Bookseller picks

Pearce Oysters

By: Joselyn Takacs

Narrated by: Xavier Casals

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A fractured family, a devastated community, and the disaster that brings them together.
Pearce Oysters, a lush, evocative, finely-drawn debut novel set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic 2010 oil spill, follows the Pearce family, local oyster farmers whose business, family, and livelihood are all on the brink of collapse.
Eye-opening,... Read more

The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

Narrated by: Emily Pike Stewart

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.

Emlyn doesn't let herself think about the past.

How she and her best friend, Janessa, barely speak anymore. How Tyler, the... Read more

Code Dependent

By: Madhumita Murgia

Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus interview with the author.

“Engaging and entertaining, this work is essential listening for anyone following the potentially explosive development of AI.” —AudioFile

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial... Read more

The Wiener Across the Way

By: Amy Award

Narrated by: Stella Hunter & Jacob Morgan

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when the sunshiny pop princess and the grumpy football player discover there's more to this fake romance than inspiration for a new love song?
Kelsey Best is America's pop sweetheart, and anyone who says they don't like her music is a liar and needs to be punched in the nads. And I'll do it, too, because I'm the guy the NFL dubbed... Read more

The Art of Catching Feelings

By: Alicia Thompson

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for in the next swoony romance by USA Today bestselling author Alicia Thompson.

Daphne Brink doesn’t follow baseball, but watching “America’s Snoozefest” certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce... Read more

1974

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Francine Prose

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she... Read more

The Witches of Bellinas

By: J. Nicole Jones

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, only to be swept up in a hedonistic cult that isn’t what it seems

Tansy and her husband, Guy, are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative community is beginning... Read more

A Shore Thing

By: Joanna Lowell

Narrated by: Ros Watt

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Glorious.... Every scene in this book is a treasure."--The New York Times

Named a Best Romance of the Year by The New York Times and Parade

A delightfully queer Victorian love story, featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanist who captures his heart, and a buoyant bicycle race by the British seaside — from the author of The Duke... Read more

All That Happiness Is

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, a concise, elegant volume presenting a radical alternative to our culture of relentless striving.



Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the "best" grammar school, high school, or college they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the... Read more

Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

Narrated by: Neill Thorne

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“The best kind of thriller. . . . Suspenseful, sentimental, and ultimately redemptive, Assassins Anonymous is a can’t-miss novel.” — S. A. Cosby,  author of All the Sinners Bleed

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life only to find himself under siege by mysterious assailants. It’s a... Read more

There Is a Door in This Darkness

By: Kristin Cashore

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie & Kristin Cashore

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

A magic-tinged contemporary YA about grief and hope from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the Graceling Realm novels.

Wilhelmina Hart is part of the infamous class of 2020. Her high school years began with a shocking presidential election and ended with a pandemic. In the midst of this global turmoil, she also lost one of her... Read more

Curvy Girl Summer

By: Danielle Allen

Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating.

“There’s got to be an easier way than dating. I want the shortcut. I just want to find my person and start our lives together.”
After a one-night stand with her clingy ex, Aaliyah James has... Read more

That Night in the Library

By: Eva Jurczyk

Narrated by: Hannah Cabell

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE NIGHT LOCKED IN THE LIBRARY.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university’s rare books library. They’re not allowed in the library after closing time, but it’s the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform—one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free
those who take part in... Read more

Nothing to Fear

By: Julie McFadden, RN

Narrated by: Julie McFadden, RN

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller!

A comforting and informative guide that demystifies our end-of-life journey, from the compassionate expert known as @hospicenursejulie

What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and... Read more

Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

Narrated by: Mikaela Hoover & Manijeh Khakpour

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! •  MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • "Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood."—Vogue

“Delightfully twisted and... Read more

Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man who abandoned the community in chase of big city dreams but returned for the first love he left behind. Perfect for fans of All Good People Here and Where... Read more

The God and the Gumiho

By: Sophie Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Intae Kim

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.

“Enchanting fantasy . . . With an intoxicating mix of action, mystery, and deliciously angsty romance, this reads like the most... Read more

I've Tried Being Nice

By: Ann Leary

Narrated by: Ann Leary

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.

Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home... Read more

The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“The last great book I read . . . an early proof of debut novelist Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road, about women in ’90s Ireland negotiating the complexities of marriage in a country where divorce is illegal. It will no doubt be a bestseller.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and... Read more

Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

Narrated by: Simone Collins

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
* The Times (London) Novel of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist, The Irish Times, The Daily Telegraph (London), The New Statesman (UK), The Irish Independent, and The Independent

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s exquisite and provocative novel... Read more

Holy City

By: Henry Wise

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests,... Read more

Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States

By: J. Albert Mann

Narrated by: Sandy Rustin

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Stamped and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, Albert J. Mann’s Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.“Mann... Read more

Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Robb Moreira & Stephanie Németh-P...

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient.

Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes... Read more

The Wren in the Holly Library

By: K.A. Linde

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

CAN YOU LOVE THE DARK WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT HIDES?

Some things aren’t supposed to exist outside of our imagination.

Thirteen years ago, monsters emerged from the shadows and plunged Kierse’s world into a cataclysmic war of near-total destruction. The New York City she knew so well collapsed practically overnight.

In the wake of that carnage, the... Read more