Prologue Bookshop Staff Picks 2022

Notes on an Execution

A Novel

By: Danya Kukafka
Narrated by: Mozhan Marno & Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

“When the book opens, we meet the murderer Ansel Packer in his jail cell, 12 hours from execution. In the next chapter, he is a toddler in 1973 and we learn about his origins. At that chapter, I was hooked! As the book progresses, everything we learn about Ansel is from the point of view of the women in his life: his mother, his wife, and—my... Read more

I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy
Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

“I genuinely enjoyed this book, though it wasn't an easy read. The writing was superb, and the infusion of humor into a challenging narrative added a poignant layer. My heart goes out to Jeanette, and while her story is difficult, it provides a profound understanding of her journey and personal evolution. Despite the heaviness, I found the book... Read more

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“This book is chock-full of lines that will pack a punch. Several times I would put the book down and just say, wow, out loud to myself. The tension was so masterfully built and whew! The payoff was very very good. Loved this and love that this genre is new territory for Emezi, but they are certainly not showing any novice tendencies. Such a... Read more

We Deserve Monuments

By: Jas Hammonds
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

What's more important: knowing the truth or keeping the peace?
When her family moves to Bardell, Georgia, on the cusp of her senior year, Avery
Anderson is uprooted from DC and thrust into the hostile home of her terminally
ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty
makes for a frosty arrival and reveals a... Read more

Riverman

An American Odyssey

By: Ben McGrath
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times
 
The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A novel

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“As twelve-year-olds, Sam and Sadie nurture a friendship based on shared tragedy and a love for video games. Ten years later, the pair create the video game Ichigo, an instant international phenomena. When their friendship is tested- first by the excesses of success and then by the tragedy of loss- Sam and Sadie must learn to survive this game of... Read more

My Government Means to Kill Me

A Novel

By: Rasheed Newson
Narrated by: Jelani Alladin
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“Wonderful and lively coming of age novel set in 1980s NYC. I loved how vibrant all of the characters and the city were. It also explored some deeper, lesser explored angles of the AIDS pandemic. Read more

French Braid

A novel

By: Anne Tyler
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild.

“A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions... Read more

How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur
Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Marc Evan Jackson, Jameela Jamil & Todd May
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

“Michael Schur (The Office, The Good Place) narrates his funny and heartfelt book of casual philosophy. And the cast of The Good Place helps out! Read more

Mistakes Were Made

A Novel

By: Meryl Wilsner
Narrated by: Quinn Riley & Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

“Not only is this the funniest premise for a book, it's a great read. It's funny and sweet and hot and the chemistry between Erin and Cassie is off the charts and the whole thing is just- *chef's kiss* Read more

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

A Bright Falls Novel: Book #1

By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“So fun and sweet. I loved this enemies to lovers romance about a prickly photographer who returns to her hometown for her estranged stepsister's wedding only to fall for one of the stepsister's best friends. It was light and fresh and entirely sexy and I cannot wait to listen to the sequel! Read more

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

A Novel

By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“Another audiobook that I could not stop listening to! A fun, light high school romance that should immediately be turned into a movie and will launch the new brat pack. I loved that these characters got to fight against their school and it's outdated beliefs (especially since I saw college graduates do the same thing in real life on tiktok just... Read more

All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“After listening to this book, I was outraged to learn how widely banned it is across the country - This story needs to be told and shared. Read more

Woman of Light

A Novel

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

“Woman of Light is a beautifully written story of unity, adversity, and the struggles of the Lopez family in the 1920s and 1930s. Perfectly connecting the past and present up to a meeting point for the family. I 100% recommend this book! Read more

Mouth to Mouth

A Novel

By: Antoine Wilson
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

“While the narrative of Mouth to Mouth skillfully navigates numerous twists and turns, Antoine Wilson is most compelling when he obsessively dissects its philosophical underpinnings—fate and free will, value and values, ethics and aesthetics, the 'eye' and the 'I'—even as his characters toe the line between sinister and self-serving with... Read more

Tyll

A Novel

By: Daniel Kehlmann
Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die
 
Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work... Read more

The Feeling of Falling in Love

By: Mason Deaver
Narrated by: Zach Barack
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the bad decisions we sometimes make... and the people who help get us back on the right path.Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and What If It's Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.Just days before spring break, Neil... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“I highly recommend this book! Emily is amazing! I love that this book incorporates characters and elements from her previous two books, but with a completely new plot: time travel. It’s also very meta in that one of the characters is an author who is on a book tour to promote her bestseller about a pandemic. And, as it happens, there is a... Read more