Arianna Rebolini's Audiobook Picks

The Unworthy

A Novel

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

“The secluded Sacred Sisterhood sect thrives by being violent, abusive, and cruel but the narrator finds unexpected hope to survive. As the days, weeks, years pass by, 'The Unworthy' leaves you gut punched with more unsettling questions than answers -- ones the reader might not want explained. Read more

Happy Hour

By: Marlowe Granados
Narrated by: Bronwyn Szabo
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

“A wild ride with a brilliantly cocky young protagonist who’s got the world wrapped around her finger. So propulsive you'll feel like you've been hypnotized.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Best Kind of People “Happy Hour feels like a breathless whisper at six in the morning when it’s too hot to sleep. Marlowe Granados is a fresh, exciting... Read more

The Other Valley

A Novel

By: Scott Alexander Howard
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard is hard to describe without giving too much away. It's set in a world where there are valleys set twenty years apart in time, and every once in a while, visitors are allowed to visit the past or the future valleys for very specific reasons. The narrator, Odile, accidentally discovers the identity of two... 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

“If you love historical fiction you will love the vibrant and stunning sense of place that Maggie O’Farrell creates in The Marriage Portrait. This is the fictionalized tale of the life of Lucrezia de Medici who was born and raised in 1550s Renaissance Florence, Italy. Read more

Headshot

A Novel

By: Rita Bullwinkel
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

“A stunning concept of following teenage girls through rounds of a boxing competition, the narration zooms in and out from their droplets of sweat to their elderly future lives, to their early childhood, and back to their fists in their gloves aiming for their opponents. Really gripping and surprisingly relatable! Read more

My Year of Meats

A Novel

By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide.... Read more

Strange Beasts of China

By: Yan Ge
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets... Read more

The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s... Read more

Brood

A Novel

By: Jackie Polzin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

“Over the course of a year, told in a collection of snapshots, Brood shows the life of a woman grieving by doing anything but. She gives herself purpose by taking care of a small flock of chickens, as well as finding small but kind, funny, or wry ways of interacting with her neighbors, eccentric mother-in-law, and caring husband, Percy. There are... Read more

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford
Narrated by: Maria Bamford
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“Very funny, had me laughing out loud in my car quite a few times. Details Maria's struggles with mental health and the facilities that are meant to help us, and her journey through various 12-step programs. Would 100% recommend the audiobook for this one. Read more