Bookseller picks

The Only Plane in the Sky

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This... Read more

Kitchen Confidential

By: Anthony Bourdain

Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.

From his... Read more

The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

Narrated by: CJ Wilson

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

AN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and “a work of art” (The Denver Post).

On Memorial Day in Jewel, Minnesota, the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River,... Read more

Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An Audie Award Winner

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As... Read more

The Guncle Abroad

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

An Indie Next Pick

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.

Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and... Read more

As You Wish

By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner...

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as... Read more

The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale."—The Washington Post

"Yangsze Choo again takes on narration... Read more

The Love of My Afterlife

By: Kirsty Greenwood

Narrated by: Sofia Oxenham

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 

"This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!”
—Colleen Hoover, New York Times bestselling author

A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and... Read more

Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back with Worst Case Scenario.

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which... Read more

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot... Read more

Bright I Burn

By: Molly Aitken

Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • IRISH BESTSELLER • A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland

In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.

Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints... Read more

Klara and the Sun

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Sura Siu

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A... Read more

East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more

The Guncle

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor
National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller
An NPR Book of the Year
Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected... Read more

The Last Thing He Told Me

By: Laura Dave

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist

Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that’s sold over 3 million copies—now streaming on Apple TV+ starring Jennifer Garner!

The “page-turning, exhilarating” (PopSugar) and “heartfelt thriller” (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her... Read more

Wrong Place Wrong Time

By: Gillian McAllister

Narrated by: Lesley Sharp

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“It’s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I’ve ever read.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling authorNew York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of... Read more

How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times

"Ingenious."-The Washington Post

New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
 
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads... 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 journey of... Read more

Godkiller

By: Hannah Kaner

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be... Read more

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

By: Deesha Philyaw

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double... Read more

Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten... Read more

Fairy Tale

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Seth Numrich & Stephen King

Length: 24 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator

Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or... Read more

The Light We Carry

By: Michelle Obama

Narrated by: Michelle Obama

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.
 
There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big... Read more

Witch King

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Eric Mok

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Eric Mok makes this wonderfully inventive and diverse fantasy eminently accessible... Mok's Kai is appealing and relatable--he sounds simultaneously young and resigned, weary of death and pain and betrayal and yet still hopeful for something better. Listeners will hope we get more of this fascinating world."- AudioFile

From the... Read more