New York Times Book Review: The Best Audiobooks of 2024

Whale Fall

A Novel

By: Elizabeth O'Connor
Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyworth, Jot Davies & Nick Griffiths
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

“Whale Fall might be the perfect book to listen to... the narrator voicing the main character, Manod, brings her to life outside the page with all the writer, Elizabeth O'Connor has given, holding the story together in a way that makes it hard to turn off. The book contains described snippets of recordings made of stories and songs from other... Read more

Health and Safety

A Breakdown

By: Emily Witt
Narrated by: Emily Witt
Length: 9 hours

A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NEW YORKER, PITCHFORK, LITHUB, AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City

"The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"—Emily Gould, The Cut

In the summer of 2016,... Read more

Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

A NEW PRODUCTION NARRATED BY SAOIRSE RONAN, ACADEMY AWARD–NOMINATED STAR OF THE 2015 FILM ADAPTATION!

Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young... Read more

Brooklyn

By: Colm Tóibín
Narrated by: Melania Cruz
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

«Libro del año» según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un poder emocional sobrecogedor Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde. Como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en su pequeño pueblo del sur de... Read more

From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club

A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Narrated by: Riley Keough & Julia Roberts
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

“An absolute masterclass in how to honour someone’s life after their death. The audio is read by Julia Roberts and Riley Keough with short sections narrated by Lisa Marie Presley herself. It’s short and just very sad. Read more

Rejection

Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte
Narrated by: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, Dan Bittner, André Santana, Marcha Kia, Eunice Wong & Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Bonkers! 🤯 A book that is intense - detailed and meticulously niche, it all gets out of hand real quick and you’re in it for the ride of discovering hidden desires, designed deliberately to cause a reaction one way or another, that will have you wondering if there is an endgame. If so, what then? Rejection is incredibly well written - dark,... Read more

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, THE NEW YORKER, THE SMITHSONIAN, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and... Read more

All Fours

A Novel

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“A wild ride. Emotional, chaotic, modern and boldly human, "All Fours," is blowing minds (mine included) everywhere. After a psycho-sexual revelation derails her cross-country road trip, our narrator embarks on a new journey: to salvage what is left of her prime by honoring the desires of her wandering soul. This whole book delighted and shocked... Read more

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“A young boy and an enslaved man escape and travel the river together on a raft. Sound familiar? This book lovingly reimagines Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn from the view of Jim, who in this version becomes James, as he and Huck get a second chance at life. Thought provoking, full of adventure, and thoroughly original! Read more