at the characters and it eats at you. Wicked fun. Read more

The Ivory Key

The Ivory Key Duology

By: Akshaya Raman
Narrated by: Dilshad Vadsaria, Anushka Rani, Ariyan Kassam & Behzad Dabu
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

“The Ivory Key is an atmospheric story that envelopes you from page one, bringing to life a rich world of color, intrigue, and magic with a lively cast of characters. Ashoka is in trouble - a war is raging their border, one which they are losing, and their source of magic, a coveted resource, is almost gone. The four estranged siblings of the... Read more

Unlikely Animals

A Novel

By: Annie Hartnett
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Kirby Heyborne
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“Well this was just delightful. Unlikely Animals is a heartfelt, touching story filled with an unforgettable menagerie of characters, both human and animal. Annie Hartnett’s razor sharp wit leaps from each and every page. I dare readers not to fall in love with the members of the Everton community, and the lengths they will go to comfort and heal... Read more

All My Rage

A Novel

By: Sabaa Tahir
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Kamran R. Khan & Kausar Mohammed
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

“Two thumbs up. I loved how the pacing accelerated as the story unfolded. Intense and heartbreaking, as well as refreshing and angering, in the best of ways. I was hooked, listening to the different voices and learning so much about Pakistani beliefs and traditions. Trigger alerts, though! Also important to hear about how folks live with... Read more

Remember Me Gone

By: Stacy Stokes
Narrated by: Catherine Taber
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

“Remember Me Gone by Stacy Stokes is thriller as well as a family drama, and the thought provoking story really gets to the root of what we remember, what we choose to remember, and what we'd rather not remember. Be careful what you wish for; when bad memories are erased some good ones go too. Great for teens who like mystery/thrillers with a... Read more

Memphis: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Tara M. Stringfellow
Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo & Tara Stringfellow
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“Centering Black joy above all, Stringfellow’s life-affirming debut follows three generations of unforgettable women in a gifted but tested family. Readers will cry, laugh, and sing. I hope we read Stringfellow for a long, long time. Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“Love love LOVED this book! Our one-of-a-kind Read & Run Audiobook Club selected this book for our inaugural group, and we all enjoyed it tremendously. Elizabeth Zott is a force to be reckoned with, Bonnie Garmus's writing is dry, witty, and refreshing, and the story has some fantastic twists and turns that keep you on your toes to the very... Read more

Tripping Arcadia

A Gothic Novel

By: Kit Mayquist
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“The atmospheric successor to Knives Out and The Chosen & the Beautiful, this fabulously Gothic read is reminiscent of a chilly, overcast, Massachusetts day, walking through the city, trying not to slip on the wet leaves. Back Bay & class division & re-creation of Renaissance botany & poison & addiction & greasy diners... Read more

The Love of My Life

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Rosie Walsh
Narrated by: Imogen Church & Theo Solomon
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave

“A dazzling supernova of a book, it picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end.” —Lisa Jewell

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an... Read more

Four Treasures of the Sky

A Novel

By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang & Katharine Chin
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

“Daiyu survives being kidnapped from her village in China, a trip across the Pacific in a barrel of coal to a brothel in San Francisco, finally escaping to a small mining town in Idaho, only to discover there is no place to hide from the hateful sentiments swirling all around. After the Chinese Exclusion Act emboldens the town's citizens to... Read more

Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

By: Delia Ephron
Narrated by: Delia Ephron
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

“You'll feel you're spending a long weekend with Delia Ephron as she reads her memoir of grief, unexpected joy, and terror -- her story of losing her husband, finding love, and grappling with leukemia. Her honest narration, as only she could present it, offers an inspiration to savor life, and to cherish friends and family. 'Hooray for Delia!' I... Read more

The Devil Never Sleeps

Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

By: Juliette Kayyem
Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

“We don't like to think about disasters, but in this important book, Kayyem argues that we must. From her extensive experience managing disasters, Kayyem urges a new approach to disaster planning. In particular, we must recognize that disasters are inevitable, even if we don't know which ones will occur. With that certainty that bad things will... Read more

The Wonders

By: Elena Medel
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

“The Wonders is a poet’s novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.”​ —Hilary Mantel  

NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES 

From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire. 

Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the... Read more

Body Work

The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos
Narrated by: Melissa Febos
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

“This book is both a self-reflection piece and a tender yet valiant meditation on the power of writing. Anyone that approaches their work through an autoethnographic lens would benefit from tools Febos so kindly lends to us in Body Work. Read more

Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, the story builds as each sibling relays their own versions of the memories that surround both their mother’s mysterious death and the circumstances of one sister’s scandalous teenage... Read more

The Perishing

By: Natashia Deón
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts & Kevin R. Free
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

A Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles seeks to recover the memory of her past in this visionary novel from NAACP Image Award nominee Natashia Deón

Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education... Read more

Bomb Shelter

By: Mary Laura Philpott
Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

“The world is pretty anxious-making these days, so recommending a book in which the author wrestles with their own anxiety might seem counterintuitive, but having read (and loved) Mary Laura Philpott’s debut essay collection, I Miss You When I Blink, I knew I was in the safest of safe hands. In Bomb Shelter, Philpott takes all the... Read more

The Sign for Home

A Novel

By: Blair Fell
Narrated by: Blair Fell
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

“The Sign for Home is a book about growing up. It’s about accountability and independence. It’s funny and poignant, about friendship and true love. It is also a nuanced insight into living as a DeafBlind person. Blair Fell has drawn upon members of the Deaf and DeafBlind communities, as well his own experiences as an ASL and tactile interpreter,... Read more