Ruckus Books' Favorite Audiobooks

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“I didn't think I could love a Miriam Toews novel more than I loved All My Puny Sorrows and Women Talking... but I think Fight Night is her best work yet. I adored it and can't wait to sell it. The audiobook is particularly excellent, too! Read more

Really Good, Actually

A Novel

By: Monica Heisey
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Very millenial-core in a way i find extremely comforting. the dialogue, group-chats, and inner monologue all felt very real and very Womanhood (TM). This is the perfect book to recommend anyone, and I love the audiobook narrator and that definitely added to the experience of the book. Read more

Worry

A Novel

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

“Worry is brilliant. Jules and Poppy's characters could be your sister, your friend, or even, you. The storyline time placement is genius. All Jules and Poppy appear to want is to move their lives forward – together and apart. But with setting this story a year before the pandemic, the reader knows it really doesn't matter what they are planning.... Read more

The First Bad Man

A Novel

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

The New York Times Bestseller

The “brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She... Read more

Recitatif

A Story

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Zadie Smith & Bahni Turpin
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith
 
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she... Read more

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

“For anyone who has ever felt our collective beating heart in the crowd of a concert. Read more

Leave the World Behind

A Novel

By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

“I can’t help but laugh as I recollect this novel. Darkly funny and richly suspenseful, it follows a white family and a Black couple in a remote New York house as a series of unfathomable events occur around them. Alam comments on our modern obsession with information, as we compulsively scroll our feeds and pat our pockets in panic to ensure our... Read more

My Sister, the Serial Killer

A Novel

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

“Korede’s sister, Ayoola, seems to have a recurring problem: She can’t seem to keep a boyfriend for very long before he winds up dead. Korede is always there to help - as family is an important aspect of her Nigerian culture - but when her sister’s gaze lands on Korede’s crush, she must decide if family is worth cleaning up so much blood. This... Read more

The Push

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Ashley Audrain
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

“I was coming up with chores out of thin air so I'd have an excuse to keep listening to The Push. I immediately recommended it to my mom and she loved it too. I think childless women and mothers alike can enjoy this book, which is mostly about motherhood. As a childless woman myself, I found it very thought-provoking. Read more

Jillian

A Novel

By: Halle Butler
Narrated by: Halle Butler
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

The "sublimely awkward and hilarious" (Chicago Tribune), National Book Award "5 Under 35"-garnering first novel from the acclaimed author of The New Me--now in a new edition

Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and... Read more

With Teeth

A Novel

By: Kristen Arnett
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE,  MARIE CLAIRE, READER'S DIGEST, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

“A gripping read…Unabashedly queer, probing and unafraid…Exceedingly engaging.” –USA Today

“Sublimely weird, fluently paced, brazenly funny and gayer still, and it richly deserves to find readers.” –New York Times

From the author of... Read more

Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

A NEW PRODUCTION NARRATED BY SAOIRSE RONAN, ACADEMY AWARD–NOMINATED STAR OF THE 2015 FILM ADAPTATION!

Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young... Read more

Invisible Child

Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

By: Andrea Elliott
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott

“From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for... Read more

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

A Novel

By: Emily Austin
Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Gilda never wants to disappoint anyone, which is exactly how she ends up with a job as a secretary at a Catholic church. As a gay atheist, it's problematic. Alternatively hilarious and tragic, Gilda’s story is one that stays with you. Read more

Knocking Myself Up

A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

By: Michelle Tea
Narrated by: Michelle Tea
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured womanWritten in intimate, gleefully TMI prose, Knocking Myself Up is the irreverent account of Tea’s route... Read more

People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams
Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

The author of the “brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful “treat” (Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession) of a novel about the power of family—even when they seem like strangers.

If you could choose your family...you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons.

Dimple Pennington... Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“Absolutely loved this book, I listened to it on Libro.fm. Quirky, entertaining, smart, and funny. I could not put it down. I can not wait to put this book into hands of readers I know will love it as much as I did. Thank you Kevin Wilson for giving the weird and wonderful a voice! And thank you to Marin Ireland for doing an excellent job... Read more

How to Say Babylon

A Memoir

By: Safiya Sinclair
Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

“The author's growing understanding of her childhood isolation and the world around her helped turn her pain into poetry as she broke free. After reading this memoir I am now interested in reading some of her award winning poetry. Read more

Rainbow Black

A Novel

By: Maggie Thrash
Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

“Rainbow Black is so many things; a mystery set at the height of the 80/90s Satanic Panic, a queer coming-of-age love story, 400 pages of injustice and resilience. We start our story with Lacey Bond, a thirteen-year-old burgeoning lesbian with hippie parents that run a daycare in the woods of New Hampshire and an older sister that outshines her... Read more

Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher & TJ Klune
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“A lot is going on in this book - in the best possible way! There is: creepy & questionable AI use, a horror screenwriter haunted by his own creations, and excellent satire of homophobic Hollywood studios. This is a wild, unforgettable, and CREEPY romp! Read more