Arts & Entertainment

Building America

by Jean H. Baker; read by Laural Merlington

Building America masterfully narrates the life and legacy of a key figure in creating an American aesthetic in the new United States. Learn More

Burning Down the Haus

by Tim Mohr; read by Matthew Lloyd Davies

AudioFile Earphones Winner
BookPage Best Books of 2018
Best books of the year by Rolling Stone, BookPage, and Amazon

Rollicking, cinematic, deeply researched, highly readable, and thrillingly topical, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. 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

Candyfreak

Steve Almond; read by Oliver Wyman

Part candy porn, part candy polemic, part social history, part confession, Candyfreak explores the role candy plays in our lives as both source of pleasure and escape from pain. Learn More

Cask Strength

by Mike Gerrard; read by Mike Cooper

Cask Strength tells the story of the unsung hero of the world of spirits, wine, and beer and an invention as ancient and important as the wheel—the humble barrel. Discover the barrel's rich history, as well as the incredible skill and innovation that goes into producing your favorite drinks. Learn More

Championship Behaviors

by Hugh McCutcheon; foreword by Thad Levine; read by Hugh McCutcheon

From an Olympic gold medal–winning coach, a new playbook for effective athlete education and team building. Learn More

Charlie Brown's America

by Blake Scott Ball; read by Johnny Heller

Despite—or because of—its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts gang. Learn More

Chopin's Piano

by Paul Kildea; read by Matthew Waterson

The captivating story of Frédéric Chopin and the fate of both his Mallorquin piano and musical Romanticism from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Learn More

Cleopatra

by Harold Bloom; read by Simon Vance

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female characters. Learn More

The Club

by Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg; read by Shaun Grindell

Deeply researched and drawing on 100 exclusive interviews including the key decision-makers at every major English team—from aristocrats like Manchester United and Arsenal, to the arrivistes at Chelsea and Manchester City—The Club is the definitive and wildly entertaining narrative of how the Premier League took over the world. Learn More

The Collector of Lives

by Ingrid Rowland & Noah Charney; read by Jennifer M. Dixon

Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as "insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable," The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art. Learn More

The Collector’s Apprentice

by B. A. Shapiro; read by Xe Sands

Indie Next List

B. A. Shapiro presents an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance. Learn More

Craft Coffee

by Jessica Easto with Andreas Willhoff; read by Carolyn Jania

Craft Coffee: A Manual, written by a coffee enthusiast for coffee enthusiasts, is a comprehensive guide to improving your brew at home. Learn More

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

Cynthia Ozick; read by Donna Postel

In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture. Learn More

Dark Carnivals

by W. Scott Poole; read by Enrique McGavin

The panoramic story of how the horror genre transformed into one of the most incisive critiques of unchecked American imperial power. Learn More

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda Fitzgerald; Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks; read by Mike Chamberlain & Amy Landon

Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Learn More

Doctor Who Psychology

Edited by Travis Langley, Foreword by Katy Manning; read by Esther Wane and Matthew Lloyd Davies

With a foreword by Third Doctor Companion Katy Manning and interviews with actors who played Doctors new and old, Doctor Who Psychology travels through the how and why of Who. It's all timey-wimey. 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

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

by Claudia Rankine; read by Janina Edwards

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. 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

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