Bookseller picks

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas.Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a... Read more

The Fountains of Silence

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Maite Jáuregui, Ruta Sepetys, Richard Ferrone, ...

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood... Read more

The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he... Read more

Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & Torian Brackett

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, Time, BookPage

A Must-Read: The New York Times, Time, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Boston Herald, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The Stacks, Them, Publishers Weekly

“Sweeping, ingenious .... Read more

This Spells Love

By: Kate Robb

Narrated by: Khaya Fraites

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect

A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical... Read more

The Exiles

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever... Read more

New Nigeria County

By: Clare Brown

Narrated by: Clare Brown, Ayanna Dookie, Korey Jackson, Andr...

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stupendous full-cast, fully-realized production…Buffered in hilarity, Brown also provides a brilliant exposé of undeniable, inescapable inequity and injustice.” —Booklist (starred review)

Written and performed by TikTok star Clare Brown, New Nigeria County is a whip-smart, full-cast satire tackling race, gender, and nationalism in today’s... Read more

Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Jenna Lamia & Dan Bittner

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER • “Wingate’s stellar latest explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases. . . . Her portrayal of the region’s history, culture, and landscape enthralls. Wingate is at the top of her game.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours... Read more

Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying."" —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she... Read more

Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

Narrated by: Bríd Brennan

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”—J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review
 
“TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah... Read more

Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Jason Watkins

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST

"Set during Jazz Age London, in all... Read more

Consumed

By: Aja Barber

Narrated by: Aja Barber

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. 
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more

Sleeping Giants

By: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
 
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a... Read more

Winter's Orbit

By: Everina Maxwell

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Raphael Corkhill deftly navigates a range of situations and voices in this novel, a blend of romance, mystery, and space opera...A satisfying love story with plenty of political machinations, this audiobook will please fans of romance and sci-fi alike." -- AudioFile Magazine

Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in... Read more

Call Me by Your Name

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Armie Hammer

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*

Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a... Read more

A Great Reckoning

By: Louise Penny

Narrated by: Robert Bathurst

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It... Read more

Monogamy

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Sue Miller

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grief.”  —O, the Oprah MagazineA brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and... Read more

I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Mónica Guzmán

Narrated by: Mónica Guzmán

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.

Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool... Read more

The Deficit Myth

By: Stephanie Kelton

Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory -- the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades -- delivers a radically different, bold, new understanding for how to build a just and prosperous society.
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory... Read more

Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Michelle St. John

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!”—Margaret Atwood, From Instagram
“Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.”—Tommy... Read more

In a Dark, Dark Wood

By: Ruth Ware

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

*AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and THE LYING GAME
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

An NPR Best Book of the Year * An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books Pick * A Buzzfeed “31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer” Pick * A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers”... Read more

Love & Saffron

By: Kim Fay

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhal...

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick

In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine.

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as... Read more

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

By: Anonymous & Duchess Goldblatt

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, J. Smith-Cameron & Lyle Lovett

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for an Audie Award in Memoir
One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020

"Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles—and that we can, against all odds, get through them." —Lori Gottlieb, New York... Read more

Gone Girl

By: Gillian Flynn

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes

ONE OF TIME'S 100... Read more