Let’s take a beat here and acknowledge that we are currently in what many call “false fall.”
The leaves are beginning to color and a slight breeze seems to be blowing away that stodgy feeling of late summer, but don’t be fooled. False fall can lull even the most seasoned autumn-loving bibliophiles into a sense that cozy weather is here to stay, leaving them overdressed and underhydrated as they hoof it on that hike they really thought was only two miles long.
That’s what the sign said, anyway!
Don’t fret, though. Autumn is on its way, and we have the perfect audiobook pairings to get you through this final stretch of rollercoaster weather. Whether it’s still a bit hot and muggy or the perfect day for a jog in the park – these stories will give you the perfect backdrop to the changing of the seasons.
Read on to explore our top audiobook releases as September slips us finally into fall…
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Truly, Madly, Deeply
Written by L.J. Shen, narrated by Lila Winters and Teddy Hamilton
Releases September 10!
Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life: food.
Women are a distraction, and he doesn’t do those. Especially Cal Litvin, his baby sister’s best friend. Her entire existence is a complication; she’s awkward, eccentric, infuriating…
And, much to his chagrin, hotter than his kitchen.
…
Quirky, compassionate ball of sunshine Calla Litvin can’t catch a break and not just because she swore off running.
Back in her hometown to nurse her mother’s broken heart after losing her father, she finds herself jobless, hopeless, and penniless. She hopes to rekindle her friendship with her former BFF, but Dylan is attached at the hip to her cruel brother—the one Cal’s been secretly crushing on since middle school.
Truly, Madly, Deeply is a grumpy x sunshine, enemies-to-lovers romance. It is the first in the Forbidden Love series but can be read as a standalone.
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Sleep Tight
Written by J.H. Markert and narrated by Andi Arndt
Releases September 10!
The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive horror thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.
Beware the one who got away . . .
Father Silence once terrorized the rural town of Twisted Tree, disguising himself as a priest to prey on the most vulnerable members of society. When the police finally found his “House of Horrors,” they uncovered nineteen bodies and one survivor–a boy now locked away in a hospital for the criminally insane.
Nearly two decades later, Father Silence is finally put to death, but by the next morning, the detective who made the original arrest is found dead…
Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author who Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”
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The Secret Pilgrim
Written by John le Carré, narrated by Simon Vance
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“The many ingredients are skillfully marshaled: story elides into story; flashback and flash-forward, reminiscence, analysis and prognosis are lucidly and elegantly controlled. Indeed, The Secret Pilgrim is, technically, Mr. le Carré’s most magisterial accomplishment.”
— The New York Times Book Review (1991)
With his time in British intelligence drawing to a close, veteran spy “Ned” asks his colleague George Smiley to address his graduating class of trainee spies in Sarratt. Smiley’s remarks on espionage in the wake of the Cold War serve as trigger and backdrop for a series of recollections and memories of Ned’s many decades as a British spy.
Both a reminiscence of times past and a meditation on the future, The Secret Pilgrim—published more than ten years after Smiley’s People and little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall—is a mosaic that masterfully captures the complex and contradictory moral landscapes of Cold War intelligence.
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Murder Most Owl
Written by Sarah Fox, narrated by Hallie Bee Bard
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The first in the enchanting new Magical Menagerie mystery series where things are not always what they seem. Georgie Johansen returns to the charming, coastal town of Twilight Cove and quickly finds herself in a whirlwind of romance, magic, and murder!
It’s been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her Aunt Olivia’s farm in the coastal town of Twilight Cove, and things have certainly changed. First of all, it’s now an animal sanctuary, and then there’s the new farmhand who’s as mysterious as he is handsome. Her first day on the farm, Georgie encounters the eccentric Dorothy Shale, an older woman who lives in a cabin in the woods. There are rumours that Dorothy’s a witch, but Georgie doesn’t believe that. Although, Dorothy does have an unusual magical presence around her…
When Dorothy ends up murdered, suspicion falls on Georgie—she was the one who found the poor woman’s body, and being new in town doesn’t help with the suspicion!
The Guilty One
Written by Kiersten Modglin, narrated by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw, Chad Ackerman, Evan Sibley & Melissa Kay Benson
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Your husband was involved in a fatal accident.
One horrific sentence, delivered in an impersonal phone call, changes Celine Thompson’s life in a second. But when she’s asked to identify his body, what she discovers sends everything she thought she knew about her life crashing down.
This man is not my husband.
But who was the man who died driving Tate’s car? How did he have Tate’s possessions and, more importantly, why do they sport identical tattoos?
We’re going to find him.
When Tate doesn’t answer his phone or arrive home after the accident, Celine fears the worst. Still holding on to hope her husband may be alive, Celine is desperate to track Tate down and figure out what’s going on before it’s too late. The only problem? There are dark truths waiting to come out that are so atrocious she won’t ever be able to look away from them.
As she begins to put together the pieces of the mysterious day her husband went missing, it paints a picture of a man she never really knew.
The Death King
Written by Penelope Barsetti, narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo & Ramona Master
Releases September 24!
The king who raised an army from the dead desires me for my gift: the ability to speak with dragons. But I will never want him. No matter how handsome, he ruined my life…
The Death King has no idea who I am, has no idea what he did to my family ten years ago. He asks me to fight for his cause—but he won’t tell me exactly what that cause is. And then he tells me he wants more from me… desires me more than any other because, like him, I have the gift.
