Wicked Inspired

Sula

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a... Read more

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

A Novel

By: Bushra Rehman
Narrated by: Bushra Rehman
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

“Growing up in Corona, Queens with her loving and supportive parents, Razia struggles to balance her love for her parents and her Pakistani-American heritage with her growing self-knowledge and desire for independence. As her sexual awakening and her need to follow her own heart pull her farther from her parents’ plans for her future, inevitable... Read more

Best of Friends

A Novel

By: Kamila Shamsie
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller

“A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith 

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire, the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendship and the forces that bring it to the breaking point

Zahra and... Read more

Swing Time

By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

“In her gracefully written new work, the author of NW and White Teeth addresses the frustrations of family relations, the complications of race, the tyranny of celebrity, and the travesty of cultural appropriation. Smith looks at the fragile threads that tie friends together and how easily they can snap, and her prose flows without effort,... Read more

The Joy Luck Club

By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Gwendoline Yeo
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores... Read more

Everything I Know About Love

A Memoir

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

“The most uplifting memoir for the most confusing time of a person’s life. Reading this as someone in their early 20s, I never felt more reassured about life and its ever-changing moments. I found myself sending pictures to my friends of particularly heartbreaking realizations to which they’d respond, 'I need this book.' This memoir questions... Read more

Fiona and Jane

By: Jean Chen Ho
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

A TIME, NPR, VOGUE, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)

One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

“Ho's debut work is the perfect modern example of great American fiction. . . . You will love it.” —Jake Tapper

“Intimate, cinematic. . . . The world Ho creates between the two women feels like one friend reading the other’s story,... Read more

Another Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

“National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson has crafted a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel of a young girl's coming-of-age in Brooklyn. Effortlessly weaving poetic prose, Woodson tells the story of the relationships young women form, their yearning to belong, and the bonds that are created - and broken. Brooklyn itself is a vivid... Read more

Operation Sisterhood

By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together in the heart of New York City. Discover this jubilant novel about the difficulties of change, the loyalty of sisters, and the love of family from a prolific award-winning author.

An Operation Sisterhood stage adaptation is coming soon to the John F.... Read more

Little Thieves

Little Thieves: Book #1

By: Margaret Owen
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

“Vanja wants just one thing. She wants enough money to escape the life of servitude her godmothers, Death and Fortune have promised her. She has stolen many things, jewelry, clothes, money, and the identity of her former lady, the Princess Giselle. Cursed by a low god, Vanja only has a fortnight to return what she’s stolen before the jewels... Read more

Circe

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“I'm late this to this party but so happy I made it. As a bookseller, this is one of those remarkable books that appeal to so many audiences. My teen staff loved it as did my 18-year-old son who grew up reading mythology. I learned quite a bit about Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey (something I missed in my formal education) and the original... Read more

The Island of Sea Women

A Novel

By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

“Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island is home to generations of haenyo—women who take their living from both land and sea and call the shots in their matriarchal society. Young-sook and Mi-ja are best friends in the 1930s, learning to dive with their all-female collective while their island suffers under Japanese... Read more

Big Friendship

How We Keep Each Other Close

By: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Narrated by: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.

Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their... Read more

End of the World House

A Novel

By: Adrienne Celt
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma’s Severance in this “brilliant” (PopSugar) and “exhilarating” (The Millions) comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.

Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech... Read more

Wahala

A Novel

By: Nikki May
Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

""Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth."" -- Washington Post""Great fun and extremely smart."" -- npr.orgNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Vogue * Marie Claire * Glamour * Essence * Oprah Daily * Entertainment Weekly * Bustle * PopSugar * CrimeReads * and more! An incisive and... Read more

We All Want Impossible Things

A Novel

By: Catherine Newman
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

“It’s rare that a book which is barely 200 pages can make me feel the immense amount of emotions this one did. What a beautiful story of loss and grief, while also exploring the joy, community, and clarity that often comes with it. I could hardly read the last thirty pages through my blurry eyes. These characters just felt like people, which I... Read more

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Book #1

By: Ann Brashares
Narrated by: Angela Goethals
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

“Funny, perceptive, and moving,” raved USA Today of the first  novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares, author of The Here and Now.

Some friends just fit together.
 
Once there was a pair of pants. Just an ordinary pair of jeans. But these pants, the Traveling Pants, went on to do great... Read more

My Brilliant Friend

The Neapolitan Novels: Book #1

By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

“Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels are a fierce, intimate, and beautifully unflinching account of female friendship - believe the hype - -a fever dream that leaves you impossibly clear-headed. Read more