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Midwest Tape has developed an audiobook program to meet the unique needs of public libraries. With over 20,000 titles from over 175 publishers, we carry the newest best sellers as well as hard-to-find and special interest titles. As always, if you cannot find a title you are looking for, just ask us, and we'll do our best to find it for you.

All Midwest Tape audiobooks that you order will arrive shelf-ready in our patented Soundsafe™ audiobook case. We developed the Soundsafe™ case exclusively for our customers. Its rugged construction is drop-box safe, and its compact size saves valuable shelf space. Please reference our Soundsafe Case page for further details about this revolutionary product.

You can search for and purchase audiobooks here on our website. Additionally, our library-friendly services - including MARC records, free vendor records, customized VIP processing, 9xx ordering, and customized standing order plans - are available for audiobooks.

Please click the additional links here on the Midwest Tape Audiobook page to learn more about our audiobook products and program. If you have any questions or feedback, please call our Customer Service Department.

Your Best Choice for Audiobooks
soundsafe cases

Until now, libraries have been confronted with a variety of case shapes and sizes - which resulted in messy, haphazard shelves. Often these vinyl cases melted in the heat and cracked at the seams after only a few circulations.

In response, Midwest Tape engineered the Soundsafe™ line of audiobook cases:
  • Soundsafe™ 12 for audiobooks up to 12 discs
  • Soundsafe™ 22 for audiobooks up to 22 discs
  • Soundsafe™ 44 for audiobooks up to 44 discs

Each and every audiobook that you order will arrive shelf-ready in a Soundsafe™ case of the appropriate size. Additionally, Midwest Tape includes repackaging at no extra cost.

Rugged performance keeps discs safe

The patented Soundsafe™ case is engineered specifically for libraries. It features thickened polypropylene walls that are extremely rugged, which means secure storage in a drop-box-safe case that can withstand patron abuse and automated handling equipment. We even custom designed the sturdy interior sleeves to hold the discs securely and provide easy placement and removal of each disc. The cloth interiors prevent scratching, increasing disc life, and the sleeves have special retention welds that prevent the discs from falling out.

Your Best Choice for Audiobooks
custom standing orders

Midwest Tape's Audiobook Customized Standing Order Plans offer all the same great features as our DVD and CD plans. Audiobook specialists on staff research upcoming titles from over 175 different publishers and pass that knowledge on to you via our Customized Standing Orders. For more information about Audiobook Customized Standing Order Plans, please contact Erica Messinger at emessinger@midwesttapes.com or call our Customer Service Department at 800-875-2785.

Pre-Publication

Fiction

NYT Best Selling Authors
300 + authors
225 titles/year
Also Available:
New York Times #1 Best Selling Authors
40 Authors
40 titles/year

New & Notable Authors
Titles hand-selected by Midwest Tape
120 titles/year

Hot New Genre Fiction New!
Titles hand selected by Midwest Tape
New African-American
60 titles/year
New Mystery
120 titles/year
New Romance
120 titles/year

Non-Fiction

Hot New Non-Fiction
Titles hand-selected by Midwest Tape
120 titles/year

Hot New Biography Releases
Titles hand-selected by Midwest Tape
120 titles/year

Hot New Self-Help Releases
Titles hand-selected by Midwest Tape
120 titles/year

Children's & Young Adult

NYT Best Selling Children's & YA Authors
75+ authors
75 titles/year

New & Notable Children's & YA
Titles hand-selected by Midwest Tape
75 titles/year

Current Published Title Plans from New York Times Best Sellers List

Fiction

Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers
From New York Times Weekly Top 15 list
220 titles/year

Critics' Picks Fiction
Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and AudioFile titles
120 titles/year

Children's & Young Adult

Children's & Young Adult Best Sellers
From NYT weekly top 15 list
70 titles/year

Critics' Picks Children's & Young Adult Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, School Library Journal, and AudioFile titles
120 titles/year

Non-Fiction

Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Sellers
From New York Times Weekly Top 15 list
200 titles/year

Critics' Picks Non-Fiction
Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal,
School Library Journal, and AudioFile titles
120 titles/year

Don't let lost or broken discs keep your audiobook titles out of circulation

Midwest Tape's Audiobook Replacement Program is designed for customers who need to replace one or two discs of a set. Purchasing individual replacements solves the problem of lost or damaged discs and keeps your hot audiobook titles in circulation. Our Replacement Program is available to all our customers; you don't have to be a member of a Customized Standing Order Plan to purchase replacement titles.

