Summer is almost here! Get your listening lists ready with these top May audiobook releases!

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

The instant New York Times bestseller

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. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined … or sold. And now each of the five blades will come for him.

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The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

Written by R. Derek Black

Performed by R. Derek Black

Published by Recorded Books

From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hate Derek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States.

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Behind a Closed Door

Written by J.D. Barker

Performed by Edoardo Ballerini

Published by Recorded Books

Soon to be a major motion picture!

Would you kill a total stranger to save someone you love? Sugar & Spice is the latest app craze taking the world by storm, but for Abby and Brendan Hollander, downloading it leads to a dangerous game of life and death.

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Red Side Story

Written by Jasper Fforde

Performed by Jasper Fforde and Chris Harper

Published by Recorded Books

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American readers, complete with a never-before-published short story

Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City.

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Bad Men

Written by Julie Mae Cohen

Performed by Nathalie Buscombe

Published by Recorded Books

Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that’s as wickedly fun as it is lethal. Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. For the past fifteen years, she’s hunted down and dispatched rapists, murderers, domestic abusers—bad men all.

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Long Time Gone

Written by Charlie Donlea

Performed by Vivienne Leheny

Published by Recorded Books

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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How It Works Out

Written by Myriam Lacroix

Performed by Anika Venkatesh and Lucy Ellis

Published by Recorded Books

What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out? When Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins to unfold through a series of hypotheticals.

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The Medicine Woman of Galveston

Written by Amanda Skenandore

Performed by Amanda Stribling

Published by HighBridge Audio

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn’t touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option—to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show.

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How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be

Written by Cass R. Sunstein

Performed by Tom Beyer

Published by Ascent Audio

It’s hard to imagine our world without its stars and celebrity geniuses—they become a part of our culture and history, seeming permanent and preordained. But as Cass Sunstein shows in this startling book, that is far from the case.

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The Brides of High Hill (Singing Hills Cycle, Book 5)

Written by Nghi Vo

Performed by Cindy Kay

Published by Tantor Audio

Nghi Vo’s Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.

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Sweet Nightmare

Written by Tracy Wolff

Performed by Andrew B. Wehrlen and Suzy Jackson

Published by Tantor Audio

The instant New York Times bestseller

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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Evocation

Written by S.T. Gibson

Performed by Oscar Reyes

Published by Tantor Audio

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov…As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society.

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Iron Flame Part 1 of 2 (The Empyrean, Book 2)

Written by Rebecca Yarros

Performed by a full cast

Published by GraphicAudio

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! Now optioned for TV by Amazon Studios.

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College―Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.

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Crush Part 2 of 2 (Crave, Book 2)

Written by Tracy Wolff

Performed by a full cast

Published by GraphicAudio

The instant #1 New York Times bestselling series

Everything feels off—especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am.

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Morning Star Part 2 of 2 (Red Rising, Book 3)

Written by Pierce Brown

Performed by a full cast

Published by GraphicAudio

#1 New York Times bestseller

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

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