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A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

“It is a universally acknowledged truth that a retelling of Pride and Prejudice must be cleverly written and wickedly funny. Sittenfeld has accomplished that and more with her fantastic new novel. The Bennet sisters have been transported to modern day Cincinnati. Jane is a yoga instructor; Liz, a writer for a women's magazine; Lydia and Kitty do... Read more

The Decent Proposal

A Novel

By: Kemper Donovan
Narrated by: Michael Bakkensen
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

An addictively readable debut romantic comedy, drama, and mystery rolled into one, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition. This is a funny, tender, and enchanting story about love, attraction, and friendship: Jane Austen in Los Angeles.A struggling Hollywood producer, Richard... Read more

Raymie Nightingale

By: Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo returns to her roots with a moving, masterful story of an unforgettable summer friendship.

Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two... Read more

Wilde Lake

A Novel

By: Laura Lippman
Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Nicole Poole
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl.  A vengeful father.  A courageous attorney.  A worshipful daughter.  Think you know this story?  Think again. Laura Lippman, the “extravagantly gifted” (Chicago Tribune) New York Times bestselling author, delivers “one of her best novels ” (Washington Post)—a modern twist on To Kill a... Read more

Black Rabbit Hall

By: Eve Chase
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe, Katie Scarfe & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

“For fans of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, Black Rabbit Hall is an obvious must-read.”—Bookpage
 
A secret history. A long-ago summer. A house with an untold story.
 
Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London family’s Cornish country house, where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect,... Read more

The Second Life of Nick Mason

A Nick Mason Novel: Book #1

By: Steve Hamilton
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

An NPR and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Thriller of the Year

“A gamechanger. Nick Mason is one of the best main characters I've read in years.”—Harlan Coben

From New York Times-bestselling, two-time Edgar-award-winning author Steve Hamilton comes an unforgettable new hero, a man who will walk out of prison and into... Read more

My Name Is Lucy Barton

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

“Strout has the incredible ability to take ordinary, even mundane situations and use them to make acute observations on the human condition. A mother's visit to her daughter in the hospital becomes the vehicle for an astute examination of daily needs, desires, yearnings, wishes, and dreams that become so much of the remembered experience. Using... Read more

Not If I See You First

By: Eric Lindstrom
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

In the tradition of Gayle Forman and John Green comes this extraordinary YA debut about a blind teen girl navigating life and love in high school.

Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. There will be no... Read more

The Astounding Broccoli Boy

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Narrated by: Ewan Goddard
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

From Frank Cottrell Boyce—the beloved, award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Millions and Cosmic—comes another hilarious, heartbreaking, and completely original middle grade novel.Rory Rooney likes to be prepared for anything. That sort of planning pays off when you’re the smallest kid in your class. Rory is even prepared (mostly)... Read more

The Buried Giant

A novel

By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: David Horovitch
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
 
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased.... Read more

Lila (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Marilynne Robinson
Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside,... Read more

Uprooted

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Julia Emelin
Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

“Some books are like a delicious, warm chocolate chip cookie, familiar and wonderfully exciting all at once. Novik’s entry into high fantasy is just such a book, paying homage to the classics while managing to make the (excellent and witty) heroine’s coming of age tale feel just as magical and interesting as any I have ever read. The heroes are... Read more

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

“This book is everything: complex characters, gorgeous settings, and a masterclass in worldbuilding. Robin Miles is one of the best narrators in the industry, and I would listen to every book she narrates. Her voice is rich and complex and she gives every character a distinct personality and voice. The Fifth Season is one of the best fantasy... 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

Redemption Road

A Novel

By: John Hart
Narrated by: Scott Shepherd
Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

“Hart weaves several plotlines together in this masterful crime novel: the former cop serving hard time for a crime he didn't commit; the son who awaits the release of his mother's killer; the girl whose brutal attackers were tortured and assassinated; and Liz, the cop at the heart of all of these stories, who is, herself, wanted by the police.... Read more

An Ember in the Ashes

An Ember in the Ashes: Book #1

By: Sabaa Tahir
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Steve West
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia... Read more