Bookseller picks from Off the Beaten Path
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See picks from all bookstoresBefore the Coffee Gets Cold
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Arina Ii
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*
*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the... Read more
Witch King
By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Eric Mok
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Eric Mok makes this wonderfully inventive and diverse fantasy eminently accessible... Mok's Kai is appealing and relatable--he sounds simultaneously young and resigned, weary of death and pain and betrayal and yet still hopeful for something better. Listeners will hope we get more of this fascinating world."- AudioFile
From the... Read more
She Who Became the Sun
By: Shelley Parker-Chan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by fan-favorite narrator Natalie Naudus
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
“I refuse... Read more
Hench
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell."" -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest... Read more
View audiobookThe Darkness Outside Us
By: Eliot Schrefer
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
They Both Die at the End meets Gravity in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Stonewall Honor Award winner!Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission.Ambrose wakes up on the... Read more
View audiobookA Master of Djinn
By: P. Djèlí Clark
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Narrator Suehyla] El-Attar expertly creates a vibrant version of Cairo that captures a heady blend of the cosmopolitan and the supernatural that will win many new fans." -- AudioFile Magazine
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn
Cairo,... Read more
VenCo
By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
""Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy."" ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more
View audiobookTranscendent Kingdom
By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford... Read more
I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons
By: Peter S. Beagle
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes a new novel with equal amounts of power and whimsy in which a loveable cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come together to take their fates into their own hands.
Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne,... Read more
The Death of Vivek Oji
By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Yetide Badaki & Chukwudi Iwuji
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Electrifying." — O: The Oprah Magazine
Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage
What does it mean for a... Read more
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
By: C Pam Zhang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author
A mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen LordShigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers of... Read more
Wayward Witch
By: Zoraida Cordova
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rose Mortiz has always been a fixer, but lately she’s been feeling lost.
She has brand new powers that she doesn’t understand, and her family
is still trying to figure out how to function in the wake of her amnesiac
father’s return home. Then, on the night of her Death Day party, Rose
discovers her father’s memory loss has been a lie.
As she rushes... Read more