The New York Times Book Review: 100 Notable Books of 2020
We've got the audiobooks from this year’s notable fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
Yellow Bird
Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Narrated by: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.
“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or amore dogged reporter in American journalism than... Read more
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Writers & Lovers
A Novel
By: Lily King
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Casey is the brilliant and vulnerable protagonist in this well-written novel. She is a writer and is striving to have her novel published. When not writing, Casey is waiting tables in Cambridge. She finds herself torn between two lovers. One prospect is a famous writer who is a widower with two children. The other is Silas, who is a teacher and... Read more
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A Woman Like Her
The Story behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
By: Sanam Maher
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernity and imposed traditional values—and the tragedy of those caught in the middle.In 2016, Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both... Read more
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Why I Don't Write
And Other Stories
By: Susan Minot
Narrated by: Alex McKenna, Kristen Sieh & Andrew Eiden
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
A superb collection of short fiction--her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies--from the critically acclaimed author of Monkeys, Evening, and Thirty Girls. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK.
A writer dryly catalogs the myriad reasons she cannot write; an artist bicycles through a protest encampment in lower Manhattan and ruminates on... Read more
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Who Gets In and Why
A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey Selingo
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search.
Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite... Read more
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
By: Margaret MacMillan
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war.... Read more
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Wagnerism
Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
Narrated by: Alex Ross
Length: 28 hours 20 minutes
This program is read by the author, and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout.
A New York Times Notable Books of 2020
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for... Read more
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The Vanishing Half
A Novel
By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Within the first few pages of The Vanishing Half, I knew I was reading something special. In this slow-burn novel, twins Desiree and Stella grow up in Mallard, a small black community in segregated Louisiana that prides itself on the lightness of its people’s skin. At sixteen, the twins flee from Mallard after their mother pulls them out of... Read more
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Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
By: Brian Greene
Narrated by: Brian Greene
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe
"Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York Times
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The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Narrated by: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.
“Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be... Read more
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Uncanny Valley
A Memoir
By: Anna Wiener
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Like Joan Didion or Renata Adler, Ben Lerner or Sally Rooney, Anna Wiener writes with dead-on specificity, scalpel-sharp analysis, deep sensitivity, and an eye for the absurd. She headed west into the modern gold rush that is the tech boom and now returns with gleaming ingots of insight, weaving tales of a strange land where boy-CEOs ride... Read more
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Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
A Novel
By: Yu Miri
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations.
Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial... Read more
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This Is All I Got
A New Mother's Search for Home
By: Lauren Sandler
Narrated by: Lauren Sandler
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Riveting . . . a remarkable feat of reporting.”—The New York Times
Camila is... Read more
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The Third Rainbow Girl
The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“The facts are that in the summer of 1980, two young women were hitchhiking in Pocahontas County, West Virginia en route to the annual Rainbow Festival. Their murdered bodies were found in a remote clearing on a remote road. Over the years, multiple people confessed to the murders. Was it a local as many thought? Or an itinerant mass murderer... Read more
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The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Larson does a splendid job again of creating the personal story out of a larger historical event. Here he concentrates on the Churchills and the two years of the London blitz. By using diaries and letters, he tells of the immense loss of life and property. He also gives voice to the great spirit of the people who endured this. We are transported... Read more
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Soul Full of Coal Dust
A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
By: Chris Hamby
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hamby uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down. Decades ago, a grassroots uprising forced Congress to enact long-overdue legislation designed to... Read more
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Sisters
A Novel
By: Daisy Johnson
Narrated by: Daisy Edgar-Jones & Anna Koval
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times
“It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time
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The Sirens of Mars
Searching for Life on Another World
By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I loved this quietly gorgeous book. Sarah Johnson Stewart brings her characters to vivid life —philosophers and scientists from the annals of Western history, family and teachers from her own life, or the dusty dunes of the ‘red planet’ itself — with clear, almost poetic prose, detailing the history of humanity’s fascination with Mars, as well... Read more
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book
A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.
“In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not... Read more
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
By: Ralph Ellison
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & John F. Callahan
Length: 49 hours 4 minutes
A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that trace the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph... Read more
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