Replacements are available for our most popular Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Children's titles, including New York Times Best Selling Titles and Authors. We update the list of available titles daily and add hundreds of new titles each year, and all our audiobook replacements are only $9.99 per disc.

To see if a certain title has replacements discs available, search for that title via SmartBrowse™ or Search and note the replacement discs icon in their corresponding product detail screens (see screenshots below).

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Replacement Discs icon in product details screen within the Search function.

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Replacement Discs icon in product details screen within the SmartBrowse function.

You can also note replacement titles in our catalogs through this icon:

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Our Best Selling Authors Customized Standing Order Program features

All these great authors and more...

The authors on this list have appeared on the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers List in the past 5 years.

Authors in red have had a #1 Best Seller within that period.

Mitch Albom
Sarah Addison Allen
Isabel Allende
Aaron Allston
Kurt Andersen
Kevin J. Anderson
Mary Kay Andrews
Maya Angelou
Jeffrey Archer
Kelley Armstrong
Margaret Atwood
Richard Bachman
David Baldacci
Mary Balogh
Julian Barnes
Nevada Barr
Annie Barrows
Brunonia Barry
Josh Bazell
Glenn Beck
Ted Bell
Aimee Bender
Alex Berenson
Elizabeth Berg
Steve Berry
Maeve Binchy
Grant Blackwood
Sarah Blake
Amy Bloom
Charles Bock
Chris Bohjalian
T. C. Boyle
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Ann Brashares
Lilian Jackson Braun
Patricia Briggs
Suzanne Brockmann
Geraldine Brooks
Max Brooks
Terry Brooks
Dan Brown
Rita Mae Brown
Sandra Brown
Sneaky Pie Brown
Christopher Buckley
Jimmy Buffett
James Lee Burke
Candace Bushnell
Jim Butcher
William E. Butterworth IV
Chelsea Cain
Ethan Canin
Orson Scott Card
Stephen L. Carter
Richard Castle
Michael Chabon
Gabrielle Charbonnet
Tracy Chevalier
Jennifer Chiaverini
Lee Child
Lincoln Child
Deepak Chopra, M. D.
Carol Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark
Harlan Coben
Jackie Collins
Michael Connelly
Pat Conroy
Robin Cook
Stephen Coonts
Bernard Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell
Catherine Coulter
Robert Crais
Michael Crichton
Justin Cronin
Clive Cussler
Dirk Cussler
Gordon Dahlquist
Sandra Dallas
Andrew Davidson
Diane Mott Davidson
Maryjanice Davidson
Marisa De Los Santos
Jeffery Deaver
Ted Dekker
Guillermo Del Toro
Don Delillo
Barbara Delinsky
Nelson Demille
Troy Denning
Harry S. Dent Jr.
Jude Deveraux
Junot Diaz
Eric Jerome Dickey
Richard Dilallo
Annie Dillard
E. L. Doctorow
Jack Du Brul
Sarah Dunant
David Ebershoff
Dave Eggers
Bret Easton Ellis
Janet Evanovich
Richard Paul Evans
Linda Fairstein
Sebastian Faulks
Christine Feehan
Jasper Fforde
Joseph Finder
Fannie Flagg
Joanne Fluke
Vince Flynn
Ken Follett
Jamie Ford
William Forstchen
Frederick Forsyth
Dick Francis
Felix Francis
Dorothea Benton Frank
Charles Frazier
Tana French
James Frey
Alan Furst
Diana Gabaldon
Neil Gaiman
Lisa Gardner
Julie Garwood
Elizabeth George
Tess Gerritsen
William Gibson
Emily Giffin
Newt Gingrich
Julia Glass
Amanda Goldberg
Christie Golden
Terry Goodkind
Allegra Goodman
Nancy Grace
Sue Grafton
Heather Graham
Seth Grahame-Smith
Jane Green
Philippa Gregory
W. E. B. Griffin
Martha Grimes
John Grisham
Lauren Groff
Andrew Gross
Lev Grossman
Michael Gruber
Sara Gruen
Mark Haddon
Mohsin Hamid
