A Handful of our Fiction Book Club Choices 2023

Trumpet

By: Jackie Kay
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: TBA

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted... Read more

The Noise of Time

By: Julian Barnes
Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the ‘Big House.’ Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to ever return. Read more

The Trees

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

“Has anyone banned this book yet? Because hoo-boy is it the ultimate in bannable books -nin all of the best possible ways. It's a satire so over the top (again, in all of the best possible ways) that you could almost call it a romp. A romp...about the legacy of lynching in America? Apparently so. The Trees is laugh-out-loud funny, and also deadly... Read more

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.“A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.”In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic... Read more