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Midnight Ruin
By: Katee Robert
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent one, the sheltered one. No longer. She’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her mothers and sisters. After her ex broke her heart, she’s picking up the pieces in the lower city…with the help of Charon, a man she’s drawn to even as she’s not sure she has enough heart left to give.... Read more
View audiobookHighly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Amina Koroma & Jonathan Andrew Hume
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors—and each other.
Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top... Read more
Things You Save in a Fire
By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes... Read more
American Prometheus
By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 26 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick
For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the... Read more
The Bone Season
By: Samantha Shannon
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 18 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.
The New York Times bestselling first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, a heart-pounding epic fantasy by the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.
“Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing.” NPR
Welcome to Scion. No safer place.
The year is 2059.... Read more
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.
It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...
Sade... Read more
Paved Paradise
By: Henry Grabar
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic
“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker
“Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times
"A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft, lust, greed, political chicanery and transportation policy gone... Read more
Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
Narrated by: Chris Reilly
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has... Read more
Murder Under Her Skin
By: Stephen Spotswood
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus
“A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and... Read more
Behind Her Eyes
By: Sarah Pinborough
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Huw Parmenter & Bea ...
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
The instant New York Times and #1 international bestseller. “You should read Behind Her Eyes…It’s bloody brilliant.” —Stephen King
"An eerie thriller…Pinborough keeps us guessing about just who’s manipulating whom – until the ending reveals that we’ve been wholly complicit in this terrifying mind game.”... Read more
Lock Every Door
By: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Looking for a suspense novel that will keep you up until way past midnight? Look no further than Lock Every Door, by Riley Sager.”—Stephen King
No visitors. No nights spent elsewhere. No disturbing the rich and famous residents. These are the rules for Jules Larsen’s new job apartment sitting at the... Read more
American Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more
Sparks Like Stars
By: Nadia Hashimi
Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
“Suspenseful…emotionally compelling. I found myself eagerly following in a way I hadn’t remembered for a long time, impatient for the next twist and turn of the story.""—NPRAn Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the... Read more
View audiobookThe Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
Narrated by: Anushka Chakravarti, Brendan Dempsey, Jonathan ...
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.
University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master’s program in multimedia art succeed.... Read more
There Is No Ethan
By: Anna Akbari
Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.
In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged... Read more
Biography of X : A Novel
By: Catherine Lacey
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life
story. Not even CM... Read more
Sourdough
By: Robin Sloan
Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year... Read more
Joan Is Okay
By: Weike Wang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more
Pride
By: Ibi Zoboi
Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Don't miss the audiobook,... Read more
View audiobookLenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
By: Kerryn Mayne
Narrated by: Annie Maynard
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.
She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends... Read more
youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... Read more
View audiobookThe No-Girlfriend Rule
By: Christen Randall
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant USA TODAY bestseller
Four starred reviews!
Julie Murphy meets Heartstopper with a D&D twist in this “magical, heartwarming” (Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl) queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a... Read more
La Finca
By: Corky Parker
Narrated by: Corky Parker
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner, 2022 PNWA Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir! At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of owning an inn in Latin America, far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a "half-baked... Read more
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