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All the authors in this playlist have donated their time to the We Love Bookstores effort to support and save our Bay Area independent bookstores. You can support the stores by paying for a ticket to these events, and also by buying books from this list!

Moonglow

A Novel

By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

“The intersection of world history and family history, the interplay of memory and imagination, a tangle of humor and grief, and the blurred and shifting line that separates sanity and madness all come into play in this stunning book. In the months before his death, Chabon's grandfather revealed much of his life to his grandson. On that... Read more

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The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only

By: Katherine Applegate
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning novel The One and Only Ivan is now a major motion picture streaming on Disney+
This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... Read more

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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

By: Andrew Sean Greer
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different... Read more

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Endling #1: The Last

By: Katherine Applegate
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“When Byx's pack is killed her species, Dairne, is declared extinct - yet she is alive!! Byx embarks on a journey to figure out if she truly is the last of her kind. Finding friends in unlikely places and bringing together unlikely creatures, all coming together to try and combat the evil ruler's plans and find more mythical Dairnes. Fantastic... Read more

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Wishtree

By: Katherine Applegate
Narrated by: Nancy Linari
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Trees can't tell jokes, but they can certainly tell stories. . . .

Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this "wishtree" watches over the... Read more

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh

The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

By: Carl Zimmer
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 20 hours 32 minutes

2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist

"Science book of the year"The Guardian

One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018
One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 
One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018
One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018

“Extraordinary”—New York... Read more

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Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)

By: Alex Gino
Narrated by: Jamie Clayton
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

“This book, which the author is now calling Melissa’s Story, is tender and wholesome—about a young transgender girl who wants to play Charlotte in her 4th grade production of Charlotte’s Web. Read more

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As Good as New

A Tor.Com Original

By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 40 minutes

"A perfect listen for anyone looking for a quick dabble in the author's writing style or in science fiction." -- AudioFile Magazine

From the author of the Hugo-winning "Six Months, Three Days," a new wrinkle on the old story of three wishes, set after the end of the world. Read more

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You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!

By: Alex Gino
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Alex Gino, the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of George, is back with another sensitive tale based on increasingly relevant social justice issues.Jilly thinks she's figured out how life works. But when her sister, Emma, is born deaf, she realizes how much she still has to learn. The world is going to treat Jilly, who is white and... Read more

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Rick

By: Alex Gino
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

From the award-winning author of Melissa, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend.Rick's never questioned much. He's gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff's acted like a bully and a jerk. He's let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date... Read more

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The Story of a Marriage

A Novel

By: Andrew Sean Greer
Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

"We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship: how we can ever truly know another person.

It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's... Read more

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Bad Mother

A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

By: Ayelet Waldman
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman delivers a humorous, encouraging look at the nearly impossible-and often thankless!-job of mothering. "This is not only a wonderfully written book, but I think it may also be a book of great salvation for many women." -Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author Read more

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus”... Read more

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Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great

By: Bob Shea
Narrated by: Jared Goldsmith
Length: 5 minutes

Creator of the hilarious "Dinosaur vs." series, Bob Shea charms young listeners once more with Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great. Goat was having a rompin' good time until Unicorn moved to the neighborhood. Now he feels like yesterday's news--everyone loves Unicorn! But when the two share lunch, Goat realizes that Unicorn might not have it so... Read more

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Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

A Novel

By: Andrew Sean Greer
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“When novelist Arthur Less learns that his longtime boyfriend is marrying another man, he accepts every invitation he's received and travels around the world. This novel of a man facing 50 and looking back at his life and love is an utter delight. Read more

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Love and Treasure

By: Ayelet Waldman
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis & Paul Hecht
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

The Hungarian Gold Train, loaded with Jewish treasure. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three amazing and fierce women,each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history or our times... Maine, 2012. An old man id dying with the... Read more

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All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

“This Nebula and Locus Award winner sets magic and science on a collision course, delights in the resulting wreckage, and then deftly and lovingly pieces them back together. Magic academies, transfiguration, high tech corporations, artificial intelligence, assassins, and talking trees abound, along with all your favorite themes from both science... Read more

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Ballet Cat

The Totally Secret Secret

Ballet Cat: Book #1

By: Bob Shea
Narrated by: Michele Medlin
Length: 6 minutes

While Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play, they each share an important secret. Read more

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Ballet Cat

Dance! Dance! Underpants!

Ballet Cat: Book #2

By: Bob Shea
Narrated by: Michele Medlin
Length: 7 minutes

Ballet Cat is getting her friend Butter Bear ready for her big ballet debut. "Leap, Butter Bear, leap!" Ballet Cat prompts. But Butter Bear would prefer to just point her toe. When Ballet Cat keeps pushing, Butter Bear gets hungry, then thirsty, then sleepy . . . The bottom line is that Butter Bear would rather do almost anything to avoid making... Read more

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The City in the Middle of the Night

By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell & Laura Knight Keating
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

The City in the Middle of the Night is a feat of world building and a fierce and deeply felt examination of what it means to be human. This world is so rich I️ couldn’t possibly name everything that entranced me. Politics, relationships, sexuality, communication, culture, technology, climate, time itself—this book questions everything as it... Read more

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