The Song of Achilles

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

The legend begins...

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their... Read More »

Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE

A NEW YORK TIMES AND TIME MAGAZINE "BEST BOOK OF 2017"

“A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time.” –NPR.org

“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly... Read More »

Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Arielle Sitrick & David Ackroyd
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut... Read More »

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New York • The Telegraph • BuzzFeed • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Shelf Awareness

One of the most important and blazingly... Read More »

My Absolute Darling

By: Gabriel Tallent
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017
A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE... Read More »

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Duncan Steen
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and... Read More »

Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly... Read More »

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
Length: 37 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world’s great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil. Read More »

The Mothers

By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review

"Luminous… engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." –People, Pick of the Week

"Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post

A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about... Read More »

Everything I Never Told You

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ... So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn... Read More »

A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

This fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life is a must-listen.Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose... Read More »

Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Sean Barrett & Oliver Le Sueur
Length: 19 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.

This magnificent new... Read More »

Inheriting Edith

By: Zoe Fishman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No

From the author of Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts comes a poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.

For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients,... Read More »

A Gambler's Anatomy

By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can... Read More »

Made for Love

By: Alissa Nutting
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it.

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at... Read More »

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

By: Lisa See, Alexandra Allwine, Gabra Zackman, Jeremy Bobb, Joy Osmanski, Emily Walton & Erin Wilhelmi
Narrated by: Ruthie Ann Miles & Kimiko Glenn
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

2018 Audie Award Finalist

The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple.

Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever... Read More »

This Could Hurt

By: Jillian Medoff
Narrated by: Andrea GalloNick PodehlSaskia MaarleveldSean CrisdenGeorge NewbernMadeleine Maby
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend... Read More »

The Midnight Cool

By: Lydia Peelle
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 11 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

The Whiting Award—winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe—mules.

A middle-aged Irish immigrant,... Read More »

The Heart's Invisible Furies

By: John Boyne
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Length: 21 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Named Book of the MonthClub's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland

Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at... Read More »

The Immortalists

By: Chloe Benjamin
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A captivating family saga.”—The New York Times Book Review

"You won’t be able to put it down.”—The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick)

“This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week)

“A sprawling, enchanting family saga.”—Entertainment Weekly (The Must List)

A... Read More »

Fierce Kingdom

By: Gin Phillips
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the New York Times Book Review's Best Crime Novels of 2017

“Warning: you'll finish this in one sitting.” —TheSkimm

“Expertly made thriller . . . clever and irresistible.” —The New York Times

An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him.

The zoo is nearly... Read More »

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No

New York Times Best Seller
A Skimm Reads Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... Read More »

Vacationland

By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.

Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only... Read More »

The Girl Before

By: JP Delaney
Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON... Read More »