Sun Valley Writers’ Conference 2021

The Soul of a Woman

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).

“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle

“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a... Read more

2034

A Novel of the Next World War

By: Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis, USN
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan, Vikas Adam, Dion Graham & Feodor Chin
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided... Read more

Disappearing Earth

A novel

By: Julia Phillips
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

“Julia Phillips is an author to watch. She beautifully transports us to a region of the world that I had never heard of and now can’t stop thinking about. The stories of the women there—their family dynamics, their hopes and fears, the economic and cultural divide of various communities—tell a moving story about this place in a moment in time,... Read more

Facing the Mountain

A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Louis Ozawa
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

“Hooked by page 5! Daniel James Brown crafts a story as compelling as Isabel Wilkerson's Warmth of Other Suns. Told in the voices of those who lived it, Facing the Mountain describes the Japanese experience in American during WWII in the words of Japanese American soldiers and their interred families. Heroes every one. Read more

Our Story Begins

New and Selected Stories

By: Tobias Wolff
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works. Now he returns with fresh... Read more

Stranger Care

A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours

By: Sarah Sentilles
Narrated by: Sarah Sentilles
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “A powerful, heartbreaking, necessary masterpiece.”—Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild
 
The moving story of what one woman learned from fostering a newborn—about injustice, about making mistakes, about how to better love and protect people beyond our immediate kin
 
May you always feel at... Read more

The Daughters Of Yalta

The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

By: Catherine Grace Katz
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.
 
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin... Read more

Children of Paradise

The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

By: Laura Secor
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day.
 
In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence looming over the... Read more

Our Man

Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By: George Packer
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography*
*Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*

"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

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

“Where the Crawdads Sing isn’t just a novel—it’s a tender, aching melody whispered through marsh winds and the heartbeats of wild things. Listening to the audiobook is like being gently rocked in a boat across misty waters, with Cassandra Campbell’s narration bringing every moment to shimmering life. Campbell captures the essence of Kya—“the... Read more

Livewired

The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

By: David Eagleman
Narrated by: David Eagleman
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

"Eagleman renders the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

“Livewired reads wonderfully like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does drug withdrawal have in... Read more

The End of October

A novel

By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

“An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.” —New York Post
 
“Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders . .... Read more

Homeland Elegies

A Novel

By: Ayad Akhtar
Narrated by: Ayad Akhtar
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

“A masterful blend of memoir and fiction, this is an unforgettable journey through the lives of a Muslim family finding their place in a post-9/11 America. A searing navigation of the loves we try to reconcile — familial, religious, societal — and the definition of home. Written with wisdom, wit, and unsparing honesty, this an important book that... Read more

The Arab Winter

A Tragedy

By: Noah Feldman
Narrated by: Noah Feldman
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

This audiobook narrated by Noah Feldman reveals why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter,... Read more

Five Days at Memorial

Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By: Sheri Fink
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter

“An amazing tale, as... Read more

How to Love a Country

Poems

By: Richard Blanco
Narrated by: Richard Blanco
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

A timely and moving collection from the renowned inaugural poet on issues facing our country and people—immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more.

Through an oracular yet intimate and accessible voice, Richard Blanco addresses the complexities and contradictions of our nationhood and the unresolved sociopolitical matters that... Read more

Under a White Sky

The Nature of the Future

By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

The New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky.

That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a... Read more

The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“The Library Book by Susan Orleans is ostensibly about the Central Los Angeles library fire in 1986 but it is SO much more! Orleans' incredibly well researched and yet personal history and commentary on the public library system in the United States is fascinating on many levels. The mystery surrounding the fire is a story unto itself with an... Read more

An American Marriage

A Novel

By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Sean Crisden & Eisa Davis
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“I devoured the audiobook of this in a little over a day. Couldn't get enough! Beautiful writing, a moving story, complex characters, profound ethical dilemmas, injustice, family, love, art, magic, science, and gritty reality! So much good stuff packed into one book! Read more

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

Verses for a Despotic Age

Dumpty: Book #2

By: John Lithgow
Narrated by: Mr. John Lithgow
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Dumpty, award-winning actor, author, and illustrator John Lithgow presents a brand-new collection of satirical poems chronicling the despotic age of Donald Trump.

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown is darker and more hard-hitting than ever. Lithgow writes and draws with wit and fury as he takes... Read more