Read to Resist (Mostly)Fiction Edition

Raising Hare

A Memoir

By: Chloe Dalton
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

“Beautiful story about Dalton’s lockdown experience, which thankfully has nothing to do with learning to make sourdough bread. Narrator Louise Brealey does a wonderful job bringing the story to life. Read more

How to Read a Book

A Novel

By: Monica Wood
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

""The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world."" —New York Times Book Review""A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel."" —Lily KingNational Bestseller * From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel... Read more

Beautyland

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

“Being a human and experiencing firsts (first skinned knee, first disappointment in a trusted adult) can be lonely and confusing. Bertino's Beautyland tells the story of Adina, an alien born in human form at the exact moment that the Voyager 1 is launched into space on September 5, 1977 carrying the famous golden record. Through Adina we... Read more

The Antidote

A Novel

By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss, Mark Bramhall, Shayna Small, Jon Orsini, Natasha Soudek, Karen Russell & James Riding In
Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

“One of my new favorites, this book hums along like a well-oiled machine. I expected a plot twist at the end but not the one that came... which makes the book even better! Read more

Marigold Mind Laundry

A Novel

By: Jungeun Yun
Narrated by: Sofia Jin
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart.

In this enchanting tale—a blockbuster bestseller in Korea—the enigmatic owner of a magical laundromat that erases people’s painful memories must learn to find her own peace before she can truly help others.

Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to... Read more

Every Heart a Doorway

Wayward Children: Book #1

By: Seanan McGuire
Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

“Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children offers a respite for kids returned to our reality after adventures elsewhere. After Nancy arrives, exiled from her own version of fairyland—the Underworld, gruesome murders commence. Crackling with all the enchantment of the classic tales of 'wayward children', like Alice or the Pevensies, with a... Read more

Banned Together

Our Fight for Readers' Rights

By: Ashley Hope Pérez
Length: TBA

A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.

Books are disappearing from shelves across the country.

What does this mean for authors, illustrators, and—most crucially—for young... Read more

America, Let Me In

A Choose Your Immigration Story

By: Felipe Torres Medina
Narrated by: Felipe Torres Medina
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

“This for-real choose-your-own-adventure by comedian Felipe Torres Medina, award-winning writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is as fascinating as it is funny, and is likely the only way you’ll truly enjoy learning about the US immigration system. Informative, lighthearted, and empathetic, America, Let Me In details the many visas and... Read more

Death of the Author

A Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris Djuma
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“Death of the Author is a book within a book. It’s genre-bending. It’s a masterpiece. It’s not what you expect. And it will be hard to beat as my favorite book of 2025! Read more

Dear Justyce

By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Nic Stone
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

An NPR Best Book of the Year * The stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed,  #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. An incarcerated teen writes letters to his best friend about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.

An unflinching look into the tragically flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile... Read more

The Human Scale

A Novel

By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower and The End of October.

"A layered tale of intrigue and betrayal."—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and... Read more

Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)

A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

“Liliana of the title has been thirty years dead at the writing of this book but Cristina Rivera Garza brings her sister in her into full three-dimensional view with this book. Written as only a poet can write, Liliana's Invincible Summer is the story of a vivacious college student murdered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is... Read more

This Is How It Always Is

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

*Named one of the top 10 books of 2017 by People Magazine*

“It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.” —Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies

This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.

This is how a family lives... Read more

Mutual Interest

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

“A compelling story of queer love, ambition, and imbalanced labor, Mutual Interest tells the story of three individuals and how their lives intertwine. Despite being born into privileged circumstances, it becomes clear that Squire, Oscar, and Vivian each have deep trauma rooted in their upbringing. Set over course of decades, the entangled... Read more

The Hare with Amber Eyes

A Hidden Inheritance

By: Edmund de Waal
Narrated by: Micheal Maloney
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the... Read more

Bellies

A Novel

By: Nicola Dinan
Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis & Octavia Nyombi
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM BOOKRIOT AND BOOKPAGE

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is... Read more