Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series is a classic fantasy epic set in a world off balanced—where summers can last decades and winters last a lifetime. It is one of our top listener favorites, and now the basis for an HBO series.
In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king's powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne's shadow.
The Millennium Trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson is a spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue—and one of our most highly customer rated series.
Why we think it’s a great listen: How do you one-up a book that’s already a global literary phenomenon? Hire Simon Vance to (flawlessly) interpret the loves, lives, and murders of Sweden’s cold and secret-filled world. A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden.
Ward’s paranormal romance series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood, focuses on six vampire brothers and warriors who live together and defend their race against Lessers, de-souled humans who threaten their kind.
The vampire Darius fears for the life of his half-breed daughter, who is unaware of her unusual destiny. To oversee her transformation, Darius seeks help from Wrath, a dangerous loner and the world's only purebred vampire.
Always on the hunt for government conspiracies, the political watch-dogs that make up Baldacci’s Camel Club will entertain, surprise, and thrill you. With the latest book in the series just out, now’s your chance to get caught up in the action.
It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions.
Suzanne Collins' dark futuristic series has mass appeal to teens and adults alike. And with all three books in the trilogy written, you'll be on the edge of your seat ready to devour the next installment.
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Filled with the delicious romance - and fabulous festivities - Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet series celebrates the importance of love, friendship, and family in any woman's life.
The women at Vows - a wedding planning company in Connecticut - make it their business to create memorable events for couples sealing their bonds. And though the bonds among Parker, Emma, Mac, and Laurel may not be official, they are very real - and equally worthy of celebration.
The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels set in a detailed imaginary world drawing on elements of both European and Asian mythology. One of our most highly reviewed series, each book will captivate and enchant you.
When their village is attacked by trollocs, monsters thought to be only legends, three young men, Rand, Matt, and Perrin, flee in the company of the Lady Moiraine, a sinister visitor of unsuspected powers. Thus begins an epic adventure set in a world of wonders and horror, where what was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
With the next book in the D. D. Warren and Bobby Dodge series just out, now’s your chance to get caught up on all the action and suspense Gardner masterfully weaves together for her detective.
As a sniper with the elite Massachusetts State Police SWAT Team, Bobby Dodge saved a woman and her young son by shooting her armed husband. But vicious rumors begin to circulate the next morning when Bobby loses his gun and his privileges. It turns out the dead man was the son of a prominent Boston judge and had accused his wife of poisoning their son.
Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into the collective consumer conscience with the Shopaholic Series delivering a present day heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens.
Sophie Kinsella's debut is a romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her increasingly credit card debt. Emily Gray's narration bounces along with Becky and her buying whims, while delivering a humorous account of what happens when credit goes bad.
Butcher’s Dresden Files are a hybrid of mystery and fantasy with Harry Dresden investigating supernatural disturbances in modern-day Chicago. A favorite among the genre’s fans, this series certainly will not disappoint.
A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD Special Investigation Unit makes Harry believe things are looking up, but they are about to get worse, much worse. Someone is harnessing immense supernatural forces to commit a series of grisly murders. Someone has violated the first law of magic: Thou Shalt Not Kill. Tracking that someone takes Harry into the dangerous underbelly of Chicago, from mobsters.
Preston and Child create a favorite among their fans with Pendergast, a FBI agent with a unique personality, tons of Southern charm and with a knack for solving ghastly cases, namely those appearing to be the work of serial killers.
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who - or what - is doing the killing.
Mercy Thompson is one powerful, independent, and compassionate shape-shifting heroine. Once you finish the first book in Patricia Briggs’ fantastic series, you won’t be able to help but devour them all.
Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
The Hathaways series by historical romance master Lisa Kleypas is as breath-taking, bodice-ripping romantic as they get.
When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan.
Suddenly unemployed, Tess Monaghan will do almost anything to pay the rent, including acting as a private eye in a not-so-nice Baltimore address.
Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent - including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety - and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée - make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer.
Although the main characters are teenagers, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series is for teenagers and adults alike. Fill with mystery, suspense, mythology and fantasy, you’ll be on the edge of your seat with each installment.
Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest alchemist of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives, but only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.
Filled with paranormal mystery, fast-paced action, and plenty of romance, Jeaniene Frost’s sensuous Night Huntress series is sure to take you on one wild ride.
Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father—the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner…are there actually good vampires?
Dave Robicheaux, a sheriff's deputy in rural Louisiana, is as complex a character as are the mysteries James Lee Burke creates in his thrilling and provocative novels.
New York Times best-selling author James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels began with this first hard-hitting entry in the series. In The Neon Rain, Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
Filled with elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and westerns, Stephen King’s Dark Tower series follows a "Gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical.
Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea in the first volume of The Dark Tower series. Roland, the last gunslinger, is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange single-mindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape of good and evil.
Probably Patterson’s most notable character, Alex Cross is a DC detective who will stop at nothing to get the case solved and justice served.
Along Came a Spider first introduced Alex Cross, the brilliant homicide detective. When the daughter of a Hollywood actress and the son of the Secretary of the Treasury are kidnapped, Cross and the Secret Service are pitted against Gary Soneji, a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century.
Equal parts romance, fantasy, and mystery – with even a little bit of thriller thrown in – Karen Marie Moning’s popular Fever series has it all. Shadowfever, the fifth and final book, came out to rave reviews from fanatic Fever fans.
MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary 21st-century woman. Or so she thinks...until something extraordinary happens.