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2023 AudioFile Earphone Awards

2023 AudioFile Earphone Awards

AudioFile Magazine gives Earphones Awards to the best new audiobooks: listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. AudioFile is the best independent source of audiobook reviews and recommendations—with clear focus on the performance and audio experience.

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Bad Cree

A Novel

By Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Bad Cree

Bad Cree is a gem. A gore-laden love song dedicated to Aunties, Sisters, Cousins, and Mothers. When nightmares become all too real, there is rarely anyone better to turn to. Jessica Johns' prose is smooth, original, and paints vividly with the imagination; maintaining a delicate tension throughout and propelling the reader forward. Even in this story's most frigid, frightening moments, there is a depth of warmth between these characters that renders this book unforgettable.”

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Hell Bent

A Novel
Alex Stern: Book #2

By Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

"The magic and violence of 'Hell Bent' comes to life in audiobook form." - USA Today

"This fervently delivered audiobook engrosses the listener through every twist and turn, making this sequel nearly impossible to pause."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award)

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the sequel to... Read more »

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Every Man a King

A King Oliver Novel

By Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

In this highly anticipated sequel to the Edgar award winner Down the River Unto the Sea, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he's asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up. When friend of the family and multi-billionaire Roger Ferris comes to Joe with an assignment, he’s got no choice but to... Read more »

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Small World

A Novel

By Laura Zigman
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

From bestselling author Laura Zigman comes a heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults—and finally reckon with their childhoodA year after her divorce, Joyce is settling into being single again. She likes her job archiving family photos and videos, and she’s developed a secret comforting hobby:... Read more »

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The Climate Book

The Facts and the Solutions

By Greta Thunberg
Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan & Olivia Forrest
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more »

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I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

By Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

I Have Some Questions for You

“Rebecca Makkai redefines the campus novel for our current times. This was deftly written with such a fresh perspective and clever deconstruction of a murder case, I walked around my apartment fully immersed, book in hand.”

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Arch-Conspirator

By Veronica Roth
Narrated by: Dion Graham & January LaVoy
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

"Stunningly performed by narrators Dion Graham and January LaVoy...together, they capture the propulsive motion and ominous atmosphere of this compelling story."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone,
#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of... Read more »

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The House of Eve

By Sadeqa Johnson
Narrated by: Ariel Blake & Nicole Lewis
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

REESE’S FEBRUARY 2023 BOOK CLUB PICK
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Amazing…These two women’s lives intersect in the most wonderful and unlikely of ways. I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post) set in 1950s Philadelphia... Read more »

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Pests

How Humans Create Animal Villains

By Bethany Brookshire
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons—and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural worldA squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our... Read more »

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Unraveling

What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

By Peggy Orenstein
Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Unraveling

“A lively, frank and funny memoir from the pandemic year 2020, this is about a lot more than knitting. The author, a life-long knitter, set out to make a sweater from scratch: shear, spin and dye the wool into yarn. In the process, she learnt much about the history of fiber production: invention of spinning, women's rights, climate and environmental concerns, and the impact of technology. Great read.”

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By Shehan Karunatilaka
Narrated by: Shivantha Wijesinha
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

An Instant National Bestseller

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the... Read more »

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How to Sell a Haunted House

By Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

How to Sell a Haunted House

“Remember that feeling of staying up late, reading a spooky Goosebumps book by flashlight under your blanket? How to Sell a Haunted House is kind of like that, but 100x more terrifying. Each element of this novel on its own is enough to give me nightmares (puppets, body horror, creepy children, etc), but combine them and you will never sleep again. Listening to this masterful horror novel had my yelling 'No, no, no, no, NO!' in public places. My heart rate tracker spiked while I was listening to it. I'm not sure how else to tell you to read this book if you're looking for a good old fashioned scare!”

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Exiles

A Novel

By Jane Harper
Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER

"Stephen Shanahan portrays Aaron Falk, who is in South Australia's wine country to attend his godson's christening. The dialogue and narrative flow naturally, infused with believable emotions that underscore Shanahan's... Read more »

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Poetry Unbound

50 Poems to Open Your World

By Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and... Read more »

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Waypoints

My Scottish Journey

By Sam Heughan
Narrated by: Sam Heughan
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander, Sam Heughan—exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define him

"I had to believe, because frankly, I had come so far there could be no turning back."

In this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam sets out... Read more »

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The Light We Carry

Overcoming in Uncertain Times

By Michelle Obama
Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

The Light We Carry

“Michelle Obama is back with more words of wisdom, pillars of humility, and just simply Michelle. The Light We Carry is an uplighting book that will help you deal with the emotions and isolation that we have had to deal with during and after the pandemic. But more than that, she has compiled questions that she has been asked again and again, and acknowledges each with personal stories, anecdotes, wisdom, and love. This book feel like you are sitting down with an old friend when you have had a bad day and and just need some love and a hot drink.”

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The Light Pirate

By Lily Brooks-Dalton
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

The Light Pirate

“100% Loved this.”

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They're Going to Love You

A Novel

By Meg Howrey
Narrated by: Meg Howrey
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH • A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • A gripping novel set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. • "Beautiful...Howrey, a former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, proves herself a talented choreographer in her own right...[A] finger-trap puzzle of a... Read more »

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Playing Under the Piano

From Downton to Darkest Peru

By Hugh Bonneville
Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today’s best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington.

From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and... Read more »

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The Night Travelers

A Novel

By Armando Lucas Correa
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.

Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to... Read more »

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