Our picks this month run the gamut from new stories from Fannie Flagg to dark academia from R.F. Kuang to Chuck Tingle’s latest. We hope you find a cool place to listen by the shore, on the stoop, in the backyard, next to the fan, or wherever summer takes you.
AUTOMATIC NOODLE
by Annalee Newitz, read by Em Grosland
Macmillan Audio
Release date: August 5
In a future postwar San Francisco, a group of robots opens a noodle shop.
THE MAGICIAN OF TIGER CASTLE
by Louis Sachar, read by Edoardo Ballerini, Louis Sachar
Penguin Audio
Release date: August 5
From author Sachar (HOLES), a fantasy novel for adults about a struggling kingdom, an arranged marriage, and a magician faced with a terrible choice.
KISS HER GOODBYE
by Lisa Gardner, read by Hillary Huber
Hachette Audio
Release date: August 12
Golden Voice Hillary Huber is back in this fourth Frankie Elkin adventure.
WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE
by Karin Slaughter, read by Kathleen Early
Harper Audio
Release date: August 12
Karin Slaughter embarks on a new mystery series set in the town of North Falls.
LUCKY DAY
by Chuck Tingle, read by Mara Wilson
Macmillan Audio
Release date: August 12
Eight million people were killed in a freakish occurrence of bad luck. Now a former professor is investigating an unusual lucky casino.
SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO: Fictions
by Fannie Flagg, read by the author
Random House Audio
Release date: August 19
Fannie Flagg narrates her own new collection of feel-good stories.
THE WITCH ROADS: Witch Roads, Book 1
by Kate Elliott, read by Ella Lynch
Tantor Media
Release date: August 19
A courier guides a prince on a dangerous journey in this first book in a new fantasy duology—the follow-up, THE NAMELESS LAND, arrives on audio early next year.
KATABASIS
by R.F. Kuang, read by Morag Sims, Will Watt
Harper Audio
Release date: August 26
In this new novel from the author of YELLOWFACE and BABEL, two graduate students try to save their professor’s soul.
