Summer Listens

Looking for the perfect audiobook to accompany you while you you relax at the beach or the pool? Whether you’re looking for a thriller or romance or something in between, we have just the recommendation for you!

The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

Written by Melissa de la Cruz

Performed by Amielynn Abellera

Published by Recorded Books

Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to lead their travel app’s Asia division, nothing matters more to Dalisay than tradition and family. When Evan asks her out, she soundly rejects him for his cheek. Evan learns from his Filipino friends that Dalisay expects more from potential suitors. If he wants a chance with her, he’s going to have to go through the Five Stages: the courtship ritual that lovers in the Philippines have performed for generations.

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Running Close to the Wind

Written by Alexandra Rowland

Performed by Casey Jones

Published by Recorded Books

A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024

For fans of Our Flag Means Death, discover low fantasy on the high seas in Alexandra Rowland’s Running Close to the Wind. Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world—and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on again, off-again ex, the pirate captain Teveri az-Haffar.

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The Sword and the Sophomore

Written by B.P. Sweany

Performed by Tami Stronach

Published by Recorded Books

“Terrifically entertaining! …a whirlpool of teenage hormones, high-school life and Arthurian magic. Hilarious and engaging!” — Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series

Action-packed and funny, but also serious and insightful, The Sword and the Sophomore goes beyond usual YA fantasy tropes to confront real-life teenage issues of social cliques, relationships, sexual agency, and profound personal loss. For fans of Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn Cycle. 

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Fire Exit

Written by Morgan Talty

Performed by Darrell Dennis

Published by Recorded Books

A Best Book of June at The New York Times and Chicago Review of Books

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

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youthjuice

Written by E.K. Sathue

Performed by Suzy Jackson

Published by Recorded Books

Glittering with ominous flashes of Sophia’s coming-of-rage story, former beauty editor E.K. Sathue’s horror debut is as incisive as it is stomach-churning in its portrayal of all-consuming female friendship and the beauty industry’s short attention span.

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Five Broken Blades

Written by Mai Corland

Performed by Jaine Ye, Greg Chun, Sophie Oda, Donald Chang, Roger Yeh, and Zion Jang

Published by Recorded Books

It’s the season for treason … The king of Yusan must die. The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon. He has it coming.

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Long Time Gone

Written by Charlie Donlea

Performed by Vivienne Leheny

Published by Recorded Books

The instant New York Times bestseller

In this engrossing, masterfully twisting new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author, a forensics trainee learns through a DNA test that she mysteriously disappeared as a baby thirty years ago—and her life is still in danger.

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The Murder of Mr. Ma

Written by John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan

Performed by Daniel York Loh

Published by Recorded Books

Blending traditional gong’an crime fiction with the most iconic aspects of the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dee and Lao’s first adventure is as thrilling and visual as an action film, as imaginative and transportive as a timeless classic.

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Sweet Nightmare

Written by Tracy Wolff

Performed by Andrew B. Wehrlen and Suzy Jackson

Published by Tantor Media

The instant New York Times bestseller

The scariest school on earth is about to experience real fear . . .

Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.

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The Last Murder at the End of the World

Written by Stuart Turton

Performed by James Cameron Stewart

Published by Tantor Media

Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world.

Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. If the murder isn’t solved within ninety-two hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.

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Blood Rubies

Written by Mailan Doquang

Performed by Cindy Kay

Published by Highbridge Audio

Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin’s life to completely derail. It starts with a routine heist: lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of wealthy smuggler Charles Lemaire. Rune nearly gets caught when Lemaire’s goons give chase, but she manages to escape with her boyfriend Kit.

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The Road Trip Rewind

Written by Danny Tamberelli and Kate Tamberelli

Performed by Mara Wilson and Danny Tamberelli

Published by Highbridge Audio

Up-and-coming screenwriter Beatrix Noel’s dream project is finally a reality—her 90s-era script is in production. Less dreamy is the A-list actor in the starring role—none other than Rocco Riziero, who jilted Beatrix on New Year’s Eve back in 1999. Without his celebrity status, the project would likely still be withering on her hard drive, but that doesn’t mean Beatrix won’t shame him at every opportunity on-set—especially when it becomes painfully obvious he doesn’t even remember her.

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