Cheri's Staff Picks

Pageboy

A Memoir

By: Elliot Page
Narrated by: Elliot Page
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

“While this book can be all over the place as far as timeline goes, it is also moving and fun as well as being educational and at times very brutal. Elliot Page does not hold back when discussing his feelings and the events that he went through in his career and personal life. Read more

Night's Edge

A Novel

By: Liz Kerin
Narrated by: Chase Sui Wonders
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

“Premise: vampirism as pandemic. Mia’s mom was turned to vampire before people even knew what was happening and Mia, to protect her mother, has spent her whole life taking care that no one knows their secret. In her twenties now, Mia’s life is circumscribed by her daily blood draws for her mother. When she meets a bon vivant musician, she finds... Read more

To Name the Bigger Lie

A Memoir in Two Stories

By: Sarah Viren
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

“What really goes through the mind of those who believe in conspiracy theories despite compelling evidence to the contrary? Where is the line between espousing a conspiracy theory and challenging conventional thinking? Sarah Viren explores these questions as she revisits the views of a particularly impactful high school philosophy teacher. In... Read more

The Puzzle Master

A Novel

By: Danielle Trussoni
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

“Do you like your mysteries with a little horror? Or maybe this is a horror novel with a little mystery thrown in. Either way, The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni is a damned good read. Mike Brink had a traumatic brain injury on his high school football field. After the accident Mike was able to see patterns where no one else could, solve... Read more

My Murder

A Novel

By: Katie Williams
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“My Murder, as the title suggests, is a novel told from the point of view of the victim of a serial killer - after her brutal murder. Made possible by "the Commission," an experimental organization which clones, then rebuilds the psyches and bodies of victims deemed worthy of a second chance, Lou is basically the same woman she was, aside from a... Read more

It

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Steven Weber
Length: 44 hours 53 minutes

Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s upcoming Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It.... Read more

East of Eden

Penguin Audio Classics

By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

“Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. If books can be described as amusement park rides, this one would be a roller coaster ('I'm on a roller coaster of emotion!') as it often had me laughing, crying,... Read more

Death Comes as the End

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

In Death Comes As the End, Dame Agatha Christie transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest’s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp’s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning to life. At the foot of a cliff lies the broken, twisted body of Nofret,... Read more

The Garden Party

By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

The fifteen stories collected in this volume demonstrate the genius of a woman who, in her own short lifetime, was compared to Chekhov. The tales are sensitive revelations of human behavior in ordinary situations. With careful, quiet observation, Mansfield illuminates complicated relationships and profound, often troubling ideas. Her stories... Read more

Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence
Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin
Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

"Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D. H. Lawrence inWomen in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun... Read more

Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with little to look forward to but a summer of video-calling friends, vying with annoying sisters for the family computer, and tuning out his parents’ financial worries, he’s only too happy to retreat to the woods. From the moment the elegant... Read more

The Collected Regrets of Clover

A Novel

By: Mikki Brammer
Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

“The Collected Regrets of Clover is a gift of a book! Jennifer Pickens provides a gifted narration for Clover's story. There were many points where Mikki Brammer's words sent chills up my spine and made me want to reach for a pen to record the powerful thoughts contained within this book. The Collected Regrets of Clover is a book that deserves... Read more

The Night Flowers

By: Sara Herchenroether
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

People tend to think of us as shadows. Blurred black mist. Often, it’s “out of the corner of my eye.” People sense the cold. I’ve heard of ghost hunters who use a tape measure, laying it on the ground to mark our boundaries. I don’t want to be measured.


In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two... Read more

Ghost Girl, Banana

A Novel

By: Wiz Wharton
Narrated by: Hanako Footman & Jennifer Leong
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon... Read more

Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford & Sasha Higgins
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she's worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became... Read more

The Nighthouse Keeper

Blight Harbor

By: Lora Senf
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award

Evie once again leaves her world behind to rescue Blight Harbor’s ghosts in this “deliciously dark and gripping” (Kirkus Reviews) second book in the middle grade Blight Harbor trilogy that’s reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.

Evie Von Rathe has been home for only a few weeks from her adventure in the... Read more

The Villa

A Novel

By: Rachel Hawkins
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kimberly M. Wetherell & Shiromi Arserio
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

“I love it when I think an author has revealed all the juicy plot twists and I have figured out where the story is headed and solved the mystery, only to be surprised by more tantalizing twists and even more mysteries. Welcome to The Villa! Two lifelong friends, now both successful authors, head to Italy for a summer at a beautiful villa. As it... Read more

The Spite House

A Novel

By: Johnny Compton
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“Rich character development and some interesting new concepts are the strengths of this striking horror novel - but our favorite part about it is that the ghosts aren't coy. There's no slow buildup to paranormal activity. It's not bogged down by old-fashioned ideas of trauma. There's good history here, and metaphor for historic conflicts in... Read more

The Crane Husband

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to a raw, powerful fable of love, sacrifice, and family.Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters.A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her... Read more

Stone Blind

A Novel

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“This is not just a book about Medusa, it's about the gods who use her, her gorgon sisters, her killer Perseus...and her head. Haynes grounds these characters in the original mythology so well that that each voice is distinct, every action and mistake preceded by its motivating circumstance, and each monster shown with respect and humanity. It is... Read more