Bookseller picks

The City of Stardust

By: Georgia Summers

Narrated by: Kitty Parker

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge to break her family's curse in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy debut.

For centuries, generations of Everlys have seen their brightest and best disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a... Read more

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Nneka Okoye, Gareth Armstrong,...

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“[An] ingenious jigsaw puzzle of a book...highly entertaining.” —The New York Times

“The queen of found footage thrillers.” —Julia Bartz, New York Times bestselling author

A whip-smart and “fast-paced mystery” (The Daily Telegraph, London) from the internationally bestselling author of The Twyford Code and The Appeal... Read more

Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey & Zac Aleman

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Riveting.” —People

In this “compelling and heartbreaking debut that marks a new and important voice in the mystery genre” (William Kent Krueger), a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic reveals the dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town.

Eli North is not okay.

His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds... Read more

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

By: Mikeas Sánchez

Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more

Argylle

By: Elly Conway

Narrated by: Dakota Blue Richards

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the star-studded film Argylle, now streaming on Apple TV+, featuring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame

A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny.

A CIA plane downed in... Read more

Holiday Country

By: İnci Atrek

Narrated by: Ayse Babahan

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast

"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"A book full of pleasures." —Kirkus

Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The... Read more

A Fragile Enchantment

By: Allison Saft

Narrated by: Fran Burgoyne

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical dressmaker commissioned for a royal wedding finds herself embroiled in scandal when a gossip columnist draws attention to her undeniable chemistry with the groom.

Niamh Ó Conchobhair has never let herself long for more. The magic in her blood that... Read more

That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Robb Moreira

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

It was a mistake to trust him.

Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.

He is... Read more

The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

Narrated by: Leeanna Walsman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A December Indie Next PickA Book of the Month SelectionA Washington Post Noteworthy Book
You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again.
Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she’s grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the... Read more

Plot Twist

By: Erin La Rosa

Narrated by: Mela Lee

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I give it five stars—and five chili pepper emojis.” —Kate Spencer, author of In a New York Minute

She’s written off more than she can chew…

Romance author Sophie Lyon’s ironic secret just went viral: she’s never been in love—and it’s ruining her reputation. With a manuscript deadline looming, Sophie makes an ambitious plan to overcome her... Read more

The Hunting Moon

By: Susan Dennard

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Davies captures the magic of Dennard's exciting world and illuminates each character" —AudioFile on The Luminaries

The Hunting Moon is the highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard.

Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family... Read more

Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Nat Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

“This is the horror book of the year.”—Erika T. Wurth, author... Read more

Our Divine Mischief

By: Hanna Howard

Narrated by: Angus Yellowlees, Elle Newlands & Cathleen McCa...

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping YA fantasy inspired by Scottish history and folklore, Our Divine Mischieftakes readers on a journey told in three voices: a determined heroine, an outcast young man, and a wish-granting canine. Their adventure spans an island fishing village to the king’s court in a story about identity, belonging, and the love between a human and her... Read more

Pen Pal

By: J.T. Geissinger

Narrated by: Tara Langella & Troy Duran

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant USA Today bestseller!

It all began with just one line.

“I’ll wait forever if I have to.”

The BookTok sensation PEN PAL is a high-octane, tautly written dark romance with an unforgettable twist that will leave readers gasping. This breathtaking romance about undeniable love from superstar J.T. Geissinger is not to be missed!

The first... Read more

Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

Narrated by: Sara Vickers

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A bruising tale of passion, ambition, power, vengeance, and desire . . . a stunning retelling.” —Entertainment Weekly, Most Anticipated Books of Fall“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that Isabelle Schuler conjures up where only the most ruthless can survive. A thoroughly enjoyable... Read more

The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

“Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny.” – Shelf Awareness

Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an... Read more

Midnight is the Darkest Hour

By: Ashley Winstead

Narrated by: Sarah Welborn

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Verity and A Flicker in the Dark, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is a twisted tale of murder, obsessive love, and the beastly urges that lie dormant within us all . . . even the God-fearing folk of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains... Read more

The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An indelible tale of life, love, death, and Chopin—from the Novel Prize–winning author of Disgrace.

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential—and provocative—authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want... Read more

Fall of Ruin and Wrath

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners, especially fans of the author's other works, will be entertained." - AudioFile

SHE LIVES BY HER INTUITION. HE FEEDS ON HER PLEASURE.

From Jennifer L. Armentrout, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, comes the beginning of a searing fantasy romance for adults, Fall of Ruin and Wrath.

Long ago, the world was... Read more

This is How We End Things

By: R.J. Jacobs

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by R. J. Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles . . .

Campus is empty, a winter storm is... Read more

Pockets

By: Hannah Carlson

Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.

It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more

The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

Narrated by: Imogen Wilde

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

This “intricately plotted, epic” (The Times, London) international bestseller—in the vein of the vivid novels of Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry—follows an orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England as she searches for answers about her long-dead mother.

Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father... Read more

Midnight at the Houdini

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A girl discovers a surreal hotel where no one ever leaves. When the clock strikes midnight, she'll be trapped there forever unless she's able to break free from magic that in turn breaks all her rules. Perfect for fans of Caraval and The Starless Sea!

Life has gone according to plan for Anna—she stays in the background, letting her sister, Emily,... Read more

The Long Game

By: Elena Armas

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Shane East

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this small-town love story in the vein of It Happened One Summer—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.

Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at... Read more