Bookseller picks

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living

By: Louise Miller

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mix in one part Diane Mott ­Davidson’s delightful culinary adventures with several tablespoons of Jan Karon’s country living and quirky characters, bake at 350 degrees for one rich and warm romance." --Library Journal

A full-hearted novel about a big-city baker who discovers the true meaning of home—and that sometimes the best things are found... Read more

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

By: Scott Stambach

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read more

Another Brooklyn

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read more

Carousel Court

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more

The Muse

By: Jessie Burton

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Maria Elena Infantino

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London.... Read more

The Inseparables

By: Stuart Nadler

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.

In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a... Read more

Hell Divers

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesThey dive so humanity survives …More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. The only... Read more

The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. 

When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more

The Heavenly Table

By: Donald Ray Pollock

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.

It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed... Read more

All Is Not Forgotten

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

The stunning national bestseller! Wendy Walker's All is Not Forgotten--the basis for the major motion film Gone But Not Forgotten--is a twisty, edge-of-your seat thrill ride from beginning to end.

“Fascinating and at times shocking.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl

Everything... Read more

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

Narrated by: Paula Wilcox

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“I loved this book. It's one of those books that you just want to give to everybody.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition

“An astute, engaging debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming tale of a community in need of reconciliation and two girls learning what it means to belong.

England,... Read more

How to Set a Fire and Why

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything.
 
Lucia’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school—again. Making her way through the world with... Read more

Underground Airlines

By: Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: William DeMeritt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?

A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon

A... Read more

A Certain Age

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Barbara Goodson & Adrienne Rusk

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent... Read more

A Hundred Thousand Worlds

By: Bob Proehl

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints

"Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder."
—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Valerie Torrey took her son, Alex,... Read more

My Last Continent

By: Midge Raymond

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This unforgettable debut, set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape, is “refreshingly different, vivid and immediate. Midge Raymond has an extraordinary gift for description that puts the reader bang in the middle of its dangerous and endangered world” (M.L. Stedman, New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans).

It is only... Read more

Vinegar Girl

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
 
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work... Read more

Disappearance at Devil's Rock

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.“A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King about Paul... Read more

Brighton

By: Michael Harvey

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary thriller—gripping, haunting, and marvelously told—about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.“You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”Kevin Pearce—baseball star, honor student, the pride of... 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

The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and... Read more

The Gilded Years

By: Karin Tanabe

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Passing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.

Since... Read more

You Know Me Well

By: Nina LaCour & David Levithan

Narrated by: Emma Galvin & Matthew Brown

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A special edition of the critically acclaimed LGBTQ+ romance, now with bonus material from bestselling authors Nina LaCour and David Levithan.

You Know Me Well is a deeply honest story about navigating the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time.

Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet... Read more

Lily and the Octopus

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Michael Urie

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller combining the emotional depth of The Art of Racing in the Rain with the magical spirit of The Life of Pi, “Lily and the Octopus is the dog book you must read this summer” (The Washington Post).

Ted—a gay, single, struggling writer is stuck: unable to open himself up to intimacy except through the steadfast companionship of... Read more