Iconoclast Bestsellers
Check out the top selling titles at Iconoclast Books, where intellectual curiosity and a hand curated selection come together.
Here I Am
A Novel
By Jonathan Safran Foer / Narrated by Ari Fliakos / 16 hours 58 minutes
A monumental new audiobook from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, “Abraham!” before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, “Here I am.” Later, when Isaac calls out, “My father!” before asking him why there is no animal to... Read More »
To the Bright Edge of the World
A Novel
By Eowyn Ivey / Narrated by John Glouchevitch / 13 hours 26 minutes
One of the Best Books of 2016--Amazon
A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016
A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
A Library Journal Top 10 Book of 2016
A BookPage Best Book of 2016
An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In the winter of... Read More »
The Mothers
A Novel
By Brit Bennett / Narrated by Adenrele Ojo / 9 hours 54 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NBCC John Leonard First Novel Prize Finalist
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist
New York Public Library Young Lions Award Finalist
An NPR Best Book of 2016
An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016
A Vogue Magazine Best Book of the Year
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
One of Elle.com's Best Books of the... Read More »
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By J. D. Vance / Narrated by J. D. Vance / 6 hours 49 minutes
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a... Read More »
The Trespasser
A Novel
By Tana French / Narrated by Hilda Fay / 20 hours 4 minutes
New York Times bestselling author Tana French is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers . . . (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (Washington Post).
“Atmospheric and... Read More »
Mischling
By Affinity Konar / Narrated by Vanessa Johansson / 10 hours 56 minutes
A New York Times Notable Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Year
A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
An Indie Next Pick
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Flavorwire Best Book of the Year
An Elle Best Book of the Year
"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting... Read More »
Small Great Things
A Novel
By Jodi Picoult / Narrated by Ari Fliakos, Audra McDonald & Cassandra Campbell / 16 hours 13 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
“[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in... Read More »
Truevine
Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
By Beth Macy / Narrated by Suzanne Toren / 10 hours 53 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.
The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little... Read More »
The Vegetarian
A Novel
By Han Kang / Narrated by Janet Song & Stephen Park / 5 hours 14 minutes
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Publisher's Weekly • Buzzfeed • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Wall Street Journal • Bustle • Elle • The Economist • Slate • The Huffington Post • The St. Louis Dispatch • Electric Literature
A beautiful,... Read More »
Pax
By Sara Pennypacker / Narrated by Michael Curran-Dorsano / 5 hours 31 minutes
National Book Award Longlist * New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year
From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.
Pax and Peter... Read More »
A Torch Kept Lit
Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
By William F. Buckley / Narrated by Tony Pasqualini / 9 hours 14 minutes
A unique collection of eulogies of the twentieth century’s greatest figures, written by conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. and compiled by National Review and Fox News White House correspondent James Rosen.In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley Jr. achieved unique stature as a polemicist and the undisputed godfather of... Read More »
The Girl on the Train
A Novel
By Paula Hawkins / Narrated by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher / 10 hours 57 minutes
The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair
“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since... Read More »
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book Two: The Hammer of Thor
Rick Riordan's Norse Mythology
By Rick Riordan / Narrated by Kieran Culkin / 10 hours 33 minutes
Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants.... Read More »
The Nix
A novel
By Nathan Hill / Narrated by Ari Fliakos / 21 hours 41 minutes
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year
A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book
A Slate Top Ten Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The Nix is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving
From the... Read More »
Another Brooklyn
A Novel
By Jacqueline Woodson / Narrated by Robin Miles / 2 hours 43 minutes
Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read More »
The Woman in Cabin 10
By Ruth Ware / Narrated by Imogen Church / 11 hours 8 minutes
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD
Featured in TheSkimm
An Entertainment Weekly “Summer Must List” Pick
A New York Post “Summer Must-Read” Pick
Included in Summer Book Guides from Bustle, Oprah.com, PureWow, and USA TODAY
From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery”... Read More »
Trainwreck
The women we love to hate, mock, and fear, and why
By Sady Doyle / Narrated by Alex McKenna / 7 hours 34 minutes
She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.
She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.
From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for... Read More »
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal / Narrated by John Green & Amy Krouse Rosenthal / 2 hours 53 minutes
The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human.
Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear... Read More »
Carousel Court
A Novel
By Joe McGinniss / Narrated by Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill / 10 hours 54 minutes
A fast, frightening, and thrillingly contemporary novel about marriage and money that early reviewers are calling “powerful” (Booklist, starred review), “propulsive” (Publishers Weekly), “totally addictive” (Bookish), and “a novel of unrelenting tension” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Here is one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and... Read More »
The Wild Robot
By Peter Brown / Narrated by Kate Atwater / 4 hours 14 minutes
Can a robot survive in the wilderness?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for... Read More »
Behind Closed Doors
A Novel
By B. A. Paris / Narrated by Georgia Maguire / 8 hours 23 minutes
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING DEBUT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER YOU CAN'T MISS!
The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?
“A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive...A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good... Read More »
Love Warrior
A Memoir
By Glennon Doyle Melton & Glennon Doyle / Narrated by Glennon Doyle / 7 hours 34 minutes
The Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 Selection
The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage.
Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out—three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so... Read More »
Today Will Be Different
By Maria Semple / Narrated by Kathleen Wilhoite / 6 hours 28 minutes
*In development with HBO as a series starring Julia Roberts*
* Instant New York Times Bestseller *
Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book... Read More »
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates / Narrated by Ta-Nehisi Coates / 3 hours 35 minutes
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS... Read More »
Americanah
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Narrated by Adjoa Andoh / 17 hours 29 minutes
As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find... Read More »