Bookseller Recommendations

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

A Novel

By: Ally Carter
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Zachary Webber
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“If you are in the market for a cozy mystery with romance and holiday charm, this is the book for you! The perfect holiday romance that I will listen to every year 🎄 Read more

A Rip Through Time

A Novel

Rip Through Time Novels: Book #1

By: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Handford
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

“It's a time travel story, it's a police procedural story, it's the beginning of two strong friendships and probably a highly addictive series. Armstrong's devotees will be thrilled to watch this intelligent author pulling apart our assumptions about middle-class Victorian society (with a running gag involving how modern phrases sound to very... Read more

Delicious Monsters

By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

“An equally spooky and profound tale that keeps you guessing until the very end. The dual points of view and dual narrators bring depth and mystery to the story of two teens that are haunted by both monstrous ghosts and trauma from their past. Read more

Creation Lake

A Novel

By: Rachel Kushner
Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

“Rachel Kushner further extends her hot streak with this twisty and darkly humorous philosophical thriller. Our protagonist gives us the name 'Sadie Smith' but one has to take everything she shares with a grain of salt, given the fact that she is a morally flexible spy tasked with infiltrating an activist commune in the south of France. The story... Read more

The Third Gilmore Girl

A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop
Narrated by: Kelly Bishop
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

“The only issue is that really this should be called the First Gilmore Girl. Emily was the best one. Read more

The Dallergut Dream Department Store

A Novel

By: Miye Lee
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

“This book was fantastic! As someone who has extremely vivid dreams, I found the concept of buying dreams and finding the perfect one to be so much fun. I also loved the diverse cast of characters introduced in the story. It was such a wholesome read! Read more

In the Dream House

A Memoir

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“Welcome to the Dream House in this daring new kind of memoir that defies boundaries and boldly discards the conventions of genre. Inside, Carmen Maria Machado bares her soul in all of its pain and beauty, offering an intimate and profoundly vulnerable look at her own life, love, and sexuality. Machado has a gift for exposing the raw nerves and... Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“This was the first of Stanley Tucci’s books that I’ve read. I highly recommend the audio version as Stanley’s narration makes the book. While food is the focus, this book is about much more than food. It’s about family, friends, life, death, and how cooking together and communing around a table of food is one of life’s greatest pleasures.  Read more

Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Lee Horsley
Length: 36 hours 44 minutes

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize- winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of... Read more

Circe

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“This sweeping tale of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology as seen through the eyes of a minor goddess had me from the first chapter. I listened to this as an audiobook from our audio vendor, Libro.fm. The brilliant narrator was the 29-year-old Welsh film actress, Perdita Weeks. Read more

A Winter Wish

A Novel

By: Emily Stone
Narrated by: Meg Travers
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

When an unexpected inheritance forces two total opposites to work together, Lexie must decide if Theo is going to push her out—or pull her in for the kiss of a lifetime—in this heartwarming holiday novel from the author of Always, in December and One Last Gift

When Lexie learns of her father’s death, she doesn’t know how to feel; they’ve barely... Read more

Between Two Kingdoms

A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

“Wow, what a story. This was an extremely moving memoir about a devastating but successful fight with cancer and the toll it takes on your life and relationships. But more than that, it also bring you on a journey of moving on and re-learning how to live your life. Jaouad is a fabulous writer and really take the reader on the journey with her.... Read more

We Begin at the End

By: Chris Whitaker
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“We Begin at the End is dramatic storytelling at its best, full of layers of intrigue and complex personalities set around the murder of the book’s most vulnerable character. The stoical, 13-year-old Duchess Day Radley takes center stage, and her heartbreaking life unleashes a hero within: self-proclaimed outlaw, bold and courageous, though to... Read more

The Unmade World

By: Steve Yarbrough
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives of an American journalist and a Polish small businessman... Read more

The City of Brass

A Novel

By: S. A. Chakraborty
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 20 hours 1 minute

“S.A. Chakraborty introduces a fantasy set in the Middle East that thrusts us into the magical world of Daevabad. The City of Brass follows, in parallel, Nahri, a con artist and naturally gifted healer, and Ali, prince of Daevabad and fiercely trained soldier. Nahri and Ali find themselves learning new lessons on how to survive changing... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

“Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado is a blend of urban legends and horror stories all focusing on the roles women play in society. Machado writes in the most beautiful, haunting way, and each story is truly unique and almost always a little uncomfortable. Read more

Elmet

By: Fiona Mozley
Narrated by: Gareth Bennett Ryan
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

“Elmet by Fiona Mozley is a beautifully written novel about a very ugly world. When a tough and scrabble father decide to raise his children off the grid in a remote corner of England, the local kingpin decides to make an example. Told through the eyes of the sensitive teenage son, Elmet is a tribute to family and living in nature which contrasts... Read more

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By: Masha Gessen
Narrated by: Masha Gessen
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and... Read more

Women & Power

A Manifesto

By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Mary Beard
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

New York Times Bestseller
One of the Guardian's "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" — "A modern feminist classic."
From the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power.

At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly... Read more