Fiction - Literary bestsellers

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“This will be in my top five books of 2024! Percival Everett is a truly gifted storyteller! James is full of unexpected twists, tense moments, and tender times. Narrator Dominic Hoffman is incredible... the perfect person and voice for this cast of characters. I can't wait to hand sell this book! Read more

The God of the Woods

A Novel

By: Liz Moore
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“Friends. This book is . . . simply incredible. For sure one of my favorite books of the year, and perhaps one of my favorites of all time. Truthfully, I'm having a hard time writing a review that does this book justice and reflects how much I truly loved it. Just know this: it is rich, vivid, and complex. I feel so intimately connected... Read more

All Fours

A Novel

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Bold, uncompromising, and audacious, Miranda July confronts what it means to be a person with a uterus coming into middle age and struggling to understand not only the hormone changes that arrive in that nebulous time of aging, but also the spiral of self-doubt and emergence of depressions. An Eat, Pray, Love for the Gen Y crowd. July's narrator... Read more

The Ministry of Time

A Novel

By: Kaliane Bradley
Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“A blend of history, science fiction, mystery and love story. I haven't listened to something this good since Outlander. Would recommend to customers, co-workers, friends and family. Read more

Tom Lake

A Novel

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

“Storytelling at its very best!! Set during the pandemic summer of 2020 when they are toiling at harvesting the cherries on their Michigan farm during the lock-down, a mother regales her three 20-something daughters the story of her youth when she dated an actor who would later become famous. The performance of Meryl Streep, who reads this audio... Read more

All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“Definitely one of my favorite reads of 2024! Such a unique story with excellent character development. While perhaps not a traditional mystery, it absolutely has one at its’ center that will keep you guessing while deeply invested in the characters and how they are connected. Four of our staff members read this and declared it a favorite. When I... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A novel

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“I know nothing about gaming and yet I was taken in by this bittersweet story of three friends who bond via games. Author Gabrielle Zevin takes us through the early years of gaming--remember Donkey Kong?--and up through the 2000s. College students Sadie, Sam, and Marx change course to create original games and their own company. I had no idea... Read more

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“I did not want this book to end! It's the latest book I’ve fallen 'deep' for — and moved right into my instant recommendation booklist. A very particular septuagenarian keeps busy at her aquarium job, tidying up while keeping to herself — like her equally senior and solitary octopod acquaintance (who provides us with his own narration). I just... Read more

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

A Novel

By: James McBride
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

“I fell in love with James McBride's narrative style reading Deacon King Kong. His most recent novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, has confirmed him as one of my all-time favorite authors. McBride creates an intricate tapestry for us, of people, of a community, of the many forms of struggle enveloping his cast of characters. Every thread... Read more

Margo's Got Money Troubles

A Novel

By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Elle Fanning
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“I loved Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. A freshman in college decides to have the baby. Her father, an ex pro-wrestler, moves in. She starts an Only Fans account. This is a SUPERB, fun, dynamic, revelatory novel. I devoured it and was so won over by Margo and her money troubles. Highly recommended for fans of Catherine Newman and... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“Protagonist Elizabeth Zott's confrontations with 1960s patriarchy will resonate with women who lived it, but how she gets by while staying true to herself will inspire women of all ages. Read it — and give copies to all your friends! Read more

Martyr!

A novel

By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“I honestly have a hard time verbalizing exactly what I love about this novel, except to say that I am writing this staff pick months after reading it because it's still on my mind. Cyrus Shams was a baby when his mother's plane was shot down over the Persian Gulf. Following her death, Cyrus and his father move to Indiana; his father dies as... Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“Rooney’s dazzling masterpiece explores the hidden depths of our relationships to one another. Peter and Ivan grieve the recent loss of their father. Never close, they struggle to avoid estrangement while navigating their very different lives. Read more

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

“Finishing a book like this is equal parts pleasure and pain: pleasure in that reading something as striking and beautiful as this is everything a reader hopes to feel in a book juxtaposed by the pain of something beautiful ending and leaving these characters behind in the pages. There are few books that have brought tears to my eyes (I can still... Read more

Circe

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“This sweeping tale of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology as seen through the eyes of a minor goddess had me from the first chapter. I listened to this as an audiobook from our audio vendor, Libro.fm. The brilliant narrator was the 29-year-old Welsh film actress, Perdita Weeks. Read more

Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey
Narrated by: Sarah Naudi
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

“Exquisite. It made me feel the way I did reading The Alchemist for the first time, but on a cosmic scale. It is humanity distilled. If this book had existed 30 years ago, would I have been inspired to become an astronaut instead of a bookseller? Apropos of nothing important, Sarah Naudi's American accent is immaculate (and her natural accent... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

“Kingsolver’s best work- destined to be a new classic! Read more

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Min Jin Lee
Narrated by: Sandra Oh & Min Jin Lee
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan–the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+.

