Chosen Books for Chosen People

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more

Here I Am

A Novel

By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

A monumental new audiobook from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am

In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking... Read more

The Three Weissmanns of Westport

By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

In this sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, sisters Miranda, an impulsive but successful literary agent, and Annie, a pragmatic library director, quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home when their mother, Betty, is dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years. Exiled from her elegant... Read more

Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Stories

By: Etgar Keret
Narrated by: Ira Glass & Willem Dafoe
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Bringing up a child, lying to the boss, placing an order in a fast-food restaurant: in Etgar Keret's new collection, daily life is complicated, dangerous, and full of yearning. In his most playful and most mature work yet, the living and the dead, silent children and talking animals, dreams and waking life coexist in an uneasy world. Overflowing... Read more

The History of Love

By: Nicole Krauss
Narrated by: George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Julia Gibson & Andy Paris
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices. It has been decades since Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a... Read more

Lamb

A Novel

By: Bonnie Nadzam
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced... Read more

Good In Bed

By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Laura Hicks
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).

For twenty-eight years, things have been... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Stories

By: Nathan Englander
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
 
The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s... Read more

A Guide for the Perplexed

A Novel

By: Dara Horn
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

A thrilling new novel exploring how memory shapes the soul, by "an astonishing storyteller" (Financial Times)Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a program that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary... Read more

The Middlesteins

A Novel

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Molly Ringwald
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

“Edie loves food. She loves it much too much. And each member of her family in turn grapples with the issue i their own way. This was my first experience with a Jami Attenberg novel, and I've been loyal to her ever since. She's so good at writing distinctive voices and bringing characters to life, and this book showcases those skills brilliantly. Read more

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

A Novel

By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Judith Light, Grace Gummer & Zach Appelman
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

The “spellbinding” (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair—“an enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place” (USA TODAY).

Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things,... Read more

The Invisible Bridge

By: Julie Orringer
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 27 hours 49 minutes

Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“fiercely beautiful”—The New York Times; “unbelievably good”—Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives... Read more

Shylock Is My Name

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel

Hogarth Shakespeare

By: Howard Jacobson
Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
 
Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of... Read more

Mischling

By: Affinity Konar
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“Sisters Stasha and Pearl are accustomed to the imaginative interior life they share as twins, but in Josef Mengele's 'Zoo' at Auschwitz they must find refuge in that life in order to survive. Readers descend into the violence and despair of the Holocaust as experienced through the eyes of the twins but are protected by an innocence that is also... Read more

The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition

A Novel

By: Anita Diamant
Narrated by: Carol Bilger
Length: 12 hours

In this modern classic interpretation of the biblical story of Dinah, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of The Red Tent, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the A&E/Lifetime mini-series.

Twentieth Anniversary Edition

In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent... Read more

The Betrayers

A Novel

By: David Bezmozgis
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades... Read more

Away

By: Amy Bloom
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 8 hours

Moll Flanders in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way—and find her daughter—in the hip, harsh 1920s.

On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter,... Read more