Bookseller picks

The Arrangement

By: Ashley Warlick

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Absolutely dazzling.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

“Filled with food and passion...If you love historical fiction, you'll fall hard for this one.”  —Bustle.com


She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.

Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances... Read more

The Ramblers

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more

The Flood Girls

By: Richard Fifield

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more

Sweetgirl

By: Travis Mulhauser

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.As... Read more

The Queen of the Night

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman’s rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When... Read more

The Forgetting Time

By: Sharon Guskin

Narrated by: David Pittu & Susan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.

For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has... Read more

Love in Lowercase

By: Francesc Miralles

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures

The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:
“A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.”

When Samuel, a... Read more

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book... Read more

The Things We Keep

By: Sally Hepworth

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

With huge heart, humor, and a compassionate understanding of human nature, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the power of love to grow and endure even when faced with the most devastating of obstacles. You won’t forget The Things We Keep.

Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old,... Read more

Dhalgren

By: Samuel R. Delany

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 34 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel that rivals the best American fiction of the 1970s.Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets.... Read more

And Again

By: Jessica Chiarella

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Cor...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you had a second chance at life?

Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda have been given the second chance of a lifetime—genetically perfect bodies as part of a medically advanced pilot program seeking FDA approval. Their new bodies are exact replicas of their old selves—without the deadly illnesses they suffered from. Even better,... Read more

The Expatriates

By: Janice Y. K. Lee

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars

“A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation.” —The Skimm

Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The... Read more

Fallen Land

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine

Fallen... Read more

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

By: Sunil Yapa

Narrated by: Aaron Landon

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.

Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both... Read more

The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

Narrated by: Ruth Wariner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal

A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist cult.

Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s... Read more

The Geography of Genius

By: Eric Weiner

Narrated by: Eric Weiner

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.

In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more

The Guest Room

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò & Grace Experience

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s... Read more

After the Crash

By: Michel Bussi

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying."---Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Of the 169 passengers, all but... Read more

The Song of Hartgrove Hall

By: Natasha Solomons

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating novel that evokes the author’s New York Times bestseller The House at TynefordIt’s a terrible thing to covet your brother’s girl.New Year’s Eve, 1946. Candles flicker, and a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne. For one night only, Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers... Read more

The Final Frontiersman

By: James Campbell

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for The Last Alaskans—the eight-part documentary series on Animal PlanetHundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than four decades later,... Read more

Dear Mr. You

By: Mary -Louise Parker

Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author

The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (Elle).

An... Read more

Wake of Vultures

By: Lila Bowen

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author

Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy... Read more

Illuminae

By: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan ...

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension.
 
 “A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form." —Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen

This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.
... Read more

The Witching Hour

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 49 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and... Read more