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.
Save Me the Plums
My Gourmet Memoir
By Ruth Reichl
Narrated by Ruth Reichl / 7 hours 54 minutes
Save Me the Plums
“In her new memoir, trendsetting food writer and editor Ruth Reichl writes lovingly of the full-blast creativity of her 10 years as editor-in-chief of Gourmet. By book’s end, you’ll miss the storied and groundbreaking magazine, but you’ll be grateful she shared the tale of how its outstanding roster of writers, photographers, designers, and cooks transformed how we look at food. Reichl takes readers behind the scenes as chefs became rock stars, as writers like David Foster Wallace reshaped food writing, and as she fought to save the magazine she adored. A beloved writer with an enviable career, Reichl reminds us that although things may change, simple, honest pleasures — like a perfect plum — endure and make life rich.”
Mary Vermillion, Village Books
Wicked Saints
A Novel
Something Dark and Holy: Book #1
By Emily A. Duncan
Narrated by Natasha Soudek & Tristan Morris / 10 hours 54 minutes
“Prepare for a snow-frosted, blood-drenched fairy tale where the monsters steal your heart and love ends up being the nightmare.” - Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen
“This book destroyed me and I adored it.”- Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
"If you like your young adult... Read More »
The Path Made Clear
Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
By Oprah Winfrey
Narrated by Oprah Winfrey & Full Cast / 2 hours 55 minutes
"Fans of Oprah Winfrey's TV show, or more recently her two podcasts, will have this title on their playlist for months." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, “Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your... Read More »
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By David McCullough
Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd / 10 hours 23 minutes
The Pioneers
“The Pioneers is a fascinating look at our nation trying to find its way in the years after the Revolutionary War. After securing our liberty, at the cost of thousands of lives, we turned our attention westward and to the promise held there. Of course, we were not the first to explore these lands west of New England. These new pilgrims met with both violence and hospitality from native people they encountered, and they returned both - perhaps not in equal measure. This is not just the story of how the Midwest was won, but also how the venture was financed. These expeditions were the Tesla & Uber stock of their day: high risk, and high reward. Also like today, those that profited the most were not always those placed in the most peril. Ultimately, you are left in awe of the perseverance of these settlers and the sacrifices that they made to establish our nation as it is today.”
Matthew, McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Sisters Matsumoto
By Philip Kan Gotanda
Narrated by Keiko Agena, June Angela, Ron Bottitta, Kurt Kanazawa, Suzy Nakamura, Greg Watanabe & Ryun Yu / 1 hour 52 minutes
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American citizens to detention camps. In 1945, three Japanese-American sisters return to their farm in Stockton, California, after years in an internment camp, but the once prosperous family finds it’s not easy to pick up the pieces of their former lives. As... Read More »
A Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder
Gentlewoman's Guide to Murder: Book #1
By Victoria Hamilton
Narrated by Heather Wilds / 10 hours 38 minutes
Scandal and slayings among Regency London's elite. The shocking murder of Sir Henry Claybourne leaves Regency London shaken and horror-struck. But for genteel spinster Miss Emmeline St. Germaine, the crime slices far too close to home. Just hours before the knight's death she held a dagger to him, threatening him to stay silent as she rescued a... Read More »
The Test
By Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by Neil Shah / 2 hours 11 minutes
Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The TestBritain, the not-too-distant future.Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.He wants his family to belong.
Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of... Read More »
We Must Be Brave
By Frances Liardet
Narrated by Jayne Entwistle & Juliet Mills / 16 hours 5 minutes
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.
"This stirring debut will work its way indelibly into your heart." --Georgia Hunter, author of We Were the Lucky Ones
A... Read More »
The Other Americans
A Novel
By Laila Lalami
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, P.J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo & Full Cast / 10 hours 44 minutes
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in... Read More »
kaddish.com
A novel
By Nathan Englander
Narrated by Rob Shapiro / 5 hours 33 minutes
The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father.
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies,... Read More »
Book of Longing
By Leonard Cohen
Narrated by Leonard Cohen / 3 hours 11 minutes
Book of Longing is a critically-acclaimed collection of poetry by the late Leonard Cohen. The audiobook features edited and remastered archival recordings of the author himself, reading the poems in a home environment. The result is a rare, personal experience from one of the western world’s most popular and innovative creative artists. Read More »
The Reckoning
A Thriller
Children's House: Book #2
By Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Narrated by Lucy Paterson / 11 hours 48 minutes
"With a remarkable ability to subtly distinguish myriad characters, Lucy Patterson masterfully narrates this thriller...Her timing and delivery, including subtle pauses and sighs, are transfixing." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From Yrsa Sigurdardottir, author of the international bestselling thriller The Silence of the Sea,... Read More »
Grateful American
A Journey from Self to Service
By Gary Sinise & Marcus Brotherton
Narrated by Gary Sinise / 12 hours 13 minutes
New York Times Bestseller: The moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten.
"The book is called Grateful American, and I promise you after you read it you will be grateful for what Gary has accomplished and contributed to our... Read More »
Redemption
Memory Man series: Book #5
By David Baldacci
Narrated by Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy / 12 hours 19 minutes
Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington, Ohio, when he's approached by a man named Meryl Hawkins. Hawkins is a convicted murderer. In... Read More »
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
By Edward Wilson-Lee
Narrated by Richard Trinder / 11 hours 6 minutes
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern.
At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón... Read More »
A Knife in the Fog
A Mystery Featuring Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle
By Bradley Harper
Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies / 8 hours 39 minutes
September 1888. A twenty-nine-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle practices medicine by day and writes at night. His first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, although gaining critical and popular success, has only netted him twenty-five pounds. Embittered by the experience, he vows never to write another "crime story." Then a messenger arrives... Read More »
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde
Narrated by James Warwick / 9 hours 33 minutes
This powerful new recording of Wilde’s famous novel tells the unforgettable story of a hedonistic young man who makes a sinister deal to preserve his youth. When his wish is granted, Dorian Gray slips into a life of sensuality, debauchery, and murder.
In this uncensored version, TV star James Warwick’s inspired, nuanced narration is followed by a... Read More »
The Volunteer
A Novel
By Salvatore Scibona
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini / 13 hours 43 minutes
"Thrilling… Scibona has built a masterpiece." – The New York Times Book Review
"All of it — all of it — is just so ridiculously beautiful." – Jason Sheehan, NPR.org
"The rewards are enormous. This is a spectacular work of fiction." – San Francisco Chronicle
A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless... Read More »
Notes from a Young Black Chef
A Memoir
By Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein
Narrated by Kwame Onwuachi / 7 hours 36 minutes
“Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.” —Questlove
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty... Read More »
A Woman Is No Man
A Novel
By Etaf Rum
Narrated by Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem & Susan Nezami / 10 hours 15 minutes
A Woman Is No Man
“A Woman Is No Man gives a rare and terrifying look into the lives of three generations of Palestinian and Palestinian-American women. Readers are invited into the secret world of these women living in Palestine and then Brooklyn; we watch nervously as they try to navigate and reconcile their two worlds — the violent, patriarchal world at home and the confusing, anti-cultural world outside their front door. I cringed at the pain and cheered at the successes of the women I came to know. This beautifully written book shines a light on an important topic. It is a story that must be told and, as importantly, must be heard.”
Debra Barrett, Where the Sidewalk Ends
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