Best of 2025

Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

By: Caroline Fraser
Narrated by: Patty Nieman
Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

“This is an expansive catalog of horrible crimes, along with a litany of corporate greed and environmental degradation. Many of the violent incidents are described in graphic detail; so, this book will appear to true crime lovers, but probably not environmental activists. The thesis of the book is that toxic exposures generated an unusual density... Read more

John Candy

A Life in Comedy

By: Paul Myers
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

From the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy—a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy's most beloved and enduring stars.From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains... Read more about John Candy

Searching for Serafim

The Life and Legacy of Serafim “Joe” Fortes

By: Ruby Smith Díaz
Narrated by: Michelle Walker
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

The life and legacy of Serafim “Joe” Fortes, a trailblazing Black lifeguard, who became a cultural icon in a racist society Searching for Serafim is a layered exploration of the life of Vancouver's first lifeguard, Serafim “Joe” Fortes. A Trinidad native who arrived on the shores of Canada in 1885, Fortes was heralded as a hero in... Read more about Searching for Serafim

No Fault

A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

By: Haley Mlotek
Narrated by: Haley Mlotek
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

One of NPR’s 2025 “Books We Love”

A Vogue & Vulture Best Book of the Year (So Far)

“Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise.” —Jia Tolentino

“An investigation, an invocation, a mood.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

“A personal accounting of heartache. . . . Mlotek’s writing reaches toward — and actually meets — poetry.” —Alissa Bennett, The... Read more about No Fault

The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

A Memoir

By: Vinh Nguyen
Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFinalist for the Toronto Books AwardsFinalist for the Governor General's Award for Non-FictionFinalist for the Hilary Weston-Writers' Trust Prize for Non-FictionAn inventive memoir about one family’s escape from Vietnam and the father’s mysterious disappearance along the way. This book is an intricate exploration of a... Read more about The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

A Novel

By: Emma Knight
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE

A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family.

Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in... Read more about The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

You've Changed

By: Ian Williams
Narrated by: Eli Ham
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The eagerly awaited follow-up novel from the Giller prize-winning author of Reproduction, You’ve Changed is a daring and clever dissection of a crumbling marriage between two people who are morphing in ways that confound each other.

Middle-aged and about... Read more about You've Changed

Memorial Days

A Memoir

By: Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

“Anyone who has lost a spouse will relate to this. I love Geraldine Brooks’ writing and this one was one of my favorites. Read more

Is a River Alive?

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Robert Macfarlane
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Finalist for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in Environmental Literature
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A Hill Times Top 100 Best Book of 2025


From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which... Read more about Is a River Alive?

Gilded Rage

Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

By: Jacob Silverman
Narrated by: Jacob Silverman
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Gilded Rage written and read by Jacob Silverman

A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.

From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that... Read more about Gilded Rage

The Colonel and the King

Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership that Rocked the World

By: Peter Guralnick
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 20 hours 32 minutes

From the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager—drawing on a wealth of the Colonel's never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant, friend, and architect of his client’s success
 
... Read more about The Colonel and the King

Bibliophobia

A Memoir

By: Sarah Chihaya
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True

“Stirring and sparkling.”—The Washington Post

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ELECTRIC LIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Time, Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan

Books can seduce... Read more about Bibliophobia

Death Takes Me

A Novel

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times... Read more about Death Takes Me

Original Sins

The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of AmericanRacism

By: Eve L. Ewing
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Eve L. Ewing
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

“I think everyone who grew up in the American school system should read this book. Both a look at the history of (mis)education to marginalized people to the continuing disenfranchisement of many students in America, I learned a lot from reading this. I will never look at schools or the United States in the same way. An excellent and... Read more

Sorrowful Mysteries

The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century

By: Stephen Harrigan
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Part memoir, part mystery: a powerful exploration of the three secrets of Fatima and a man’s journey grappling with his own faith

In 1917, in Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared before them and spoke the words, “Do not be afraid.”

Stephen Harrigan first heard the story of Our Lady of Fatima when he was a... Read more about Sorrowful Mysteries

Rosarita

By: Anita Desai
Narrated by: Meera Simhan
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

“Approached by a tricky stranger, Bonita reluctantly embarks on a haunting and unpredictable stumble through a strange city and through her mother’s past. For fans of Laura van den Berg and Yoko Ogawa, this novella reads like a fever dream. Read more

Fonseca

A Novel

By: Jessica Francis Kane
Narrated by: Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Nicholas Guy Smith, Christine Rendel & Jessica Francis Kane
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

“In 1952, author Penelope Fitzgerald, then a poor publisher of a literary journal in England, embarked upon a secretive journey to a small town in Mexico to secure an inheritance from ageing widows. Fictionalizing this adventure, Kane brilliantly reconstructs her deepest ambitions and desires, while she navigates new territories of the globe and... Read more

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

A Novel

By: Irene Solà
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

“This book follows generations of a family after a woman makes a deal with the devil for a longed-for husband. She asks for “a full man, with a patch of land and a roof over his head.” But when her soon-to-be husband is missing a toe, she dreads the price she may have to pay. When she exploits his flaw to her own gain, it’s the generations that... Read more

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

By: Rebecca Romney
Narrated by: Rebecca Romney
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“I'm not particularly an Austen fan but I've followed Romney's dive into Romancelandia and was excited to get into this adjacent work. While this is absolutely an insight into the lives and writings of authors with whom Austen would have been familiar, it is more interestingly a look at a studied collector's process and a personal look into a... Read more

Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Narrated by: Diana Yekinni, Nnei Opia Clark & Weruche Opia
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“Cursed Daughters is a gorgeous, haunting novel about a generational curse. Weaving between three women in the cursed Falodun family, Braithwaite explores the weight of expectation from family and culture and what it means to make your life your own. Read more