Big Audiobooks of Spring '23

Above Ground

By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.... Read more

Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“Curtis Sittenfeld is back! With Romantic Comedy, Sittenfeld creates a believable romcom between Sally, a writer for The Night Owl (think SNL) and Noah, a musician who guest hosts. Their unlikely romance is chuck full of laugh out loud lines and seamless writing. What can I say? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK! Read more

A Living Remedy

A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKWinner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative WritingNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * TodayFrom the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a... Read more

I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

“A podcaster returns to the scene of a crime committed when she was a teen. With fresh eyes, she and students take another look into the murder. Gets into the ethics of re-examining an old murder, of social justice, how crimes are investigated. Read more

Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

“Warrior Girl Unearthed is an intense book that will keep the reader gripped from beginning to end. Perry Firekeeper-Birch’s determination, dedication, and strength of spirit will inspire readers to stand up for themselves and what they believe in. Read more

In the Lives of Puppets

By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

“TJ Klune has never let me down, but I wasn't expecting In The Lives of Puppets to outshine the rest like it has. A Pinocchio retelling with a queer, dystopian setting? This book tore my heart out and then threw it back into my chest three times larger. The descriptions, the characters, the representation!! I cannot recommend this enough. If... Read more

The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis & Sadeqa Johnson
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese’s Book Club pick, set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how... Read more

Happy Place

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“Another great beach read from Emily Henry! I found myself unable to stop listening to this book. Henry just knows how to write a love story that makes you go noooo then yeeees then whaaaat then yeeees! The story of Wyn and Harriet will make your heart throb. And Harriet's journey to find herself and keep her friends will prove that self-love is... Read more

Homebodies

A Novel

By: Tembe Denton-Hurst
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

“Tremendous! Mickey’s coming-of-age story is equal parts career decisions and relationship choices. She’s a Black woman in the publishing industry, a writer, who is also a queer woman. Mickey’s story will truly speak to those two demographics but will be so relatable to many. You’ll nod along, get teary-eyed, and oh … not to be forgotten, prepare... Read more

The Soulmate

A Novel

By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Jessica Douglas-Henry
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

“Gabe and Pippa seem to be leading the perfect life in Sally Hepworth’s The Soulmate, a gripping domestic suspense tale. They have their dream home on the coast, two beautiful daughters, and Gabe is a local hero for talking the would-be victims of suicide that come to the cliffside from jumping. But then someone does jump, and secrets and... Read more

Quietly Hostile

Essays

By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“Quietly Hostile only reinforced the love I already have for Samantha Irby’s writing. I love listening to frank and humorous way she tackles everything from relationships to Red Lobster to bodily functions. Her books, especially the audio recordings, are always ones I look forward to! Read more

VenCo

A Novel

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

“I loved this feminist fantasy that reads like Harry Potter for adults. Lucky is a young Metis woman who has not gotten much of a break. She lives in Toronto with delightful but challenging grandmother; pines for a man who doesn't notice her; and hates her dead end job. But, then, she finds a spoon—and everything changes, and she's on a quest to... Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jimenez
Narrated by: Claire Jimenez
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“A sudden sighting of middle child Ruthy 12 years after her disappearance, leaves the Ramirez women scrambling for answers.. Read more

The Half Moon

A Novel

By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

“I so desperately want Malcolm and Jess to be happy, almost as much as they yearn to be. Married and living in the small town where they were raised, their marriage is fractured under the burdens that come with life. They do right, they do wrong - will they survive it all, together? I like these people! You will too! Read more

The Late Americans

A Novel

By: Brandon Taylor
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE, ELLE, OPRAH DAILY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BUZZFEED AND VULTURE

“Erudite, intimate, hilarious, poignant . . . A gorgeously written novel of youth’s promise, of the quest to find one’s tribe and one’s calling.” —Leigh Haber, Oprah Daily

The Booker Prize finalist and... Read more

The Hole We're In

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

With The Hole We're In—a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America—award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents.



Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family... Read more

Yellowface

A Novel

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“Two writers. Friends. Or friendly. One on a superstar trajectory, the other flailing. One Asian. The other white. When the superstar Asian writer dies, her friend takes her work in progress about the history of Chinese Labor Corps in WW1 and publishes it to great acclaim. This is a journey into the mad, bad world of publishing and cultural... Read more

Hang the Moon

A Novel

By: Jeannette Walls
Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

“A rollicking tale.” —The Washington Post *“Propulsive.” —Associated Press * “Wild, smart, energetic.” —Los Angeles Times * “Brilliant and effervescent.” —NPR

From the #1 bestselling author of The Glass Castle, the instant New York Times bestseller a “rip-roaring, action-packed” (The New York Times) novel about an indomitable young woman in... Read more

Fat Talk

Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith
Narrated by: Virginia Sole-Smith
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

This program is read by the author.

In this illuminating narrative on the daily onslaught of body shame that kids face from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers a compelling, reported look at how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

By the time they reach... Read more

A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza
Narrated by: Lipica Shah & KP Upadhyayula
Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

This epic, sweeping historical novel full of "wondrous complexity” spans continents and a century, and reveals how one act of survival can reverberate through generations (Rachel Khong, author of Goodbye, Vitamin). ​

In 1898, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor for the British on the East African... Read more