Big Books for the Season

Daughter of Daring

The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.

Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the... Read more

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

Y2K

How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

By: Colette Shade
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — BustlePerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.THE EARLY 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise... Read more

Good Girl

A Novel

By: Aria Aber
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“This book was a call out to the girls who live bound by their own identity. I found the FMC to be both endearing and insufferable, wishing for her to wake up and accept the love and life her parents have tried to give her. But as someone who craves revolution and rebellion, I understood Nila's restlessness and urge to run from her problems and... Read more

Gliff

By: Ali Smith
Narrated by: Eliot Sumner
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

“Gliff is like The Boxcar Children meets 1984 with a non-binary protagonist and a stampede of horses rumbling throughout. Ali Smith plays with language like a child who can make a toy out of a bit of string or a particularly round stone or anything else they find on the side of the road. Read more

Sucker Punch

Essays

By: Scaachi Koul
Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

“Scaachi Koul weaves the narrative of her divorce in the same dry yet shockingly vulnerable voice that she once wove her love story, in what is both a cathartic and necessarily angry collection of essays that I’ll reference for years to come. Whatever your understanding of marriage and the prioritization of self, read this. I promise it’s worth it. Read more

Paradise Logic

By: Sophie Kemp
Narrated by: Nancy Wu & Cary Hite
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

“The funniest book of the year and one of the smartest.” —GARY SHTEYNGART

A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time.

It was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She... Read more

Stop Me If You've Heard This One

A Novel

By: Kristen Arnett
Narrated by: Cameron Esposito
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY PEOPLE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE MILLIONS, AND NBC TODAY

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love.

"Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny." - Vogue
"As much heart, humor, and gritty realness as can fit... Read more

Trauma Plot

A Life

By: Jamie Hood
Narrated by: Jamie Hood
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival

"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such... Read more

The Pacific Circuit

A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City

By: Alexis Madrigal
Narrated by: Alexis Madrigal
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

This audiobook, written and read by Alexis Madrigal, reveals how understanding Oakland explains the modern world.

In The Pacific Circuit, the award-winning journalist Alexis Madrigal sculpts an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history, and... Read more

Guatemalan Rhapsody

Stories

By: Jared Lemus
Narrated by: Christian Barillas
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

A vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living... Read more

I'll Love You Forever

Notes from a K-Pop Fan

By: Giaae Kwon
Narrated by: Giaae Kwon
Length: 9 hours

Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of self, charting K-pop’s complex coming-of-age through some of its biggest idols. I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan is a smart,... Read more

Mornings Without Mii

By: Mayumi Inaba
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author’s twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life.On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo’s Tamagawa River. She follows the sound to find a newborn kitten, just the size of her palm,... Read more

Song So Wild and Blue

A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell

By: Paul Lisicky
Narrated by: Paul Lisicky
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

From the celebrated novelist and memoirist, a gorgeous account of how Joni Mitchell’s work has shaped his writing throughout his life.From the moment Paul Lisicky heard Joni Mitchell while growing up in New Jersey, he recognized she was that rarity among musicians—a talent whose combination of introspection, liberation, and deep musicality set... Read more

The Strange Case of Jane O.

A Novel

By: Karen Thompson Walker
Narrated by: Jay Myers & Alex Sarrigeorgiou
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

“An evocative, singular, genre-bending psychological mystery that left me absolutely breathless. Gorgeous, compelling prose guided me through this eerie tale that forced me to reckon with the alarming realization that my reality does not necessarily reflect objective truth. I devoured this book as fast as I could, unable to think of anything else... Read more

Death Takes Me

A Novel

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times

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The Talent

By: Daniel D'Addario
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Janina Edwards, Nancy Linari, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Shakira Shute & Jade Wheeler
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Hollywood Wives meets A Visit from the Goon Squad in this emotional debut novel from Variety chief correspondent and a moderator of the Actors on Actors series about a group of actresses confronting their careers, their secrets, and each other throughout one turbulent awards season.

As Hollywood prepares for its most glamorous evening, five... Read more

Show Don't Tell

Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Curtis Sittenfeld, George Newbern, Xe Sands, Emily Rankin, Nicole Lewis & Kristen Sieh
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy “blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection” (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep

“Each of these witty, intelligent stories is a slice of modern life.”—People

A... Read more

Crush

A Novel

By: Ada Calhoun
Narrated by: Robyn Maryke
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

A Today Show, New Yorker, Washington Post, New York Times, TIME, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Bustle, Lit Hub, Zibby Owens, Marie Claire, AARP, Bloomberg, The Millions, The Seattle Times and Vulture Most Anticipated Book

“Ada Calhoun writes with absolute clarity about the giddiest and most destabilizing feeling—the crush. This novel made... Read more

Fagin the Thief

A Novel

By: Allison Epstein
Narrated by: Will Watt
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

A thrilling reimagining of the world of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of the infamous Jacob Fagin, London’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue.

"Fagin the Thief takes one of literature's greatest rogues and gives him a soul, a backstory, and a spotlight. Layered and clever, Epstein's story is as ambitious as it is deeply... Read more