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Nothing to See Here
By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie Winner – Best Female Narrator
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland.
“I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and... Read more »
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Sapiens
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller
A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it... Read more »
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Hood Feminism
By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
"If Hood Feminism is a searing indictment of mainstream feminism, it is also an invitation. . . . [Kendall] offers guidance for how we can all do better."--NPR
"A rousing call to action for today's feminists. It should be required reading for everyone."--Gabrielle Union,... Read more »

The Push
By: Ashley Audrain
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
“Taut, chilling….Audrain has a gift for capturing the seemingly small moments that speak volumes about relationships.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to the end.”
—Good Morning America
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the... Read more »

The Prophets
By: Robert Jones, Jr.
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
"A new kind of epic...A grand achievement...While The Prophets' dreamy realism recalls the work of Toni Morrison...its penetrating focus on social dynamics stands out more singularly." --Entertainment Weekly
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they... Read more »

Interior Chinatown
By: Charles Yu
Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"One of the funniest books of the year ... a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post
From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced... Read more »

The Thursday Murder Club
By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Lesley Manville
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN!"
--Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky
Amazon Best Mystery Thriller Suspense 2020
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves
A female cop with her first big case
A brutal murder
Welcome to...
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement... Read more »

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA... Read more »

The Splendid and the Vile
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post • HuffPost • The Seattle Times • Lit Hub • The Week • PopSugar
On Winston Churchill’s first day as... Read more »

Educated
By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It’s even better than you’ve heard.”—Bill... Read more »

Red, White & Royal Blue
By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
* GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 *
One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019; an Instant New York Times bestseller; a *Must-Read Book* for Us Weekly, Vogue, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Oprahmag.com, and more!
"Narrator Ramón de Ocampo brings out all the emotion in this tender, serious,... Read more »

The Duke and I
By: Julia Quinn
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry-though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets... Read more »
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A Deadly Education
By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.
“The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for.” Katherine Arden, author of Winternight Trilogy
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my... Read more »

The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 22 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A monumental novel about reimagining our place in the living world, by one of our most "prodigiously talented" novelists (New York Times Book Review). The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force... Read more »
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The Office of Historical Corrections
By: Danielle Evans
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo & Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER BOOK CRITIC'S FAVORITE FICTION OF THE YEAR
“Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging…an extraordinary new collection…”—The New Yorker
“Evans’s new stories present rich plots... Read more »

Hidden Valley Road
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR
PEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Slate, Smithsonian, The New York Post, and Amazon
The heartrending story... Read more »

Transcendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine... Read more »

The Ten Thousand Doors of January
By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical... Read more »

Daisy Jones & The Six
By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pablo Schreiber
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.
“I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book... Read more »

The Once and Future Witches
By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement.
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern... Read more »

The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year
“One of 2020’s buzziest horror novels.” —Entertainment Weekly
A “Most Anticipated Books of Summer” selection in Esquire, Elle, Vulture, Time, AV Club, Bustle, and Literary Hub
“Gritty and gorgeous” —The New York Times
“Jones is one of the best writers working today regardless of... Read more »

Shuggie Bain
By: Douglas Stuart
Narrated by: Angus King
Length: 17 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is... Read more »
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Such a Fun Age
By: Kiley Reid
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year:
The Washington Post | NPR | Chicago Tribune | Slate | Parade | Elle | Real Simple | InStyle | Good Housekeeping | Vox | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | BookPage
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK
"The most provocative page-turner of... Read more »

The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller, featuring a new foreword.
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and,... Read more »