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The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“Welcome to the strikingly dysfunctional Plumb family: four siblings connected by little more than 'The Nest,' a joint trust fund that each has earmarked to support their unrealistic lifestyles. When Leo, the older brother and the center of the Plumb family universe, injures himself and a 19-year-old waitress in a scandalous car accident and... Read more

Someday, Someday, Maybe

A Novel

By: Lauren Graham
Narrated by: Lauren Graham
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead--and keep it together--in New York City.
 
It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she... Read more

Modern Lovers

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Jen Tullock
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“Set in trendy Brooklyn, Straub's latest novel follows the lives of former bandmates Zoe, Elizabeth, and Andrew and their teenage children, Ruby and Harry. When Ruby and Harry begin a relationship, their parents are forced to face and reveal long-buried tensions and secrets. Straub's spot-on depictions of middle-age suburban life and teenage... Read more

Let the Great World Spin

A Novel

By: Colum McCann
Narrated by: Various
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a... Read more

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

A Novel

By: Kathleen Rooney
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“Join 85-year-old Lillian on a New Year's Eve stroll through Manhattan, a city as changed by time as Lillian herself. As with Joyce's Ulysses, the reader is privy to a life told in snapshots of memory within a single day. Based loosely on the life of Margaret Fishback, Lillian is a former Depression-era advertising copywriter for R.H. Macy's... Read more

Saint Mazie

A Novel

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always... Read more

The Futures

By: Anna Pitoniak
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“I’m a sucker for the “moving-to-the-big-city-after-university” subgenre of literary fiction, so The Futures has been firmly on my to-read list for months. It’s set in 2008 — an ominous time to be a hedge fund manager like Evan. What does it hold for him and Julia, his Yale girlfriend? If you want an indication of how good this book is: I could... Read more

The Cranes Dance

By: Meg Howrey
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“This book is a fascinating world into the world of dance, through the eyes of a jaded, cynical, aging (so, mid twenties maybe?) ballerina whose acerbic voice reflects this jadedness and cynicism so well. This was one of those unputdownable books – especially if you love a deep dive into the mind of a brilliantly drawn character. Bonus: the... Read more

The Sun is Also a Star

By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Raymond Lee & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other.

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not... Read more

The Light We Lost

By: Jill Santopolo
Narrated by: Jill Santopolo
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

“As soon as I saw this book mentioned and compared to One Day, I leapt onto Netgalley to beg for an advance copy, which the good people at Penguin Random House granted me immediately. I knew I’d love it, and I was right: it’s a novel that explores that age-old dilemma of steady, comfortable, dependable, good-enough love, versus the explosive,... Read more

In Five Years

A Novel

By: Rebecca Serle
Narrated by: Megan Hilty
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

“Where do you see yourself in five years? - Imagine you have your whole life planned out to the T. Now imagine that plan is ripped up and thrown in the bin. This book will squeeze your heart. This is a story about love and the power that is holds. Read more