Carissa’s Top Ten Playlist

All of Us Villains

All of Us Villains: Book #1

By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

“A Hunger Games-like tournament with evil wizards?? Sign me up!! I love this book very much and will be sobbing violently in a corner until book two is released. I HAVE to know what happens next! This book is a wild ride of curses, killers, survival, and betrayal. I can't get enough of the characters, magic, tension, and story development! The... Read more

I Came All This Way to Meet You

Writing Myself Home

By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * New Yorker * Sunday Times (UK)From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity—and how it saved her life. In this brilliant, fierce, and funny memoir of transformation, Jami Attenberg—described as a “master of modern fiction”... Read more

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

A Novel

By: Zoraida Córdova
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

“This book wraps you in all the beauty and sorrows of the world. The magical matriarch of the Montoya family, Orquídea Divina, invites each of her descendants to her funeral - even though she is still alive. As the past and present weave together, the Montoya family can only escape their curse by unspooling what happened to Orquídea. This story... Read more

Around the World in 80 Books

By: David Damrosch
Narrated by: David Damrosch
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them

*Featured in the Chicago Tribune's Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas... Read more

White Smoke

By: Tiffany D. Jackson
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson!Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California... Read more

The Book of Magic

A Novel

The Practical Magic Series: Book #4

By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

“Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series—a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?

For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love—but all of that is about to change. The novel begins... Read more

Alone

Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman
Narrated by: Gail Shalan
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

A New York Times bestseller!

Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover... Read more

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

A Novel

By: Rivka Galchen
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

"It’s both transfixing and destabilizing. It’s the best thing I listened to all winter." —Alexis Gunderson, PASTE Magazine

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from Rivka Galchen, the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.

The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The... Read more

Clarice the Brave

By: Lisa McMann
Narrated by: Alexa Magro
Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of The Unwanteds brings us an epic animal adventure story perfect for fans of Pax and A Wolf Called Wander.

Clarice is a young ship mouse grieving the loss of her mother when a mutiny forces her onto a small, leaky boat with a dangerous cat. Worse, she is separated from her younger brother, Charles Sebastian,... Read more

The Other Black Girl

A Novel

By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Heather Alicia Simms & Bahni Turpin
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

“This is the tale of two Black women co-workers in the cutthroat publishing industry trying to determine if they are friends or enemies. A literary fiction tale with a side of suspense, this expertly woven critique on society is bound to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Read more