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By: Jane Harper
Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*Winner of the CWA's Gold Dagger Award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award*
“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” —The New York Times
“One of the most... Read more
The Eyes and the Impossible
By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of The Every comes an endearing story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.
Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a... Read more
Check & Mate
By: Ali Hazelwood
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart.
Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is... Read more
The Book of Delights
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay's The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Spoon
By: Jessa Maxwell
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes, Andy Garcia-Ruse, Graham Halstead...
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“This delicious combination of Clue and The Great British Bake Off kept me turning the pages all night!” —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Only Murders in the Building meets The Maid in this “deliciously entertaining whodunit” (Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author) where someone turns up dead on the set of TV’s... Read more
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double... Read more
View audiobookTiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)
By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.
For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the... Read more
Hum If You Don't Know the Words
By: Bianca Marais
Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan & Bahni Turpin
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.
Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but... Read more
Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge comes a “poised and moving” (Vogue) novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
“Strout’s understanding of the human... Read more
Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition
Now an Emmy Award–nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly, The New York... Read more
Oh William!
By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s... Read more
Queenie
By: Candice Carty-Williams
Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
*SOON TO BE A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES*
*ONE of NPR’s and TIME’s BEST BOOKS of the YEAR * NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of the YEAR by WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, and BOOK RIOT!*
“A book that sneaks up on you...I am hooked.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author
This acclaimed and “welcome debut from a seriously... Read more
Maid
By: Stephanie Land
Narrated by: Stephanie Land
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE."
"A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."
-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading... Read more
The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Narrated by: Lee Osorio
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Goodreads, CrimeReads, The Millions, StyleCaster, The EveryGirl, Sunset, Book Riot, and HipLatina
January Recommended Reading by The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Nerd Daily, The Mary Sue, and Reading Between the Spines
“Mesmerizing...wildly entertaining...Gonzalez is a great storyteller, bringing... Read more
Sadie
By: Courtney Summers
Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Gabra Zackman & Rebec...
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the 2019 Odyssey Award**Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Young Adult Audiobook*
"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" — AudioFile... Read more
Forget Me Not
By: Julie Soto
Narrated by: Callie Dalton & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A wedding planner and her grumpy ex must work together to plan a celebrity event in this deliciously spicy and funny novel from the creator of Generation Me.
Ama Torres is an optimistic wedding planner who doesn’t believe in marriage. But weddings? They’re amazing. Elliot Bloom is a brooding florist who hates owning a flower shop…until a... Read more
Against the Currant
By: Olivia Matthews
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio... Read more
View audiobookHollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
By: Jessica Townsend
Narrated by: Gemma Whelan
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From a New York Times bestselling author: our beloved heroine battles a new evil as a strange, frightening illness takes hold of Nevermoor in this captivating and heart-pounding tale. Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived their first year as proud scholars of the elite Wundrous Society, helped bring down the nefarious Ghastly Market, and... Read more
View audiobookFates and Furies
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE
“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies... Read more
Clear
By: Carys Davies
Narrated by: Russ Bain
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away…What a thrill.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote island off of Scotland to “clear” the last remaining inhabitant, who... Read more
Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more
View audiobookThe Neighbor Favor
By: Kristina Forest
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Malik Rashad
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he’s the obscure author she’s been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest.
Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for... Read more
Talking as Fast as I Can
By: Lauren Graham
Narrated by: Lauren Graham
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.
In Talking as Fast as... Read more
Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
By: Sidik Fofana
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofan...
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
SELECTED FOR THE RUSA 2023 LISTEN LIST FOR OUTSTANDING AUDIOBOOK NARRATION!
WINNER of the Gotham Book Prize * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence * Longlisted for the Story Prize
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review of... Read more