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Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection

By: Linda Myrsiades

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges' bench notes, and defense notes for the... Read more

Will's Race for Home

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Christopher Hampton

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes goes West in this thrilling adventure story about a son and his father who set out to win land during the Oklahoma Land Rush–if they can survive the journey.  
 
It’s 1889, barely twenty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and a young Black family is tired of working on land... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

Ludluda

By: Jeff Noon & Steve Beard

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Concluding the epic two-book series from the highly celebrated and award-winning authors Jeff Noon and Steve Beard, Ludluda—sequel to Gogmagog—takes us on a haunting and delightfully witty adventure in a fantasy world that defies genre. Luluda tells the story of a journey through a strange modern city whose power is sourced from the ghost of a... Read more

The Voyage Home

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy comes the powerful third installment to the Women of Troy series. In The Voyage Home, Pat Barker skillfully reimagines Greek mythology, chronicling a perilous journey undertaken by the enslaved healer Ritsa and her cruel mistress Cassandra.

AN INSTANT UK BESTSELLER

“Barker’s vision... Read more

Unthinkable

By: Helen Thomson

Narrated by: Helen Thomson

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A prizewinning journalist with a background in neuroscience, Helen Thomson spent years tracking down people who live with the world's most extraordinary neurological disorders—like a man who tried to break his back because his legs no longer felt like his own, and another who believed that he was dead for nine years. Not content to simply read... Read more

No One Will Come Back For Us

By: Premee Mohamed

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Here there be gods and monsters—forged from flesh and stone and vengeance—emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavor is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no... Read more

Exact Thinking in Demented Times

By: Karl Sigmund

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science



Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in... Read more

The Shadow of the Wind

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate... Read more

The Blueprint

By: Rae Giana Rashad

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a... Read more

Gogmagog

By: Jeff Noon & Steve Beard

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady Meade, a veteran taxi pilot on the river Nysis. In her heyday, she carried people and goods from the thriving seaports of the estuary into Ludwich, the capital city. But that was years ago. Now... Read more

The Staircase in the Woods

By: Chuck Wendig

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.

Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something... Read more

The West Wind

By: Alexandria Warwick

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Travis Tonn

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The North Wind comes a darkly reimagined tale of forbidden love, inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander and the Scottish ballad Tam Lin.

Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated her life to the abbey. She spends her days forging iron and her evenings studying the Text, all in preparation of becoming an acolyte. Twenty-one... Read more

Such a Winter's Day

By: Carlene Thompson

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine and a half years ago, Juliet’s talented brother Fin should have returned home. He never did. When Juliet set out to find him that snowy winter evening, she made a terrifying discovery. Now, Juliet returns to the small town of Parrish, Ohio to celebrate her twenty-fifth birthday with her parents. But when she arrives, she receives the... Read more

The Creeper

By: A.M. Shine

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them...

Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen – until they arrive...

The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the... Read more

The Watchers

By: A.M. Shine

Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You Can't See Them. But They Can See You.

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.
Mina finds... Read more

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about... Read more

A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC BOOKS AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
 
"I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each of her novels is just a marvel" —Anne Tyler

New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson, acclaimed for digging into the "wilderness of the... Read more

This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast.In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together.... Read more

Future Home of the Living God

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable BookLouise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic eventThe world as we know it is ending.... Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 23 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville's masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as... Read more

State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston GlobeFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and... Read more

Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her... Read more

The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more

In Praise of Good Bookstores

By: Jeff Deutsch

Narrated by: Ako Mitchell

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the... Read more

Sleeping Giants

By: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
 
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a... Read more

Mr. Fox

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It is not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold... Read more

Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Dorje Swallow

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BIBLIOLIFESTYLE’S “BEST LITERARY FICTION OF 2024”

"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories…Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper — her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations." – The New York Times

“A metatextual masterpiece.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Oyeyemi... Read more

Golden Hill

By: Francis Spufford

Narrated by: Sarah Borges

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Fiction Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * A Seattle Times Favorite Book of 2017 * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Book of the Year * A Library Journal Top Historical Fiction Book of the Year * Winner of the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL... Read more

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

By: Susanna Clarke

Narrated by: Davina Porter & Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke delivers a delicious collection of ten stories set in the same fairy-crossed world of 19th-century England. With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly... Read more

Hild

By: Nicola Griffith

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Nicola Griffith's brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild.

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's youngest... Read more

The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

Narrated by: Lanessa Tremblett

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft, read by Lanessa Tremblett.

