The Indie Next List

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber & Sara Morsey
Length: TBA

“This book made me grieve for the girls who were never believed or were misunderstood. I felt so much for these teenage girls, who had to turn to the occult in order to feel in control of their own lives. I wished I could have seen a little more development of the girls' characters after childhood/who they were outside of the home, but I loved... Read more

The Three Lives of Cate Kay

A Novel

By: Kate Fagan
Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Tessa Albertson, Genevieve Kingston, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill, Kevin R. Free, Daniel Henning, Hillary Huber, Helen Laser, Fred Sanders, Jackie Sanders & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: TBA

“Once the background details are established and the story within a story story starts spooling out – with multiple narrators giving their perspectives on the past – The Three Lives of Cate Kay becomes a propulsively readable roller coaster of a novel. Unshakable, unstoppable ambitions and goals; the price of both fame and anonymity; unrequited... Read more

Water Moon

A Novel

By: Samantha Sotto Yambao
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel.

FEATURES A UNIQUE ORIGAMI JACKET that folds into a boat, joining the characters in an enchanting way. The jacket artwork is also printed directly onto the... Read more

What Happened to the McCrays?

A Novel

By: Tracey Lange
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker & William DeMeritt
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

“This one has all the feels. Told in dual narration and multiple timelines , it’s a well written, poignant story of a family dealing one of the life’s most difficult circumstances. Read more

The Favorites

A Novel

By: Layne Fargo
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Louisa Zhu, Amy Landon, Elena Rey, Valerie Rose Lohman, Suzanne Toren, Graham Halstead, Julia Emelin, Layne Fargo, Eric Yang & Johnny Weir
Length: TBA

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.

An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice

“Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones & The Six, this novel is as brilliantly choreographed as a gold medal performance and... Read more

Beautiful Ugly

A Novel

By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Tuppence Middleton
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

“Alice Feeny does it again! Dark tension throughout, non-stop plot twists, and an ending you'll never see coming. Actor Richard Armitage's narration is fantastic! Read more

Good Girl

A Novel

By: Aria Aber
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of self-discovery—“a stunning coming-of-age story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history

A girl can get in almost anywhere, even if she can’t get out.

“A no-bullsh*t, must-read... Read more

Rosarita

By: Anita Desai
Narrated by: Meera Simhan
Length: TBA

From “world-class writer” (The Washington Post) and three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, an exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her daughter.

Away from her home in India to study Spanish, Bonita sits on a bench in El Jardin de San Miguel, Mexico, basking in the park’s... Read more

More or Less Maddy

A Novel

By: Lisa Genova
Narrated by: Tessa Albertson
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

A breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy.

Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal... Read more

North Is the Night

By: Emily Rath
Narrated by: Emily Lawrence & Khaya Fraites
Length: TBA

YOU’RE MINE IN LIFE AND DEATH—BODY AND SOUL.In the depths of the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark woods. When a death goddess attacks their village, best friends Siiri and Aina prove helpless to stop her from dragging Aina into Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save her beloved Aina, Siiri braves a dangerous... Read more

I'll Come to You

By: Rebecca Kauffman
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

A joyful and tender drama of one “family so richly drawn, so deep and complex,
that it contains the whole world” (Emma Straub), from beloved author Rebecca
Kauffman
A modern story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the
course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child.
With empathy, insight,... Read more

Death in the Downline

By: Maria Abrams
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw & Megan Tusing
Length: TBA

It’s multi-level MURDER in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid.Drew thought she was destined to rise above her small New Jersey hometown and make it as a serious journalist in New York City. But now she’s back in Clearfield, pushing thirty, newly single, and... Read more

The Naming of the Birds

By: Paraic O'Donnell
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: TBA

Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant who long ago retired to tend his orchids. If the motive... Read more

The Heart of Winter

A Novel

By: Jonathan Evison
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

The extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love

Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year... Read more

The Note

A Novel

By: Alafair Burke
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.

“I absolutely loved The Note. Trust no one in this irresistible page-turner.” —Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times best-selling author of First Lie Wins

It was meant to be a harmless prank.

Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of... Read more

Playworld

A Novel

By: Adam Ross
Narrated by: Adam Ross
Length: 22 hours 9 minutes

A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (“A brilliant, powerful, and memorable book” —The New York Times)

“In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with... Read more

The Perfect Home

By: Daniel Kenitz
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Amanda Stribling
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Fixer Upper meets Gone Girl in this suspenseful and witty domestic thriller set in the world of home renovation TV—featuring a woman who becomes public enemy #1 after a horrifying discovery prompts her to flee her celebrity husband with their twin babies.

Dawn Decker is an American everywoman and the salt to her husband Wyatt’s sweet,... Read more

The Lost House

A Novel

By: Melissa Larsen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

In Melissa Larsen's The Lost House comes the mesmerizing story of a young woman with a haunting past who returns to her ancestral home in Iceland to investigate a gruesome murder in her family.

Forty years ago, a young woman and her infant daughter were found buried in the cold Icelandic snow, lying together as peacefully as though sleeping.... Read more

The Business Trip

A Novel

By: Jessie Garcia
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Fred Berman, Gail Shalan, Hillary Huber, Jennifer Pickens, John Pirhalla, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Kirby Heyborne & Tim Campbell
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

This program features multicast narration.

"A stunning and accomplished debut, with hugely relatable characters and an addictive storyline that kept me turning the pages well into the night. Bravo!" --BA Paris, New York Times bestselling author

"Wow, The Business Trip was nonstop twists and turns. I loved the unusual way that the story was told,... Read more

The Lotus Shoes

By: Jane Yang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Katharine Chin
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

"Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time." —Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

An empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and... Read more