The Boys' Club

(Run Time: approx. 11.5 hours)

Sweetbitter meets The Firm in this buzzy, page-turning debut novel, already optioned to Netflix, about sex and power in the halls of corporate America.

One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020, Cosmopolitan's Best Summer Reads of 2020, and the New York Post's 30 Best Summer Books

Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book, star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her.

Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy...and by her cocksure male colleagues, who quickly take notice of the new girl. She's never felt so confident and powerful, even the innuendo-laced banter with clients feels fun. In the firm's most profitable and competitive division, Mergers and Acquisitions, Alex works around the clock, racking up billable hours and entertaining clients late into the evening. While the job is punishing, it has its perks, like a weekend trip to Miami, a ride in a client's private jet, and more expense-account meals than she can count.

But as her clients' expectations and demands on her increase, and Alex finds herself magnetically drawn to a handsome coworker despite her loving relationship at home, she begins to question everything, including herself. She knows the corporate world isn't black and white, and that to reach the top means playing by different rules. But who made those rules? And what if the system rigged so that women can't win, anyway?

When something happens that reveals the dark reality of the firm, Alex comes to understand the ways women like her are told, explicitly and implicitly, how they need to behave to succeed in the workplace. Now, she can no longer stand by silently, even if doing what's right means putting everything on the line to expose the shocking truth.

Erica Katz (Author) is the pseudonym for a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Columbia Law School who began her career at a major Manhattan law firm. A native of Tenafly, New Jersey, she now lives in New York City, where she's employed at another large law firm. The Boys' Club was her first novel and Fake will be her second.

Julia Whelan (Narrator) is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 700 titles.

She is, most recently, the recipient of Spotify's Narrator of the Year Award (the most listened-to narrator globally), the first-ever Gracie Award for Best Fiction Narrator (presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation), the SOVAS (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences) Lifetime Achievement Award, and winner of the Audie Award for Best Fiction Narrator of 2025. She also captured both the winner and runner-up slots in the inaugural audiobook category of the Goodreads Choice Awards.

Her latest books — the Audie nominated duet romance, Casanova LLC (coming in print, Spring 2027), and the annotated Victorian poetry anthology The Poetry Of My Oxford Year — debuted exclusively on Audiobrary. jmwhelan.com