2026 Debut Audiobooks

Lost Lambs

A Novel

By: Madeline Cash
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“The Flynns are not alright. Ever since Bud and Catherine Flynn opened their marriage, their girls have been spinning out. And it’s so fun to read about. Madeline Cash spends time with each member of the Flynn family (and several other community members), dipping into their heads and exploring each unique world. Think: affairs with the neighbor,... Read more

The Poet Empress

By: Shen Tao
Narrated by: Eric Yang & Katharine Chin
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

“The power of literacy and the written word are exemplified in this debut novel. A world where poetry is magic, and it is illegal for women to learn to read and write. Still, when a starving village girl sees an opportunity to support her family by becoming an evil Prince's concubine, she does not hesitate. As famine is decimating the country,... Read more

Queen of Faces

Queen of Faces: Book #1

By: Petra Lord
Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, E. A. Castillo & Nicky Endres
Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

“I really, really enjoyed this book. There was so much going on at all. The unique concept of switching bodies, piffs, and branches, especially when showing character growth and not just a "dying moment or the power of friendship" kind of reveal, was super satisfying. It kept my interest from start to finish, and I couldn't wait to see how... Read more

Lady Tremaine

A Novel

By: Rachel Hochhauser
Narrated by: Bessie Carter
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

“I was just expecting a Cinderella retelling where we love the villain and hate the girl, but it had so much more depth than that! The ending had such a great twist! I really didn't see it coming at all! Read more

The Steps

By: Sylvester Stallone
Length: TBA

A gritty, inspiring, heart-wrenching memoir by the Academy Award-winning legend and icon Sylvester Stallone, about his unlikely path to stardom and the creation of the greatest underdog story ever told. In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, he and those steps have become symbols of... Read more about The Steps

Lessons from a Default Parent

Surviving the Front Line of Family Life (Without Losing Your Sh*t)

By: Lou Beckett
Narrated by: Rob Beckett & Lou Beckett
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

What nobody tells you about parenthood, from one of the ‘silent partners’ behind the Parenting Hell podcast.

School-run coordinator, party planner, clubs organiser, laundry sorter… and maybe even a ‘real’ job on top! Sound exhaustingly familiar?

From assumptions surrounding who is going to stay at home with the kids to the never-ending list of... Read more about Lessons from a Default Parent

The Street Clinic

10 Young Lives on the Frontline of Gang Culture

By: Dorcas Gwata
Narrated by: Chipo Chung
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

This audiobook features an exclusive Q&A between reader Chipo Chung and author, Dorcas Gwata

'Fascinating . . . While the rest of us are worrying about it, Dorcas Gwata is doing something about it' - Wendy Joseph, author of Unlawful Killings

Through the lives of ten young people an award-winning nurse reveals the impact of gang culture on... Read more about The Street Clinic

Find Your Pace

How Running Changed My Life and How It Can Change Yours Too

By: Emma Kirk-Odunubi
Narrated by: Emma Kirk-Odunubi
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

This audiobook includes guided runs to help you progress to a faster 5k and is read by the author, Emma Kirk-Odunubi

'This genuinely feels like having a personal running coach in the book. Emma’s way of making runners of all paces feel confident in their own race is unmatched. A must-read for amateur and experienced runners alike.' - Candice... Read more about Find Your Pace

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

Outlander meets Game of Thrones in this blockbuster new epic fantasy - set in a city filled with rogues, assassins and dangerous politics

By: Ilona Andrews
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 21 hours 33 minutes

An unforgettable fantasy set in a city peopled with ruffians, spies, malcontents and murderers. Experience out-of-this world adventure and dangerous politics as Maggie tries to survive waking up in her favourite fictional world.

A heart-pounding epic from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author duo Ilona Andrews.

When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy... Read more about This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me

This Story Might Save Your Life

A Novel

By: Tiffany Crum
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“I love this combo romance/thriller! Best friends Benny and Joy host a very successful "comedy survival" podcast and are about to clinch a whopping expansion deal....when Joy and her husband Xander disappear under suspicious circumstances. Alternating POV chapters between Benny and Joy flow back and forth in time, revealing dark secrets and... Read more

Morsel

By: Carter Keane
Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus
Length: TBA

Carter Keane's Morsel is a delicious folk horror debut about learning to bite back when the world is determined to eat you alive.

Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office gig with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their... Read more about Morsel

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

By: John Chu
Narrated by: Katharine Chin
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.

Most Ancipated Books of 2026—Esquire
Best New Science Fiction of 2026— New... Read more about The Subtle Art of Folding Space

Sublimation

By: Isabel J. Kim
Narrated by: Major Curda & Michelle H. Lee
Length: TBA

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Glamour, LitHub, New Scientist, The Nerd Daily, Library Journal, and more!

Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for fans of Severance that asks what you'd sacrifice for a different life from... Read more about Sublimation

Liberal Fascisms

Žižek's Essays

By: Slavoj Žižek
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: TBA

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ‘Liberal Fascisms’, Slavoj Žižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism.

To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky... Read more about Liberal Fascisms

Voidverse

Epic, high-octane sci-fi as you've never read it before - perfect for fans of Dune and The Expanse

By: Damien Ober
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

AN ENDLESS VOID. A POWERFUL ANOMALY. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.

When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. To survive, she fled into the void, a seemingly infinite nothingness where few dare venture, filled with floating, vertically stacked rocks. Some of these rocks are... Read more about Voidverse

Mafia: A Global History

By: Ryan Gingeras
Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias.

Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medellín Cartel, New York’s Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious, endlessly covered in news stories and popular media. Yet when official histories are written, their role in shaping nations, economies and... Read more about Mafia: A Global History

On Sundays She Picked Flowers

A haunting and lyrical Southern Gothic horror debut that will stay with you long after you turn the final page

By: Yah Yah Scholfield
Narrated by: Angel Pean, Patryce Williams & York Whitaker
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Lone Women meets Sorrowland in this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut about a woman who escapes her family home to the uncanny woods of northern Georgia and must now contend with haints, ghosts and a literal beast in the woods.

When Judith Rice ran away from the house she grew up in, she thought she severed her abusive mother’s hold on... Read more about On Sundays She Picked Flowers

How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates

The must-have sexy, funny and scary slasher romcom

By: Shailee Thompson
Narrated by: Stefanie Kay & Patrick Zeller
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

‘Fresh, funny and criminally addictive’ HANNAH GRACE

‘I had a blast with this slasher-romance mashup’ ALICIA THOMPSON

For fans of Love in the Time of Serial Killers and Butcher & Blackbird, a horror movie fanatic gets caught in the middle of a murder spree and must use her encyclopedic knowledge of the romance and... Read more about How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates

Just Friends

The must-read emotional and enthralling second chance romance from TikTok star Haley Pham

By: Haley Pham
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

This heartwarming and swoonworthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham.

Blair and Declan were inseparable growing up – best friends who knew each other better than anyone else. But when an impulsive kiss took them from friends to something more,... Read more about Just Friends

Honeysuckle

A Novel

By: Bar Fridman-Tell
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth & Geraint Rhys
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

“It was so sweet and became so disturbing. I really enjoyed the story. It gave me Frankenstein vibes. Read more