 In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for... Read more

Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“The book is about life and love and the wonderful characters Elizabeth Strout has written about come together to tell us about life. It is just about life and love. All the different kinds of love. And it is wonderful. Read more

The Mighty Red

A Novel

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“A fantastic read! Set over the course of 2008 and 2009, The Mighty Red is a novel rich with characters and sense of place. At its core, it is a book about choices and the repercussions of those choices over time. I'll go out on a limb and say this is Erdrich's best novel yet! The narrator was pitch perfect, too. Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“This book was meant to be heard! Wilson creates a narrative in a world so sarcastic and colorful that I would taste cherry cool-aid long after I stopped reading. Flash to me doubled over in my car laughing or sobbing or both at the same time. I actually started to look forward to my hour-long commute every morning just so I could spend time with... Read more

Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“As Christmas approaches, I'm drawn back to this exquisite, tender, quiet yet powerful story of a comfortable Irish coal dealer who becomes discomfited by what he discovers behind the walls of a Magdalen laundry in 1985. The 1980s are hardly the distant past, and this slender book is a timely reminder of how society has often treated its young... Read more

North Woods

A Novel

By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter & Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“North Woods is a phenomenal novel that I’ll be thinking about for a long time to come. Daniel Mason’s tells the story of a single plot of land in western Massachusetts over the span of centuries, through the eyes of its many varied inhabitants, and the ways that their choices reverberate — one might say haunt even — throughout the ages. Equal... Read more

The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
Length: 31 hours 16 minutes

“Abraham Verghese’s tale spans eight decades of one south Indian family’s devastating relationship with water. Suspense builds when at least one person in each generation unaccountably dies by drowning. The family and village believe they’re cursed until one member, a woman in fact, has the scientific and medical abilities to look deeper.... Read more

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

By: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

“When I first read the desription of this book, I got chills! If there was one book that I could read for the 1st time again, it would be this one! Read more

The Lost Bookshop

By: Evie Woods
Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace, Olivia Mace & Nick Biadon
Length: 12 hours

**Evie Woods' stunning new novel The Story Collector is available now** The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. ‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better... Read more

The Midnight Library

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“I loved this book so much. The pacing is perfect, the character development just right and topics just heavy enough. I MUST point out that the narrator did an incredible job with accents and flipping characters so I'm really looking forward to listening to more of their narrations. Read more

The Life Impossible

A Novel

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Joanna Lumley & Jordan Stephens
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“Joanna was the perfect voice for this lovely, heartwarming, cheeky, imaginative story. I loved every minute. Can’t wait to visit this island and see what all the fuss is about. 😉 Read more

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

By: Lev Grossman
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith & Lev Grossman
Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

“You know a book’s good when it starts with a quote from Monty Python. I utterly loved it from the first page to the last. Witty, serious, magical, and with an amazing cast of characters, this is everything an Arthurian epic should be. Read more

The Vanishing Half

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

“Brit Bennett’s haunting second novel is carried on the shoulders of a robust cast of characters—namely, Stella and Desiree Vignes, twin sisters born in 1940s Louisiana, Black but pale as can be. Soon after running away to New Orleans, they separate for the first time in their lives. Stella begins passing every day as a white woman; Desiree... Read more

Yellowface

A Novel

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“R.F. Kuang does it again! But honestly, who is surprised! Yellowface is full of terrible people doing terrible things, a horror of mundanity that makes you reconsider everyone around you. But mainly, you have June spiraling out of control in a similar manner to the main character in a tell-tale heart, an unreliable narrator who reliably tells on... Read more

Clear

A Novel

By: Carys Davies
Narrated by: Russ Bain
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

“This historical fiction felt like a classic. It takes place in the 1840s during the Scottish Clearances, when the rural poor of Scotland were forced off the land in droves. John is a poor minister who must leave his wife and home to evict the last man left on the island. When John arrives on the island, he gets in an accident, and Ivar, the man... Read more

Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition)

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pablo Schreiber
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“This audiobook really knocked it out of the park! Reid’s excellent writing is given an extra depth of emotion by having each character read by a different actor. I very nearly forgot that this story is fiction; it felt like I was listening to a true story about real, complex people in the best way. Read more

