The New York Times Best Sellers
With new audiobooks added each Friday, our NYT Best Sellers include the latest titles in fiction, nonfiction, and selections from advice, how-to, and miscellaneous.
A Legacy of Spies
A Novel
By John le Carré / Narrated by Tom Hollander / 8 hours 28 minutes
The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book—his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old... Read More »
Glass Houses
A Novel
Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #13
By Louise Penny / Narrated by Robert Bathurst / 13 hours 31 minutes
"...the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache's conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero's heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level." — Audiofile Magazine
AN AUGUST 2017 LibraryReads PICK!
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November... Read More »
Fantasyland
How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
By Kurt Andersen / Narrated by Kurt Andersen / 19 hours 33 minutes
“The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell
How did we get here?
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country... Read More »
Camino Island
A Novel
By John Grisham / Narrated by January LaVoy / 8 hours 44 minutes
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless but Princeton, has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a... Read More »
The Vietnam War
An Intimate History
By Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns / Narrated by Brian Corrigan, Fred Sanders & Ken Burns / 31 hours 13 minutes
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt... Read More »
Coming to My Senses
The Making of a Counterculture Cook
By Alice Waters / Narrated by Alice Waters / 8 hours 58 minutes
The long-awaited memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley, California in 1971 at the age of 27, no one... Read More »
Secrets in Death
In Death Series: Book #45
By J. D. Robb / Narrated by Susan Ericksen / 13 hours 2 minutes
A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people’s secrets is silenced.
The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it’s not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that’s... Read More »
Enemy of the State
A Mitch Rapp Novel: Book #14
By Vince Flynn & Kyle Mills / Narrated by Scott Brick / 11 hours 33 minutes
In the #1 New York Times bestselling series’ latest installment, Mitch Rapp finds himself alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies.
After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would... Read More »
The Golden House
A Novel
By Salman Rushdie / Narrated by Vikas Adam / 14 hours 38 minutes
A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities
On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a... Read More »
My Absolute Darling
A Novel
By Gabriel Tallent / Narrated by Alex McKenna / 15 hours 46 minutes
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Impossible to put down." —NPR
"A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post
"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's... Read More »
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
By Neil deGrasse Tyson / Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson / 3 hours 41 minutes
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth... Read More »
Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson / Narrated by Bryan Stevenson / 11 hours 3 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction | Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award | Finalist for the Los Angeles Book... Read More »
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By Timothy Snyder / Narrated by Timothy Snyder / 1 hour 47 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one... Read More »
The Store
By James Patterson & Richard DiLallo / Narrated by Graham Halstead / 5 hours 10 minutes
THE STORE IS WATCHING YOU.
Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe.
ALWAYS WATCHING.
Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret of their own. They're writing a book that will expose... Read More »
Why Buddhism is True
The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment
By Robert Wright / Narrated by Fred Sanders / 10 hours 29 minutes
From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about... Read More »
Seeing Red
By Sandra Brown / Narrated by Victor Slezak / 12 hours 44 minutes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy.
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national... Read More »
The Late Show
By Michael Connelly / Narrated by Katherine Moennig / 9 hours 22 minutes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly introduces Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat--the Late Show.
Renee Ballard works the midnight shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing few, as each morning she turns everything over to the daytime units. It's... Read More »
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Harari / Narrated by Derek Perkins / 15 hours 17 minutes
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.”
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth.... Read More »
Lying Game
A Novel
By Ruth Ware / Narrated by Imogen Church / 13 hours 39 minutes
From the New York Times bestselling author of the “pulse-quickening” (Good Housekeeping, UK) In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated third novel, featuring her signature “verve and energy” (Library Journal).
On a cool June morning, Isa Wilde, a resident of the seemingly idyllic coastal village of... Read More »
Before We Were Yours
A Novel
By Lisa Wingate / Narrated by Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber / 14 hours 27 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River... Read More »
Into the Water
A Novel
By Paula Hawkins / Narrated by Laura Aikman, Sophie Aldred, Rachel Bavidge & Various / 11 hours 31 minutes
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first... Read More »
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
By Al Franken / 12 hours 5 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." - Louise Erdrich, The New York Times
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Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By Max Tegmark / Narrated by Rob Shapiro / 13 hours 28 minutes
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to... Read More »
Dragon Teeth
A Novel
By Michael Crichton / Narrated by Scott Brick & Sherri Crichton / 7 hours 40 minutes
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel—a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America’s western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns... Read More »
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
A novel
By Arundhati Roy / Narrated by Arundhati Roy / 16 hours 26 minutes
New York Times Best Seller
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new... Read More »