2024 Debuts on our Radar

The Storm We Made

A Novel

By: Vanessa Chan
Narrated by: Samantha Tan
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“Stunning. Horrifying. Raw. Gritty. Luscious. The WWII novel you haven't seen before. Read more

River East, River West

A Novel

By: Aube Rey Lescure
Narrated by: David Shih & Jennifer Lim
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSet against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy,... Read more

Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare
Narrated by: Sara Novak
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“What a ride!! Any story centered around religious guilt and shame is the story for me. Agnes had me on her side the entire time. I loved all her scenes with her roommates, and how alive she became in their company. How they greeted her with genuine love and care right off the bat is what kept her grounded to the reality of herself. Amazing book!! Read more

City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger—bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming... Read more

Say You'll Be Mine

A Novel

By: Naina Kumar
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

“I really enjoyed this fake engagement romance! Meghna and Karthik were such opposites that they complimented eachother so perfectly. I loved watching each of them work through their own struggles while growing feeling for one another. The slow burn of their relationship left room for so much pining!!! Read more

Behind You Is the Sea

A Novel

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Ali Nasser
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

“Each chapter is like opening a new door. Each of the stories is connected, but you experience them individually. As you go further along in the book, it carries on in the timeline, and you see the characters change and read about what happens to the characters over the years. Being Palestinian and Palestinian-American, each chapter addresses the... Read more

Broughtupsy

A Novel

By: Christina Cooke
Narrated by: Alisha Bailey
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican woman grappling with grief as she discovers her family, her home, is always just out of reach.

Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akúa flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their... Read more

Martyr!

A novel

By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Do not speed this one up! Narrator Arian Moayed is meant to be heard at 1.0. His reading performance is brilliant and so is the book. I listened to this one in two days, walking, running, baking -- anything to not have to hit stop. The writing is beautiful, the dialogue a treat, and the characters fully realized. Read more

So Let Them Burn

The Divine Traitors: Book #1

By: Kamilah Cole
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Kamali Minter
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

“Looking for an exquisitely written Black Queer fantasy about DRAGONS?!?! Look no further as this Jamaican-inspired tale delivers a new interesting perspective on the chosen-one trope. While also posing the question: can there be peace between warring factions if the weapons of mass destructions (the DRAGONS) are sentient and making unbreakable... Read more

Last Acts

A Novel

By: Alexander Sammartino
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE * “An astonishing baller of a book…pitch perfect in voice (Tony Soprano meets Samuel Beckett)…Unputdownable.” —Mary Karr * “Hilarious, exceptional.” — The New York Times Book Review

A riotous, irreverent yet big-hearted debut novel about a broke father-son duo who go all-in on some of America’s deadliest... Read more

Black Women Taught Us

An Intimate History of Black Feminism

By: Jenn M. Jackson
Narrated by: Jenn M. Jackson
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.

“Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful writer and excellent scholar. In this book, they pay tribute to generations of Black women organizers and... Read more

A Sign of Her Own

By: Sarah Marsh
Narrated by: Fannie Marion
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice.

Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech.... Read more

Greta & Valdin

A Novel

By: Rebecca K Reilly
Narrated by: Natalie Beran, Jackson Bliss, Eilidh Beaton, Nico Evers-Swindell & Gary Furlong
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

“I’m giggling at the funny, snappy dialogue in this fantastic contemporary story about two 20-something siblings and their cheerful, messy family full of drama. A story brimming with life and love, queerness and multi-cultural identity, we follow their struggles and insecurities in early adulthood. I loved this engaging novel. Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

Fiction

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, Aaron Goodson & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

Acts of Forgiveness

A Novel

By: Maura Cheeks
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

“A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Diane Marie Brown, author of Black Candle Women

How much of their lineage is one family willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation’s first federal reparations program?

Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not... Read more

The Book of Love

A Novel

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

“This book swept me off my feet. Everything about it was expertly woven and paced. I loved these deeply flawed and beautiful teens who found themselves back from the dead and puzzling their way through their new circumstances. January LaVoy's narration had me on the EDGE of my seat 24/7 and I finished this behemoth in a blink of the eye. Read more

Private Equity

A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun
Narrated by: Carrie Sun
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

One of TIME Magazine's Must-Read Books of the Year

"The joys of Sun’s memoir lie in the absurdity of her tasks: coaxing a famous athlete to a company party, sourcing Mitt Romney’s phone number on a deadline, coordinating private-jet departures… It’s [Sun’s] personal revelations that elevate the book above a typical tell-all.” —TIME Magazine

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Holiday Country

A Novel

By: İnci Atrek
Narrated by: Ayse Babahan
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“While Ada has spent every summer in Turkey with her mother and grandmother, part of her longs to truly belong. Inci Atrek's Holiday Country explores Ada's relationship with Turkey, her mother, and any loyalty she feels for both. An unexpected crush on an older man has the potential to up-end Ada's life, but instead might just usher her into... Read more

The Blueprint

A Novel

By: Rae Giana Rashad
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a... Read more

Slow Noodles

A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes

By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. 

Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more