JANUARY 22

Bibliolepsy

By: Gina Apostol
Narrated by: Rachel Coates
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award–winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorship.

Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire... Read more

The School for Good Mothers

A Novel

By: Jessamine Chan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

“This book was absolutely wild. Chan really makes you examine motherhood and how subjective it can be. With her fictional school and its excessive tactics, you wonder how you can judge mothers - is it possible to learn how to be a 'good' mother and what does 'good' even mean. Every moment of this book will stress you out a little (in a good way)... Read more

One In Me I Never Loved

A Novel

By: Carla Guelfenbein
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

In present-day New York, Margarita grapples with insecurities on her fifty-sixth birthday. She feels neglected by her husband, and suspects he's having an affair with one of his students. Mysteries surrounding two friends offer both a distraction and unexpected insight: Anne, the concierge of her apartment building, has suddenly vanished without... Read more

Fiona and Jane

By: Jean Chen Ho
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

A TIME, NPR, VOGUE, OPRAH DAILY, AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)

One of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

“Ho's debut work is the perfect modern example of great American fiction. . . . You will love it.” —Jake Tapper

“Intimate, cinematic. . . . The world Ho creates between the two women feels like one friend reading the other’s story,... Read more

Beasts of a Little Land

A Novel

By: Juhea Kim
Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim & Raymond Lee
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

“Juhea Kim's debut novel is at once massive in breadth and intimate in scale. Upending Dickens and Tolstoy by setting some of their themes in Japanese occupied Korea, Kim delves into the depths of her characters - social outcasts all - and builds an ensemble of unique voices that speak to today's world nearly a century on from her setting.... Read more

Shit Cassandra Saw

Stories

By: Gwen E. Kirby
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Sura Siu, Rob Shapiro, Jeremy Carlisle Parker & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

“Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.”
—NPR

“Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader’s expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren’t about to be victims: They’re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of... Read more

Machete

Poems

By: Tomás Q. Morín
Narrated by: Tomás Q. Morín
Length: 59 minutes

This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts.
 
"Morín's writing uses the mundane details of everyday life...as a jumping-off point for creating fascinating and philosophical worlds." —LitHub

"Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He... Read more

A Dream of a Woman

Stories

By: Casey Plett
Narrated by: Casey Plett
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is... Read more

The Unseen Body

A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

By: Jonathan Reisman, M.D.
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile

"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries,... Read more

The Blue Book of Nebo

By: Manon Steffan Ros
Narrated by: Manon Steffan Ros
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society’s collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears. After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son are among the rare survivors in rural north-west Wales.... Read more

Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

By: Mayukh Sen
Narrated by: Tovah Ott
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched... Read more