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Updated March 9, 2026
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Tom Lake
Patchett, Ann
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers. "Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than...

Read by Meryl Streep

Charlotte's web
White, E. B.
CD
Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."* Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in...

Read by Meryl Streep and a full cast

Matilda
Dahl, Roald.
CD
"Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian...[His] stories work better in audio than in print." -The New York Times "The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! Matilda is a sweet,...

Read by Kate Winslet

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Adams, Douglas
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one...

Read by Stephen Fry

In \\\"Monkey Puzzle\\\", can butterfly help little monkey find his mum? Yes, finally, but only after a lot of trial and error as butterfly misunderstands monkey\\\'s descriptions and leads him to all sorts of unsuitable animals. From beloved picture book author Julia Donaldson. In the \\\"Corduroy collection,\\\" listen to four stories about one of literature\\\'s favourite bears, Corduroy, brought to life by the inimitable Viola Davis and Bahni Turpin. Written by Don Freeman. Stories included on the card are: Corduroy, A Pocket for Corduroy, Corduroy Lost and Found, Corduroy Takes a Bow. Families come in all shapes and sizes, from big to small and everything in between! Listen to the story of Mrs. Wobble the Waitress, Mr. Biff the Boxer, Miss Dirt the Dustman\\\'s Daughter and many more in the audio collection of Allan Ahlberg\\\'s beloved \\\"Happy Families.\\\" Features 11 classic tales. \\\"Peppa and the Great Outdoors\\\" is a collection of 10 stories based on Peppa

Read by Viola Davis and Bahni Turpin with music by Raffi

Explore the world of Peter Rabbit and more in this collection of stories by Beatrix Potter narrated by Olivia Colman and others. This card includes: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of the Flosy Bunnies, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle, and The Tale of Tom Kitten. In the Mog collection, listen to five warm and playful stories about the truly remarkable Mog the Forgetful cat, by beloved children\'s author Judith Kerr. This card includes: Mog the Forgetful Cat, Mog and the Baby, Mog\'s Christmas, Mog and the V.E.T., Mog\'s Bag Thing. Spectacular stories for the very young presented and performed by David Williams: four side-splitting stories - about an elephant, a hippo, a polar bear and a snake - in one spectacular collection! This unabridged compilation includes: The Slightly Annoying Elephant, The First Hippo on the Moon, The Bear Who Went Boo! and There’s a Snake in my School. Join the mighty pups as they use their super powers of five hig

Read by Olivia Colman, David Williams, and Richard Hughes with music by Laurie Berkner

Alan Bennett brings Winnie-the-Pooh\\\'s adventures to life in the Hundred Acre Wood. A. A. Milne\\\'s much-loved stories about a small bear and his friends are a treat for all the family. The collection includes Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner and A Party for Pooh. The tale of Desperaux : discover how the lives of a mouse, a vengeful rat and a servant girl intertwine in this extraordinary tale by Kate DiCamillo. Read by Graeme Malcolm. An unabridged production. The one and only Shrek! plus 5 other stories : meet an ogre, a magic bone, a dentist mouse and more in this collection of six classic stories by William Stieg. Read by Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. Before Shrek made it on the silver screen, there was William Steig\\\'s SHREK!, a book about an ordinary ogre who leaves his swampy childhood home to go out and see the world. Fortunately, the Milk by beloved storyteller Neil Gaiman. A father\'s quick trip to the grocery stor

Read by Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Graeme Malcolm with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda

The Dutch house : a novel
Patchett, Ann
CD
Audiobook performed by Tom Hanks. From the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, comes Ann Patchett's most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings...

Read by Tom Hanks

The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times) * The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming ...

Read by Claire Danes

The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
CD
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder." It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction. ...

Read by Tim Robbins and Robert Sean Leonard

Ready player one
Cline, Ernest.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."--USA Today * "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."--Entertainment...

Read by Wil Wheaton

The princess diaries
Cabot, Meg.
Paper Book
The first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise.

Read by Anne Hathaway

The woman in me
Spears, Britney
CD
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! - GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST MEMOIR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY PEOPLE Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, ...

Read by Michelle Williams and Britney Spears

Harry Potter discovers he’s a wizard. Not only that, he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry\'s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! Read by Jim Dale.

Read by Jim Dale

To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
CD
Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the deep south defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has...

Read by Sissy Spacek


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