New Audiobooks That the Libro.fm Team Can’t Wait to Read

Too Soon

A Novel

By: Betty Shamieh
Narrated by: Betty Shamieh, Jacqueline Antaramian & Lameece Issaq
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

“Too Soon explores love and freedom in the confines of history through three Palestinian American women: Arabella travels to the West Bank to direct a gender-swapped Hamlet, her grandmother Zoya’s flight from the Nakba in 1948 Jaffa, and her mother Naya’s life in a forced marriage. Read more

Picks and Shovels

By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people,... Read more

Daughter of Daring

The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

From LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.

Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a thrill. Advertised as "The Most Daring Actress in Pictures," Helen emerged in the early days of the... Read more

Hunchback

A Novel

By: Saou Ichikawa
Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement in disability literature but great literature period” (Johanna Hedva)

“A literary phenomenon in Japan,... Read more

Audition

A Novel

By: Katie Kitamura
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

“What a wild ride! I truly never knew where the story was going. This book is the perfect psychological thriller for former theatre kids. It warrants re-reading and discussing with others, making it a great pick for book clubs as well. Read more

If We Were a Movie

By: Zakiya N. Jamal
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

“One of my favorite YA tropes is kids who's moms are best friends but they hate each other/have been crushing all along. This is a sweet summer romance that perfectly portrays first jobs and what it means to stand up for the things that you hold dear. Read more

Ordinary Time

Lessons Learned While Staying Put

By: Annie B. Jones
Narrated by: Annie B. Jones & Emily P. Freeman
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed. Can life be an adventure, even when it’s just . . . ordinary?Annie... Read more

Better

A Memoir About Wanting to Die

By: Arianna Rebolini
Narrated by: Arianna Rebolini
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path of recovery.Why do so many people want to die—and how do we begin to understand what makes a person choose suicide? After a decade of therapy and a stint in a psychiatric ward to treat suicidal depression, Arianna Rebolini was... Read more

Run for the Hills

A Novel

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“I don't want to tell you anything about this book, because reading a Kevin Wilson book for the first time is an absolute joy. Without giving much away, I'll say that as usual, you can expect the unexpected. Kevin has a knack of making characters messy yet instantly likeable. I delighted in the premise right away and looked forward to every new... Read more

The Emperor of Gladness

A Novel

By: Ocean Vuong
Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
Length: TBA

“The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, placed at the very center of our world.” —Colm Tóibín,... Read more

The True Happiness Company

A Memoir

By: Veena Dinavahi
Narrated by: Veena Dinavahi
Length: TBA

In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative therapist and his self-help cult.

It is hard for Veena Dinavahi to live while her classmates keep... Read more

Disappoint Me

A Novel

By: Nicola Dinan
Narrated by: Martin Sarreal & Mei Mei MacLeod
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

An electrifying story of love, betrayal, and the complicated allure of bougie domesticity

“Dinan writes like some kind of demigod. Her fictions make thinkable new realities for how we live and what we might expect from each other."
– Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

I don’t know why I feel like I’ve been caught doing something dirty.... Read more

Write Through It

An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life

By: Kate McKean
Narrated by: Kate McKean
Length: TBA

Discover what every new and aspiring author needs to know about the publishing industry and how to navigate all the complicated feelings that come with writing a book in this no-nonsense guide from literary agent, author, and creator of the popular newsletter Agents & Books Kate McKean.

Writers all want the secret to getting published: the... Read more

The Art of Vanishing

A Novel

By: Morgan Pager
Length: TBA

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love.

“This wildly inventive, deeply moving novel blurs the line between art and those who behold it.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other... Read more