Phinney Books Bestsellers: Year Two
Our bestselling books from June 20, 2015 through June 19, 2016. Totals for hardcover and paperback for a single title are combined. Notebooks and coloring books not included.
Between the World and Me
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal... Read more »
My Brilliant Friend
The Neapolitan Novels: Book #1
By Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples.
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery...
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H Is for Hawk
By Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
When Helen Macdonald’sfather died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experiencedfalconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she’d never before been temptedto train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, shesaw that the goshawk’s fierce and feral anger mirrored her own. Resolving topurchase and raise...
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All the Light We Cannot See
A Novel
By Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award finalist *
From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a... Read more »
Euphoria
A Novel
By Lily King
Narrated by: Simon Vance & Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes abreathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the 1930s caught in apassionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in thefield for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the...
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Station Eleven
A novel
By Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
A New York Times Bestseller
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for... Read more »
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
By Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
By Marlon James
Narrated by: Ryan Anderson, Dwight Bacquie, Cherise Boothe, Robertson Dean, Johnathan McClain & Robert Younis
Length: 25 hours 59 minutes
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5,...
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Gratitude
By Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 36 minutes
—Oliver Sacks
No writer has succeeded in capturing... Read more »
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
The Boys in the Boat
“Determined to beat the odds, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington's rowing team overcome a depressive beginning to defeat the world at Hitler's 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Underdogs from day one, fighting poverty and privilege along the way, this crew shocks all with their unbelievable come-from-behind effort to become gold medalists. Filled with details of a post-Depression and a pre-WWII era, this is the inspiring tale of a team winning the hearts of a nation while achieving their lifelong dream. Read by Edward Herrman, "The Boys in the Boat" is a must-listen for all non-fiction fans.”
Kristin, McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Go Set a Watchman
A Novel
By Harper Lee
Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Performed by Reese Witherspoon
#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York Times
A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a...
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M Train
By Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes... Read more »
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition)
A Story of Justice and Redemption
By Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more »
The Story of a New Name
The Neapolitan Novels: Book #2
By Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 19 hours 3 minutes
The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy.
In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family...
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Fates and Furies
A Novel
By Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Fates and Furies
“It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with this book. It’s the kind of novel where I don’t mind if nothing happens, because the prose itself is gorgeous enough to sink into. But plenty does happen in this portrait of a lifelong marriage, seen first from Lotto’s point of view and then from Mathilde’s. The many plaudits and plentiful praise for this book are, in my opinion, entirely justified.”
Claire, East City Bookshop
The Book with No Pictures
By B. J. Novak
Narrated by: B. J. Novak & Busy Phillips
Length: 9 minutes
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . .
BLORK. Or... Read more »
Ready Player One
By Ernest Cline
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Ready Player One
“When it comes to listening to an audio book, I have to be drawn to the narrator’s voice almost if not more than the actual story. The way a narrator speaks really makes or breaks a story for me. Wil Wheaton made this story for me! He brought new life to a story I was already in love with. Wheaton made Wade Watts come to life, and was able to bring out the obsessiveness in Wade’s voice when it came to Halliday and 80’s pop-culture. Wheaton is the only person that could ever be Wade Watts for me. This is one audio book that I know I will go back to again and again.”
Victoria, Mysterious Galaxy Books
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Mercy Watson: Book #1
By Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 19 minutes
When Breath Becomes Air
By Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
When Breath Becomes Air
“With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor's journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes, instead facing mortality with honesty and humility. Written in engaging prose and filled with penetrating insights, this story is relevant to everyone and will captivate fans of memoir, literature, philosophy, and popular science alike. Lyrical passages of great beauty and vulnerability are deftly balanced by bright, candid moments of joy and even humor. Come prepared with plenty of tissues; over and over again this exquisite book will break your heart.”
Carmen Tracey, Loganberry Books
The Story of the Lost Child
The Neapolitan Novels: Book #4
By Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women—the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila—who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy.
In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, Elena and Lila’s friendship remains the...
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