Book Club Picks

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“The charter of the Leahy house is to manage and police the secret houses of the veil on the campus of Yale University. When a murder is connected to the magical activities of the houses, Galaxy Stern, Alex, the newest member of the Ninth House must find out what happened even if it means losing her place at Yale or her life. Ninth House grips... Read more

Cassandra at the Wedding

By: Dorothy Baker
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

“Following the complex and dysfunctional relationship between twin sisters Cassandra and Judith, who have been inseparable until Judith's sudden engagement, forces Cassandra to confront her own individuality, her entanglement with her family, and the lingering grief of her mother's death. Intelligent, witty, and emotional in its exploration of... Read more

Your Absence Is Darkness

By: Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

“I think I would have appreciated this more with the book in my hand, but the audio narration was tender and enjoyable. The narrative traces the lineage of a rural Icelandic community—one family in particular—a hundred years or so, meandering on its way. There is much talk of life and death, music, poetry, philosophy. There is much love and much... Read more

The Stardust Thief

By: Chelsea Abdullah
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Sean Rohani & Rasha Zamamiri
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, this book weaves together the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.Neither here nor there, but long ago . . . Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn... Read more

Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro
Narrated by: Sally Masterson
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing... Read more

The Body in Question

A Novel

By: Jill Ciment
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***

From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner” —Vanity Fair), a spare, masterful novel.

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I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

“What does it mean to be “human”—what is “humanity” when all we’ve used to define it is stripped away or was never there at all? Maybe that sounds trite, but no! This was a beautiful, isolating, and unexpectedly tender story that will stay with me for a long time and has become a new personal favorite. I’d especially recommend this to fans of... Read more

Piranesi

By: Susanna Clarke
Narrated by: Íñigo Álvarez de Lara
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Vuelve la autora de Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell con una novela hipnótica ambientada en una realidad onírica. La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las... Read more

The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland.... Read more

The Empusium

A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“A brilliantly written horror novel in which the horror derives from very real topics like misogyny, lack of identity, and constantly being put in a box that you just don’t fit in. It’s also funny, uplifting, and life-affirming. That might sound like the book has clashing tones, but it actually maintains its feel and themes all the way to the... Read more

The Vegetarian

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A KIRKUS... Read more

Onyx Storm

Empyrean: Book #3

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton, Justis Bolding & Jasmin Walker
Length: 23 hours 52 minutes

“We cant wait to spend time listening to this great story. Read more

Intermezzo

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Éanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

“As a major Sally Rooney fan, I couldn’t wait to read this one, and was very excited that it’s much longer than Normal People and Conversations With Friends so I could spend as much time as possible with her writing. Intermezzo explores the lives of two brothers who are about 10 years apart. Because the brothers are at very different stages of... Read more

All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“This is one of the best books I've read in 2024! Fast-paced thriller, accessible prose. Understated beauty and dramatic turns. Not overwrought! Read more

A Master of Djinn

Dead Djinn Universe: Book #1

By: P. Djèlí Clark
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

“'This is not your grandfather's Cairo.' That's for sure! Clark brings us to his alternate history Cairo where the year is 1912 and djinn roam the earth. When magic is used in a mass murder, Agent Fatma el-Sha’arawi of the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities steps in to investigate. So much fun! I've already given this as... Read more

A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.



On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own... Read more

The Pisces

A Novel

By: Melissa Broder
Narrated by: Melissa Broder
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

“Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic – there is nothing like The Pisces. I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it.” —Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter 
 
Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho... Read more

Beautyland

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

“My daughter asked me to read Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino so we could talk about the ending. I was captivated by this gorgeously narrated story of a young girl who believes she is an alien, sent to earth to gather information for a civilization whose planet is in rapid decline. It is a coming-of-age story and a commentary on our earthly... Read more

North Woods

A Novel

By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter & Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“North Woods is a phenomenal novel that I’ll be thinking about for a long time to come. Daniel Mason’s tells the story of a single plot of land in western Massachusetts over the span of centuries, through the eyes of its many varied inhabitants, and the ways that their choices reverberate — one might say haunt even — throughout the ages. Equal... Read more

Rouge

A Novel

By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

“The 'perfect' cover for this wicked tale that cunningly snarks the insanity of the cosmetic industry and mother/daughter relationships while detailing the creepy horror of losing your mind. An old song Spill The Wine kept playing in my head. A ruby red juicy gem! Read more