January Reads

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in... Read more

All the Light We Cannot See

A Novel

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

“I picked this up thinking to escape the world I find myself living in, and while the French countryside and German villages are beautifully rendered, this was no easy escape. Werner’s struggles with being complicit in the madness and cruelty surrounding him ring painfully true, and Marie-Laure’s fight for survival is anything but restful. Read more

The Snowy Day

By: Ezra Jack Keats
Narrated by: Jane Harvey
Length: 5 minutes

A small boy's enchantment with a city's snowfall has him making snow angels and snowballs, sliding down snow mountains - and looking forward to going outside again. Read more

Owl Moon

By: Jane Yolen
Narrated by: Jane Yolen
Length: 7 minutes

A young child and her father search the moonlit woods for the Great Horned Owl. Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 18 hours 43 minutes

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

It is no surprise that Little Women, the adored classic of four devoted sisters, was loosely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own life. In fact, Alcott drew from her own personality to create a heroine unlike any seen before: Jo, willful, headstrong, and undoubtedly the... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 33 hours 36 minutes

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband—and Russian high society—would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds.... Read more

The Shining

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

“The book is so well written and grasps you the whole way through. I very much enjoyed reading this, and the ending is wonderfully brilliant. King does a great job writing suspenseful storylines. Read more

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Chronicles of Narnia: Book #2

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Hercule Poirot Mysteries: Book #9

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment,... Read more

In the Midst of Winter

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones & Alma Cuervo
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

“By the end of In the Midst of Winter, I felt as though I'd had a south-of-the-border history lesson. The title, which comes from an Albert Camus quote, takes on many meanings in the story. Two NYU professors, Richard Bowmaster and his tenant, Luc?a Maraz, both in their 60s, have each resigned themselves to a ho-hum existence. When a snowstorm... Read more

Eight White Nights

A Novel

By: Andre Aciman
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven... Read more