Noelle Recommends

Lucky Red

A Novel

By: Claudia Cravens
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way

“A powerful feminist battle cry . . . [and] rollicking good fun.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Library... Read more

Happy Place

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“Wow! I LOVED this book! I couldn’t stop listening! I needed to know how each character grew and loved, oh how they loved! I long for a love as true as theirs. I could immediately listen to it all over again. Read more

The Postcard

By: Anne Berest
Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“A powerful personal account of a family’s history over multiple generations with a stunning ending that resolves the mystery of the postcard’s sender! The author launches her family research and investigation of who could have written the anonymous, unsigned postcard a decade earlier when her daughter experiences an anti-semitic incident at... Read more

Don't Call Me Home

A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder
Narrated by: Alexandra Auder
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva.  Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” --Debbie Harry

“Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed... Read more

Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford & Sasha Higgins
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she's worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became... Read more

Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“I call this ‘horror light.’ A well narrated story of sisters in a small town with a werewolf situation! A little romance, a little horror, a little family drama! *chef’s kiss!* Read more

American Mermaid

A Novel

By: Julia Langbein
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

“This tale of a high school English teacher turned novelist brought out to Hollywood from Connecticut to adapt her literary mermaid novel for the big screen is funny, feminist and a little bit mean (in the best way!) It also has some shimmering moments of transcendentally beautiful writing from a debut author. I love books about books and the... Read more

Maeve Fly

By: CJ Leede
Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author

“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library Journal

A provocative debut... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“Imbler’s full-length debut is as much about their personal evolution as a queer, mixed race writer as it is an exploration of the deep sea creatures whose eccentricities inspire them. Imbler's tender approach and tactile prose toggles between expansive aquatic research and personal experiences, expanding the portrait of our world as we know it... Read more

Northern Spy

A Novel

By: Flynn Berry
Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“This emotionally rich espionage story set in present-day Ireland looks at a country divided, the invisibility of motherhood, and the bonds of family that can supersede all else. It is the story of two sisters, one a paramedic and one a BBC news service employee. When one sister is apparently part of an IRA attack, the other refuses to believe it... Read more

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams
Narrated by: Lucinda Williams
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).
 
“[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the... Read more

Our Country Friends

A Novel

By: Gary Shteyngart
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews

Finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction • Longlisted for... Read more

Signal Fires

A novel

By: Dani Shapiro
Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

“A beautifully haunting story of connection. Told from the perspectives of its seven main characters and moving deftly back and forth among the years from the 1970s to the present, this is a narrative full of loss and hope. It opens in 1985 with a tragic accident and unfolds backwards and forwards to tell a complex yet ordinary story of two... Read more

The Rabbit Hutch

A novel

By: Tess Gunty
Narrated by: Tess Gunty, Scott Brick, Suzanne Toren, Kirby Heyborne & Kyla Garcia
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

“The Rabbit Hutch is an inventive and lyrical tale of Midwestern decay, environmental destruction, and toxic masculinity. John Brandon meets Lauren Groff with the occasional experimental aside. An ambitious and assured debut. Read more

Slewfoot

A Tale of Bewitchery

By: Brom
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“A dark and vengeful historical fantasy full of excellent storytelling. This book is both a mystical fairytale, and an intense horror novel that will keep you listening to see what happens next! Fans of Guillermo Del Toro films will devour this book. Read more

Someone Else's Shoes

A Novel

By: Jojo Moyes
Narrated by: Daisy Ridley
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

“In Someone Else's Shoes, Jojo Moyes has a knack for getting you to love a character on one page and then hate them on the next, and she does so with humor and humanity. The two main characters, Nisha and Sam, are prime examples of this. The story is told from a third person perspective which helped me understand what was going on in each... Read more

Fathoms

The World in the Whale

By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

“This isn't a scientists memoir about their life studying whales; it's really just a rambling of facts that held me and my friends in fascination as we listened to it on libro.fm during a road trip. WHALES ARE SO INTERESTING! Rebecca lives in Australia and became obsessed with whales when a young humpback washed up too high on her local beach and... Read more

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“Save this one for your next long trip, because you definitely won’t be able to stop once you jump on the roller coaster that is Feyi Adekola’s life. Art, travel, deep abiding friendship, and food all narrated by the brilliant Bahni Turpin. Read more

Making a Scene

By: Constance Wu
Narrated by: Constance Wu
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

“Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” —Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm *

A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New York Times) memoir by actress Constance Wu about family, love, sex, shame, trauma, and how she found her voice.

Growing up in the friendly suburbs of... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“I was furious at the abject injustices that rained down on Elizabeth Zott, an unconventional and brilliant chemist who bucks traditional behaviors expected of women in the 1960s. But after she was forced into a socially acceptable position, I cheered her irrepressible resilience as she turned that conventional role into a wildly successful... Read more