National Bestseller
Named a must read by NPR, People, Vanity Fair, Electric Literature, Nylon, Alta Journal, CrimeReads and Debutiful
Named a most anticipated book by Elle, The Millions, Bustle, Lit Hub, Dandelion Chandelier, Zibby Mag, Bookpage, and The... Read more

The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Abraham Verghese

Length: 31 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major... Read more

This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Take only pictures. Leave only bones.This trip is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her geologist friend Clay has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, Dylan is going to document her... Read more

Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 

Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Award
Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, ESQUIRE,... Read more

The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Zadie Smith

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly

“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —Los Angeles Times

From... Read more

In the Lives of Puppets

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Daniel Henning demonstrates perfect comedic timing and impressive vocal versatility in this queer/sci-fi retelling of 'Pinocchio.' This laugh-out-loud, emotional audiobook asks listeners to question what it means to be human." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

"Narrator Daniel Henning does a phenomenal job capturing Gio’s... Read more

The Bees

By: Laline Paull

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion.... Read more

Fire and Hemlock

By: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrated by: Gemma Dawson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Polly has two sets of memories . . .



One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after... Read more

The Monsters We Defy

By: Leslye Penelope

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman able to communicate with spirits must assemble a ragtag crew to pull off a daring heist to save her community in this timely and dazzling historical fantasy that weaves together African American folk magic, history, and romance.

Washington D. C., 1925

Clara Johnson talks to spirits, a gift that saved her during her darkest moments in a... Read more

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under... Read more

Bone Weaver

By: Aden Polydoros

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"A heart-pounding adventure. Magic and monsters lurk in every corner as a headstrong trio search for their place in Aden Polydoros's haunting world." ––Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

From the author of The City Beautiful comes a haunting fantasy following Toma, adopted daughter of the benevolent undead,... Read more

Belle Greene

By: Alexandra Lapierre

Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing, this is a richly imagined novel bursting with atmosphere, lush period detail, and many unforgettable characters.  New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of... Read more

Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A... Read more

The Stone Child

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series. 

After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn't have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help — from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and... Read more

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction“Wonderful… completely transporting.”  —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors... Read more

A History of Wild Places

By: Shea Ernshaw

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Gibson Fr...

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way” (Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author), three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders.

Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Often hired by families as a last resort,... Read more

To the Bright Edge of the World

By: Eowyn Ivey

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast,... Read more

The Hollow Tree

By: James Brogden

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of Hekla’s Children comes a dark and haunting tale of our world and the next.After her hand is amputated following a tragic accident, Rachel Cooper suffers vivid nightmares of a woman imprisoned in the trunk of a hollow tree, screaming for help. When she begins to experience phantom sensations of leaves and... Read more

The Fifth Season

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)

This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent,... Read more

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying

By: Kelley Armstrong

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Monster hunting isn't for the faint of heart -- the first in a brand-new middle-grade series by NYT bestselling author, Kelley Armstrong.

Twelve-year-old Rowan is destined to be Queen; her twin brother, Rhydd, to be Royal Monster Hunter. Rowan would give anything to switch places, but the oldest child is always next in line, even if she is only... Read more

Barkskins

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book

From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand... Read more

Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.  

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an... Read more

The Time of Our Singing

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 33 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America.On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a... Read more

Operation Wandering Soul

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Tired and overworked, surgical resident Richard Kraft finds his protective shell shattered when, along with his physiotherapist, he... Read more

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

By: Suzanne Collins

Narrated by: Santino Fontana

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambition will fuel him.Competition will drive him.But power has its price.It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on... Read more

Middle Passage

By: Charles Johnson

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Confederacy falls, newly freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is eager to avoid marrying a prim schoolteacher and boards the first ship he finds moored at a New Orleans port. Unbeknownst to Calhoun, the vessel is a slave ship enroute to Africa. On the return trip, Calhoun is put to work as a cabin boy and quickly assists the newly captured... Read more

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” is a masterpiece of polished cynicism in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss. Also included are “The Canterville Ghost,” “The Model Millionaire,” “The Young King,” “The Fisherman and His Soul,” “The Happy Prince,” “The Devoted Friend,” and “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” These eight... Read more

Plowing the Dark

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Michael Braun & Morgan Hallett

Length: 18 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join... Read more

The Shining Company

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A white stag and a dagger transform the life of Prosper, a Welsh chieftan’s son. With Conn, his bodyservant, he leaves his isolated valley and joins the war band of King Mynyddog the Golden as a shieldbearer. For the Saxons have returned to threaten the northern tribes of Britain, and the Shining Company—a brotherhood of three hundred chosen... Read more

The War That Killed Achilles

By: Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home. Achilles—the electrifying hero who is Homer’s... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its authority and always fresh in its vivid rendering... Read more

Iliad

By: Homer

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Homer’s Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion.“Homer is full of merriment, full... Read more