General Fiction

Pursuit

by Joyce Carol Oates; read by Andi Arndt

With a suspenseful, alternating narrative that travels between the present and the protagonist's tortured childhood, The Pursuit is a meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting tale that showcases Joyce Carol Oates's masterful storytelling. Learn More

Here Until August

by Josephine Rowe; read by Cat Gould

From the Catskills to New South Wales, from the remote and abandoned island outports of Newfoundland to the sprawl of a North American metropolis, the transformative stories in Here Until August show how the places where we choose to live our lives can just as easily turn us inward as outward. Learn More

The Girl at the Door

by Veronica Raimo; read by Nicol Zanzarella & PJ Ochlan

Provocative and unnerving, The Girl at the Door explores the bureaucracy of a scandal, and the thin line between lust and possession. Learn More

The Affair

by Colette Freedman; read by Callie Beaulieu

Skillfully crafted and deeply insightful, The Affair sensitively explores the complexities of love and the challenge of ever knowing another person fully, even as we endeavor to understand our own deepest longings. Learn More

Seven Nights

by Simon Strauss; read by Bruce Mann

The most reviewed, discussed, and recommended German language debut of the last decade, Seven Nights has earned Simon Strauss praise as "one of the greatest talents of his generation" by the Tagesspiegel newspaper. Learn More

If the Ice Had Held

by Wendy Fox; read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just fourteen and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Learn More

Arroyo

by Chip Jacobs; read by Joel Richards

Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young man and his dog in 1913 and 1993. Learn More

The Dollmaker

by Nina Allan; read by Alex Wyndham

A love story of two very real, unusual people, and a novel rich with wonders that shines a radically different light on society's marginal figures. Learn More

Belle Cora

by Phillip Margulies; read by Elizabeth Wiley & Graham Rowat

Told with unflagging wit and verve, Belle Cora brings to life a turbulent era and an untamed America on the cusp of greatness. Its heroine is a woman in conflict with her time, who nevertheless epitomizes it with her fighting spirit, her gift for self-invention, and her determination to chart her own fate. Learn More

The Book of Esther

by Emily Barton; read by Rebecca Gibel

What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen—and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia? Learn More

The Consequences

by Colette Freedman; read by Callie Beaulieu

In the riveting follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel, Colette Freedman explores the aftermath of infidelity from three different perspectives—husband, wife, and mistress. Learn More

A Tall History of Sugar

by Curdella Forbes; read by Robin Miles

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Publishers Weekly's Big Literary Fiction Books of BookExpo 2019

A Tall History of Sugar tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance. Learn More

What Burns

by Dale Peck; read by Curt Bonnem & Chelsea Stephens

The Millions Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019

The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Award–winning novelist Dale Peck spans twenty-five years of writing, including two O. Henry award-winners and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. Learn More

Cutting Edge

edited by Joyce Carol Oates; read by Xe Sands

One of These Nights 2020 Edgar Awards Best Short Story

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, this stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more. Learn More

White Light

by Vanessa Garcia; read by Kyla Garcia

Praised by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka for its "lyrical pace and texture," White Light maps a young woman's struggle to distill her grief, rage, and love onto the canvas. Learn More

Travelers

by Helon Habila; read by Mirron Willis

Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision . . . a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with those who have been uprooted by war or aspiration, fear or hope. Learn More

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