Staff Picks: Spring 2025

Meditations in an Emergency

By: Frank O Hara
Narrated by: Aedemon Maure
Length: 42 minutes

Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, “which, by its... Read more

Private Rites

A Novel

By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Hannah van der Westhuysen
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Private Rites delivers all the heightened drama of its source material while perfectly reimagining the contentious daughters of this modern Lear. Haunting, surreal, and gripping from the first page. Read more

Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Jefferson White
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

“This book feels like a prophecy fulfilled. We learn about the state of the world before Katniss. Her parents generation by way of Haymitch Abernathy. A whole cast of characters to love, a fast-paced plot, and a complex but enjoyable storyline. Absolutely recommend! Read more

This is Happiness

By: Niall Williams
Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

“A beautiful novel, beautifully read! Gentle, moving, and evocative. Read more

My Name Is Lucy Barton

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

“Strout has the incredible ability to take ordinary, even mundane situations and use them to make acute observations on the human condition. A mother's visit to her daughter in the hospital becomes the vehicle for an astute examination of daily needs, desires, yearnings, wishes, and dreams that become so much of the remembered experience. Using... Read more

Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“A small moving book about generosity, history, family and religion. Perfect for the holiday season when gratitude is on our minds. Bill Furlong didn’t come from much, but he had a benefactor. As he learns what is really happening in the “laundry” where young women end up, his memories of kindness move him to action. A quiet read that shows the... Read more

On Tyranny

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

“Reading is an act of Resistance. If you haven’t yet, now is the time to read this book. Read more

The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi & Nikki Massoud
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“A beautiful book, heartbreaking and hopeful both. Complex, memorable characters for whom you feel and want so much. Homa, perhaps especially, and Ellie and all others, too. Themes of self determination, revolution, friendship, family, courage, integrity, cultural wealth and survivance… An epic tale of women’s rights and righteousness, and a... Read more

Oathbound

The Legendborn Cycle

By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Andrew Eiden, Hillary Huber, Tim Paige & Adenrele Ojo
Length: 24 hours 58 minutes

Tracy Deonn’s #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic with secret societies and the legend of King Arthur!

Severed from the Legendborn. Oathbound to a monster.

Bree Matthews is alone. She exiled herself from the... Read more

Legendborn

The Legendborn Cycle

By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

“Prepare for a gripping listen. Join Bree as she infiltrates a secret southern society of the descendants of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table to find out the truth about her mother's death. I couldn't praise this series enough if I tried. It's my all-time favorite book! Read more

Bloodmarked

The Legendborn Cycle

By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 31 minutes

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
“Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or Arthurian retellings.” —Booklist (starred review)

The “worthy successor to an... Read more

We Could Be Rats

A Novel

By: Emily Austin
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

“An ode to our inner child’s imagination. Darkly funny in true Emily Austin fashion. Read more

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“In Colm Tóibín’s new book, Long Island, his masterful language and ability to draw quietly engaging characters is on full display. When a stranger knocks on Eilis Lacey’s door with an alarming message, her life and that of her family is thrown into disarray. After receiving the news, she returns to her hometown of Enniscorthy, where she... Read more

Every Last Lie

By: Mary Kubica
Narrated by: Carly Robins & Graham Hamilton
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL Mary Kubica is back with another exhilarating thriller as a widow’s pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche.

Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash... Read more

The Language of Letting Go

Daily Meditations for Codependents

By: Melody Beattie
Narrated by: Liz Cole
Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Melody Beattie integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in this unique daily meditation book written especially for those of us who struggle with the issue of codependency. Problems are made to be solved, Melody reminds us, and the best thing we can do is take responsibility for our own pain and self-care. In this... Read more

Devotions

The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“Reading any collection of beautiful poetry in a short period of time is immersive, dare I say life-altering. Reading Devotions is somehow more intimate than even that. Oliver’s way of viewing the world is so crystal-clear, so inviting. Every poem is like taking a step outside and breathing in a lungful of crisp, clean, cold air. Her way of... Read more

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“I loved hearing Ina’s story. Her humor, grit and sense of adventure made this a fun and easy listen. I didn’t think I’d take so much business advice from a memoir but it is chock full. Her authenticity and voice made this is favorite listen of the year. Read more

Camp!

The Story of the Attitude That Conquered The World

By: Paul Baker
Narrated by: Paul Baker
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. The term possibly derives from the French se camper, meaning to pose in a bold, provocative, or exaggerated fashion. Frequently used to define or deride young heterosexual men, the upper classes, Black people, older women, and gay men,... Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“Rooney’s dazzling masterpiece explores the hidden depths of our relationships to one another. Peter and Ivan grieve the recent loss of their father. Never close, they struggle to avoid estrangement while navigating their very different lives. Read more

Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo
Narrated by: Anna-Maria Nabirye
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“The twelve Black British women who are the central characters in Bernardine Evaristo's GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER are so vastly different that when their connections are slowly revealed, like a spider web you didn't see until the light hits it just so, you'll settle in and become entranced. I loved this deep dive into a part of British culture that... Read more