Spectacular September Staff Picks

House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus
Narrated by: Andre Dubus & Fontaine Dollas Dubus
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose... Read more

Bear

A Novel

By: Julia Phillips
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“I love unreliable narrators, and in this novel centered around two sisters and a wayward bear, the narrator is almost delusional. At turns wistful and unsettling, fable-like and of the moment, Bear had me riveted. Read more

Quit Like a Woman

The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By: Holly Whitaker
Narrated by: Holly Whitaker
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30... Read more

Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Coco Mellors
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

“A complex, flawed, yet lovable set of sisters navigate grief when one of their beloved sisters dies of an unexpected overdose. This book focuses heavily on addiction, the way it claws, clings, and spreads through families. Reading it feels like taking a deep breath into your lungs after holding it for too long. Read more

On the Edge

The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver
Narrated by: Nate Silver
Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

NAMED A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 BY FT, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes
 
In the bestselling The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver showed how forecasting would define the age of Big Data. Now,... Read more

The Bookshop

A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss
Narrated by: Jay Myers
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

“This history of the American bookstore begins with Benjamin Franklin, bookseller, spans the 18 miles long Strand and specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, the big box Barnes & Noble, and Amazon’s brief brick and mortar stint, coming home to roost at Ann Patchett’s Parnassus. What I most enjoyed were the characters—especially... Read more

Three Keys

A Novel

By: Laura Pritchett
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Newly widowed and unemployed, a woman in her mid-fifties sets off on a journey of trespassing and adventure through the American West and beyond in Three Keys, a witty, thought-provoking novel from the PEN USA Award–winning writer.

“Filled with award-winner Pritchett’s electric prose and love of the natural world, Three Keys is... Read more

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

“Andrew Joseph White just doesn’t miss. Compound Fracture is yet another stunning, visceral novel from the absolute master of trans YA horror. Miles is proud of his Appalachian heritage, but it ain’t easy being an Abernathy. The brutal murder of his great-great-grandfather—an outspoken socialist, labor organizer, and coal miner—ignited a... Read more

By Any Other Name

A Novel

By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance & Steve West
Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

“A delightful diversion from many of Picoult other books, this one being more of a historical fiction novel and a good one at that. Readers who are familiar with Shakespeare will enjoy this book, but you don’t have to know Shakespeare to understand the importance of giving credit where credit is due. Narrator is excellent and makes this book a... Read more

Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee & Geraldine Hakewill
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

“I really enjoyed the voice actor's way of speaking, and the way the author wrote the different characters personalities into their daily activities. the story timeline changes were not abrupt and the flow of them kept me guessing! Loved the book. Read more

The Naming Song

By: Jedediah Berry
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

“A compelling, beautifully hallucinogenic novel about the power of words & the convention of naming - and the good and evil they can be wielded for. Read more

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“I hadn't read this book since college and it is just as magnificent now as then. I'm actually kind of mad about it. Read more

One of Us Is Lying

ONE OF US IS LYING

By: Karen M. McManus
Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus & Robbie Daymond
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

All the secrets of the Bayview Four will be revealed in the TV series now streaming on Peacock!

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • BUZZFEED • POPCRUSH

“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five... Read more

Not Nothing

By: Gayle Forman
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Gayle Forman
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

“I knew I would love this book after listening to the first chapter. Alex and Josey were so good for each other. It also was such a realistic portrayal of the emotions Alex felt about his family, friends, and moments in school. Tears of joy and a little sadness at the end, but only because the book ended! So glad to get a glimpse into Frankie and... Read more

Worry

A Novel

By: Alexandra Tanner
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

“Insidious millennial malaise and the exhaustion of performative activism are contrasted through the story of two sisters who overstay their welcome in one another’s orbit. The dialogue will split you, gut you, and stitch you back up again. Read more

I Was A Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Stephen Graham Jones
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

“I opened this book expecting a typical slasher, but what I got was a coming-of-age tale from the perspective of a killer. The experience of being a teenager in West Texas in the 1980s was palpable, the confessional style a surprising delivery choice that worked with the subject matter. Stephen Graham Jones continues to prove that the horror... Read more

Illusions

Le Messie récalcitrant

By: Richard Bach
Narrated by: Richard Bach
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Dans le champ où il vient d’atterrir pour offrir des baptêmes de l’air à trois dollars les dix minutes, Richard aperçoit un autre zinc tout semblable au sien. Adossé à sa carlingue, un personnage sympathique et mystérieux cherche à fuir le rôle de maître à penser à qui les foules demandent toujours plus. Il lui apprendra que chaque être... 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

Playground

A Novel

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae & Kevin R Free
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to... Read more

Building a Non-Anxious Life

By: Dr. John Delony
Narrated by: Dr. John Delony
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

"Why are my anxiety alarms going off all the time?""Why do I feel like I'm in an endless cycle of blame and anger and impatience?""Why are the people I love most melting down around me?"No one needs to be told that our lives are filled with more anxiety than ever before. We know it. Our bodies can feel it. The questions we really need to answer... Read more