Juggernaut mystery audiobooks from Richard Osman and Ann Cleeves arrive at the end of the month, but we’re also anticipating big new memoirs, fresh sci-fi and fantasy, middle-grade listening, and more to tide us all over.
MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
by Arundhati Roy, read by the author
Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: September 2
Roy (THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS) explores her relationship with her mother in this memoir.
ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER: Love, Loss, and Liberation
by Elizabeth Gilbert, read by the author
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 9
Elizabeth Gilbert reads her raw new memoir about love, addiction, and loss.
TUCK EVERLASTING: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Natalie Babbitt, read by Alexis Bledel
Macmillan Audio, Ages 10+
Release date: September 2
Alexis Bledel (“The Gilmore Girls”) narrates this 50th anniversary edition of the children’s classic.
SISTERS IN THE WIND
by Angeline Boulley, read by Isabella Star LaBlanc
Macmillan Audio, Ages 14+
Release date: September 2
Boulley and narrator Isabella Star LaBlanc team up once again, this time for the story of a foster teen trying to figure out her past and her future.
LADY LIKE
by Mackenzi Lee, read by Moira Quirk
Random House Audio
Release date: September 9
From the author of THE LADY'S GUIDE TO PETTICOATS AND PIRACY, a Regency romance about two women competing for the same man who fall for each other instead.
THE POISONED KING: Impossible Creatures, Book 2
by Katherine Rundell, read by Sam West
Listening Library, Ages 10+
Release date: September 11
This sequel to IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES (a Best Audiobook of 2024) finds new dangers for the magical creatures of the Archipelago.
REPLACEABLE YOU: Adventures in Human Anatomy
by Mary Roach, read by the author
Random House Audio
Release date: September 16
Mary Roach explores the history and future of replacing human body parts, from prostheses to artificial hearts.
SUNWARD
by William Alexander, read by Lindsey Dorcus
Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: September 16
In this sci-fi novel, an interplanetary courier must protect the AI pupils she mentors.
THE SUMMER WAR
by Naomi Novik, read by Ella Lynch
Random House Audio
Release date: September 16
A young witch tries to undo the curse she placed on her brother in this new novella from fantasy favorite Novik.
THE EXPERIMENT
By Rebecca Stead, read by Mark Sanderlin
Macmillan Audio, Ages 8+
Release date: September 16
From a Newbery Medalist—sixth-grader Nathan is (secretly) an alien, but the experiment that brought him to Earth is coming to an end.
TO CLUTCH A RAZOR: Curse Bearer, Book 2
by Veronica Roth, read by Helen Laser, James Fouhey, Nina Yndis, Tim Campbell
Macmillan Audio
Release date: September 16
We named WHEN AMONG CROWS one of our Best Audiobooks of 2024, so we’re eagerly awaiting the sequel.
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE: Thursday Murder Club, Book 5
by Richard Osman, Reader TBA
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 30
Talk about eagerly awaiting! Hooray for a new (and final?) meeting of the Thursday Murder Club.
THE KILLING STONES: Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves, Book 1
by Ann Cleeves, read by Kenny Blyth
Macmillan Audio
Release date: September 30
Favorite detective Jimmy Perez returns, having traded Shetland for Orkney.
THE LIBRARIANS
by Sherry Thomas, Read by Louisa Zhu
Penguin Audio
Release date: September 30
We love Sherry Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series, so we’re excited for this contemporary outing about a group of librarians in Texas and a game night gone wrong.
