The House on Mango Street
By Sandra Cisneros
Narrated by: Sandra Cisneros
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. Read more »
Convenience Store Woman
By Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Convenience Store Woman
“Keiko loves rules. Having worked a part-time job in a Japanese convenience store for 18 years, she loves having a corporate script to recite, sales goals to reach, and a list of tasks to complete. What she doesn't love - or even understand - are the more complicated rules of society at large. She doesn't want a husband, or children, or a real job. What she does want is a satisfactory answer to the endless personal questions that will allow her to be left alone. Convenience Store Woman is a quirky and hilarious look at society and its misfits, and what happens when we try to bend ourselves to the needs of others.”
Rachel, The Book Table
The Vegetarian
A Novel
By Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)
“Both terrifying and... Read more »
Dept. of Speculation
By Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Jenny Offill
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Dept. of Speculation
“This one isn’t for everyone, but it is right up my alley, and there are many people who love it – hence its presence of many, many “best of 2014” lists. I think of it as a cross-genre prose poem/memoir of a marriage. Beautiful, heart-breaking, eminently quotable. Sometimes there is a reason everyone is climbing on the same bandwagon.”
Claire, East City Bookshop
The Buddha in the Attic
By Julie Otsuka
Narrated by: Samantha Quan & Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award
Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy... Read more »
A Pale View of Hills
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Roe Kendall
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World... Read more »
Train Dreams
A Novella
By Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011
From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more »
Fever Dream
A Novel
By Samanta Schweblin
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Fever Dream
“Haunting, foreboding, eerie, and ominous, Schweblin's Fever Dream is the first of the Argentine author's books to appear in English. Despite its brevity, Fever Dream throbs with a quickened pulse, as heightening tension is its most effective quality. An intriguing yet purposefully vague plot adds to the story's mystique, one of peril, poison, and the unexplained terror of worms. Metaphorical in scope, Schweblin's impressively constructed tale leaves much to the imagination but is all the richer for doing so. Unsettling and compelling, this is a delirious, potent novel not to be overlooked.”
Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books
Old School
By Tobias Wolff
Narrated by: Dan Cashman
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
The author of the genre-defining memoir This Boy’s Life, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning novella The Barracks Thief, and short stories acclaimed as modern classics, Tobias Wolff now gives us his first novel.
Determined to fit in at his New England prep school, the narrator has learned to mimic the bearing and manners of his adoptive tribe while... Read more »