2025 Debut Audiobooks

Homeseeking: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Karissa Chen
Narrated by: Katharine Chin & Kenneth Lee
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Sweeping and epic…An impactful love story, told against the backdrop of historical events…One of the best debut novels of this century.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Like any tried-and-true epic (think “Pachinko” or “The Joy Luck Club”… Homeseeking is just a genuine pleasure to read.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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The Three Lives of Cate Kay

Reese's Book Club: A Novel

By: Kate Fagan
Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Tessa Albertson, Genevieve Kingston, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill, Kevin R. Free, Daniel Henning, Hillary Huber, Helen Laser, Fred Sanders, Jackie Sanders & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“Rarely do I care so intensely about characters in a suspense novel, but The Three Lives of Cate Kay provides mystery with hope and redemption. With characters that you connect with and grow to love, I’ll be recommending it to everyone! Read more

The Book of Possibilities

Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming

By: Bee Quammie
Length: TBA

Bee Quammie invites women and girls everywhere to embrace the power of possibility in this intimate and empowering collection.

A successful Black woman in media, Bee Quammie often finds herself being cast as a role model for young women—and especially Black women and other women of colour. But Bee has never quite been comfortable with the idea of... Read more

Salutation Road

By: Salma Ibrahim
Narrated by: Kosar Ali
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’

'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West

‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, author of Fundamentally

Twenty-three-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman... Read more

Modern Divination

A bewitching dark academia with a magical love story

Spells for Life and Death: Book #1

By: Isabel Agajanian
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology.

The colour of magic was gold . . .

Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human... Read more

All the Parts We Exile

By: Roza Nozari
Narrated by: Roza Nozari
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, insightful memoir that traces her journey toward radical self-acceptance and of exile from her ancestral home.

As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry for a sense of belonging. From her... Read more

The Summers Between Us

By: Noreen Nanja
Length: TBA

A decade apart, a painful secret—can two childhood sweethearts find their way back to a love that defies cultures and time?

Lia Juma thought she’d buried the dreams of her heart long ago. But when she’s forced to return to her family’s summer cottage on Pike Bay, the life she’s carefully crafted begins to unravel. The perfect immigrant daughter,... Read more

In My Remaining Years

By: Jean Grae
Narrated by: Jean Grae
Length: TBA

A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae

In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those of us still trying to figure it out in our forties.... Read more

Listen to Your Sister

A Novel

By: Neena Viel
Narrated by: Eric Lockley, Kristolyn Lloyd & Zeno Robinson
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

“Viel’s prose drew me in from the start, balancing dread and suspense perfectly with humor. I fell in love with the Williams siblings, and the multiple POV made me love and be exasperated with each of them in turn like I was in their shoes. Read more

Needy Little Things

By: Channelle Desamours
Narrated by: Alaska Jackson
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend's disappearance before she finds herself in the same danger, perfect for fans of Ace of Spades.

Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need—tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger—an ability only her family and her best... Read more

The Scorpion Queen

By: Mina Fears
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo
Length: 11 hours

Uprooted meets Children of Blood and Bone in this dark fantasy inspired by a Malian fairy tale about a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome trials.

Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie’s life was cruelly overturned in a matter of... Read more

Return to Sri Lanka

By: Razeen Sally
Narrated by: Razeen Sally
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

'Sally's book is an exemplar of the best in the genre' Krishnan Srinivasan, The Statesman

A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri Lanka. A perfect read for first-time visitors, Sri Lankans abroad or at home, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of the world’s most fascinating... Read more

Looking for Grace

By: Pamela Varnado
Length: TBA

Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places, this heartbreaking #OwnVoices debut from Pamela Varnado will have you reaching for tissues and cheering for the bravery we find inside.For sixteen-year-old Grace Madison, life can’t get any worse—until it does. High school sucks. She’s battling family drama. And the lyrics to her original songs are... Read more

Protecting Whitney

The Memoir of Her Bodyguard

By: David Roberts
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

David Roberts was Whitney Houston's bodyguard, the real one.  Roberts was hired in 1988 for Houston's UK portion of the Moment of Truth world tour. Accustomed to working for diplomats and Fortune 500 clients, Roberts had reservations about working with a pop star. But Houston's heart of gold won him over from the moment they met at Heathrow... Read more

When You Learn the Alphabet

Essays

By: Kendra Allen
Narrated by: Nicole Cash
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Kendra Allen’s first collection of essays—at its core—is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, this collection grapples with the lessons that have been stored between parent and daughter. These parental relationships expose the conditioning that subconsciously... Read more

Red Clay

By: Charles B. Fancher
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: TBA

An astounding multigenerational saga, Red Clay chronicles the interwoven lives of an enslaved Black family and their white owners as the Civil War ends and Reconstruction begins.In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave—on the morning following his funeral—his family hardly knows... Read more

A Thousand Natural Shocks

By: Omar Hussain
Length: TBA

Omar Hussain’s dazzling debut, A Thousand Natural Shocks, is a mesmerizing meditation on trauma, memory, and identity wrapped in a high-octane thriller.Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is desperate to outrun his past. During the day, he investigates the reemergence of a long-dormant serial killer. At night, he has become entangled with... Read more

Mornings Without Mii

By: Mayumi Inaba
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: TBA

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

The Immortal Woman

By: Su Chang
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: TBA

By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reveals an insider's view of the fractured lives of new Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.



A Chinese mother and daughter wrestle with the demons of their past. Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of... Read more

Am I Having Fun Now?

Anxiety, Applause and Life's Big Questions, Answered

By: Suzi Ruffell
Length: TBA

'A brilliant representation of anxiety made hilarious.' - Romesh Ranganathan

Does peaking in high school ruin you for life?

Was Miley Cyrus right, is it all about the climb (when it comes to building a career?)

And what - scientifically - is the best way to mend a broken heart?

Comedian Suzi Ruffell is considering life's big questions.

In this... Read more