Fountain's Listened-and-Loved List For 2017

Rabbit

The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

By: Patricia Williams & Jeannine Amber
Narrated by: Patricia Williams
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature"An absolute must-read" – Shondaland“[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor” – New York Times They called her Rabbit.Patricia Williams (aka Ms. Pat) was born and raised in Atlanta at the height of the crack epidemic. One of five children, Pat watched... Read more

Black Mad Wheel

A Novel

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

 From the author of the hit literary horror debut Bird Box (“Hitchcockian.” —USA Today) comes a chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitating soundThe Danes—the band known as the “Darlings of Detroit”—are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once... Read more

Wait, What?

And Life's Other Essential Questions

By: James E. Ryan
Narrated by: James E. Ryan
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Joining the ranks of Tina Seelig’s What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life, Mary Karr’s Now Go Out There, and George Saunders’ Congratulations, By the Way comes an insightful guide that reveals the secret to pursuing a rich, fulfilling life: the art of asking (and answering) good questions.In his... Read more

Magpie Murders

A Novel

By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Samantha Bond & Allan Corduner
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

“Who better than the talented Anthony Horowitz to create this marvelous mystery within a mystery. Yes, we're treated to two mysteries for the price of one: One set in a peaceful village in England during the 1950s with the one and only Detective Atticus Pund taking the case, and the other set in contemporary times with a book editor who becomes... 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

Turtles All the Way Down

By: John Green
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

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“So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” – The New York Times

Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many... Read more

Believe Me

A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens

By: Eddie Izzard
Narrated by: Eddie Izzard
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

With his brand of keenly intelligent humor that ranges from world history to... Read more

Normal

A Novel

By: Warren Ellis
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

“This is an eerily fun read. What if Big Brother was as small as an ant? Patients at a private asylum deep in the woods are all from the world of either Foresight Strategy or Strategic Forecasting. This means they are smart people, but deeply depressed -- and many have gone insane -- because they are paid to look into the future and it isn't... Read more

Bored and Brilliant

How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self

By: Manoush Zomorodi
Narrated by: Manoush Zomorodi
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

*An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner*

This program is read by the author.

"In this spirited exploration of our relationship with technological devices, Zomorodi's melodic voice beckons and inspires listeners to develop a deeper understanding of how tech devices affect our potential...Zomorodi persuasively conveys her compelling points on... Read more

Sourdough

A Novel

By: Robin Sloan
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

“A quirky, feel good story that leaves you craving fresh bread. Set in San Francisco, Lois Clary is unfulfilled in her high paying robotics job. She is gifted a unique sourdough starter which prompts her on a very special journey of self discovery. Read more

Mr. Dickens and His Carol

A Novel

By: Samantha Silva
Narrated by: Euan Morton
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

“Full of fantastic period detail and delightful prose, Mr. Dickens and His Carol is a wonderful companion to the enduring holiday classic A Christmas Carol. A month before Christmas, Charles Dickens is informed that his latest serial is a failure and he must produce a holiday story in one month's time or pay back his publishers for their losses.... Read more

Six Wakes

By: Mur Lafferty
Narrated by: Mur Lafferty
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer.

Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first... Read more

The Stone Sky

The Broken Earth: Book #3

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of... Read more

Code Girls

The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

By: Liza Mundy
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“There is so much arguing these days over the existence of women in STEM fields and whether they should be allowed to be there. 'Oh honey,' says Code Girls, wrapping an arm around your shoulder, 'we never left.' In riveting prose, Mundy shows the presence of these women from the very beginning -and then how they were almost forcibly forgotten... Read more

Righteous

An IQ Novel: Book #2

By: Joe Ide
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year and winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus.

For ten years, something has gnawed at Isaiah Quintabe's gut and kept him up nights, boiling with anger and thoughts of... Read more

Before the Fall

By: Noah Hawley
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

“When a private plane plunges into the ocean off Martha's Vineyard, the media and the government want answers. The two survivors -- a middle-aged artist along for the ride and the 4-year-old son of a prominent and powerful family - have little to say. Before the Fall takes the reader on a thrilling ride through the past lives of the other... Read more

Borne

The Borne Series: Book #1

By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

In Borne, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company―a biotech firm now derelict―and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down... Read more

All Our Wrong Todays

A Novel

By: Elan Mastai
Narrated by: Elan Mastai
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

“This is one of the best audiobooks I've ever listened to. Elan Mastai reads it himself and conveys perfectly the emotions of his character. What really struck home for me was how personal the story felt. Listening to it, I could tell that Mastai wasn't just speaking from his imagination. It was something he'd actually experienced and was still... Read more

Mikhail and Margarita

A Novel

By: Julie Lekstrom Himes
Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state. To make matters worse,... Read more

Lights On, Rats Out

A Memoir

By: Cree LeFavour
Narrated by: Cree LeFavour
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed on the fierce, blooming release of pleasure-pain as the burning tip was applied to an unblemished patch of... Read more