Read by the Author

A Thousand Ships

A Novel

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“With A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes has secured herself a seat at the table with Madeline Miller as a great contemporary-classical novelist. I'm so glad that I listened to this one on audio, as Haynes is able to lend her literal voice to these characters and do them a great service. On a related note, I'll wait in line for stand-alone works... Read more

The Guncle Abroad

THE GUNCLE: Book #2

By: Steven Rowley
Narrated by: Steven Rowley
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

“Guncle fans rejoice: this sequel brings back all the wry humor, miscommunication, grief, and joy of connection. Patrick’s brother’s impending marriage reunites the family, even as threatens to split them apart. A reader's delight. Read more

Caramelo

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo—, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip—a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and... Read more

Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

“One of the best parts of listening to this audiobook was getting to hear Jason Reynolds breathe further life into the heartbreaking words he wrote. I don't doubt the emotion would have been evident in the text, but as he said in the interview at the end of the audio, only he knew the right beats in order to make sure his message wasn't lost. I... Read more

Signal Fires

A novel

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

“My first Dani Shapiro book and she’s now one of my favorite authors! Signal Fires delves into family bonds, family secrets, and relationships across generations. It opens with a flashback of a fatal car crash that shatters and then haunts the life of the Wilf family, whose teens survived the crash and their physician father, Ben, who is first at... Read more

Apeirogon: A Novel

By: Colum McCann
Narrated by: Colum McCann
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

“This is a towering, breathtaking, sweeping work of poetic and technical brilliance. Although much of Apeirogon resides in the current and past state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the novel demonstrates how each person, each story, in this ultimately small section of the world represents but one point of an infinitely sided shape — how... Read more

Death Valley

A Novel

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“Unable to deal with the double grief of a father in the ICU and a husband with a debilitating, worsening illness, our narrator flees LA to hide out in a Best Western in an unnamed desert town. On a nearby hiking trail she comes upon a giant Saguaro cactus (a species which should not exist in the California desert) with a seam running along its... Read more

With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

“Another fantastic piece of literature by the remarkable Elizabeth Acevedo. "With the Fire on High" weaves together a beautiful story told from the perspective of high school senior and culinary prodigy Emoni Santiago. While tackling the challenges of school, young love, and raising her two-year-old daughter, Emoni must find the strength to fight... Read more

The Night Tiger

A Novel

By: Yangsze Choo
Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

“Choo's first, and exceptionally well read. I am spoiled by wonderful actor - narrators, and usually shun books read by authors, except those by Neil Gaiman. The narrating is a wonderful surprise, and nuanced as improbable marriages in Malaysia can be. Read more

Night of Miracles

Mason: Book #2

By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

“I loved everything about this book — I wanted to live next door to Lucille in Mason and take her baking classes. Berg brought this small town and the characters living there to life. Highly recommended. Read more

The Idea of You

By: Robinne Lee
Narrated by: Robinne Lee
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Now a major motion picture starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine.



Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing Solène expects is to make... Read more

A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before... Read more

Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

By: Sarah Winman
Narrated by: Sarah Winman
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

“Still Life is an exquisite, tender, funny (meet Clause, the parrot) novel spanning four decades, several families (most formed by choice) love stories, post WW!! history, and poetic reflections on art, set in London and Florence. It's unimaginable that anyone but Sarah Winman could have read her novel with as much warmth, passion and humor. I... Read more

Wolf in White Van

A Novel

By: John Darnielle
Narrated by: John Darnielle
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fiction

Winner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adults

Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's audacious and gripping debut novel Wolf in White Van is a marvel of storytelling brio and genuine literary delicacy.

Welcome to Trace Italian, a... Read more

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

A Novel

By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

“This is one of my favorite Neil Gaiman books that I had to read in college. The themes were extremely impactful that they still stick with me to this day. Gaiman wonderfully portrays the search for self identity and the disconnect we all struggle with between childhood and adulthood through multiple important events in the narrator's life. Read more

Reboot

A Novel

By: Justin Taylor
Narrated by: Justin Taylor
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture, following a washed-up actor on his quest to revive the cult TV show that catapulted him to teenage fame

"A performance of wit and rigor"—New York... Read more

Forest of Noise

Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha
Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

““What can you see when your eyes are closed?” A Gazan mother tells her children just that with the hope of quelling their fears, despite being surrounded by bombs and their eradicating light. Reader, open your heart if your eyes are unwilling. Everyone’s humanity is at stake if the suffering in Palestine doesn’t wake you up to witness the truth.... Read more

How to Loiter In a Turf War

A Novel

By: Coco Solid
Narrated by: Coco Solid
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Like nothing you've heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa's most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It's a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more

Our Hidden Conversations

What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris
Narrated by: Michele Norris
Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.

The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.

The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since... Read more

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

By: Tony Keith Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

“This book must have been written specifically to be turned into an audiobook. Keith narrates the book himself, and his emphasis on the poetry is really something. Added sounds really make the book. I urge everyone to listen to this book over reading it on the page. Read more