2024 Staff Favorites

A Month in the Country

By: J. L. Carr & Michael Holroyd
Narrated by: Christopher Tester
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a... Read more

The Days of Abandonment

By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

The Days of Abandonment is the gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage.With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house, cook meals with creativity and passion, refrain from using... Read more

Woodworm

By: Layla Martinez
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes.



It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave. They... Read more

This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“Mood readers will love this book. It’s all vibes, with the plot coming in secondary and mattering very little. Symbols upon symbols, time travel and experimentation with writing form. What an experience. Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“This was the most wonderful listen. It soothed my soul and inspired me to appreciate food and cooking more. I loved the recipes interspersed throughout, and Tucci himself reading it added another delightful layer to the narrative. Such a fun listen that I would recommend to anyone, but especially someone who wants something relaxing and... Read more

Under Your Spell

A Novel

By: Laura Wood
Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“This book deserves ALL the hype! I squealed. I laughed out loud. I was filled with pure giddiness, and it was exactly what I needed! Our main character is the daughter of a rockstar. She has sworn off all things music (because her dad is not the greatest). She winds up having to babysit a musician...and I'll let you listen to the rest! I love a... Read more

Empire of the Damned

Book Two

Empire of the Vampire: Book #2

By: Jay Kristoff
Narrated by: Damian Lynch & Shakira Shute
Length: 31 hours 34 minutes

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the author and actor/director Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Halo).

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the #1 international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE.

From holy cup... Read more

A Song to Drown Rivers

A Novel

By: Ann Liang
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“A perfect study in longing, as devastating as it is lovely in the end. Xishi is a gorgeously complex character, deeply committed to the path she’s been set on. As she pursues her goals though, what was once so clear becomes more and more muddled. By love, by longing, by the true knowing of a person and their contradictions. By questions about... Read more

Heartless Hunter

The Crimson Moth: Book #1

By: Kristen Ciccarelli
Narrated by: Grace Gray
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

"A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history. I couldn't look away." - Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Champion of Fate

Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in bestselling... Read more

The Witchwood Knot

Victorian Faerie Tales

By: Olivia Atwater
Narrated by: Alex Picard
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

“Deliciously Gothic. A governess arrives at a secluded manor, her charge is a brat, the master of the house darkly handsome, and something is very wrong. But this is a faerie tale and there are some unexpected twists. The Victorian restraint works beautifully here, with both the romance and the creepiness. Read more

When Among Crows

Curse Bearer: Book #1

By: Veronica Roth
Narrated by: Helen Laser, James Fouhey & Tim Campbell
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

“This novella is a beautifully immersive exploration of Slavic mythology reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. I highly recommend the audiobook. The narrators do a phenomenal job bringing this story to life. Read more

The Blighted Stars

By: Megan E. O'Keefe
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy in the first book of an epic space opera trilogy by an award‑winning author.

She's a revolutionary. Humanity is running out of options. Habitable planets are being destroyed as quickly as they're found and Naira Sharp thinks she knows the reason why. The... Read more

The Unmaking of June Farrow

A Novel

By: Adrienne Young
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“This book gave me Time Traveler's Wife vibes in all the best ways: time travel plus an epic love story makes for a mind-bending narrative with all the feels. I loved getting to know the Farrow women and spending time in Young's North Carolina with Pressley's heavenly southern accents. Oh, and there's a murder mystery! It kept me guessing to the... Read more

Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color …Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human—via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue. This new edition celebrates Maggie... Read more

Mother Doll

A Novel

By: Katya Apekina
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“One of the best readings of a quirky novel, steeped in Russian history and the contemporary US. Phenomenal character portrayals including nuanced Russian accents. Read more

Tenth of December

Stories

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“Reading George Saunders always makes me feel more optimistic about being human. Tenth of December moved me to tears- not just for the content of Saunders' stories (though there is no lack of tragedy in his satirical tragicomedies), but for the simple exuberance of his writing and the kindness with which he treats even his most contemptible... Read more

In the Dream House

A Memoir

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“Brilliant and brave, Carmen Maria Machado's memoir does not shy away from pain, but examines it with a scientist's precision and a poet's imagination. Machado examines how relationships can become toxic from personal understanding. This book reads like a collection of cohesive essays where each chapter is a new lens. This book will change your... Read more

The Liars' Club

A Memoir

By: Mary Karr
Narrated by: Mary Karr
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com
 
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.

The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

“My favorite book of 2023! Kingsolver’s Appalachian retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is nothing short of an epic masterpiece. Even as it grapples with heavy emotional themes and complex social problems, the plot races by and I could not put it down. Demon Copperhead moved me like very few novels ever have. Don’t be afraid to let... Read more

David Copperfield, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 33 hours 54 minutes

David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical... Read more