Books for when you're stuck inside

Seven Days of Us

A Novel

By: Francesca Hornak
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

“The holidays are always a stressful time, but imagine being with your immediate family for a full seven days of quarantine! This is the premise of Hornak's Seven Days of Us. To ride out the weeklong quarantine imposed due to daughter Olivia's work treating patients of an epidemic in Liberia, the Birch family plans to spend the Christmas holiday... Read more

The Vacationers

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca.

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth... Read more

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

“Through Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov's ordinary encounters and activities within the bounds of the four walls of post-revolutionary Moscow's Metropol Hotel, where he is under house arrest, Towles deftly guides readers across a century of Russian history, from the Bolshevik uprising to the dawn of the nuclear age under Krushchev. Grandiloquent... Read more

Everything, Everything

By: Nicola Yoon
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Robbie Daymond
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Risk everything . . . for love with this #1 New York Times bestseller. 

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 allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in... Read more

The Escape Room

A Novel

By: Megan Goldin
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

“Megan Goldin’s debut is sheer perfection. I was enthralled, obsessed, and utterly delighted from the gripping first chapter to the very end. The genuine quality of Goldin’s voice is so engaging, you feel like you’re discussing your favorite topics with a best friend. In The Escape Room, four investment bankers trapped in an overheated elevator... Read more

The Mars Room

A Novel

By: Rachel Kushner
Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

“The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner gives insight into life behind prison walls as well as the kind of lives lived that might land one there. Actually, many stories are bound together in this unique novel. A former stripper in for life without parole, a prison GED teacher and a dirty cop are the primary storytellers along with a host of colorful... Read more

Room

A Novel

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Ellen Archer, Michal Friedman & Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first... Read more

What Katy Did (Unabridged)

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By: Susan Coolidge
Narrated by: Karen Savage
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, which was published in 1872. It follows the adventures of a twelve year old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into scrapes... Read more