I can’t deny he’s the most handsome man I’ve ever seen, with eyes black like midnight, a jawline as sharp as his dragon’s talons, the height of a mountain, and shoulders as broad as a stream. But no amount of attraction will ever change the fact that he destroyed my life. The answer is no—and it’ll always be no.
But the Death King doesn’t accept that answer.
Perfect for readers of Sarah J. Maas’s A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES (ACOTAR) series – this book starts The Death series and contains dark themes with subject matter that may be difficult for some readers.
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The Anatomy of Genres
Written by John Truby, narrated by Nick Mondelli
Releases September 17!
A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story John Truby.
Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and books that people consume. They are the all-stars of the entertainment world, comprising the vast majority of popular stories worldwide. That’s why businesses—movie studios, production companies, video game studios, and publishing houses—buy and sell them. Writers who want to succeed professionally must write the stories these businesses want to buy. Simply put, the storytelling game is won by mastering the structure of genres.
Just as Truby’s first book, The Anatomy of Story, changed the way writers develop stories, The Anatomy of Genres will enhance stories’ quality and expand the impact they have on the world.
Fall has got to be the perfect time for an odyssey.
Sure, summer has its perks like long, sunny days and fun, sandy beaches. However, we can all agree that the fall season brings with it something a little more… magical. Something that can turn a simple road trip into an epic journey to recount for the ages! With changing leaves dotting the highway and a hot, seasonally spiced drink in your cupholder, fall creates the perfect backdrop to inspire the inner explorer within us all.
It’s also the season of change – a time when you can hardly ignore the call of a new adventure or experience when it comes along. And why would you anyway?
Oh yeah! Responsibilities.
Maybe we can’t shirk our daily duties FOREVER… but these brand-new audiobooks will certainly give you a break from reality you won’t soon forget!
Read on to see all our top adventure-filled sci-fi, fantasy, and litRPG releases for the month of September…
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Countess
Written by Suzan Palumbo, narrated by Chanté McCormick
Releases September 10!
A queer Caribbean anti-colonial Count of Monte Cristo set in space in which a betrayed captain seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations.
Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel.
When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loyalty to the empire. Her conviction and subsequent imprisonment set her on a path of revenge, determined to take down the evil empire that wronged her, all while the fate of her people hangs in the balance.
Resonance
Written by Jonathan Smidt, narrated by Austin Rising
Releases September 10!
D.E.D. Exorcists is the latest Augmented Reality mobile game focused on capturing, collecting, and training teams of Digitally Energized Demons. For an ordinary college student like Henry, who has always loved monster-taming RPGs, it looks like the perfect game. At least, until he downloads it.
Now, the monsters are real.
Henry finds himself forcibly recruited into the very real D.E.D. Exorcists: a shadow organization capable of capturing, training, and subduing the real-life demons that are invading Earth. These creatures’ powers and abilities are beyond Henry’s wildest dreams, as he’s yanked out of his mundane life and into the world of magic, monsters, and dark secrets.
Resonance is the first title in the D.E.D. Exorcist litRPG series!
Warbreaker’s Rage: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure
Written by Cameron Reed & Joe Walton (Intro), narrated by Frankie Corzo
Releases September 11!
The Connected System has come to Earth and brought many changes and dangers.
Lochlan Brady and his daughters have faced some of those dangers and worked to build a place where they and other survivors can start to rebuild civilization.
The new world is one where power rules and Loch has found himself to be the most powerful around. It’s thrust him into a position of responsibility for not just his daughters but all the other survivors. It’s not one he wants but feels he has to take.
Book 3 of The Connected System saga – an epic LitRPG Apocalypse series from the bestselling author behind Sky Realms Online. This action-packed System Invasion series features a father forced to survive this new world while also protecting and building a new home for his family.
Perfect for fans of Defiance of the Fall, Life in Exile, and Apocalypse: Generic System.
The Escher Man
Written by T. R. Napper, narrated by Nick Atkinson
Releases September 17!
A cartel enforcer across Southeast Asia must escape a world of paranoia and violence to save his family in this cerebral and multi-layered cyberpunk science fiction novel, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets. Perfect for fans of William Gibson’s The Peripheral and Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.
“Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and rewritten. You keep this log because you’re hard-pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.”
‘Endgame’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband—haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had.
Endel wants them back, and he wants out. But life in the syndicate isn’t one you can simply leave.
The Sapling Cage
Written by Margaret Killjoy, narrated by Jackie Meloche
Releases September 24!
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy uses her own transfeminine experience to tell a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a story of trans witchcraft.
Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch—learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them.
There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy.
Witch Slapped
Written by Sarah Noffke and Mike Anderle, narrated by Nick Atkinson
Releases September 17!
Magic is desperately at risk of being lost forever…
All because of one witch.
The original one.
Mater Inferni.
She must be stopped.
Witchcraft must be eradicated.
But to do so will be the biggest challenge Rose Beaufont has ever faced.
Rose Beaufont faces the Mother of Witches before she destroys magic for good in this action-packed tenth installment of The Undoubtable Rose Beaufont series.
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