One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. ...

Midnight in Chernobyl

The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J. T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change...

Tear Me Apart

For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family - by the international best-selling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet Again - tells the tale of...

The Room on Rue Amélie

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, sci...

The Tangled Tree

A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die - a road map that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today.  Every day in Was...

Raven Rock

Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters ...

Here, Right Matters

Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private compan...

Kochland

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and faile...

Energy

The Advocate’s Best Gay Novel of 2019  A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice  O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019  The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring  Out's Bes...

Lie with Me

An Ember in the Ashes meets Three Dark Crowns in this lush debut fantasy novel about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to join a secret group of warriors who ride phoenixes into battle. I had a sister once.... In a world ruled by fierce warrior q...

Crown of Feathers

From New York Times best-selling author John Lescroart, a riveting stand-alone novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple.  Kate loves her life. At 44 she's happily marri...

Fatal

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ​ The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies​ ​spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the...

The Lords of Easy Money

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the "thought-provoking" (Library Journal) and "must-read" (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people divided by the horrors of World War II...

The Diplomat's Daughter

From the "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart comes a dramatic family drama in which attorney Dismas Hardy is called on to defend a former client against the accusation of murder.  Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutti...

Poison

A New York Times notable book of 2020 From the best-selling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.  Over two decades, Rick Perlstein has published three...

Reaganland

From the creators of the number one podcast Limetown, an explosive prequel about a teenager who learns of a mysterious research facility where over 300 people have disappeared - including her uncle - with clues that become the key to discovering the ...

Limetown

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction  This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era t...

The Evangelicals

John Lescroart - the “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) - is back in action, marshaling his witty dialogue and airtight plotting in this electrifying thriller featuring attorney Dismas Hardy as he grapples with his longtime trusted as...

The Rule of Law

From the New York Times best-selling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it - and then begin to die in highly unusual circumstances. Nine strangers receive a ...

Nine Lives

From debut author Mary H. K. Choi comes a compulsively listenable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory - perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I've Loved Before.  For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her fr...

Emergency Contact

Named a Top Ten Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Associate (YALSA)!  Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times best-selling Tric...

Traffick

A taut, psychological mind bender from the best-selling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have.  In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near future, Junior and ...

From Tom Coyne - the author of the New York Times best-selling A Course Called Ireland, hailed as “a joy from start to finish” by The Wall Street Journal - comes the heartfelt and humorous celebration of his quest to play golf on every links course i...

A Course Called Scotland

In the follow-up to Abbi Glines' number one New York Times best seller Until Friday Night, three teens from a small Southern town are stuck in a dramatic love triangle.  Willa can't erase the bad decisions of her past that led her down the path she's...

Under the Lights

“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre.... It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” (The New York Times)  “One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” (The Washington Post)  A gripping collection of six stories of terror - including the...

Wounds

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Globe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. And he’s ready to play all of it. After playing hundreds of courses overseas in the birthplace of golf,​ Coyne, the bestselling author of A Course Called Ireland and A C...

A Course Called America

A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood ...

Disney's Land

A tale of obsession and daring. A contest between humankind and nature’s fiercest phenomenon. The saga of the greatest storm chaser who ever lived. At the turn of the 21st century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. I...

The Man Who Caught the Storm

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —Len Downie, Jr., The Washington Post * “Dazzling.” —Douglas Brinkley, The New York Times Book Review From Garrett​ Graff, the New York Ti...

Watergate

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our pl...

The Song of the Dodo

From the best-selling and award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes an adventure tale about two daredevils and a farmboy who embark on the journey of a lifetime across America's heartland in the Roaring '20s.  Set in the rapidly chan...

The Flying Circus

Award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often se...

Pharma

The gripping story of one of history’s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire. Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s de...

The War That Made the Roman Empire

Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist’s impact on global culture - and why his legacy endures to this day.  Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, ...

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The spectacular true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.  It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Ba...

The Stowaway

This “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times best-selling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers have created technical breakthroughs - rivaling s...

Wonderworks

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019  A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence finalist  A 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist   A 2020 Chautauqua Prize finalist   “A daringly inventive parable of female creativity and motherhood” (O, The...

Feast Your Eyes

Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, withdraws from the comforts of life on a university campus in search of a place to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropol...

A $500 House in Detroit

From the New York Times best-selling author of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls comes a stylish thriller about the darkness that lurks inside all of us.  When I looked up, his smile was wide and real. "Ready?" he said.  I faked a smile back. I had ...

Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

James R. Hannibal presents a thrilling adventure through history, complete with mysteries, secret items, codes, and a touch of magic, in this stunning middle grade debut.  Thirteen-year-old Jack Buckles is great at finding things. Not just a missing ...

The Lost Property Office

In the best-selling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating...gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett - a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germa...

