A chilling cautionary tale about the internet, social media, and connectedness with echoes of Animal Farm. The book raises important and timely questions about connectedness, transparency, and the dark side of the internet. The main character, Mae, is hired to work at her dream tech company, The Circle. She can't believe her luck, even despite a weird experience with a colleague and an increasingly visible role at the company. More info →

When we read Lovely War together in the Modern Mrs. Darcy Book Club this spring, Book Club members kept telling me the audio was particularly good, so if you're an audiophile, you should know that this fun novel combines three unexpected elements to great effect: World War I, a love story, and Greek mythology. It begins with Aphrodite and Ares walking into a swanky Manhattan hotel during WWII, and soon enough Aphrodite's husband Hephaestus challenges her to show him what love really looks like. She obliges, and takes the reader back in time to meet four young lovers in 1917 Britain, showing her fellow gods how each couple fell in love, and what they mean to each other. It sounds unlikely but the interesting narrative structure totally works. More info →

I have this downloaded and it has not only made the list of YOUR favorite audiobooks, but reviewers around the interwebs use words like "masterpiece," "artful," "epic," and "a rip-roaring tale." The story follows a young freed slave, George Washington Black, or "Wash," across the globe from the cane fields of the Caribbean to the Arctic to London to the Moroccan deserts as a manservant to Christopher, an abolitionist, explorer, and inventor. Wash accompanies him around a world where impossible things happen—flying machines carry men across the sky, and divided people can begin to see each other as human. More info →