Laurell K. Hamilton
Kristin Hannah
Albert S. Hanser
Charlaine Harris
E. Lynn Harris
Joanne Harris
Robert Harris
Thomas Harris
Kim Harrison
John Hart
Brian Herbert
Carl Hiaasen
Robert Hicks
Jack Higgins
Elin Hilderbrand
Joe Hill
Tony Hillerman
Tami Hoag
Alice Hoffman
Chuck Hogan
Kay Hooper
Nancy Horan
Nick Hornby
Khaled Hosseini
Linda Howard
Katherine Howe
Stephen Hunter
Greg Iles
John Irving
Lisa Jackson
P. D. James
J. A. Jance
Iris Johansen
Roy Johansen
Edward P. Jones
Robert Jordan
Jan Karon
Drew Karpyshyn
Garrison Keillor
Faye Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Paul Kemprecos
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Raymond Khoury
Sue Monk Kidd
Laurie R. King
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Sophie Kinsella
Lisa Kleypas
Dean Koontz
Elizabeth Kostova
Jayne Ann Krentz
Tim Lahaye
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wally Lamb
Stieg Larsson
Stephanie Laurens
John Le Carre
Michael Ledwidge
Dennis Lehane
Elmore Leonard
John Lescroart
Jeff Lindsay
Johanna Lindsey
Laura Lippman
Julia London
Elizabeth Lowell
James Luceno
Robert Ludlum
Debbie Macomber
Gregory Maguire
Norman Mailer
Henning Mankell
Hilary Mantel
Phillip Margolin
Karl Marlantes
Yann Martel
George R. R. Martin
Steve Martini
Megan McCafferty
Anne McCaffrey
Donald McCaig
Cormac McCarthy
Alice McDermott
Ian McEwan
Kathleen McGowan
Jay McInerney
Larry McMurtry
Judith McNaught
Leila Meacham
Brad Meltzer
Claire Messud
Stephenie Meyer
Fern Michaels
Sue Miller
David Mitchell
Karen Marie Moning
Christopher Moore
Lorrie Moore
Toni Morrison
Walter Mosley
Kate Mosse
Irene Nemirovsky
Katherine Neville
Audrey Niffenegger
Maxine Paetro
Chuck Palahniuk
Diana Palmer
Michael Palmer
Sara Paretsky
Robert B. Parker
T. Jefferson Parker
John L. Parker Jr.
Ann Patchett
James Patterson
Richard North Patterson
Matthew Pearl
Ridley Pearson
George Pelecanos
Tom Perrotta
Anne Perry
Thomas Perry
Elizabeth Peters
Holly Peterson
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Jodi Picoult
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Preston
Richard Price
Thomas Pynchon
Amanda Quick
Anna Quindlen
Spencer Quinn
Dave Ramsey
Michael Reaves
Christopher Reich
Kathy Reichs
Anne Rice
Luanne Rice
Francine Rivers
Karen Robards
J. D. Robb
Nora Roberts
Marilynne Robinson
Kimberla Lawson Roby
James Rollins
Joel C. Rosenberg
Philip Roth
Howard Roughan
Salman Rushdie
Richard Russo
Edward Rutherfurd
R. A. Salvatore
Brandon Sanderson
John Sandford
Cathleen Schine
Joe Schreiber
Justin Scott
Lisa Scottoline
Alice Sebold
Lisa See
Diane Setterfield
Jeff Shaara
Mary Ann Shaffer
Anita Shreve
Lionel Shriver
Gary Shteyngart
Anne Rivers Siddons
Javier Sierra
Daniel Silva
Helen Simonson
Curtis Sittenfeld
Karin Slaughter
Jane Smiley
Alexander Mccall Smith
Martin Cruz Smith
Scott Smith
Tom Rob Smith
Wilbur Smith
Zadie Smith
Nicholas Sparks
Danielle Steel
Garth Stein
Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Neal Stephenson
S. M. Stirling
Kathryn Stockett
Plum Sykes
Amy Tan
Brad Thor
J. R. R. Tolkien
Karen Traviss
Adriana Trigiani
Danielle Trussoni
Scott Turow
Harry Turtledove
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Eric Van Lustbader
Donna Vanliere
Robert J. Wagner
Jeannette Walls
Joseph Wambaugh
J. R. Ward
Wendy Wasserstein
David Weber
Jennifer Weiner
Alison Weir
Lauren Weisberger
Randy Wayne White
Stephen White
Sean Williams
Jacqueline Winspear
Lolly Winston
Meg Wolitzer
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Stuart Woods
Bob Woodward
Jason F. Wright
David Wroblewski
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Timothy Zahn

