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My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

Narrated by: Hisham Matar

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A masterful, intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN

Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh: two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return... Read more

I Want a Better Catastrophe

By: Andrew Boyd

Narrated by: Chris Bates

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's... Read more

The Poison Squad

By: Deborah Blum

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book 

The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change

By the end... Read more

Riviera Gold

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.”

It’s summertime on the Riviera, and the Jazz Age has come to France’s once-sleepy beaches. From their music-filled... Read more

The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ACTRESS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL 'A modern classic.' Guardian 'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol Oates I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge... Read more

The Ghost Brigades

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human... Read more

Dengue Boy

By: Michel Nieva

Narrated by: India Jean-Jacques

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2272. New York and Buenos Aires were submerged years ago and the Patagonian archipelagos are the only habitable lands on Earth. Here, Dengue Boy is a humanoid mosquito whose monstrous appearance repulses everyone, including his own mother.

As the world spirals to its end, Dengue Boy searches for the meaning of his life and his true... Read more

Next Level Basic

By: Stassi Schroeder

Narrated by: Stassi Schroeder

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and “refreshing to read” (The Cut) guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules.

Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch... Read more

The Ramblers

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more

A Funny Kind of Paradise

By: Jo Owens

Narrated by: Maggie Huculak

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman's end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.

When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she wasn't always gentle or... Read more

To Have and to Hoax

By: Martha Waters

Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase & Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more!

“A laugh out loud Regency romp—if you loved the Bridgertons, you’ll adore To Have and to Hoax!” —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author

In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in... Read more

Dear Girl

By: Aija Mayrock

Narrated by: Aija Mayrock

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From a poet and celebrated spoken-word performer comes a debut poetry collection that takes readers on an empowering, lyrical journey exploring truth, silence, wounds, healing, and the resilience we all share.

Dear Girl is a journey from girlhood to womanhood through poetry
It is the search for truth in silence
The freeing of the tongue
It is... Read more

Graveyard of Lost Children

By: Katrina Monroe

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Once she has her grip on you, she'll never let you go.

At four months old, Olivia Dahl was almost murdered. Driven by haunting visions, her mother became obsessed with the idea that Olivia was a changeling and that the only way to get her real baby back was to make a trade with the “dead women” living at the bottom ofthe well.
Now Olivia is ready... Read more

The Last Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: J. Michael Straczynski, Jim Meskimen, Mark San...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with... Read more

Dead Dead Girls

By: Nekesa Afia

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist.”--The New York Times

The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia

Harlem, 1926. Young... Read more

Eight Very Bad Nights

By: Tod Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Emily Lawrence, Robb Moreira & J...

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

THIS WRY COLLECTION OF HANUKKAH NOIR FEATURES ELEVEN STORIES BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHORS THAT RUN THE GAMUT FROM HARDBOILED TO HEARTFELT, CURATED BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TOD GOLDBERG.

Across eleven stories, award-winning authors spin tales of family, corruption, buried treasure and delightful yet twisted capers that will... Read more

Find Your People

By: Jennie Allen

Narrated by: Jennie Allen

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that’s crucial to our mental and spiritual health.

“My dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic... Read more

Uses for Obsession

By: Ben Shewry

Narrated by: Ben Shewry

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, searing and hopeful memoir meets manifesto that reframes the way we think about restaurants, cooking, hospitality, leadership and humanity from one of the most respected chefs in the world.

Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it's crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato,... Read more

The Morning Star

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, A...

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her... Read more

The Road to Unfreedom

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read more

Bowlaway

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley.

From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a... Read more

The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must decide whether to risk even that to bring others to freedom.

“We... Read more

The Salt Stones

By: Helen Whybrow

Narrated by: Cassidy Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of... Read more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

By: Ai Weiwei

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more