DECEMBER 21

Somebody Loves You

By: Mona Arshi
Narrated by: Mona Arshi
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2022**A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again.Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day,... Read more

Carefree Black Girls

A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture

By: Zeba Blay
Narrated by: Zeba Blay
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

One of Kirkus Review's Best Books About Being Black in America

"Powerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay’s pivotal work will engage all readers, especially fans of Mikki Kendall’s Hood Feminism." —Kirkus (Starred)

This program is read by the author.

An empowering and celebratory portrait of... Read more

Mothers, Fathers, and Others

New Essays

By: Siri Hustvedt
Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experience, including boundaries we usually take for granted—between ourselves and others, nature and nurture, viewer and artwork—which turn out to be far... Read more

Five Tuesdays in Winter

Stories

By: Lily King
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski, various narrators, Mark Bramhall, Christa Lewis, Cassandra Campbell & Bronson Pinchot
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Award-winning Lily King’s first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short storiesWith Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King’s books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most “brilliant” (New York Times), “wildly talented” (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors... Read more

Requeening

Poems

By: Amanda Moore
Narrated by: Amanda Moore
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean VuongEngaging... Read more

Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“A strange and insightful meditation on motherhood: the main character has given birth to a child who is half owl. I love the way the author writes about family dynamics & relationships. (Needless to say, the husband and his family are not really supportive of the mother or her owl baby.) This is literary, smart, and fun. Read more

White on White

A Novel

By: Aysegül Savas
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound” (Marina Abramović) novel about a woman who has come undone.

A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio.

In... Read more

Ordesa

A Novel

By: Manuel Vilas
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

”A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
The #1 international bestselling phenomenon—a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.

A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he’s from, and... Read more