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BACK AFTER THIS

BACK AFTER THIS

by Linda Holmes | Read by Linda Holmes

Random House Audio
Fiction

Author/narrator Linda Holmes capitalizes on her media experience in this snappy comic novel. Cecily Foster has agreed to host a new podcast--even if it means she'll also have to be the star, follow the advice of a popular relationship influencer, and have it called "20 Dates." A deal with her boss is the only way she'd ever consider a show revolving around her own first dates,... Read More

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

CANDY DARLING

CANDY DARLING Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

by Cynthia Carr | Read by Justin Vivian Bond

Macmillan Audio
Biography & Memoir

Narrator Justin Vivian Bond emphasizes the drama in the transformation and vivid life of Candy Darling, a transgender performer in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. This biography recounts her traumatic youth, which included growing up in a dysfunctional family, an abusive father, and being bullied outside her home, as well. From there her journey takes her to her true... Read More

DEAR MANNY

DEAR MANNY Dear Martin, Book 3

Earphones Award Winner

by Nic Stone | Read by James Fouhey, Nic Stone

Listening Library
Young Adult

Stone's final entry in the Dear Martin trilogy is made more powerful with this compelling performance by James Fouhey. Jared's plan to run for junior class president hits a bump when a Black transfer student named Dylan adds her name to the slate. Fouhey captures Jared's conflict over his white privilege, which lingers after the death of his best friend, Manny. It shows up in... 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

DEVOTIONS

DEVOTIONS The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Earphones Award Winner

by Mary Oliver | Read by Kimberly Farr

Penguin Audio
Poetry & Drama

Many of Mary Oliver's poems are about God or nature, and sometimes it's difficult to find the line between them. Her world was full of many delights and, had she lived to hear them, Kimberly Farr's interpretations of her poems would have been among them. There is some melancholy in this collection--although not much--and Farr's marvelous vocal talents bring that out as much as... 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

HOW WE LEARN TO BE BRAVE

HOW WE LEARN TO BE BRAVE Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

by Mariann Edgar Budde | Read by Mariann Edgar Budde

Penguin Audio
Personal Growth

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde narrates in a calm, well-modulated voice with a deliberate, sometimes halting cadence, evoking her delivery from the pulpit. The bishop explores six practices generating effective responses to "the decisive moments when we are called to act with courage." Using examples from her own life, as well as from luminaries including Justice Thurgood... Read More

JUNIE

JUNIE

Earphones Award Winner

by Erin Crosby Eckstine | Read by Angel Pean

Random House Audio
Fiction

Narrator Angel Pean's stand-out performance is essential here. Her storytelling skill is consistently riveting, fully embodying these characters and the detailed and occasionally magical world they inhabit. Junie, an enslaved girl in 1800s Alabama, lives with the loss of her sister, Minnie, whose death is a weight on her conscience. Her days of servitude include companionship... Read More

ORIGINAL SINS

ORIGINAL SINS The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Earphones Award Winner

by Eve L. Ewing | Read by Robin Miles, Eve L. Ewing

Random House Audio
History

Kudos to the author, publisher, and narrator of this audiobook. Author Ewing delivers her introduction, which sets up the arguments. She then turns the body of the text over to Golden Voice narrator Robin Miles. Miles is a gifted performer whose tone, tempo, and cadence enhance the dark truths of this provocative work on the failure of our educational system. Ewing, who is a... 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

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

THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O.

THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O.

Earphones Award Winner

by Karen Thompson Walker | Read by Jay Myers, Alex Sarrigeorgiou

Random House Audio
Fiction

Jay Myers and Alex Sarrigeorgiou keep listeners hooked throughout this haunting novel. Psychiatrist Dr. Henry Byrd is faced with a perplexing case. His newest patient, Jane O., normally can recall every detail from the events of her life. However, she cannot remember what happened in the previous 25 hours, after having blacked out. The mysterious story unfolds through Dr.... Read More

THREE WILD DOGS (AND THE TRUTH)

THREE WILD DOGS (AND THE TRUTH) A Memoir

by Markus Zusak | Read by Markus Zusak

Harper Audio
Biography & Memoir

The author of the international bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak, intertwines his memoir with the entertaining story of how his family adopted three rescue dogs and how they brought both chaos and joy to his life. Zusak introduces listeners to Reuben, Archer, and Frosty in his well-known beautiful narrative style, establishing them as memorable characters. Charming and... Read More

TILDA IS VISIBLE

TILDA IS VISIBLE

Earphones Award Winner

by Jane Tara | Read by Caroline Lee

Random House Audio
Fiction

Caroline Lee's joyful and witty performance of this humorous and insightful audiobook is a dream listen. With a light, warm intonation, Lee brings to life Tilda, a 52-year-old divorced mother and photographer who wakes up one morning to find one of her fingers and one ear are no longer visible. After visiting her internist, she learns that she has invisibility disorder, a... Read More

WHAT FELL FROM THE SKY

WHAT FELL FROM THE SKY

by Adrianna Cuevas | Read by Giordan Diaz, P.J. Morgan, Matt Haynes, Beth Hicks, Stephanie Willing, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Erin deWard, Cary Hite

Dreamscape
Children

In the small town of Soledad, Texas, in 1952, 12-year-old Pineda encounters a young alien when she crash-lands on his family's pecan farm. Unfortunately, the U.S. military has just taken over the town for a war games exercise. Giordan Diaz gives a winning performance as Pineda, communicating his humor and kindness and switching easily between English and Spanish, which Pineda... 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

WOOING THE WITCH QUEEN

WOOING THE WITCH QUEEN Queens of Villainy, Book 1

by Stephanie Burgis | Read by Amanda Leigh Cobb

Macmillan Audio
Fantasy

Amanda Leigh Cobb delights listeners with the first in the Queens of Villainy series, which is perfect for those who like their romantasy on the lighter side. A case of mistaken identity has Archduke Felix serving as librarian and wizard for the wicked witch, Queen Saskia. The empire thinks Felix is a tyrant bent on conquering all. In reality, he is kept under the thumb of his... Read More

A WORLD WORTH SAVING

A WORLD WORTH SAVING

by Kyle Lukoff | Read by Will Malloy, Kyle Lukoff

Listening Library
Children

Will Malloy performs this moving fantasy audiobook with skill and care. A's parents have been dragging him to painful group conversion therapy meetings ever since he came out as trans. Ironically, it's the only place A has been able to befriend other trans kids. Then his friend Yarrow is taken away for intensive "treatment," and A discovers demons are behind the abduction--and... Read More

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