Casey's Picks

Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“Most of my fellow employees will find it hard to believe that I actually read a beautifully written book (that’s not the hard-to-believe part) that was not depressing! Simon Van Booy has been a fan favorite of Quail Ridge Books’ employees since Nancy Olson first told us about him. His collection of stories, Love Begins in Winter, is still high... Read more

The Coast Road

A Novel

By: Alan Murrin
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“The Coast Road is a brilliantly observant novel about a small isolated community, the limits the community's expectations place on women's lives and the consequences of daring to step out of these boundaries. An addictive read with a sadly compelling final chapter. Read more

Swimming in Paris

A Life in Three Stories

By: Colombe Schneck
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

“An intimate and emotional novel about three parts of one woman’s life—coming of age as a teen, the impact of a friendship, and a late-in-life love affair. In each, Colombe Schneck cuts to the bone about what it means to be a woman, to have agency over our bodies, and to balance societal and family expectations with our desires. The first chapter... Read more

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

“Alvarez’s beautiful new novel synthesizes her familiar themes: storytelling, sisters, family differences, the violent legacy of the Dominican Republic, the allure of ‘home’, and of ‘up North’, and the craft of writing itself. Read more

The Morningside

A Novel

By: Téa Obreht 
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

“There is so much to unpack in The Morningside and all coming at you through the eyes of an 11-year-old. Do you remember being 11? Having fantastical adventures solving all the "mysterious" happenings going on around you. Being rebellious and knowing you understand all the things that your Mom can't possibly understand? Obreht precisely uncovers... Read more

There's Always This Year

On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

“One of the best books I've ever read and I don't watch or play basketball. Original, authentic, precise, and passionate, There's Always This Year is an entire meal of gorgeous prose and big ideas, so filled with love it nearly breaks you apart. I listened to There's Always This Year training in winter for a half-marathon and Hanif Abdurraqib... Read more

Table for Two

Fictions

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“I love this whole collection, six short stories, and one novella. It has a little bit of everything. It was very entertaining and thought-provoking. I had so much fun reading them!! From Russia, New York and Los Angeles each story was captivating, and unique. I enjoyed going from life to life. The Novella that follows Evelyn Ross (Rules of... Read more

Same As It Ever Was

A Novel

By: Claire Lombardo
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing”—NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past... Read more

Real Americans

A novel

By: Rachel Khong
Narrated by: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang & Eunice Wong
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“Real Americans is a novel about people doing their best for the people they love, the vast spectrum of what that can mean, and how anyone lives with the impossible choices they make in pursuit of that noble goal. This is also a novel about what makes a person who they are - their experiences, genetics, community, environment, place in history,... Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jimenez
Narrated by: Claire Jimenez
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“A sudden sighting of middle child Ruthy 12 years after her disappearance, leaves the Ramirez women scrambling for answers.. Read more

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

A Novel

By: J. Ryan Stradal
Narrated by: Aspen Vincent
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“This book is delicious and midwestern and will rip out your heart and serve it with a relish tray. Read more

The Guest

A Novel

By: Emma Cline
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“This was my first Emma Cline book but it won't be my last. The Guest was so wonderfully nerve-wracking and bizarre. I couldn't get enough of Alex and all of the terrible decisions she makes. I genuinely could not stop talking about this book. I annoyed my coworkers with intimate play-by-plays of certain scenes that shook me to my core. This is a... Read more

Between Two Moons

A Novel

By: Aisha Abdel Gawad
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE, THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, & THE BROOKYLN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in... Read more

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“James, Percival Everett's brilliant retelling of The Adventures of Hucklebery Finn, is a novel that was begging to be recorded. Everett's Jim, Huck's fellow runaway, is literate. He reads, writes, and is bilingual secretly (of course) -speaking 'slave' with his masters and when white folks are near, but with eloquent English (and occasionally,... Read more

Martyr!

A novel

By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Do not speed this one up! Narrator Arian Moayed is meant to be heard at 1.0. His reading performance is brilliant and so is the book. I listened to this one in two days, walking, running, baking -- anything to not have to hit stop. The writing is beautiful, the dialogue a treat, and the characters fully realized. Read more

Supercommunicators

How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg
Narrated by: Charles Duhigg
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

“This was an engaging book to listen to! I loved learning about communication styles and how to do it effectively in different situations. Read more

Float Up, Sing Down

Stories

By: Laird Hunt
Narrated by: Holly Palance
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Float Up, Sing Down by Laird Hunt, read by Holly Palance.

Laird Hunt’s masterful story collection capturing one summer’s day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed.

Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her... Read more

The Caretaker

A Novel

By: Ron Rash
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to... Read more

Poor Deer

A Novel

By: Claire Oshetsky
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

“An original story. Margaret loses her best friend in a tragic accident when she is very young. The adults in her life are unable to help her deal with her loss, and her grief takes the form of Poor Deer, a creature who haunts her. Sensitive and bright, Margaret is misunderstood, and retreats into herself. She creates alternative stories for... Read more

Mercury

A Novel

By: Amy Jo Burns
Narrated by: Maria Liatis
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

“An extraordinary novel! Mercury is the lyrically written, unputdownable story of the Joseph brothers and the women who hold them together. I adored this family’s remarkable journey through love and loyalty, loss, and forgiveness. Read more