Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Literature & Fiction

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″...

A man goes to terrifying extremes to adopt his celebrity doppelganger's life in this darkly comedic psychological suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Upgrade. The basis for the upcoming A24 film Famous, starring Zac Efron. “My name is Lancelot Blue...

A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection—featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes. The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER London provides fabulously deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the twisty follow-up to Julia Seales’s bestselling debut, A Most Agreeable Murder, hailed by People as a “delightful cocktail . . . of wit, hilarity, and suspense!” After achieving her...

An odyssey through time in which past and future combine and re-combine to give the arc of a full life, by the "brilliant" (The New Yorker) author of A Different Drummer. "[A] lost giant of American literature." —The New Yorker The linked "2 novelas, 3 stories, and a little play" that make up...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you won’t want to hang up on. “A portrait of love, heartache, and hilarity that transcends its medium.”—Elle “Brilliant . . . Melissa Mogollon did not come to play...

The bride-to-be drops dead at her bachelorette weekend, with all of her bridesmaids as suspects for her murder, in this wry thriller full of deadly twists and characters you’ll love to hate. “I laughed, I gasped, and said ‘I do’ to this chilling romp sparkling with humor, Prosecco, and...

What becomes of happily-ever-after for a woman who can’t stand sex with the best guy ever? Her body used to work perfectly. For years, she tallied her orgasms, maintained a Top Humps list, and rated men on whether they excited her more mentally or physically—all with the purpose of finding...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OUR CULTURE...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and...

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled in danger when her friend, a controversial entrepreneur, goes missing. When her daughter Lotte was born, Dani had welcomed the chance to be a stay-at-home mother. To be good at something...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about a modern marriage and the bonds that keep people together. Mining the absurdities of contemporary society...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her...

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review). “A satire both cutting and careful in its approach, The Glow...

The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love—friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mothers of suspiciously sweet teenagers, ill-advised trysts—in all its forms, both ridiculous and sublime. Includes “Chicken-Flavored and...

THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR FINALIST In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR "Sublime." —New York Times Book Review "Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman...

Succession meets Bad Blood in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent The black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the...

One of the most beloved novels from the critically acclaimed novelist Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving explores a woman’s attempts to reconcile her rock-and-roll past with her significantly more sedate family life as a wife and mother. As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colshares is...