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.
Red at the Bone
A Novel
By Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by Jacqueline Woodson & Various / 3 hours 52 minutes
Red at the Bone
“Although you can read Jacqueline Woodson’s newest novel over the course of one evening, there is nothing breezy about the richness of its story, nothing short about the depth of its characters, nothing quick about the way this book stays with you after you finish reading. Told through five distinct voices, Red at the Bone tracks an African-American family through time and place as an unexpected pregnancy upends and reshapes family and class expectations as well as individual trajectories. Ultimately, the novel is about legacy in every sense of the word. And since Woodson’s writing packs the emotional punch of an epic in a novella number of pages, the legacy of her book is to be read over and over and over again.”
Kelly Brown, Magic City Books
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
By Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by January LaVoy / 12 hours 20 minutes
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“This is one of the most beautifully written pieces of magical fiction I’ve ever read. I was obsessed with the book within the first two pages. Take an unforgettable journey with January Scaller through doors of lost worlds and heart-wrenching love stories. This book shows just how much power a story can hold, especially with the right storyteller at the helm. I could re-read this book countless times and still find new treasures that speak to me!”
Alexa Butler, Beach Books
The Snakes
A Novel
By Sadie Jones
Narrated by Imogen Church / 13 hours 56 minutes
The Snakes
“Breathless. This novel left me absolutely breathless. I found beauty in the multiple layers of sadness and tragedy of the characters and felt a unique sense of closeness to the main character. Jones has delivered an enthralling tale of personal exploration, leading us through scenes full of deep and raw emotion that leave the reader unsure where to place their alliance. Superb!”
Jennifer Morrow, Bards Alley
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 Conscious Closet
The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
By Elizabeth L. Cline
Narrated by Elizabeth L. Cline / 9 hours 10 minutes
From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.
Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,... Read More »
The Last Widow
A Novel
The Will Trent Series: Book #9
By Karin Slaughter
Narrated by Kathleen Early / 16 hours 40 minutes
New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming.
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a... Read More »
What Matters Most
The Get Your Shit Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life's "What-ifs"
By Chanel Reynolds
Narrated by Erin Bennett / 10 hours 8 minutes
Founder of popular website Get Your Shit Together blends personal story and must-have advice in the ultimate guide to getting your affairs in order—from wills and advance directives to insurance, finances, and relationships—before the unthinkable happens.
On July 17, 2009, Chanel Reynolds’ husband, José, was struck by a car while cycling near... Read More »
The Marylebone Drop
Slough House
By Mick Herron
Narrated by Gerard Doyle / 2 hours 7 minutes
A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent... Read More »
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 . . .
“This book reads like a literary mystery. Forty years ago, a woman disappeared while at a get-together at Martha’s Vineyard. Now, the four friends who were with her have returned to the scene, still driven by a need to know what happened. This latest story by Richard Russo has all the elements that make him one of the most popular authors today: characters we can relate to, settings that we see in our dreams, and a story both perplexing and satisfying. Fans and new readers alike will enjoy diving in.”
Linda Bond, Auntie’s Bookstore
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 »
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
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller / 9 hours 49 minutes
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
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest... 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 »
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