Private Rites

A Novel

By: Julia Armfield
Narrated by: Hannah van der Westhuysen
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“"What comes next?" The sort of novel that will rattle your bones, your ideals, and your sense of self; the sort of novel that sedates and seduces you, only allowing you to realize you've been caught dreaming in its web when it's far, far too late. Read more

Good Material: A Read with Jenna Pick

A novel

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Arthur Darvill & Vanessa Kirby
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • From the best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both

“Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist….Delivers the most delightful... Read more

Once Upon a River

A Novel

By: Diane Setterfield
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

“Listening to "Once Upon A River" is a magical experience. Not only is the story one that takes you skillfully down different paths of individual character's lives and motivations but also the narrator of the story Juliet Stevenson skillfully envelopes every character's different rhythms with her voice in a wonderful way. I loved this storyline... Read more

The Measure

A Novel

By: Nikki Erlick
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

“I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the premise of this book! While reading I found myself very thought provoked as I imagined if something like this were to occur in real life. The setting of the book is modern time, so it’s easier to relate to. I really enjoyed how the author told the story from eight different characters'... Read more

Time of the Child

By: Niall Williams
Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Time of the Child by Niall Williams, read by Dermot Crowley

"I am such a fan of Niall Williams." —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha.

Doctor Jack Troy was... Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

National Book Award Finalist

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & Lee Osorio
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

“This book rocked me to my core. Adjei-Brenyah's writing is soul-shifting. He gives us a devastatingly unvarnished look at the US carceral system and a warning for what may to be come. The deep, multidimensional characters evoke empathy, empowerment, and sometimes disgust. I have never read a more evocative work of fiction. The audiobook is worth... Read more

Stone Blind

A Novel

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“This is not just a book about Medusa, it's about the gods who use her, her gorgon sisters, her killer Perseus...and her head. Haynes grounds these characters in the original mythology so well that that each voice is distinct, every action and mistake preceded by its motivating circumstance, and each monster shown with respect and humanity. It is... Read more

Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Ann Napolitano
Narrated by: Maura Tierney
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

“As a bookseller, it’s common to read through books at a breakneck pace; always on to the next tale, the next genre, the next page-turner. When you come a cross a book so achingly beautiful as Hello Beautiful...time slows. Or, you wish it would. I wanted to spend YEARS within this story. I adored the complexity AND simplicity of the sisters’... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“I must admit, i wasn’t thrilled about ANOTHER virus book. But this isn't ANOTHER virus book at all, instead it is a deep dive into what happens to humans when they’re pushed against a wall, all told 39 Minutes at a time. This one’s a driveway listen for sure. Read more

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

A Novel

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

“As Murakami explains, with this book - he dusted off an older short story that had been sitting around since the start of his career. Murakami completists may recognize it. Initially, he only meant to do some slight tweaking of the story. Instead, he ended up significantly expanding it.As indicated by the book title, the story involves a... Read more

The Hunter

A Novel

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

“This story has all the right twists. Good plot, good characters, great dialog, and Tana French's trademark atmosphere. Read more

The City We Became

A Novel

The Great Cities: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Enthralling and just a half step away from reality. The audio book performance adds a depth and resonance that transforms the text giving an already incredible read tangible texture. Read more

Bel Canto

By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century""Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book."" —Washington Post Book WorldNew York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera,... Read more

I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

“It's the one where they rush to judgment and incarcerate a black man on flimsy evidence. It's the one where people knew more than they said. It's the one where a woman is at the mercy of a man. This is a compelling book; a dark window into our culture where assumption, or proclamations of innocence or guilt often get in the way of the... Read more

By Any Other Name

A Novel

By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance & Steve West
Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

“I devoured this audiobook in just a few days, starting my morning with a listen and ending each evening by setting a sleep timer. The themes of feminism, love, and tragedy are intricately woven throughout the narrative. I now have a fresh perspective on Shakespeare’s works and am thrilled to have discovered Emilia Bassano, a remarkable woman... Read more

The Ministry for the Future

A Novel

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo & Vikas Adam
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

“This hearty work of hard science fiction has been the antidote to my climate change despair. As a novel, it is good. As a thought experiment in imagining a near future in which humanity averts complete disaster and begins the transformation into an ecologically humane civilization—it is a masterpiece. Is it possible that we’ll overcome the... Read more

You Dreamed of Empires

A Novel

By: Álvaro Enrigue
Narrated by: Gabriel Porras
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

“Hilarious and beautiful. The final days of the Aztec empire as if they were taking place in the boardrooms of today. A poignant satire of colonialism and the evil that lives on in its descendants. Read more