Bookseller picks

If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

Narrated by: Helen Laser, John Pirhalla & Paul Dateh

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

A USA Today Bestseller!

From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle.... Read more

When We Were Silent

By: Fiona McPhillips

Narrated by: India Mullen

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor India Mullen, who plays Peggy in the Normal People miniseries.

“With her full-bodied voice and unhurried pace, [India] Mullen conveys an unsettled atmosphere and the intricate dynamics between all the players—villains and victims.”—BookPage

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this... Read more

Thirsty: A Novel

By: Jas Hammonds

Narrated by: Alaska Jackson

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments, comes a gripping read about a girl willing to risk it all for the chance to join an underground sorority with her wealthy best friends—perfect for fans of Euphoria and Girl in Pieces.

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have... Read more

When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Helen Laser, James Fouhey & Tim Campbell

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.

We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.

Pain is Dymitr’s calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who... Read more

skin & bones

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
 
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away,... Read more

The Brides of High Hill

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.



"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune



"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen



The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful... Read more

Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide

By: Scotty Morrison

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This pocket-sized book is your guide to using te reo Māori in everyday situations, from introductions to conversations, online and in person. Carry the essentials with you, and develop confidence in: * Basic pronunciation * Greetings * Dates and times * Meetings * Pepeha * Protocol * Whakataukī * Karakia * Iwi names * and much more! From... Read more

King of Dead Things

By: Nevin Holness

Narrated by: Troy Glasgow

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Legendborn, Neil Gaiman, and Leigh Bardugo, this urban young adult fantasy steeped in Afro-Carribbean folklore follows two Black teens searching for a powerful artifact in the hidden magical side of London.

Raising the dead is easy. Living is harder.

Eli doesn’t know who he is or who he came from. Three years ago, he was found by... Read more

My Beloved Monster

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by... Read more

The Wives

By: Simone Gorrindo

Narrated by: Simone Gorrindo

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People

This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a... Read more

Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface…and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful writers around” (CrimeReads), don’t miss the latest from... Read more

Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Alejandro Antonio Ruiz embodies all of the roiling emotions in this compelling queer teen love story.”—The Children’s Book Review

"Ruiz’s masterful narration captures all the anger, tension, and banter...Ruiz yells, cries, whispers, laughs, and sings, revealing all the many layers to Rafie and Rey’s story."—AudioFile

When a Mariachi star... Read more

Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A “dryly witty” (The New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.

It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious,... Read more

Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she... Read more

The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand

Narrated by: James Meunier

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"I loved it!”—Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures 

“An essential, profound read.” —The Washington Post

The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world... Read more

The Tree Doctor

By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Narrated by: June Angela

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her... Read more

Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.

It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley... Read more

The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A standout voice in women’s fiction. I was captivated from the very first line.” — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Summer of SongbirdsPerhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her... Read more

Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo, Greta Jung & Jeena Yi

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!

“The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park's dystopian... Read more

Birding to Change the World

By: Trish O'Kane

Narrated by: Cheryl Smith

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New... Read more

Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A. B. Poranek

Narrated by: Ola Forman

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller

A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this “dark, devastating, and gothic” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.

Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are... Read more

Max in the House of Spies

By: Adam Gidwitz

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book,” -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony

“Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you’ve ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you.” -Alan Gratz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee and Projekt 1065

Max Bretzfeld doesn’t... Read more

The Catch

By: Amy Lea

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A grumpy lobster fisherman tosses a fashion influencer’s impeccably curated life overboard in the next romantic comedy from international bestselling author Amy Lea.

In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of... Read more

My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Narrated by: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

“My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border writing while embracing nature and familial history. There are moments one sees greatness appear. This is one of those moments.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene

Elizabeth Camarillo... Read more