Mysterious Galaxy Staff Picks

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

A Novel

By: Shannon Chakraborty
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

“Amina has forsaken her swashbuckling days, trading high-sea adventures for peaceful days at home tending to her young daughter and watchful mother. A precarious situation arises and Amina must assemble her crew back together to conquer this mission... and what a riotous time! The dual narrators are fantastic and Amina's tale is absolutely... Read more

Mickey7

A Novel

Mickey7: Book #1

By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

*Soon to be the major motion picture Mickey17*

The Martian meets Dark Matter in Edward Ashton's high concept science fiction thriller, in which Mickey7, an "expendable," refuses to let his replacement clone Mickey8 take his place.

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.

Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition... Read more

Gideon the Ninth

Locked Tomb: Book #1

By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

“Gideon the Ninth is an epic science fantasy that if delivered into the hands of enough people will set the world on fire as it hasn’t been since The Hunger Games. Brilliance doesn’t come close to explaining Tamsyn Muir’s narrative where no single word is wasted or her engineering of a world with characters that end up belonging to you... Read more

Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Patti Murin, Jon Root & Christina Lauren
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

The “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love.

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much... Read more

Divine Rivals

A Novel

Letters of Enchantment: Book #1

By: Rebecca Ross
Narrated by: Alex Wingfield & Rebecca Norfolk
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

“The center of this quietly fraught and achingly earnest story is a love affair in letters, sent between magical typewriters by two ambitious rivals for the same newspaper position. I’ve heard it described as You’ve Got Mail meets Dramione, and while I definitely enjoyed both aspects, Iris and Roman truly have a love of their own, and I was... Read more

The First Binding

Tales of Tremaine: Book #1

By: R.R. Virdi
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 41 hours 17 minutes

“Epic fantasy at its finest—an homage to storytelling and legend, richly told and endlessly engaging.”—Andrea Stewart, author of The Bone Shard Daughter

Don’t miss the first novel in this stunning Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy series from R.R. Virdi—a saga of legends, lies, and the secretive storyteller who’s spun them all.

All legends are born... Read more

Blood Debts

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Torian Brackett & Zeno Robinson
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

“Blood Debts is a YA fantasy that will drag you into its world, and not let you go. I couldn't stop reading, invested in the fates of the Trudeau twins. It was a wild ride, but the book has depth, exploring issues of privilege, race, power, and the acceptance of LGBTQ people. An amazing book! (Especially recommended on audio. It's incredible!) Read more

Atalanta

A Novel

By: Jennifer Saint
Narrated by: Beth Eyre
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

“This is a beautifully told adventure that reimagines Greek Mythology, telling the story of Artemis's chosen warrior, the fierce, strong, and unbound Atalanta, as she embarks on a quest for glory with the Argonauts. This story is a true adventure filled with action, magic, loss, and danger set across the sweeping Greece landscape. It explores... Read more

The First Bright Thing

By: J.R. Dawson
Narrated by: Petrea Burchard & Tim Campbell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

“The First Bright Thing is queer, Jewish, full of magical circuses, and it’s *luminary.* Everything about it blew me away: the tender prose, the unflinching depictions of grief and post-abuse PTSD, and the breathtaking on-page spectacle of the circus. I’ll be honest…I would NOT have picked this book if I had read the jacket copy first. It’s an... Read more

Witch King

The Rising World: Book #1

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Eric Mok
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

“This is true high fantasy complete with a diverse character list, explanations of magics used, descriptions of the world and the different factions operating to bring about events...The narrator speaking with Kai's POV was fantastic. His voice was perfect and conveyed real feeling through the words. I feel I liked this one so much because I... Read more

Lavender House

A Novel

Evander Mills: Book #1

By: Lev AC Rosen
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“Lavender House is more than a book, it's an experience: Love, Loss, Redemption, all lathered up in the very gay Lamontaine Estate set in 1952 San Francisco. Lev AC Rosen created a delightfully quirky and queer cast of characters for this historical fiction, and the narrator, Vikas Adams, brings so much personality to the voice of each character... Read more

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

A Vera Wong Novel: Book #1

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“I immediately cared deeply about Vera, the Chinese mother whose tea shop is failing and whose grown son ignores her. Eunice Wong’s audiobook performance was perfectly done to bring out the many sides of Vera. The mystery is enjoyable, but the connections the characters make with each other are what really drive the plot. Read more

Perilous Times

A Novel

By: Thomas D. Lee
Narrated by: Nicola F. Delgado
Length: 20 hours 35 minutes

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.

“An utterly original take on Arthurian myth.”—The Times

A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Legends don’t always live up to reality.

Being reborn as an... Read more

Belladonna

By: Adalyn Grace
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth brings to life a highly romantic, Gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal. ​
 
Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her... Read more

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

“Astrid was my favorite from Delilah Green Doesn't Care, so it was a delight to get her story! This one's for anyone who has ever looked around and wondered how they ended up here, in this entirely unsuitable life. Astrid blew up her life, but not quite enough...until she meets Jordan. Sexy & fun. Queer girl romance at its best! Read more

Sea of Rust

A Novel

By: C. Robert Cargill
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

“It’s fifteen years after humanity has gone extinct, and things are not looking good for robotkind. Many have succumb to becoming facets for one of the two One World Intelligence hive minds that remain after the war with humanity, and the freebots who do not submit gather together in ramshackle settlements for protection from OWI raids. One such... Read more

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

A Novel

By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Steve West & Sura Siu
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

“The chills that I got finishing this book! At once a dream and a slow building nightmare, the story is rich and lush as any fairytale. Chokshi’s playful language pulls you into a present whose edges blur into myth and bittersweet yearning. Read more

Good Omens

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!“Reads like the Book of Revelation, rewritten by Monty Python.” — San Francisco ChronicleThe classic novel of angels, demons, and Armageddon from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, now a Prime original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.According to The Nice... Read more

Welcome to Night Vale

A Novel

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Therese Plummer & Dan Bittner
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

?New York Times Bestseller""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian“A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.orgFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an... Read more

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book #1

By: Douglas Adams
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World

Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent .... Read more