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.
Watership Down
By Richard Adams
Narrated by Peter Capaldi / 17 hours 30 minutes
One of the most beloved novels of our time, Watership Down is an epic journey, a stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival.
Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits.
As the... Read More »
Chances Are . . .
A novel
By Richard Russo
Narrated by Fred Sanders / 11 hours 16 minutes
Chances Are . . .
“Richard Russo's novel of three chums reuniting five decades after graduation from their small liberal arts college captures all the significance of old friends reconnecting, but, more importantly, discovering truths about themselves. As always, Russo's dialect carries the story, and as an audio this is especially enjoyable. Covering the years from their shared experience of the Dec. 1, 1969 draft number lottery to the present (with its current political angst) history and Russo's inimitable character development combine in this satisfying novel.”
Cheryl, Book Passage
Delayed Rays of a Star
A Novel
By Amanda Lee Koe
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy & Amanda Lee Koe / 14 hours 35 minutes
Named a most anticipated book of the summer by ELLE, USA Today, Thrillist, Kirkus, and LitHub
A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth century
At a chance encounter at a Berlin soirée in 1928, the photographer Alfred... Read More »
At Home with Muhammad Ali
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
By Hana Ali
Narrated by Kim Staunton / 15 hours 9 minutes
Muhammad Ali’s daughter captures the legendary heavyweight boxing champion, Olympic Gold medalist, activist, and philanthropist as never before in this candid and intimate family memoir, based on personal recordings he kept throughout his adult life.
Athlete. Activist. Champion. Ambassador. Icon. Father. The greatest, Muhammad Ali, is all of... Read More »
A Better Man
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #15
By Louise Penny
Narrated by Robert Bathurst / 13 hours 8 minutes
"Robert Bathurst's intelligent narration captures every nuance, every emotion, and each of Louise Penny's subtle revelations about the unique, completely engaging residents of Three Pines." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief... Read More »
The New Girl
A Novel
Gabriel Allon: Book #19
By Daniel Silva
Narrated by George Guidall / 10 hours 15 minutes
#1 New York Times Bestseller • #1 USA Today Bestseller • #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, this summer’s hottest thriller.
Now you see her. Now you don’t. THE NEW GIRL. A new thriller of deception, betrayal, and vengeance.
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the... Read More »
Paper Son
The Lydia Chin / Bill Smith Series: Book #12
By S. J. Rozan
The latest Lydia Chin/Bill Smith mystery takes the acclaimed detective duo into the Deep South to investigate a murder within the Chinese community.
The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, New York City, ever thought... Read More »
The Plus One
By Sarah Archer
Narrated by Lauren Fortgang / 8 hours 48 minutes
A brilliant but socially inept robotics engineer builds her own wedding date--and learns more about love than she ever expected--in this hilarious and heartwarming debut novel.
"Prepare to fall in love!" --Aimee Agresti, author of Campaign Widows
When she couldn't find Mr. Right, she built him.
Dating is hard. Being dateless at your perfect... Read More »
The Queen
The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
By Josh Levin
Narrated by January LaVoy / 12 hours 44 minutes
Critically acclaimed, "reads like a detective story," (Washington Post) "one of the most outlandish true crime capers of the season," (Daily Beast) and the basis for the podcast The Queen, Slate editor Josh Levin's "wild, only-in-America story" (Attica Locke, author of the Edgar Award winning Bluebird, Bluebird) of Linda Taylor, the original... Read More »
The Porpoise
A Novel
By Mark Haddon
Narrated by Tim McInnerny / 10 hours 50 minutes
From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present
Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane... Read More »
Cuentos de Eva Luna
By Isabel Allende
Narrated by Juanita Devis / 10 hours 8 minutes
Veintitrés relatos de amor y violencia secretamente entrelazados por un fino hilo narrativo y un rico lenguaje que recrea azarosas peripecias en un mundo exuberante y voluptuoso.
Una niña solitaria se enamora del amante de su madre y practica misteriosas ceremonias rituales; una mujer permanece medio siglo encerrada en un sótano, víctima de... Read More »
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By Adam Higginbotham
Narrated by Jacques Roy / 13 hours 55 minutes
From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Timesbestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters.
Early in the morning of April 26, 1986,... Read More »
Lives Laid Away
By Stephen Mack Jones
Narrated by Luis Moreno / 8 hours 42 minutes
Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown is caught in the crosshairs of a human trafficking scheme. When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne... Read More »
Ladysitting
My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
By Lorene Cary
Narrated by Lorene Cary / 7 hours 14 minutes
Lorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family relationships, the Nana she knew—even their shared past. From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent “ladysitting” her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their... Read More »
On Democracy
By E. B. White
Narrated by Arthur Morey / 5 hours 11 minutes
“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.”
These words were written by E. B. White in 1947.
Decades before our current political turmoil, White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements that continue to resonate. “There’s only one kind of press that’s any good—” he proclaimed, “a press free from any taint of the... Read More »
Lake of the Ozarks
My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America
By Bill Geist
Narrated by Bill Geist & Allan Robertson / 4 hours 49 minutes
Beloved TV host Bill Geist pens a reflective memoir of his incredible summers spent in the heart of America in this New York Times bestseller.
Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini... Read More »
Beneath the Tamarind Tree
A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
By Isha Sesay
Narrated by Isha Sesay / 12 hours 16 minutes
The first definitive account of Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, their years in captivity, and why this story still matters - by celebrated international journalist Isha Sesay.
The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014 made global headlines. From poor Nigerian families, these girls had defied the odds and pursued... Read More »
The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth
A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries: Book #3
By Leonard Goldberg
Narrated by Steve West / 8 hours 46 minutes
"In a remarkable performance, Steve West becomes Dr. John Watson, Jr...A top-notch mystery filled with clever twists and winning characters." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
In the third audiobook of this critically-acclaimed series, Sherlock Holmes' daughter faces a new unsolvable mystery with spies and a threat to the crown.... Read More »
Lanny
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
By Max Porter
Narrated by Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson & Jot Davies / 4 hours 34 minutes
Lanny
“The genius of Max Porter is that he can write a village in its entirety—a mother’s love for her son, a brilliant artist’s loneliness, a young boy’s whimsical adventures, a mythological creature’s inner monologue, a whole village worth of secrets and wishes and terrible thoughts—and make it into a bizarre but highly enjoyable little novel. You’ll find yourself thrilled by the dark humor Porter captures in his story of one village and its characters, both real and mythologized, as Lanny follows the eponymous young boy and the lives he impacts around him.”
Erin Mazza, BookBar
The Guest Book
A Novel
By Sarah Blake
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy / 16 hours 42 minutes
The Guest Book
“I began The Guest Book expecting an excellent family saga set, in part, on an island in Maine. The magic of the family home is palpable as three generations build loyalty, identity, and memories there. But what I read was far, far more. This is a history of our country’s evolution through matters of race, class, and politics, and it relates compellingly to our current struggles with those topics as the characters grapple with the underpinnings of privilege, familial love, and morality. Sarah Blake has written a stunning and complex novel that lingers in your mind long after the last page.”
Dana Brigham, Brookline Booksmith
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