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We Solve Murders

A Novel

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

“The first book of a fun new series with great characters and solid mysteries! Starting with “Thursday Murder Club,” I fell in love with Osman’s recurring characters, a colorful group of senior citizens who come together to solve cold case murders after they retire. Like me, you’ll enjoy their backstories and witty dialogue and delight in solving... Read more

Entitlement

A Novel

By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“In Entitlement, Rumaan Alam’s prose is at its most effortless, his storytelling at its most engrossing, his pacing at its most propulsive. Questions of race, class, generosity, and obsession weave through a thoroughly unpredictable story. Read more

Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee & Geraldine Hakewill
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

“Beautifully written book with equally beautiful narration. A bit heartbreaking and depressing, but somehow so lovely too. Trigger warning of different types of deaths. Read more

The Grey Wolf

A Novel

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #19

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Jean Brassard
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

"Brassard's accents—whether French Canadian, Italian, or continental French—create indelible characters. His performance lets us feel Reine Marie's warmth and Armand's affectionate nature, and he adds an additional layer to surly Ruth and her potty-mouthed duck. Exciting and entertaining." —AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)

The 19th mystery in... Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“Rooney’s dazzling masterpiece explores the hidden depths of our relationships to one another. Peter and Ivan grieve the recent loss of their father. Never close, they struggle to avoid estrangement while navigating their very different lives. Read more

When the Sea Came Alive

An Oral History of D-Day

By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Garrett M. Graff
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

“I really loved When the Sea Came Alive, it was such a fascinating book. This oral history of D-Day is a first-hand account from over 700 people, interviews, diary entries, letters, journals, and speeches all from Generals (Eisenhower and Churchill), soldiers, allies, enemies, reporters, politicians, photographers, children, pilots nurses, Anne... Read more

Creation Lake

A Novel

By: Rachel Kushner
Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

“Neanderthals. The French countryside. Lovers. Terrorism. Rachel Kushner presents a fast paced tale of espionage and treachery. Her protagonist, Sadie, is smart, savvy, and definitely a dirty bird. A compelling listen, where you aren't really sure where you're going, but you know it's going to be one hell of a ride! Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“You are going to get hungry when you read this and you might just have the urge to pop into your kitchen and whip up some pasta al pomodoro too! Read more

John Lewis

A Life

By: David Greenberg
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 24 hours 26 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book of 2024

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis... Read more

When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Caitlin Kinnunen & Julia Whelan
Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

“Gorgeous teen novel filled with wonder, food family and romance. page turningly delightful. I laughed and cried and wanted to eat that delicious food. Read more

Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

“This novel captures the nuance of identity and two cultures living on either side of the border to the reservation: Charlie is the outsider looking in while his mother and his biological daughter live on the inside. A heart-wrenching story of loss, mental illness and family secrets. Read more

One of Our Kind

A novel

By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

“What a great listen! Nikole Lewis really brought the idealistic Jasmine to life, and I was on the edge of my seat yelling at her to "Get Out!" in this nuanced, smart take on The Stepford Wives. Read more

Soldier Sailor

A Novel

By: Claire Kilroy
Narrated by: Simone Collins
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

FINALIST for the WOMEN’S PRIZE for FICTION * One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s “lyrical and incisive” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

Soldier Sailor takes readers deep inside the early... Read more

The Stars Too Fondly

A Novel

By: Emily Hamilton
Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a suspenseful, charming, and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself.So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship.They just wanted to know why,... Read more

Farewell, Amethystine

By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

From “master of the genre” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk.

January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations.  He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a... Read more

The Friday Afternoon Club

A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne
Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

“Griffin Dunne, having grown up and lived all his life among boldface names, writes with warmth, self-deprecation, and humor. The Friday Afternoon Club is a tale of success and failure, triumph and loss, comedy and tragedy, and it is to the author’s credit that what could easily, in less skilled hands, have become a turgid exercise in... Read more

Off the Tracks

A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel

By: Pamela Mulloy
Narrated by: Jennifer Wigmore
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Train travel is having a renaissance. Grand old routes that had been canceled, or were moldering in neglect, have been refurbished as destinations in themselves. The Rocky Mountaineer, the Orient Express, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad run again in all their glory. Pamela Mulloy has always loved train travel. Whether returning to the... Read more

It Had To Be You

By: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

“There was a big celebration when the twins graduated from college 10 years ago. But did one of them murder their parents that night? With not enough evidence to convict them, they've been under a cloud of suspicion. Laurie Moran and her team from Under Suspicion reinvestigate the murders at the behest of their younger sister. Can this tragedy... Read more

All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words

Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle

By: Peter Brown & Steven Gaines
Narrated by: Adam Stevens, Anthony Howell, Ben Jacobson, Emma Gregory, Mickey Knighton, Philip Stewart, Robert G. Slade, ShinFei Chen, Stefan Menaul​ & Todd Kramer​
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

"There are many incredible revelations about the relationships of John and Yoko and Paul and Linda and their impact on the band. This is one of those audiobooks you can't shut off and will never forget."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.

All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking... Read more

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

By: Sylvie Cathrall
Narrated by: Claire Morgan, Kit Griffiths, Justin Avoth & Joshua Riley
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

“An academic mystery unraveled through letter correspondences. A beautiful portrait of connection through the lens of people othered by their neurodivergence. Strange and tender in equal parts. Read more