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2 - The overstory : a novel
Richard Powers · Recorded Books
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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist... |
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3 - Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · Hamish Hamilton
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of London Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories... |
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4 - Deep State: A Thriller
Chris Hauty · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
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"Deep State is a propulsive, page-turning, compelling, fragmentation grenade of a debut thriller." - C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wolf Pack and The Bitterroots
"The plot...rings eerily true...will keep you turning... |
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5 - A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · Windmill
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must... |
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6 - Unsheltered: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER · Harper
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New York Times bestseller An NPR pick for Best Books of 2018 One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018 One of Newsweek's Best Books of the year The New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood... |
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7 - 1984
George Orwell · Blackstone Audiobooks
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Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the world we were becoming is still the great modern... |
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8 - The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review
"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick)
"This literary family saga is perfect for fans... |
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9 - Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · BBC Audiobooks America
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This dramatization is chock full of interesting sound effects. Hear the hymns as the sisters sing around Beths piano, the crackle of Jos manuscript as Amy sends it up in flames, the crack of the ice as Amy falls through. Many listeners will also enjoy the productions complete cast of voices... |
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10 - The Best American Short Stories 2019
Anthony Doerr · Mariner Books
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#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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11 - The Night Tiger: A Novel
Yangsze Choo · Flatiron Books
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A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's... |
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12 - Killing Commendatore: A novel
Haruki Murakami · Random House Audio Publishing Group
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The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - and a stunning... |
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13 - The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · Macmillan Audio
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It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival. |
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14 - Less
ANDREW SEAN GREER · Lee Boudreaux Books
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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review) .WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZENational BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington... |
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