Our Best Selling Children's Authors Customized Standing Order Program features

All these great authors and more...

The authors on this list have appeared on the New York Times Children's Best Sellers List in the past 5 years.

Sherman Alexie
Laurie Halse Anderson
M. T. Anderson
Kathi Appelt
Kelley Armstrong
Jay Asher
Blue Balliett
Dave Barry
Frank Beddor
Ted Bell
David Benedictus
Jeanne Birdsall
Holly Black
Judy Blume
Pseudonymous Bosch
John Boyne
Ann Brashares
Libba Bray
Kate Brian
Elise Broach
Bill Bryson
Jenna Bush
Candace Bushnell
Georgia Byng
Meg Cabot
Patrick Carman
Lewis Carroll
Ally Carter
Kristin Cashore
Gabrielle Charbonnet
Gennifer Choldenko
Cassandra Clare
Beverly Cleary
Andrew Clements
Eoin Colfer
Suzanne Collins
Lauren Conrad
Sharon Creech
Christopher Paul Curtis
Paula Deen
Sarah Dessen
Kate Dicamillo
Tony Diterlizzi
Cory Doctorow
Jeanne Duprau
Elizabeth Enright
Nancy Yi Fan
Catherine Fisher
Becca Fitzpatrick
Gayle Forman
Cornelia Funke
Neil Gaiman
Kami Garcia
Anna Godbersen
John Green
Tim Green
John Grisham
John Grogan
Shannon Hale
Kim Harrison
Lisi Harrison
Gail Herman
Carl Hiaasen
Jennifer L. Holm
Ellen Hopkins
Nick Hornby
Anthony Horowitz
Brian Jacques
Maureen Johnson
Carrie Jones
Cynthia Kadohata
Lauren Kate
Jacqueline Kelly
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Liz Kessler
Jeff Kinney
Gordon Korman
Kirby Larson
Ingrid Law
Michael Ledwidge
Lemony Snicket
Gail Carson Levine
David Levithan
C. S. Lewis
Josh Lieb
Grace Lin
Pittacus Lore
Lois Lowry
Mike Lupica
D. J. Machale
Gregory Maguire
George R. R. Martin
Eoin McNamee
Stephenie Meyer
Kirsten Miller
Greg Mortenson
Lauren Myracle
Kadir Nelson
Jenny Nimmo
Garth Nix
Alyson Noel
Bill O'reilly
Kenneth Oppel
Wendy Orr
Mary Pope Osborne
Christopher Paolini
Barbara Park
Susan Patron
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Richard Peck
Sara Pennypacker
Lynne Rae Perkins
John Perry
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Matt Phelan
Tamora Pierce
Christopher Pike
Michael Pollan
Terry Pratchett
David Oliver Relin
Louise Rennison
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Rick Riordan
J. K. Rowling
Rachel Renee Russell
Ned Rust
Carrie Ryan
Louis Sachar
Angie Sage
Gary D. Schmidt
Michael Scott
Brian Selznick
Nic Sheff
Matthew Skelton
L. J. Smith
Thomas E. Sniegoski
Jerry Spinelli
Rebecca Stead
Paul Stewart
Trenton Lee Stewart
Maggie Stiefvater
Margaret Stohl
Jonathan Stroud
Cecily Von Ziegesar
Nancy Werlin
Jacqueline West
Scott Westerfeld
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Markus Zusak

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