Staff Picks: Spring 2025

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“I would literally read a cereal box if Patrick Radden Keefe wrote it. I loved how he wove the history of The Troubles in with the tragic death of a relatively random woman. Read more

Grace

A Memoir

By: Grace Coddington
Narrated by: Grace Coddington
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the ... Read more

Symphony of Secrets

By: Brendan Slocumb
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick & Brendan Slocumb
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed.

Determined to uncover the truth that a powerful... Read more

Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection

Including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman’s Creek & more

By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Cathryn Harrison, Adam Godley, Hugh Burden, Roger Allam, Jonathan Firth, Ian Richardson, Diana Quick, Paula Wilcox, Alice Hart, Susannah Corbett, Nicola Walker, Lorna Heilbron, Jamie Parker, Full Cast, Aisling Loftus, Lucy Boynton & Bethany Muir
Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

“More than a dozen Daphne du Maurier books and stories, with parts read by many voices you will recognize from BBC & PBS TV productions. Loved listening to the Daphne du Maurier collection. I read some of these books as a teenager, but having lived in Cornwall aboard our sailboat in 1994 and travelled though it by car, the stories meant a... Read more

Everything I Know About Love

A Memoir

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

“Dolly Alderton gave words to so much of what I felt about my twenties and growing up. A perfect pick for a book club. Read more

Anna

The Biography

By: Amy Odell
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

This definitive New York Times bestselling biography of Anna Wintour, now featuring a new afterword, follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media.

As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the... Read more

The Wilds

Stories

By: Julia Elliott
Narrated by: Susan Bennett & Lori Gardner
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

At an obscure South Carolina nursing home, a lost world reemerges as a disabled elderly woman undergoes newfangled brain-restoration procedures and begins to explore her environment with the assistance of strap-on robot legs. At a deluxe medical spa on a nameless Caribbean island, a middle-aged woman hopes to revitalize her fading youth with... Read more

Dangerous Learning

The South's Long War on Black Literacy

By: Derek W. Black
Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South



Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried... Read more

Range

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.

“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes

“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who... Read more

Good Energy

The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

By: Casey Means, MD & Calley Means
Narrated by: Casey Means, MD
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?
    Our ability to prevent and reverse these... Read more

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

By: Deborah Cohen
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE • A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism

“High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen’s all-action narrative bursts with... Read more

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner
Narrated by: Rebecca Donner
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award 
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Finalist for the Plutarch Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New... Read more