speculative fiction

Bookshops & Bonedust

Legends & Lattes

By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Bookshops & Bonedust is just as delightful as its predecessor (or perhaps more so, since it revolves around a bookstore!). The younger Viv is just as entertaining as the older Viv, and now I am dying for a third book where the characters of both the first two books get to hang out together. It was wonderful as an audiobook; since the author... Read more

Out There Screaming

An Anthology of New Black Horror

By: Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams
Narrated by: Jordan Peele & Full Cast
Length: 14 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.

“Every piece is strong and... Read more

Ilium

A novel

By: Lea Carpenter
Narrated by: Tanya Cubric
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special op

The young English narrator of Lea Carpenter’s dazzling new novel has grown up unhappily in London,... Read more

Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
Narrated by: Christel Mutombo
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.

Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless... Read more

Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“This book got some very mixed reviews and I am in the loved it camp. Strange, poignant and a wonderful slice of life novel. Read more

The Dead Take the A Train

Carrion City: Book #1

By: Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey and Cassandra Khaw have teamed up to deliver a new dark story where Neil Gaiman meets Jessica Jones with magic, monsters, and mayhem.

Julie Crews is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-something who packs a lot of magic into her small body. She’s trying to establish herself as a major Psychic Operative in... Read more

After the Forest

By: Kell Woods
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of “happily ever after.”

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour.

Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother... Read more

Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

What does it mean to be-in-kind with a nonhuman animal? Or, in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience... 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

“Incredibly crafted mystery through time & space that attempts to answer if we exist in a simulation, or the reality that we have always accepted. Read more

Other Terrors

An Inclusive Anthology

By: Vince A. Liaguno & Rena Mason
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge, Catherine Ho, James Fouhey, Tim Chiou, Neil Shah & Blessing Mokgohloa
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award® winners Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from historically excluded backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other” Offering new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest... Read more

Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

“Tanya Tagaq is a musical artist in more ways than one. As a world-renowned Inuit throat singer, she has already stunned the world with her powerful songs and lyrics, but now in her first memoir, an explosive combination of narrative, poetry, myth, truth, and ferocity, she weaves the story of a young girl who comes of age in a small Arctic town,... Read more

Empire of Wild

A Novel

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

“Cherie Dimaline’s latest novel packs a wallop of a story. Absolutely stunning in every way, this latest offering follows the story of Joan, whose husband has disappeared, and her courage when confronted with truths and lies. She and her husband, Victor, live in a Métis community, close and tight knit. As Joan deals with the fallout of her... Read more

What the River Knows

A Novel

Secrets of the Nile: Book #1

By: Isabel Ibañez
Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

“A book that is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. From Argentina to Egypt, Inez embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth behind her parents' death. This captivating story brims with ancient Egyptian magic, a thrilling quest for Cleopatra's tomb, and an undeniable attraction to a man with a sketchy past. Inez finds... Read more

Witches

By: Brenda Lozano
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets.



Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the... Read more

Africa Risen

A New Era of Speculative Fiction

By: Sheree Renee Thomas
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Dele Ogundiran, Jamie Lincoln Smith, Kim Staunton & Tony Tambi
Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

A group of cabinet ministers queries a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new... Read more

Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

“The twelve stories intersect creating more of a novel than a set of separate stories. I love the characters--Paige, Frick, Fellis, grandmother, mom, Tyson, and JP, all of them doing the best they can under the circumstances. I think what I love most is that the stories are told without judgment or snark but with compassion and understanding.... Read more

Bad Cree

A Novel

By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“If you love a good supernatural horror story AND you’ve ever wondered if, just maybe, your dreams may have a deeper meaning, you’ve GOT to read Bad Cree! This book had me overthinking every strange dream I’ve ever had, especially the one about a giant rat trying to eat my pet cat… This book touches on themes of grief, familial bonds, and... Read more

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

“A fantasy novel set firmly in the very real world of 1830's Britain. Translation and the juxtaposition of similar words in different languages has become a source of power that will drive the British Empire to become dominant throughout the world. A wonderful evocation of life at the time and in Oxford in particular, this is a deeply researched... Read more

The Hacienda

By: Isabel Cañas
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Lee Osorio
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...

During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo... Read more

How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“My *goodness*, this book. Set aside any misgivings you might have about reading a pandemic novel during a pandemic. These gracefully interconnected narratives have their roots in familiar territory, but their branches arc and sprawl beyond the world we know into the far reaches of Sequoia Nagamatsu’s imagination. The result is an immersive,... Read more