Rocket City Mom Virtual Book Club Reads

The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“Welcome to the strikingly dysfunctional Plumb family: four siblings connected by little more than 'The Nest,' a joint trust fund that each has earmarked to support their unrealistic lifestyles. When Leo, the older brother and the center of the Plumb family universe, injures himself and a 19-year-old waitress in a scandalous car accident and... Read more

Commonwealth

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Hope Davis
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

“Patchett leaves behind the exotic locales and intricate plots of State of Wonder and Bel Canto for an even darker and more difficult place to navigate -- the interior of a blended family over the course of several decades. While more domestic than many of her previous novels, Commonwealth offers plenty of intrigue and surprises as Patchett... Read more

Every Wild Heart

A Novel

By: Meg Donohue
Narrated by: Nicole Poole & Brittany Pressley
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

From USA Today bestselling author Meg Donohue comes a mystery, a love story, and a mother-daughter tale about two women on a precarious journey to uncover their true selves.Passionate and funny, radio personality Gail Gideon is a true original. Nine years ago when Gail’s husband announced that he wanted a divorce, her ensuing on-air rant... Read more

The Almost Sisters

A Novel

By: Joshilyn Jackson
Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

“Leia Birch is pretty much a rock star in the comic world, but her personal life has taken over the drama of her heroines, Violet and Violence. Leia is pregnant with a biracial child after too much tequila and a one-night stand at Comic-Con, her sister's perfect marriage is imploding, and it appears her sweet, proper Southern grandmother has been... Read more

The Last Mrs. Parrish

A Novel

By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman & Meghan Wolf
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

“I decided to listen to the audio version from Libro.fm when I saw Constantine has a new book coming out and when I read that The Last Mrs. Parrish is under production. I think listening as opposed to reading made me feel like the characters were more real - still obnoxious but more like people you might know. As it turns out the book was well... Read more

That Kind of Mother

A Novel

By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed • The Boston Globe •  The Millions • InStyle • Southern Living“With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam’s second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking.”
   — Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereFrom the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a... Read more

The Expats

A Novel

By: Chris Pavone
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is “bristling with suspense” about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.
 
Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?
 
Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly... Read more

Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“Little Fires Everywhere is a breathtaking novel about art, motherhood, and truth. Mia and her daughter, Pearl, move to the perfectly planned community of Shaker Heights as the last stop on their nomadic adventure, bringing some much-needed permanence to teenager Pearl's life. They both find friendship, but the connections they create with their... Read more

Off the Clock

Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

By: Laura Vanderkam
Narrated by: Laura Vanderkam
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

"I well recall a conversation with an executive I hoped to interview about her astonishing productivity. I began our call with an assurance that I would not take much of her time. She laughed. 'Oh, I have all the time in the world,' she said."

Most of us feel constantly behind, unsure how to escape feeling oppressed by busyness. Laura Vanderkam,... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

By: Delia Owens
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“Everyone that Kya has ever known has abandoned her. From the time that she was a young child she is left behind. After the student truancy officers track her down and get her to school the children laugh at her so she retreats to the only place that she feels normal - the marshland of North Carolina. She perseveres when she has every strike... Read more

Big Little Lies

By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

“One of my favorite books to listen to again and again! I love that though there is clearly tragedy, there is also great humor. As a parent I can relate to too much of the school drama, oh calamity! Caroline Lee is an impeccable narrator. Read more

I Know How She Does It

How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time

By: Laura Vanderkam
Narrated by: Laura Vanderkam
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

From the bestselling author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, powerful insights from 1001 actual days in the lives of high-achieving women.

Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, especially for women with children and ambitious career goals. It’s been the subject of countless books, articles, blog posts and... Read more

The Couple Next Door

A Novel

By: Shari Lapena
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Not a Happy Family

“The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages.” —People

“I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline.  The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!” —Sue Grafton

It... Read more

What Alice Forgot

By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Tamara Lovatt Smith
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUSBAND'S SECRET AND BIG LITTLE LIES.

A “cheerfully engaging”(Kirkus Reviews) novel for anyone who’s ever asked herself, “How did I get here?”

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a... Read more

Everything, Everything

By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Robbie Daymond
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Risk everything for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nicola Yoon • "Gorgeous and lyrical"—The New York Times Book Review

What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally... Read more

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe

A Novel

By: Heather Webber
Narrated by: Bethany Lind, Nicholas Techosky & Stephanie Willis
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“For some reason, I'm always drawn to stories that take place in small Southern towns. It seems I share something, then, with the protagonist of this novel. Inexplicably, Anna Kate is drawn to the quirky town her mother ran away from many years ago. She goes to close up her grandmother's cafe and settle her estate, but despite all her logical... Read more

The Mother-in-Law

A Novel

By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“Family relationships are often complicated and misunderstood especially between mother and daughter in laws, but do they usually end in murder? This is the question to be answered in Hepworth’s masterfully plotted novel of families and expectations each has of the other. Lucy is yearning for a mother figure since her mother died when she was... Read more

Where We Belong

A Novel

By: Emily Giffin
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

The author of several blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin's Where We Belong delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together


Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and... Read more

Year of Yes

How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

By: Shonda Rhimes
Narrated by: Shonda Rhimes
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year

The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).

She’s the creator and producer of some of the... Read more

Sing, Unburied, Sing

A Novel

By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk & Rutina Wesley
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

“Sing, Unburied, Sing is a dark and gorgeous song of love and heartbreak, haunting and tragic and disorienting in its timelessness. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill anchors Ward's tale to Mississippi today, which is almost indistinguishable from its notorious yesterday, a present and past (ironically) made more alive in the novel by ghosts and... Read more