As recommended by NPR

Wuhan Diary

Dispatches from a Quarantined City

By: Fang Fang & Michael Berry
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly... Read more

The Sinners All Bow

Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

One of Amazon’s Best History Books of January

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

On a... Read more

The First State of Being

By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDALA FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDChicago Public Library Best Fiction for Older Readers of 2024Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2024 for Kids and TeensBookPage Best Middle Grade of 2024Common Sense Media Best Books of 20242025 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable ListWhen... Read more

Black in Blues

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more

Lunar Love

By: Lauren Kung Jessen
Narrated by: Raechel Wong
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

This sweet, enemies-to-lovers debut rom-com filled with Chinese astrology will undoubtedly prove to be a perfect match with readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Helena Hunting.

Always a matchmaker, never a match...
Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she... Read more

Superagency

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future

By: Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato
Narrated by: Scott Wallace & AI Narration
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Instant USA Today Bestseller.

Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.

"An essential companion." — Fei-Fei Li
"An important read." —Bill Gates
"Brilliant mind. Compassionate heart. Bold ideas…Read... Read more

Mothers and Sons

A Novel

By: Adam Haslett
Narrated by: Andrew Gibson & Janet Metzger
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Wow, is this book beautifully written. Complex relationships across generations and cultures, characters who grow and see themselves differently by the end of the novel… satisfying and sad and beautiful and hopeful. Read more

There Are Rivers in the Sky

A novel

By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall & Elif Shafak
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

“Weaving a story of the rivers Tigris and Thames the persecution of the Yezidi people from Mesopotamia, the discoverer and interpreter of the ancient poem Gilgamesh. All connected through time by a drop of water. Read more

A Thousand Times Before

A Novel

By: Asha Thanki
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

“A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future.” — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts

“[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of love, trauma, and choices that echo through blood. A... Read more

Nuclear War

A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

“A staff FAVORITE. Seriously, Ryann and Mickie can't stop recommending this one. Holy s***! This book was excellent, and this book was terrifying. And I could not recommend it enough. It's a question on all of our minds; what would happen if the US was hit by a nuclear weapon? Well, this book answers that question - in horrifying detail. Annie... Read more

Not the End of the World

How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie
Narrated by: Hannah Ritchie
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will... Read more

Invisible Rulers

The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

By: Renee DiResta
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 15 hours

A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.

Renée DiResta’s powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed... Read more

In My Time of Dying

How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to... Read more

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World

A Decolonial Memoir

By: Shayla Lawson
Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“Phenomenal.... A memoir that opens into the world, with brilliance, courage, and elegant prose.... This is a book to read, read again, and remember.”—Imani Perry, New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner South to America

Poet and journalist Shayla Lawson follows their National Book Critics Circle finalist This Is Major... Read more

Defectors

The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

By: Paola Ramos
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 • An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics

“A deeply reported, surprisingly personal exploration of a phenomenon that is little understood in our politics: the... Read more

Cloistered

My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream
Narrated by: Catherine Coldstream
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It’s about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously vulnerable to threats from... Read more

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle
Narrated by: Rebecca Nagle
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“In 2020, the Supreme Court affirmed the reservation of Muscogee Nation in a stunning victory for Indigenous land rights. Alternating between the case and the wider history of tribal sovereignty, removal, and resistance in Oklahoma, By the Fire We Carry is an engaging, infuriating account of Indigenous people's ongoing fight to exist in their own... Read more

The Burning Earth

A History

By: Sunil Amrith
Narrated by: Esh Alladi
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024



In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of... Read more

We're Alone

Essays

By: Edwidge Danticat
Narrated by: Edwidge Danticat
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

“One of my favorite authors is Edwidge Danticat; her writing is beautiful. She does a great job of narrating this book of essays. Danticat covers a lot of ground; from her childhood, to current events in Haiti. If you'd like to gain a sense of Haitian history and what it's like to be an immigrant from Haiti, this book is enlightening. From the... Read more

Rental House

A Novel

By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Jen Zhao
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

“Weike Wang’s sharp insights on marriage, family, and home shine on every page of this slim novel. A treat for anyone who’s ever silently (or not so silently) questioned the absurdities of in-laws. I dare you to read this on your family vacation! Read more