Get ready—it’s almost time for the big fall audiobooks to start arriving. We’re excited about highly anticipated new titles from favorites Stephen King, Zadie Smith, Lauren Groff, Kate Atkinson, Richard Osman, and more. Let’s get listening!
HOLLY
by Stephen King, read by Justine Lupe
Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: September 5
Holly Gibney, who has appeared in earlier King novels including MR. MERCEDES, here gets her own spotlight. Justine Lupe, who played Holly in the Mr. Mercedes TV series, narrates.
THE RAGING STORM: Matthew Venn, Book 3
by Ann Cleeves, read by Jack Holden
Macmillan Audio
Release date: September 5
Detective Matthew Venn is back, and so is narrator Jack Holden, who brought to life an extensive cast of characters in the previous installment in the series.
THE FRAUD
by Zadie Smith, read by the author
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 5
Smith’s new historical novel concerns a trial that captured the public’s interest in Victorian England.
UP HOME: One Girl’s Journey
by Ruth J. Simmons, read by the author
Random House Audio
Release date: September 5
In this memoir, Simmons chronicles her journey to becoming president of Smith College and Brown University, and beyond.
THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE: Walt Longmire, Book 19
by Craig Johnson, read by George Guidall
Recorded Books Unabridged
Release date: September 5
More Wyoming crimes, more reckoning with the past in this latest Longmire adventure.
THE VASTER WILDS
by Lauren Groff, read by January LaVoy
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 12
In Groff’s latest novel, a servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement and sets off into the wilderness.
NORMAL RULES DON’T APPLY: Stories
by Kate Atkinson, read by Paterson Joseph
Random House Audio
Release date: September 12
A collection of interconnected stories from the author of SHRINES OF GAIETY and TRANSCRIPTION.
THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS: Essays
by Ross Gay, read by the author
Algonquin Books
Release date: September 19
Ross Gay follows up his BOOK OF DELIGHTS with more lyrical appreciations of the everyday.
THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE
by Richard Osman, read by Fiona Shaw
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 19
Narrator Fiona Shaw returns for this fourth outing for the Thursday Murder Club series, with more mysteries for Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim to solve.
A NOBLEMAN’S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A SCOUNDREL
by KJ Charles, read by Martyn Swain
Dreamscape
Release date: September 19
The second book in Charles’s Doomsday Books historical romance series (THE SECRET LIVES OF COUNTRY GENTLEMEN) follows the fortunes of smuggler Luke Doomsday and the new Earl of Oxney.
