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Narrated by:
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Moniqua Plante
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By:
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CJ Leede
About this listen
Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024
Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024
"Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious.”—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep
From CJ Leede, the author of Maeve Fly, comes a scorching new apocalyptic novel. American Gods meets The Last of Us in this epic and sweeping story about the end of the world as we know it.
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.
Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virgin…
The end times are coming.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.
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“Leede masterfully eases readers into a taut horror plot in her standout sophomore outing...plenty of page-turning suspense, and this proves hard to put down.”—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
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“A riveting, sprawling, staggeringly brilliant novel about the horrors of shame and repression and sexual violence and moral panics. American Rapture is a riotous scream and an emotional ode to anyone who has ever hidden their true self under their mattress. Blood-soaked, heart-wrenching, grim and glorious. Leede is a singular talent.”—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep
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Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer’s group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leaves her and her career lightly canceled. But she temporarily forgets all that by throwing herself into a few sexy distractions—like Ivy, a grad student researching 1950s lesbian pulp who smells like metallic orchids, or her new neighbor, Penelope, who smells like patchouli.
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Hilarious!!
- By Marilyn on 05-22-24
By: Anna Dorn
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The Dead Take the A Train
- Carrion City
- By: Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Julie Crews is a coked-up, burnt-out 30-something who packs a lot of magic into her small body. She’s trying to establish herself as a major psychic operative in the NYC magic scene, and she’ll work the most gruesome gigs to claw her way to the top. Desperate to break the dead-end grind, Julie summons a guardian angel for a quick career boost. But when her power grab accidentally releases an elder god hell-bent on the annihilation of our galaxy, the body count rises rapidly.
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Cared more about monsters than plot or characters
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 10-04-23
By: Richard Kadrey, and others
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State of Paradise
- A Novel
- By: Laura van den Berg
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister spends a growing amount of time using MIND’S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of the town by ELECTRA during the doldrums of a recent pandemic. But it’s not just the ominous cats, her mother’s burgeoning cult, or the fact that her belly button has become an increasingly deep cavern—something is off in the town.
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Fantastic, philosophical, reflects the times
- By Laurel Waterson on 11-01-24
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Motel Styx
- By: Michelle von Eschen, Jonathan Butcher
- Narrated by: Christian Shay
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Fueled by online trends, a shift in the American zeitgeist has led to the instatement of the Lazarus Act, legalizing the 'recreational use' of human corpses. Ellis Mercer, recently bereaved, embarks on a secret mission to America's first 'necrotel' to recover his wife's remains, before her corpse and his memory of her are desecrated by the motel’s twisted membership.
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Oof
- By Karen Currie on 06-01-25
By: Michelle von Eschen, and others
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The Lamb
- By: Lucy Rose
- Narrated by: Emma Rydal
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies. But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes.
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wow
- By Barbie on 05-24-25
By: Lucy Rose
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Private Rites
- A Novel
- By: Julia Armfield
- Narrated by: Hannah van der Westhuysen
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.
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Beautifully Written, But Mainly Fluff and Filler
- By Megs on 02-26-25
By: Julia Armfield
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Victorian Psycho
- By: Virginia Feito
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.
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meh
- By Pamela Y. S. on 02-13-25
By: Virginia Feito
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Indian Burial Ground
- By: Nick Medina
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Erin Tripp
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on—just like her beloved Uncle Louie before her—things are finally looking up for Noemi. Until the news of her boyfriend’s apparent suicide brings her world crumbling down. But the facts about Roddy’s death just don’t add up, and Noemi isn’t the only one who suspects that something menacing might be lurking within their tribal lands.
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Best book I’ve read this year
- By Katelyn Collison on 04-28-24
By: Nick Medina
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Model Home
- A Novel
- By: Rivers Solomon
- Narrated by: Gabby Beans
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
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Beautiful performance
- By Miranda Vonn Graves on 06-29-25
By: Rivers Solomon
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, Sara Morsey
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
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They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them.
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I’m not crying! It is just the witchcraft!
- By Jamie Toepel on 01-22-25
By: Grady Hendrix
Deep
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Speechless
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Unnecessarily Long
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Horrific and Beautiful
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A unique perspective..but
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The thing about this book that I really didn't love was that we were stuck inside of Sophie's brain for hours that were really minutes. Hours. And hours. And hours. During action scenes that took minutes we were listening to Sophie's every brain synapse until whatever was going to happen happened three days ago in listening time. At the end of the book, we had 18 minutes left and it was 18 minutes of Sophie waxing on about... whatever she'd been circularly waxing on about the whole time.
And TROPE ALERT Loved by all, even the girls want her, doesn't know she's pretty.
All of that said, I finished it and the last sentence was devastating.
Lord, let's survive the apocalypse as a horny teen
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sooooo wonderful
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Amazing!
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Another hit from CJ Leede
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Fireside Story and then some….
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