Community Curated Shelf at Staunton Books & Tea

The Alchemist

By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 4 hours

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE“Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation”“It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons. [...] A remarkable... Read more

The Great Divide

A Novel

By: Cristina Henriquez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez is not my usual read, but I got an ALC through Libro.fm, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It's a beautiful historical fiction written through multiple perspectives during the creation of the Panama Canal. You get to see multiple issues through the lens of all kinds of people effected by the dramatic changes... Read more

The House on Mango Street

By: Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International... Read more

The Book of Unknown Americans

A novel

By: Cristina Henríquez
Narrated by: Various
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
 
A boy and... Read more

In the Time of the Butterflies

By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Noemi De La Puente, Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho & Melanie Martinez
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain... Read more

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

“Written in the beautifully poetic style of “magical realism”, Gabrielle Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude leads the reader on an enchanted journey spanning generations. This book is no fairy-tale, however. A dominant theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo, the Latin... Read more

The House of the Spirits

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Thom Rivera & Marisol Ramirez
Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

This “spectacular… absorbing and distinguished work…is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America” (The New York Times Book Review).

The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and... Read more

The Devil's Highway

A True Story

By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic).

In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern... Read more

A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James
Narrated by: Ryan Anderson, Dwight Bacquie, Cherise Boothe, Robertson Dean, Johnathan McClain & Robert Younis
Length: 25 hours 59 minutes

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5,... Read more

I, Rigoberta Menchú

An Indian Woman in Guatemala

By: Rigoberta Menchú
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father, and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to... Read more

The Complete Stories

By: Clarice Lispector
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 22 hours 52 minutes

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. These stories cover her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t... Read more

El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara de novela 2011)

Premio Alfaguara de novela: Book #0

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Narrated by: John Alex Toro
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Una novela llena de suspense y la perfecta radiografía de una generación atrapada en el miedo. Novela ganadora del English Pen Award 2012, del Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze 2013 y del IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award 2014. Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2011. Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara... Read more

La invención de Morel

By: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Narrated by: Andrés Neuman
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

ALFAGUARA RECUPERA LA OBRA MAESTRA DEL GÉNERO FANTÁSTICO EN ESPAÑOL «He discutido con su autor los pormenores de su trama, la he releído; no me parece una imprecisión o una hipérbole calificarla de perfecta».
Jorge Luis Borges Un misterioso edificio construido en una isla en 1924, un diario escrito por un fugitivo encerrado en sí mismo que se... Read more

Home to Harlem

By: Claude McKay
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics

A Penguin Classic

Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern-born African American longshoreman who deserts the... Read more

Hard to Be a God

By: Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky
Narrated by: Matt Addis
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely known as the greatest Russian writers of science fiction, and their 1964 novel Hard to Be a God is considered one of the greatest of their works.

It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly... Read more

Zuleikha

By: Guzel Yakhina
Narrated by: Elise Arsenault
Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD AND THE BEST PROSE WORK OF THE YEAR AWARDSoviet Russia, 1930. Zuleikha, the “pitiful hen,” lives with her brutal husband Murtaza and her mother-in-law in a small Tartar village. When Murtaza is executed by communist soldiers, she is sent into exile to a remote region on the Angara River in... Read more

The Body of a Soul

Stories

By: Ludmilla Ulitskaya
Narrated by: Kate Harper
Length: TBA

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English
“[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.”—Geneviève Brisac, Le Monde
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does... Read more