Staff Picks

My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories

By: Samantha Schoech
Narrated by: Samantha Schoech
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

“Dry and caustic, this Babitz-esque collection of short stories is sure to make you laugh, groan, and deeply meditate on the abject f*ckery that befalls all humans. Read more

Another Word for Love

A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace
Narrated by: Carvell Wallace
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

This program is read by the author.

“Carvell Wallace narrates his beautiful memoir with poignant urgency-- and a whole lot of love…His voice, like his prose, has a poetic cadence. At times, his narration seems to fly, reaching higher and higher before culminating in an emotional crescendo.”—AudioFile

A transformative memoir that reimagines the... Read more

Terrace Story

A Novel

By: Hilary Leichter
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

“The zany and brilliant Temporary put Hilary Leichter on my radar as an author to watch; Terrace Story has given her permanent residence in my brain. Strikingly different in tone from her first novel, Terrace Story is just as inventive, surreal, and riveting, with prose that is more polished yet still raw in all the right ways. This... Read more

Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)

A Novel

By: Danzy Senna
Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Incisive, of the moment, and darkly funny, I loved everything about Colored Television. Very few contemporary authors can so acutely examine race and class while maintaining a razor-sharp sense of humor, but Danzy Senna is in a league of her own. Read more

Palo Alto

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris
Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

“From The Gold Rush to Google, Harris spins a tale of greed, racism, union-busting and violence that built California and Silicon Valley. The book offers an alternate view of California and world history that many of us missed in school. Read more

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Ann Napolitano
Narrated by: Maura Tierney
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

“This entertaining novel brings you fully into the richly detailed and realistic lives of the four Padavano sisters and their family. You'll alternately want to shake these characters out of their flaws and hug them. Read more

Biography of X : A Novel

By: Catherine Lacey
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

“A fictionalized memoir about a non-existent star of the east village art scene. An America broken in two after the end of World War 2. A woman attempts to understand abuse at the hands of the person she loved. All at once. Read more

Big Swiss

A Novel

By: Jen Beagin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Carlotta Brentan, Stephen Graybill, Joy Osmanski & Matt Pittenger
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

“If you're looking for a sapphic romp with dark humor that's comparable to Ottessa Moshfegh, look no further than to Big Swiss by Jen Beagin! Greta is a transcriber for a sex therapist and begins a torrid affair with one of his clients after meeting her in their small town dog park. With sarcastic prose, an outlandish narrator, and sapphic... Read more

The Shamshine Blind

A Novel

By: Paz Pardo
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, “this fiercely intelligent and utterly original debut” (Anna North, New York Times bestselling author) imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to... Read more

Saving Time

Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire

“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more

Natural Beauty

A Novel

By: Ling Ling Huang
Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

“The debut novel of a classical violinist, Natural Beauty would be tempting to label as a "slow-burn," but the attention paid to the protagonist's family history, creative struggles, and experiences as a minority in the high-art world make the early going just as enjoyable as the later lurch into terror. It goes from feeling like a possible roman... Read more

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“Queen Leigh’s first foray into adult fantasy is a sensational success! One of the best fantasy books I’ve read in a long while, Ninth House contains Yale secret societies, ghosts, magic, morally gray characters, and murder. Bardugo balances dual timelines with intricate precision, and the history and world-building of her fantastical New Haven... Read more

Checkout 19

A Novel

By: Claire-Louise Bennett
Narrated by: Claire-Louise Bennett
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE

“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaard

From the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

“Demon Copperhead is without a doubt one of the best books I've ever read! The narrator is the perfect! Everything about this book is perfection. Pro-tip count how many times you say, "oh no Demon." Read more

All This Could Be Different

A Novel

By: Sarah Thankam Mathews
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“All This Could Be Different tells the story of Sneha, a young queer brown woman living through the recession and coming into her adulthood. Told with beautiful prose that is both simple and captivating, I couldn’t put this down. To see the story of a complex, and at times troubling character, this book is one that I felt the need to sit with and... Read more

When We Were Sisters

A Novel

By: Fatimah Asghar
Narrated by: Farah Kidwai, Kamran Khan & Deepti Gupta
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

“Brimming with poetic lyricism, When We Were Sisters encourages you to rethink the definitions of 'family' and 'home'! Would highly recommend! Read more

The Tatami Galaxy

A Novel

By: Tomihiko Morimi
Narrated by: Andrew Grace
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After... Read more

The Sorcerer of Pyongyang

A Novel

By: Marcel Theroux
Narrated by: Marcel Theroux
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Written “with intelligence, compassion, and an occasional quiet lyricism” (Krys Lee, The Guardian), this mesmerizing novel is about a North Korean boy whose life is irrevocably changed when he stumbles across a mysterious Western book—a guide to Dungeons & Dragons—from the acclaimed author of the “sublime” (The New York Times) Far... Read more

Foster

By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

“This moving story of a young girl taken to live for a brief time with relatives is the perfect quick listen. There are vast differences between the girl’s crowded child-filled home and the quiet home of her relatives. Equally great are the differences in parenting given by her parents and the couple she comes to stay with. Told in first person... Read more

She and Her Cat

Stories

By: Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa
Narrated by: Winson Ting, Julia Strowski, Jacqui Bardelang, Hana Teraie-Wood & Nile Faure-Bryan
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.

Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a... Read more