Bookseller picks

The Radium Girls

By: Kate Moore

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.

As the... Read more

First Frost

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

THE PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE IN THIS GRIPPING NEW ADDITION TO THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LONGMIRE SERIES

It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War.

As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for... Read more

The Honey-Don't List

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Patti Murin & Jon Root

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author behind the “joyful, warm, touching” (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners comes a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own.

Carey Duncan has worked... Read more

The Universe in Verse

By: Maria Popova

Narrated by: Maria Popova & Lili Taylor

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.

Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging... Read more

Done and Dusted

By: Lyla Sage

Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock & Stella Hunter

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s off-limits, but he’s never been good at following the rules.

Discover the sizzling, small-town brother’s best friend romance that went viral on TikTok—now a special edition with an exclusive Q&A with the author!

“A sweet slow burn . . . sunshine in written form.”—USA Today bestselling author Lana Ferguson

For the first time in her life,... Read more

The Huntress

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the... Read more

A Spark of Light

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jodi Picoult

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington... Read more

The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on... Read more

Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands.

Sylvia Knight is losing hope that the person who killed her husband will ever face justice.... Read more

The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indie Next Pick

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.

On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who... Read more

The Wildes

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan & ...

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. 

In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his... Read more

The End of Everything

By: Katie Mack

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Katie Mack

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AN NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and THE GUARDIAN

From the cohost of the podcast The Universe with John Green and one of the most dynamic stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York... Read more

The Woman with the Blue Star

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Emily Lawrence & Nancy Pet...

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"An emotional novel that you will never forget." —Lisa Scottoline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eternal

From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship during World War II -- Now a New York Times bestsller!

1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents in the Kraków Ghetto... Read more

Dear Girls

By: Ali Wong

Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list
 
“A collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex,... Read more

Out On a Limb

By: Hannah Bonam-Young

Narrated by: Victoria Connolly

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent. Not one to be coddled for her limb difference, Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. And, with some minor adjustments, she's done just fine.



That is until she has a one-night stand with the incredibly charming Bo, a perfect stranger. And that... Read more

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Abridged

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Douglas Adams

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.

DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole... Read more

Band Sinister

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He's a rake and an atheist, and the rumours about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It's orgies.)



Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks her leg in a riding accident, she's forced to recuperate... Read more

The Duke and I

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry-though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets... Read more

My Broken Language

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Narrated by: Quiara Alegría Hudes

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.

“Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away.... Read more

The Orchid Thief

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more

Imperfect Union

By: Steve Inskeep

Narrated by: Steve Inskeep

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple

John C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in... Read more

The Dearly Beloved

By: Cara Wall

Narrated by: Kathy Keane

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!)

This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the... 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

Hench

By: Natalie Zina Walschots

Narrated by: Alex McKenna

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell."" -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest... Read more