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Check out some of the best audiobooks from the past year, available digitally through Libby or Hoopla.
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
At 73, retired lawyer and devoted letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp navigates her daily life and reflects on her past, but when unexpected letters open old wounds, she must confront a painful chapter that reshapes her understanding of herself and her world. Available on Libby and Hoopla
The Antidote by Karen Russell
In a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town burdened by the Great Depression and its dark past, a witch guarding memories, a grieving athlete, a cursed farmer, and a photographer with a time-bending camera grapple with buried secrets and the consequences of a nation’s forgotten history. Available on Libby.
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
After being fired and facing yet another novel rejection, aspiring author Zelu writes a futuristic epic about AI and robots, unknowingly setting herself on a path to literary stardom that could change the future of humanity. Available on Libby.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. Available on Libby.
I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney
Bud Stanley, an obituary writer, is afraid to live. His wife left him for a more interesting man, he endures a terrible blind date, and drunkenly publishes his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him, but the system lists him as dead, preventing his termination. This fallout forces Bud to reconsider life. Awaiting his fate at work, he's given another chance by his boss and, with encouragement from his friend Tim, starts attending strangers' wakes and funerals to learn how to live. Available on Hoopla.
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home to Jefferson Run, Virginia after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family crematorium business—together. But it soon becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a coma was no accident and Dante’s recklessness has placed them all in real danger. Available on Libby.
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this dark academia fantasy, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul--perhaps at the cost of their own. Available on Libby and Hoopla.
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
In the future, a nuclear accident submerges much of the western world. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of a poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime - destroying his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well. Available on Libby.
Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker
From Jen Hatmaker—beloved New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love podcast—a brutally honest, funny, and revealing memoir about the traumatic end of her twenty-six-year-long marriage, and the beginning of a different kind of love story. Available on Libby.
Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan
The Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in their Southeast Texas town, discover generations of calm ending as the dead begin to rise again forcing them to once again fight the Strigoi, the original vampires. Available on Libby.
The Girl in the Green Dress: A Mystery Featuring Zelda Fitzgerald by Mariah Fredericks
From the author of The Lindbergh Nanny comes an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald. Available on Libby.
The Phoebe Variations by Jane Hamilton
The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World returns with a stunning coming-of-age novel about girls, mothers, and finding one's way in the world. Available on Hoopla.
I Wanted to be Wonderful by Lihi Lapid
Follows the lives of two women in their first years of motherhood--one a fictional character striving to find a happy-ever-after life, the other the author herself, discovering something seriously wrong with her newborn daughter. Available on Hoopla.
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
In the middle of a storm, a girl appears on Casey's doorstep, obviously in need of help, but soon things take a violent turn. Available on Libby.
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
Weeks after foiling an attack in Montréal and arresting the so-called Black Wolf, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, confined by his injuries to Three Pines, quietly leads a covert investigation with agents Beauvoir and Lacoste, fearing the conspiracy he uncovered is only a deliberate misdirection. Available on Libby.
The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware
Journalist Lo Blacklock travels to a luxury Swiss hotel hoping to revive her career, but when a mysterious woman draws her into a dangerous chase across Europe, she must weigh ambition against survival in a world of wealth and shifting alliances. Available on Libby
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner
Actor-dancer Alyson Stoner's revelatory and incisive memoir—from family violence and betrayal, to eating disorders and religious trauma—may begin in Hollywood, but its chilling relatability will resonate with anyone navigating identity, privacy, purpose, and mental health in a digital age. Available on Libby.