By Collection Management Librarian Dontaná McPherson-Joseph
Sheltering in place got you feeling a little cooped up? Open the window, turn up the volume, and let your imagination roam with these audiobooks. Happy reading, Oak Park!
Audiobooks to listen to while being socially distant
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
Why you should try it: Let this historical drama sweep you away and into a past where legends are real and souls wander.
Description: A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby, Hoopla
The Kissing Game by Marie Harte
Why you should try it: We may not be able to go out for dates, but that shouldn't stop us from living vicariously through Rena and Axel.
Description: Tired of waiting for Axel Heller to notice her, diehard romantic Rena Jackson decides it’s time to forget about him and find her own Mr. Right until Axel makes her a bet that involves the hottest kiss she’s ever had. Original.
Stream & download with: Hoopla
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K Jemisin
Why you should try it: Jemisin is a three-time Hugo award-winning writer. Get a taste of why here, then dive into her longer works.
Description: Offers a collection of the author's short fiction, including "The City Born Great," where a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Why you should try it: Manly men reading and enjoying romance novels, expressing love, and trying to be good people. What's not to love?
Description: To win back his wife, who wants a divorce, desperate Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source—a secret romance-reading club of Nashville’s top alpha men.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen N. Arnett
Why you should try it: You'll be caught up in the levels of dysfunction within the Morton family. They probably should've tried social distancing.
Description: Taking over her family's failing taxidermy shop in the wake of her father's suicide, grief-stricken Jessa-Lynn Morton pursues less-than-legal ways of generating income while struggling to figure out her place among her eccentric loved ones.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby, Hoopla
The Best Bad Things by Katrina Marie Carrasco
Why you should try it: This book has everything: romance, double agents, undercover work, smuggling. Also, fisticuffs. A lot of fisticuffs.
Description: Dismissed from the Pinkerton Detective Agency for her penchant for going undercover as a man, 19th-century espionage agent Alma Rosales navigates multiple complex identities while tracking stolen opium for an alluring mastermind smuggler.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby, Hoopla
Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis
Why you should try it: It's funny, and we could all use a laugh right now. If you like this one, you should also try American Housewife.
Description: Presents a humorous collection of essays on the art of living as a "Southern Lady" that explores subjects ranging from marriage and manners to women's health and entertaining
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby
About Dontaná
Dontaná is a Collection Management Librarian who was born with an unending reading list. She is almost always reading two books simultaneously and is easily distracted by cool covers.
