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Make It Ours

Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

By: Robin Givhan
Narrated by: Robin Givhan
Length: TBA

Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry embodied a groundbreaking transformation of the relationship between who we are and what we wear.

Abloh's appointment as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton in 2018 shocked the fashion inudstry, as he became the first Black designer to serve as artistic director in the brand's 164-year... Read more

Toni at Random

The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship

By: Dana A. Williams
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
Length: TBA

An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon’s profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important period in American publishing and literature.A multifaceted genius, Toni Morrison transcended her role as an author, helping to shape an... Read more

Among Friends

A Novel

By: Hal Ebbott
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: TBA

What begins as celebration gives way to betrayal, shattering the trust between two families

“Exquisitely crafted.” —John Irving

“Masterly…Ranges from the most exquisite, Jamesian discriminations to the graspable, all-American solidities of Updike and Richard Yates. This is a writer to watch, with excitement and the highest expectations.' —John... Read more

When Javi Dumped Mari

By: Mia Sosa
Length: TBA

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025

NPR • Paste Magazine • Latinx in Publishing • BookBub


The USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man is back with a fun and flirty rom-com about a pact between friends that goes awry when one of them suddenly decides to get married.

One engagement. Two best friends. Three’s a crowd.

On the eve of their... Read more

All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“After listening to this book, I was outraged to learn how widely banned it is across the country - This story needs to be told and shared. Read more

Sky Daddy

A Novel

By: Kate Folk
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“Lovers of weird girl fiction, rejoice! This book was SO fun, SO weird, and SO well-written. I loved every awkward minute of it. Perfect for fans of Motherthing, The Crane Husband, Mona Awad, and Melissa Broder. Read more

Big Chief

By: Jon Hickey
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 10 hours

“Compelling and propulsive, with elements of The Sopranos and the pacing of S.A. Cosby. I loved this one! Read more

Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit

Essays

By: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Narrated by: Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction



This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha... Read more

Agatha of Little Neon

By: Claire Luchette
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

“"Agatha" is a novel for anyone who is deconstructing Catholicism, and proof that it is possible to be gently, ferociously angry; a reminder that justice, courage, and compassion come in many forms. Read more

The Road to the Salt Sea

A Novel

By: Samuel Kolawole
Narrated by: Atta Otigba
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice.Able God works for low pay at a four-star hotel where he must flash his “toothpaste-white smile” for wealthy guests.... Read more

Care and Feeding

A Memoir

By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications,... Read more

All the Other Mothers Hate Me

By: Sarah Harman
Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

“A twisty murder mystery with a messy unreliable narrator and LOTS of dark humor. You may not like Florence (the single mom trying to prove her young son's innocence in a classmate's death) at the beginning but you will respect the lengths she is willing to go to protect her family. Read more

Stag Dance

A Novel & Stories

By: Torrey Peters
Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan & Pyrrha Nicole
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“Oof. A book hasn't left me this speechless in a while. Torrey Peters (Author of Detransition, Baby) has a way of conveying stories with such authentic vulnerability. This one, a collection of short stories (that I wish were longer) and one novella explores themes of gender, identity, sexuality, and the trans experience. Drenched in beauty,... Read more

Too Soon

A Novel

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

“Finally! A novel that tells the every day story of women from a a politically exposed area. Exciting and different. Read more

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland & Owen Teale
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

“A vampire historical fiction horror novel, need I say more?! Read more

Theft (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)

A Novel

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Narrated by: Ashley Zhangazha
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, three young people come of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition. Fauzia glimpses in him a chance at escape from a... 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

The Strongest Heart

By: Saadia Faruqi
Narrated by: Imran Sheikh
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

From beloved middle grade author Saadia Faruqi comes a poignant exploration of the impact of mental illness on families—and the love and hope that it takes to begin telling a different tale.  Mo is used to his father’s fits of rage. When Abbu's moods shake the house, Mo is safe inside his head, with his cherished folktales: The best way to... Read more

Yoko

The Biography

By: David Sheff
Narrated by: Max Meyers
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy.

John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko... Read more

Tilt

A Novel

By: Emma Pattee
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“Pattee takes us inside the mind of soon-to-be mother Annie in her attempt to reunite with her husband after a huge earthquake. Tilt poses imperative questions about our nature as individuals and collectively in the face of societal collapse. Read more