Enjoy the best new fiction and bestsellers like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Water for Elephants in exceptional unabridged editions. We have your favorite authors, from Louis L'Amour to Stephen King to JRR Tolkien.
Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived—and is a testament to determination, friendship, and courage . . . Learn More
A sharp and funny tale of a daring art heist gone wrong—inspired by the same real-life, still-unsolved crime depicted in the Netflix hit series This Is a Robbery. Learn More
Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of Black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and folklore. Learn More
From the author of the critically acclaimed debut People Who Knew Me comes the story of one man's determination to abandon his will to live. Learn More
by Ma Jian; translated by Flora Drew; read by David Shih
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Month and Year One of Vulture's Spring Books to Watch Out For
One of the year's most anticipated novels in translation, written by an acclaimed Chinese author whose entire body of work has been banned by his home country, and published in the thirtieth-anniversary year of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Learn More
From Shanghai before and during the Second World War to U.S. occupied Tokyo, and, finally, to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Ian Buruma's masterful novel about the intoxicating power of collective fantasy follows three star-struck men driven to extraordinary acts by their devotion to the same legendary woman. Learn More
by Neel Mukherjee; read by Shaheen Khan, Sofia Engstrand, and Antonio Aakeel
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An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). Learn More
by Otto Penzler; read by Christina Delaine, Matt Godfrey
Some of the stories in Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop are humorous, others suspenseful, and still others are tales of pure detection, but all of them together make up a charming collection and a perfect Christmas gift for all ages. Learn More
Charles Dickens; performed by Jonathan Winters with Mimi Kennedy
Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of this holiday classic, using a special performance edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations. Mimi Kennedy also performs. Learn More
Coupling a picturesque, cozy setting with a deeply unsettling suspenseful plot, Christmas Presents is a chilling seasonal novella that can be enjoyed all year long. Learn More
Tim Blake Nelson's debut novel is an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood, or the City of Blows. Learn More
Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling "youngman" and his search for self-knowledge within the neon-lit world of hustlers, drag queens, and the denizens of their world, as he moves from El Paso to Times Square, from Pershing Square to the French Quarter. Learn More
