Staff Picks

How to Love a Forest

The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

By: Ethan Tapper
Narrated by: Evan Sibley
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

A tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert MacfarlaneOnly those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth.... Read more

Language City

The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

By: Ross Perlin
Narrated by: Ross Perlin
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New... Read more

Portrait of a Thief

A Novel

By: Grace D. Li
Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Austin Ku
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022
Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Washington Post* *Vulture* *NBC News*  *Buzzfeed* *Veranda* *PopSugar* *Paste* *The Millions* *Bustle*... Read more

Mistborn

The Final Empire

The Mistborn Saga: Book #1

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 24 hours 39 minutes

“Great world building and great magic! Read more

Nicked

A Novel

By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: Euan Morton
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

“10th Century Italy: a plague rages on the coast, a lowly monk has a dream, and suddenly we (the monk included) are thrown into the adventure of a lifetime- it is time to travel across the sea to steal the sacred bones of 700-years-dead Saint Nicholas. Reader, this is not just a heist. There are dog-headed men, northern giants, eastern... Read more

All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

“It’s not often that I feel all at once entertained, enraged and empowered but this book DOES IT! Immaculately researched and written in a conversational, accessible voice, this book has the power to change lives. If you are a woman, know a woman, work in the medical field or all three, this is a 10/10 must read, no notes. Read more

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

“This book has the most high altitude world building I’ve ever seen. Tolkien may have written volumes and volumes of history of Middle Earth, but Jemisin’s world building goes beyond - considering how environment shapes culture, civilization, history, systems of oppression. At the same time, the series is so grounded in its utterly compelling... Read more

The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

THE ILL-MANNERED LADIES: Book #1

By: Alison Goodman
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

“A Regency-Era feminist thriller and historical romance that weaves the story of two high-society sisters—one a benevolent widow and the other a badass spinster—and their forays into rescue missions, heroic brawlings, and charming espionage. Perfect for the Regency-Era reader who sometimes wishes their heroines would get their hands dirty. Read more

The Full Moon Coffee Shop

A Novel

By: Mai Mochizuki
Narrated by: Sadao Ueda, Tomoko Komura & Yuriri Naka
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars.

“Mochizuki dazzles in her beautifully crafted contemporary fantasy debut. . . . This gentle fantasy is not to be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review (Best Books of the Year)

In Japan, cats are... Read more

Impossible Creatures

Impossible Creatures: Book #1

By: Katherine Rundell
Narrated by: Samuel West
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

“Even though I’m much older than the target audience, I thoroughly enjoyed this middle-grade fantasy, and I give it 5 stars! I thought the illustrations were completely awesome, and every character was fantastic!! Will the brave, kind Christopher and the intense, determined Mal save the islands fading magic and dying creatures before it’s too... Read more

Slow Horses

The Slough House Series: Book #1

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

“I'll admit it. I watched Slow Horses before reading it. The show is among my favorites of 2022, maybe of all time. As I prepared to watch Season 2, I decided to listen to the audiobook as a refresher. I'm so glad I did. I won't say the book is better—because Gary Oldman—but it's every bit as good in different, and also in the exact same ways.... Read more

The Ministry of Fear

By: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Martyn Swain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this "master thriller" of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).



On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat... Read more

Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil
Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword
 
“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial Times
 
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more

Good for a Girl

A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman
Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

* A New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award
* A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female... Read more

The Red Palace

By: June Hur
Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace―a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kerri Maniscalco.

To enter the palace means to walk a path stained in blood...

Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to... Read more

Sarahland

By: Sam Cohen
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists—almost all of whom are named Sarah.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 BY THE MILLIONS * OPRAH MAGAZINE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * REFINERY29

In Sarahland, Sam Cohen... Read more

The Longest Race

Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher
Narrated by: Kara Goucher
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In “one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation” (Kate Fagan, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running.

Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from... Read more

City of Girls

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

“THE FUNNEST BOOK WE'VE LISTENED TO IN YEARS! The newest novel from Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert follows young Vivian as she grows from girl to grand dame surrounded by showgirls in dazzling 1940s New York City. Gilbert said she set out to write a book that would go down like a champagne cocktail and boy did she! SO MUCH FUN. Read... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

“This book is very descriptive of the processing process, not unlike in Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE, except with humans instead of animals. It's enough to make one uncomfortable, and raises a lot of moral questions about how living beings, be they animals or humans, are treated in general; and how something that should be unthinkable is made... Read more

Tell Me an Ending

A Novel

By: Jo Harkin
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Named a Best Science Fiction Book by The New York Times

“Sharply, beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Intriguing, frightening, witty, and humane.” —The Wall Street Journal

Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to... Read more