speculative fiction

Chlorine

A Novel

By: Jade Song
Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Imani Parks
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

“A haunting coming-of-age story about Ren Yu explores race, sexuality, and mental health. Ren becomes obsessed with mermaids at a very young age, which leads her to pursue competitive swimming. Ren struggles with her sexuality and her obsessive need to be even closer to the mermaids she reads about. Her journey is bloody, raw, and terrifying, as... Read more

Cascade Failure

A Novel

Ambit's Run: Book #1

By: L. M. Sagas
Narrated by: Torian Brackett
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“Wow Wow Wow!! I love this book so much! I love the chaotic and messy crew of the Ambit, with its snarky, lovable AI captain, grumpy war vet, pragmatic and witty engineer, and secret-cinnamon-roll stowaway soldier. This book is packed with non-stop action, great banter, found family, and a space saga shootout that will have you laughing and... Read more

Jumpnauts

By: Hao Jingfang
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in which three unlikely allies attempt a desperate mission of first contact with a mysterious alien race before more militaristic minds can take matters into their own hands.

In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the... Read more

Paradise Rot

A Novel

By: Jenny Hval
Narrated by: Brie Jackman
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery



Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all... Read more

The Blueprint

A Novel

By: Rae Giana Rashad
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a... Read more

Weyward

A Novel

By: Emilia Hart
Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley & Nell Barlow
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“I couldn’t stop listening. The narrator’s do an amazing job of telling the story of three generations of women who learn to live through the persistent horrors of the patriarchy. Read more

Clytemnestra

By: Costanza Casati
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Monarch. Mother. Murderer. Magnificent.

You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offense against you. This was not the life you ever... Read more

Thirst

A Novel

By: Marina Yuszczuk
Narrated by: Maria Liatis
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst is the perfect gothic vampire story with a compelling sapphic twist. Spanning from the 17th century to modern-day Buenos Aires, we are introduced to the lives of two women, both grieving losses they fear will destroy them and running from the choices that have shaped their unhappiness and isolation. Bloody but somehow... Read more

What Feasts at Night

Sworn Soldier: Book #2

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

"Narrator Avi Roque delivers a perfectly paced performance....seamlessly switching between English, Scottish, and American accents to distinguish the variety of characters." —AudioFile on What Moves the Dead, an Earphones Award winner)

The follow-up to T. Kingfisher’s bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead.

Retired soldier, Alex Easton,... Read more

Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine
Narrated by: Sunny Moraine
Length: 4 hours

“Another sensory-style horror novel in the vein of Bird Box and A Quiet Place, where the eyes trigger a homicidal response. Riley has survived two years without seeing another human face. Until she has a new neighbor move in down the road. Ellis is new, a link to a world Riley thought she left behind long ago. But this closeness, this connection,... Read more

Fathomfolk

Drowned World: Book #1

By: Eliza Chan
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of Tiankawi.

Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears.

But in the... Read more

A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather
Narrated by: Amy Scanlon
Length: 4 hours

An eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence.

In seventeenth-century London, unnatural babies are being born with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea.

Sarah Davis is intimately familiar with such strangeness. Having fled... Read more

What Moves the Dead

Sworn Soldier: Book #1

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

“As we move into the slightly cooler months of autumn, I always crave a good scary story. What Moves the Dead is a retelling of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. This creepy, slightly sci-fi tale will have you hiding under the covers and become wary of mushrooms. Just under 200 pages, it’s the perfect horror story to read in one sitting. Read more

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott
Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zackman, Max Meyers & Elena Rey
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

“Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart is a bewitching collection of short stories—not quite fairytale, not quite horror, with just enough fantasy to make the people at the center of the stories all the more real. This collection centers around the need for connection, exploring the universal desire to be seen and loved despite and in spite of the... Read more

Starling House

A Reese's Book Club Pick

By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

“Opal and Arthur don't know each other, but they both dream of a house. And Opal can't keep away. When she gets the chance to work inside the creepy mansion -- that, frankly, just seems lonely -- she jumps at the chance. A story about family, first loves, and fierce loyalty. Read more

The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“Penned by #TransRightsReadathon founder Sim Kern! In an alternate 2020, in which Al Gore once won the presidency and Democrats have held court for 20 years…we still live in an economically and racially unjust, imperialist, carceral state (now with more greenwashing!), and teacher and punk band guitarist Maddie Ryan finds herself and her... Read more

Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

Celestial Kingdom: Book #3

By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Ewan Chung & Natalie Naudus
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Return to Sue Lynn Tan’s highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom fantasy romance duology with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior.Journey once more to the Immortal Realm, a world of gods, magic, and legendary creatures—and embark upon new... Read more

Red Team Blues

Martin Hench: Book #1

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable... Read more

Kinning

Everfair

By: Nisi Shawl
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.



The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.



Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are... Read more

The World We Make

A Novel

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the... Read more