Bookseller picks

Last Call at the Local

By: Sarah Grunder Ruiz

Narrated by: Gary Furlong & Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Opposites attract when a free-spirited American singer-songwriter with ADHD teams up with a charming Irishman to revitalize his family's pub in the next heartfelt romance from the author of Luck and Last Resorts.

Raine Hart is used to the challenges of living with ADHD. It’s why she ditched her life in Boston to busk around Europe as a traveling... Read more

Not Here to Make Friends

By: Jodi McAlister

Narrated by: Matty Morris & Aileen Huynh

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s the reality TV villain everyone will love to hate. He’s the producer tasked with making it happen. What could go wrong? A hilarious, heartfelt rom-com for fans of The Unhoneymooners.

‘A full-on villain romance, with all the lying, scheming and blazingly tumultuous sex you could hope for.’ New York Times

Reality TV producer Murray O’Connell... Read more

Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town—from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel Shiner

It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at... Read more

Rich AF

By: Vivian Tu

Narrated by: Vivian Tu

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From TikTok star and Your (favorite) Rich BFF Vivian Tu, the definitive book on personal finance for a new generation

When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was making more money than she had ever seen in her life. But it wasn’t until she found a mentor of her own on the trading floor that... Read more

House Love

By: Patric Richardson & Karin Miller

Narrated by: Patric Richardson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the joy of cleaning with this cheery and thoughtful guide to tidying up and turning your house into a home.Patric Richardson is known as “The Laundry Evangelist,” but his genuine love for household chores extends far beyond the laundry room. His philosophy is simple: tidying up is a privilege and a task you do for those you love... Read more

Loyal to a Fault

By: Courtney J. Burg

Narrated by: Courtney J. Burg

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Do you find yourself living as the people pleaser or peacekeeper? Do you avoid conflict? Learn how to overcome your fears about setting boundaries and step into a life that's overflowing with love, respect, and healthy relationships. We are people who love patterns, even if returning to these patterns continues to hurt us or... Read more

The Curse of Penryth Hall

By: Jess Armstrong

Narrated by: Emma Love

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She’s always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the... Read more

The Palace

By: Gareth Russell

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A “riotously readable…tender and affectionate” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of five hundred years of British history—from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II—as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace.

Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of... Read more

Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate Christensen’s new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?”—Richard Russo, author of Somebody’s Fool“To the great literature... Read more

Tagging Freedom

By: Rhonda Roumani

Narrated by: Farrah Haidar

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist.

But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly tagging messages of freedom around their city.

Meanwhile, in the United States,... Read more

The Jazz Club Spy

By: Roberta Rich

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) The Midwife of Venice, a fresh and sweeping historical novel following a Jewish woman attempting to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II.

New York City, 1939: At the height of the Great Depression, a time when President Roosevelt is trying to keep America out of World War II,... Read more

Cacophony of Bone

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Narrated by: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then the pandemic arrived and their secluded abode became a place of enforced isolation. What was meant to be the beginning of an enriching new chapter was... Read more

Second Chances in New Port Stephen

By: TJ Alexander

Narrated by: Aden Hakimi & Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A trans man returns to his Florida hometown for Christmas after his career goes up in flames, only to cross paths with his high school ex in this charming rom-com about family and second chances from the author of the “delectable” (Time) Chef’s Kiss.

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages.... Read more

We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

Narrated by: Brad Griffith, Jesse Vilinsky, Sharon Freedman,...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).

On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw... Read more

The Kingdom of Sweets

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Grace Gray

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Twin sisters, divided by envy and magic, set against one another on a fateful Christmas Eve

Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming Clara, the favorite, grows into a life of beauty and ease, while ignored and... Read more

Deadly Game

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Eddie Marsan

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive international thriller from the Hollywood legend and British icon Sir Michael Caine.

DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals.

And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is... Read more

A True Account

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.

In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her... Read more

Mister Lullaby

By: J. H. Markert

Narrated by: David Bendena & Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the... Read more

A Little Blood and Dancing

By: Tyler Parker

Narrated by: Jenny Pudavick

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It’s a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker’s Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers.

Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from... Read more

Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

Narrated by: Robert Powell

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.

An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading... Read more

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

Narrated by: Rob Harvilla

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. 

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious... Read more

Hold My Girl

By: Charlene Carr

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women. Two eggs.
One life-changing switch.

Katherine finally has it all. She’s spent her entire life striving for perfection—obsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect family—and her hard work has now paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives... Read more

Pritty

By: Keith F. Miller, Jr.

Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Eric B. Anthony

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Concrete Rose meets Things We Couldn’t Say in Pritty, a debut novel by Keith F. Miller Jr.—the inspiration behind the forthcoming animated short film of Kickstarter fame—that follows two boys who get caught in the crossfire of a sinister plot that not only threatens everything they love but may cost them... Read more

Broken Code

By: Jeff Horwitz

Narrated by: Jeff Horwitz

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out

"Broken Code fillets Facebook’s... Read more