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BIG CHIEF

BIG CHIEF

Earphones Award Winner

by Jon Hickey | Read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Simon & Schuster Audio
Fiction

Loss haunts this powerful story of politics, corruption, and loyalty. Narrator Shaun Taylor-Corbett continues his fine work with Indigenous authors. He performs this debut novel with just the right tone, style, and tempo. He voices the angsty Mitch Caddo with a sure sense of his conflicted life as a "fixer" for the fictional Passage Rouge Nation. An outsider with an Ivy League... Read More

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER

Earphones Award Winner

by Stephen Graham Jones | Read by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, Owen Teale

Simon & Schuster Audio
Horror

Listeners don't just experience a fascinating historical drama--they also become steeped in a bloody gothic Western. Stellar performances are the center of this compelling listening experience. Narrator Marin Ireland fully embodies the beleaguered humanities professor who, while deep diving into the campus archive, discovers the story of her ancestors. At the same time, she is... Read More

CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER

CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER

by Kiese Laymon | Read by Samuel Eubanks

Listening Library
Children

Newcomer Samuel Eubanks brings an unstudied earnestness to his narration of this story of Black boys and bygone Mississippi summers. This is the first children's book by MacArthur Fellow Kiese Laymon. The unnamed protagonist spends summers with his grandmother; right next door is a boy who is visiting the country from New York. Eubanks sounds just a few years older than these... Read More

DEEP END

DEEP END

by Ali Hazelwood | Read by Thérèse Plummer, Ben Holtzmuller

Penguin Audio
Romantic Fiction

Thérèse Plummer and Ben Holtzmuller deliver a captivating duet narration of this thoughtful romance. Stanford diver Scarlett, voiced by Plummer, has her future meticulously planned--if she can overcome her recent diving block, pass German, and ace the MCAT. With so much on her plate, relationships have never been a priority. Pen is a fellow diver on Scarlett's team. Lukas,... Read More

DREAM COUNT

DREAM COUNT

Earphones Award Winner

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae, Janina Edwards

Random House Audio
Fiction

The tone, tempo, and lilting intonation of all four narrators make this listening experience rewarding. This novel--really four connected, finely crafted novellas--simply engages the listener from the start. Three of the major characters are Nigerian women: a travel writer, a successful lawyer, a powerful business woman--and the fourth, also West African, a maid at a posh... Read More

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green | Read by John Green

Listening Library
Contemporary Culture

On a visit to Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, bestselling author John Green met Henry, a charismatic patient who looks much younger than his age due to the ravages of a tuberculosis infection on his body. They established a friendship, and Green's interest in the disease grew, leading him to become a supporter of Partners in Health and an advocate for reducing... Read More

FAN SERVICE

FAN SERVICE

by Rosie Danan | Read by Aaron Shedlock, Brittany Pressley

Penguin Audio
Romantic Fiction

Brittany Pressley and Aaron Shedlock charm listeners in this contemporary paranormal romance. Alex Lawson was once the outsider of her small town. Now she's Internet famous as the expert on the online fan forum she built for a long-running werewolf detective show. But she still can't stand the show's star, Devin Ashwood, whose career plummeted when the show ended. Waking up... Read More

THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS

THE HYMN TO DIONYSUS

Earphones Award Winner

by Natasha Pulley | Read by Sid Sagar

Bloomsbury Publishing
Fantasy

Sid Sagar immediately draws listeners into this riveting novel, set in ancient Thebes. Phaidros is a soldier who was raised to fight. Now he's in his 30s, lonely and grieving the loss of his sworn companion even as he trains a new generation. He's immensely likable, and the first-person perspective and colloquial language mean that Sagar is able to bring listeners intimately... Read More

THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS

THE JACKAL'S MISTRESS

by Chris Bohjalian | Read by Marni Penning, Chris Bohjalian

Random House Audio
Historical Fiction

Narrator Marni Penning performs this story of unlikely friendship and divided loyalty during the chaos of the American Civil War. Southerner Libby Steadman does all she can to keep the family gristmill going while her husband is away fighting. When she discovers a horribly injured Union soldier, she has to weigh the dangers and benefits of keeping him alive behind enemy lines.... Read More

MURDER BY MEMORY

MURDER BY MEMORY Dorothy Gentleman, Book 1

by Olivia Waite | Read by Blair Baker

Macmillan Audio
Science Fiction

Blair Baker narrates this sci-fi mystery. Dorothy Gentleman is a detective aboard the HMS FAIRWEATHER, an interstellar passenger ship--spaceship, that is. To her surprise, she wakes up in an unfamiliar body just as a murder victim is found, a situation that leads to several more terrible developments. Baker's depiction of Dorothy's initial confusion over her predicament quickly... Read More

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

by Astrid Lindgren, Susan Beard [Trans.] | Read by Sutton Foster

Listening Library
Children

First-time listeners, as well as those who once treasured this story, will be thrilled by Sutton Foster's character portrayals. Central to this audiobook's success is Foster's portrayal of Pippi, the quirky 9-year-old who moves in next door to Tommy and Annika with a horse, a monkey, no parents, and wild stories. Foster's narration crackles with dynamic vibrancy when it comes... Read More

RABBIT MOON

RABBIT MOON

by Jennifer Haigh | Read by Katharine Chin, Yu-Li Alice Shen

Hachette Audio
Fiction

Narrators Katharine Chin and Yu-Li Alice Shen transport listeners with their portrayals of complex characters in this literary audiobook. American Lindsey Litvak, age 22, is fighting for her life in a Shanghai hospital after a hit-and-run accident. Her divorced parents rush to China to be by her side, but they don't speak the language and struggle to navigate their new... Read More

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS

THE RIVER HAS ROOTS

Earphones Award Winner

by Amal El-Mohtar | Read by Gem Carmella

Macmillan Audio
Fantasy

Gem Carmella narrates a magical novella inspired by traditional ballads. Sisters Esther and Ysabel use their musical talents to tend the enchanted willow their family has honored for generations. When an unwanted suitor appears, everything they love is suddenly at risk. Carmella's narration perfectly blends the fantastical elements of fairy tales with the macabre elements of... Read More

THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND

THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND

Earphones Award Winner

by Patti Callahan Henry | Read by Julia Whelan, Theo Solomon

Simon & Schuster Audio
Fiction

This mystery explores the emotions felt by the family of a young American novelist who vanished 25 years earlier. Daughter Clara, skillfully portrayed by Julia Whelan, receives a cryptic phone call informing her that she must personally claim her mother's writing satchel. She steels herself and travels to London with her daughter. Once there, the two meet young executor... Read More

UNLIKELY NEIGHBORS

UNLIKELY NEIGHBORS

by Renee Daniel Flagler | Read by Keisa Parrish, Jamal West

Harlequin Audio
Romantic Fiction

Listeners are in for a treat with this sexy Black romance loaded with substance and charm, wonderfully narrated in alternating chapters by Jamal West and Keisa Parrish. Sparks fly when Holland and Noble meet in contemporary Brooklyn. After a health scare, Holland, whose natural warmth and sincerity are invitingly conveyed by Parrish, longs to leave small-town South Carolina for... Read More

WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN

WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

by Riley Black | Read by Wren Mack

Macmillan Audio
Contemporary Culture

Paleontologist Riley Black's vivid writing and Wren Mack's wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening. Traveling through the planet's geologic epochs, Black imagines detailed scenes, and Mack's engaged performance evokes the weather, landscape, creatures, and interactions that Black describes. Yes, dinosaurs, insects,... Read More

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