General Fiction

The Leavers

by Lisa Ko; read by Emily Woo Zeller

Winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize
National Book Award Fiction Shortlist
LA Times Best Books of 2017
Oprah's Favorite Books

An emotionally harrowing debut novel that explores assimilation and loss, immigration and homeland, independence and connection. Learn More

Leaving

by Roxana Robinson; read by Hannah Choi

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In her boldest and most powerful work to date, Roxana Robinson demonstrates her "trademark gifts as an intelligent, sensitive analyst of family life" (Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune) in an engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves. Learn More

The Left-Handed Twin

by Thomas Perry; read by Joyce Bean

Thomas Perry presents Book 9 in the Jane Whitefield series. Learn More

Lesson in Red

by Maria Hummel; read by

A companion to Still Lives—a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection—this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo. Learn More

Let Me Explain You

Annie Liontas; read by Robertson Dean

A "big, rollicking, tender novel with a truly original comic voice at its center" (George Saunders), Let Me Explain You is about a Greek American family and its patriarch—part Zorba, part King Lear—and announces the arrival of a significant new voice in contemporary literature. Learn More

Lethal Game

by John Gilstrap; read by Basil Sands

In the new thriller featuring hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author John Gilstrap takes listeners on an action-packed thrill ride from the wilds of Montana to the streets of Mexico, as a sniper attack turns wilderness hunters into the hunted and Grave's enemies stalk him with a vengeance. Learn More

The Letter

by Anthony Sciarratta; read by Lila Wynne

When famous writer Victor Esposito falls into a coma, the memories of a ten-year-old love affair come roaring back to Eva Abram's mind, uprooting her quiet Long Island life. Learn More

Letters from an Age of Reason

Nora Hague; read by Kathleen McInerney and Jeff Woodman

Cultural and familial fireworks flare when the headstrong teenage daughter of a wealthy New Yorker falls passionately in love with a young man from New Orleans, and from a very different background indeed. Learn More

Lieberman's Choice

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

Two Chicago cops need to defuse an explosive situation in this "tightly plotted" police procedural (Chicago Tribune). Learn More

Lieberman's Day

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

A Chicago cop is out to avenge his nephew's murder in this "masterly creation" that puts the Edgar Award–winning author in "the Parker/Paretsky league" (Chicago Tribune). Learn More

Lieberman's Folly

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

The first novel in a crime series about "two Chicago cops, one Jewish, one Irish . . . Told with deceptive simplicity [and] a gentle wit" (The Boston Globe). Learn More

Lieberman's Law

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by Richard Ferrone

With his Chicago cops, Edgar Award winner "Kaminsky is hard to beat for a thoughtful, well-plotted, well-written mystery" (The Washington Post Book World). Learn More

Lieberman's Thief

by Stuart M. Kaminsky; read by David Colacci

An Edgar Award–winning author steals the show again in "a beautifully calibrated mix of wit, suspense, and quiet honesty" (The Washington Post Book World). Learn More

Life After Kafka

by Magdaléna Platzová; translated by Alex Zucker; read by Christa Lewis

NEW! Now Available

A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice. Learn More

Life Among Giants

Bill Roorbach; read by Pete Larkin

Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction Pick

A wildly entertaining novel of murder, seduction, and revenge, Life Among Giants tracks a larger-than-life Gatsby-esque quest for answers that reveals how sometimes the greatest mystery lies in knowing one’s own heart. Learn More

The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson

by Nancy Peacock; read by JD Jackson

2018 Audie Finalist

From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Life Without Water, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson is a sweeping love story that "is as deeply moving and exciting an American saga as has ever been penned" (Lee Smith, author of Dimestore). Learn More

Life Is Everywhere

by Lucy Ives; read by Cassidy Brown

A virtuosic, radical reimagining of the systems novel by a "rampaging, mirthful genius" (Elizabeth McKenzie). Learn More

A Life of Adventure and Delight

by Akhil Sharma; read by Deepti Gupta and Neil Shah

Akhil Sharma's masterful stories focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. Learn More

The Life to Come

by Michelle de Kretser; read by Shiromi Arserio

Longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize
2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award

The stand-alone yet connected worlds of The Life to Come offer meditations on intimacy, loneliness, and our flawed perception of reality. Enormously moving, gorgeously observant of physical detail, and often very funny, this new novel reveals how the shadows cast by both the past and the future can transform and distort the present. It is teeming with life and earned wisdom—exhilaratingly contemporary, with the feel of a classic. Learn More

Lifelines

by Heidi Diehl; read by Christa Lewis

O Magazine's Best Books by Women of Summer 2019
A Cosmopolitan Best Book of the Summer

For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany—where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier—to confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral. Learn More

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Leaving

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Let Me Explain You

Lethal Game

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Lieberman's Day

Lieberman's Folly

Lieberman's Law

Lieberman's Thief

Life After Kafka

Life Among Giants

The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson

Life Is Everywhere

A Life of Adventure and Delight

The Life to Come

Lifelines