Around the World in 10 Books

Around the World in 10 Books

The Good Left Undone book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

The Good Left Undone

By Adriana Trigiani, narrated by Carlotta Brentan, Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Ballerini and, Deepti Gupta
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew...

Station Eleven book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel, narrated by Kirsten Potter
Tags: Science Fiction

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Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

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Genre: Mystery

Velvet Was the Night

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, narrated by Gisela Chípe
Tags: Mystery

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Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman...

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Genre: Mystery

The Sicilian Inheritance

By Jo Piazza, narrated by Rachel F. Hirsch and Carlotta Brentan
Tags: Mystery

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Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie’s death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Vacationers

By Emma Straub, narrated by Kristen Sieh
Tags: Literary Fiction

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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan.

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Genre: Young Adult

The Girls of Summer

By Katie Bishop, narrated by Annabel Scholey
Tags: Young Adult

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Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen, obliterating everything in its wake.

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Book 1) book cover
Genre: Fantasy

A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic Book 1)

By V. E. Schwab, narrated by Steven Crossley
Tags: Fantasy

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Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes. As such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire.

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Genre: True Crime

True Crime Canada

By Adrian Langenscheid and More, narrated by Andrew Nicholls
Tags: True Crime

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In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Layover

By Lacie Waldon, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
Tags: Clean Romance

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After 10 years as a flight attendant, Ava Greene is poised to hang up her wings and finally put down roots. She's got one trip left before she bids her old life farewell, and she plans to enjoy every second of it. But then, she discovers that former pilot Jack Stone - the absurdly gorgeous, ridiculously cocky man she's held a secret grudge against for years - is on her flight.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Ready or Not

By Cara Bastone, narrated by Alex Finke
Tags: Clean Romance

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Eve Hatch lives for surprises! Just kidding. She expects every tomorrow to be pretty much the same as today. She loves her cozy apartment in Brooklyn that’s close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, traditional family who has never really understood her. While her job is only dream-adjacent, it’s comfortable and steady. She always knows what to expect from her life...