Arts & Entertainment

Unworthy Republic

by Claudio Saunt; read by Stephen Bowlby

National Book Award Longlist 2020
Washington POst 10 Best Books of the Year 2020

A masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.
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Becoming Odyssa

by Jennifer Pharr Davis; read by Jennifer Pharr Davis

A must-listen memoir from the author of Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph. Learn More

Mutations

by Sam McPheeters & Tobi Vail; read by Sam McPheeters

In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, Sam McPheeters examines the diverse realms of punk he intersected—New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, New England, and downtown Los Angeles—and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place. Learn More

The Fight of the Century

by Michael Arkush; by JD Jackson

The Fight of the Century is very likely the most dramatic, compelling, and moving sports story you will ever hear. Learn More

Doomed to Fail

by J.J. Anselmi; foreword by Cat Jones; read by Adam Lofbomm

Doomed to Fail explores the heaviest music the world has ever heard, tracing doom, sludge, and post-metal as their own distinct (and incredibly loud) traditions. Learn More

Homie

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist For The 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry
Finalist For The 2021 Naacp Image Award For Poetry

Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Learn More

The Joy of Search

by Daniel Russell; read by Charles Constant

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). Learn More

The Twenty-Ninth Year

by Hala Alyan; read by Hala Alyan

LitHub Most Anticipated Books of 2019

A vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love, and joy, The Twenty-Ninth Year is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities. Learn More

Don't Call Us Dead

by Danez Smith; read by Danez Smith

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Don't Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes America—"Dear White America"—where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle. Learn More

Build

by Mark Katz; read by Michael Butler Murray

A timely study of US diplomacy, Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World reveals the power of art to bridge cultural divides, facilitate understanding, and express and heal trauma. Learn More

How To Make It in the New Music Business

by Ari Herstand; read by Ari Herstand

Hailed as an "indispensable" guide (Forbes), How to Make It in the New Music Business returns in this extensively revised and expanded edition. Learn More

Ian McKellen

by Garry O'Connor; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies

From Garry O'Connor comes the definitive biography of Sir Ian McKellen. Learn More

Woodstock

by Dale Bell; read by Peter Berkrot & Xe Sands

Featuring a foreword from legendary director Martin Scorcese, Woodstock: Interviews and Recollections combines stories, anecdotes, and perspectives from dozens of musicians and filmmakers about the making of the Academy Award–winning documentary Woodstock. Learn More

Camgirl

by Isa Mazzei; read by Isa Mazzei

Entertainment Weekly Biggest Fall Books

From the "former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm" (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilarious memoir of sex work, shame, and self-discovery set in the colorful world of live-streaming camgirls. Learn More

Pity the Reader

by Suzanne McConnell & Kurt Vonnegut; read by Karen White

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Learn More

MacTrump

by Ian Doescher & Jacopo della Quercia; read by Susan Bennett, Rachel Botchan, Eliza Foss, Christopher Gebauer, Johnny Heller, Brian Hutchison, Jennifer O’Donnell, Thomas Picasso, Jonathan Todd Ross, T Ryder Smith, Henry Strozier, Jaine Ye, and Adam Grupp

For listeners craving a humorous antidote to the sound and the fury of American politics, this clever satire, written in iambic pentameter in the style of Shakespeare, wittily fictionalizes the events of the first two years of the Trump administration. Learn More

No Encore!

by Drew Fortune; read by Peter Berkrot

Featuring never-before-told stories, No Encore! takes you on tour with over sixty iconic musicians as they relive their weirdest, wildest, most embarrassing gigs. Learn More

The Tradition

by Jericho Brown; read by JD Jackson

2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Lambda Literary Award Winner
2019 National Book Award Finalist
Publishers Weekly Best of 2019

Jericho Brown's daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Learn More

Go All The Way

by Paul Myers & S.W. Lauden; featuring Michael Chabon; read by Keith Sellon-Wright

In Go All the Way, today's best and brightest writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Learn More

The Physics of Superheroes

by James Kakalios; Foreword by Lawrence M. Krauss; read by Kevin T. Collins

A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Learn More

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