Unsinkable

A “gripping” (Booklist), “clear-eyed, and honest” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt - the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (a.k.a. six-shooter), which changed the US forever, triggering the industrial revolution and the...

Revolver

An addictive debut thriller about the mysterious death of a small-town golden girl and the secret lives of three people connected to her: the social misfit who loved her from afar, the rebellious girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating...

Girl in Snow

In the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international high-stakes thriller that pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ever to operate against American interests.  When a young Israeli walks...

Traitor

Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.  Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, a...

A Book About Love

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Early in the morning of April 2...

A “marvelous … compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams - one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial so...

The Last American Aristocrat

For fans of Elena Ferrante, Fredrik Backman, and Paulo Coelho comes the international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges...

The Eight Mountains

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book that began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters ...

The Names

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the best-selling tradit...

To Rule the Waves

This is a story of democracy under threat. It’s the story of a movement rising up to respond. And it’s a story of what comes next.  Shortly after Trump’s election, two outraged former congressional staffers wrote and posted a tactical guide to resist...

We Are Indivisible

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web!  This anthology includes both original stories like a brand-new nov...

Shining in the Dark

A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s sec...

The Chef's Secret

A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Russia's Sergey Karjakin, which mirrored the world's geopolitical unrest and rekindled a global fascination with the sport. The first week of Novemb...

The Grandmaster

A vivid, sweeping, and “fact-filled” (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease that “contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic” (Publishers Weekly) — for listeners of the number one New York Times best sellers Yuval H...

The Plague Cycle

Jack and Gwen are back in this dynamic follow-up to The Lost Property Office.  It's been a year since Jack Buckles discovered the Keep beneath Baker Street, an underground tower no Section Thirteen was ever supposed to see; a year since his dad fell ...

The Fourth Ruby

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it te...

The Verdun Affair

In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to thei...

The York Patrol

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K  Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In midtour he bolts from his band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate hims...

Great Jones Street

One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, a genius adolescent who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer spac...

Ratner's Star

Ten teens are left alone in the wilderness during a three-day survival test in this multi-authored novel edited by award-winning author Shaun David Hutchinson.  At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor-education program designed to teach troubled youth the value...

Feral Youth

In Players, DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: Thei...

Players

The Waiter takes place entirely in a restaurant where everything from the menu to the cutlery is carefully thought out. Our narrator is a middle-aged waiter who takes pride in the classic and unchangeable aspects of his job: the well-worn waiter unif...

The Waiter

A romantic comedy about high school, heartbreak, and having all the answers.  What if the secrets of dating and love were revealed in one simple formula? That’s the tantalizing proposition high school senior Shane Chambliss offers the hopeless and ha...

Galgorithm

From the brilliant award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the epic quest to link North and South America with the world’s longest road - the Pan-American Highway - and how its construction and evolution reflected the divergent...

The Longest Line on the Map

A magnificent new collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie - featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections.  Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Ann Beattie's astutely obs...

The Accomplished Guest

For teens who grew up adoring The Giver and The City of Ember.  The Oregon Trail meets Westworld in this epic new trilogy from the New York Times best-selling author of We All Looked Up, Tommy Wallach.  Knowledge has always been the enemy of faith.  ...

Strange Fire

In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international best-selling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas.  Why climb a mountain without ever reaching the sum...

Without Ever Reaching the Summit

An incredibly compulsive, poignant exploration of marriage, lust, and ambition from one of America's great young literary talents, the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Work Like Any Other.  Doctor Ed Malinowski believes he has realized most of h...

The Behavior of Love

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world a...

The Zookeepers' War

A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving”, about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö, Sweden, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very ...

Such Good Work

“Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I'm afraid of what might’ve happened to her. You be afraid too.” After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is a...

The Completionist

The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Google, Goldman Sachs and Kraft Foods combined. But very few people have ever heard of Koch Industries because the billionaire Koch brothers want it that way. Now, in Kochland, Christopher ...

A revelatory, timely, and masterful biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a new perspective on this charismatic figure in the context of American populism—identifying the reasons for his unprecedented appeal as it shows us the man and pol...

The First Populist

Meet Thomas Rosanoff: med student and researcher.   Meet his subjects: three homeless men who believe they are God.  Ever since his girlfriend ended things, Thomas’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted medical student, he has spent his entir...

The Shoe on the Roof

Who are you when no one is watching?  When beloved high school student Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no-one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched - not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the police o...

You think you know everything about your life. Long-married couple Junior and Henrietta live a quiet, solitary life on their farm, where they work at the local feed mill and raise chickens. Their lives are simple, straightforward, uncomplicated. Unti...

Featuring Stephen King, Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene and many others! Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 y...

Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.  This audiobook is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth - through mole...

The number one French best seller and winner of the Maison De La Presse Prize   Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Ph...

Award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining and magical work on the illusionist’s impact on American culture - and why h...

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