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Arlington Park
By: Rachel Cusk
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A funny, satirical tale of English mothers on the brink of rebellion, Arlington Park is a novel for the ages.Set over the course of one rainy day in an ordinary English suburb, Arlington Park is a viciously funny portrait of a group of young mothers, each bound to their families, each straining for some kind of independence: Juliet, enraged at... Read more
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Mercy Street
By: Jennifer Haigh
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
“Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—“a... Read more
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Invisible
By: Danielle Steel
Narrated by: Michael Braun
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a gifted young woman must grapple with the legacy of a troubled childhood in order to pursue her dreams.
Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between an aspiring actress and an aristocrat from a once distinguished family. As a child, she is abandoned... Read more
Lamentations
By: Carol Kammen
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of... Read more
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
By: Ai Weiwei
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more
The How
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become
Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more
My Monticello
By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, ...
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
An AudioFile Earphones Award winner
Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King
“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle
"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer... Read more
Running Is a Kind of Dreaming
By: J. M. Thompson
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.“Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was... Read more
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The Magician
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek
From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the... Read more
Everything I Have Is Yours
By: Eleanor Henderson
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine
From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
By: Rodrigo Garcia
Narrated by: Rodrigo Garcia
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review)“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García... Read more
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The Bright Book of Life
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more
More Miracle than Bird
By: Alice Miller
Narrated by: Polly Lee
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.
On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more
A Pure Heart
By: Rajia Hassib
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a... Read more
The Terrible
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award
“Devastating and lyrical.” —The New York Times
“Suspenseful and affecting.” —The New Yorker
From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding... Read more
The Tender Bar
By: J. R. Moehringer
Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Daniel Thomas May
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword.
J.R. Moehringer grew up... Read more
The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of... Read more
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Our Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis... Read more
The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño
Narrated by: Eddie Lopez & Armando Durán
Length: 26 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a... Read more
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The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George K Wilson
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal... Read more
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