The Writer's Chronicle Audiobooks Playlist for April 2025

Disappearance at Devil's Rock

A Novel

By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

“'Disappearance at Devil's Rock' is the best portrayal of real-life horror: Your kid mysteriously vanishes without a trace in a State Park. As events unfold, Tremblay weaves together a gut clenching series of events that will have you hesitating to turn the pages as answers are uncovered. Read more

The Cabin at the End of the World

A Novel

By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“Wen and her dads are taking a break from everything by visiting a remote cabin for vacation. Wen is studying grasshoppers in their yard when a man comes up and warns her that she and her dads are going to have to make a decision. And that’s about all I can tell you without spoiling the story. This book was so creepy, in a very good way. I’d... Read more

Horror Movie

A Novel

By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Dani Martineck, Micky Shiloah, Michael Crouch, Frankie Corzo, Stacy Gonzalez, Tyla Collier, Ariel Blake, Johnathan McClain, Dan Bittner, Eva Kaminsky & Gisela Chipe
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“A wildly horrific ride of wondering where the jump scares will be and realizing you missed all the turns to safety when it is too late to jump off. Read more

Song So Wild and Blue

A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell

By: Paul Lisicky
Narrated by: Paul Lisicky
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“An intimate, impressionistic Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man mode, interwoven with Mitchell myths and parallels.""— New York Times Book Review“An astonishing exploration of what it means to lead an artist’s life—how to last, dig deep, change, to embrace one’s voice while in conversation with your heroes.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of... Read more

The Return

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Sarah Scott
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut.

Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return—except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out there and that one day Julie will come back. She’s... Read more

Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“Vesper is a cynical twenty-something that hasn't seen her family in years. There's a good reason for this but when she gets an invitation to come home that she can't refuse, things really start to heat up. Her family is um...religious, in a manner of speaking. She is not only the 'black sheep' of the family but the sacrificial lamb and she is... Read more

So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“An entertaining, dark, and fast paced paranormal thriller. A must read for anyone who loves a good vampire tale with a mix of friendship! Read more

The Haunting of Room 904

A Novel

By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Ina Barrón
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

“If you like spooky stories about possession, this one hits the spot! Read more

White Horse

A Novel

By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“If I had read White Horse on the page, Kari would have sounded exactly in my head the way Tonantzin Carmelo sounds in the audiobook. The main character of White Horse is fierce, sure of herself, and amazingly loving despite everything she’s gone through, and Carmelo captures her subtle intensity with expertise. In fact, White Horse is subtly... Read more

Underworld

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 31 hours 22 minutes

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books

“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

*With a... Read more

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“I hadn't read this book since college and it is just as magnificent now as then. I'm actually kind of mad about it. Read more

Have Dog, Will Travel

A Poet's Journey with an Exceptional Labrador

By: Stephen Kuusisto
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.

Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted.... Read more

We Begin Our Ascent

By: Joe Mungo Reed
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

“Exceptional...fast and smart, funny and sad, this is an outstanding sports novel, and Joe Mungo Reed is an author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He’s a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse, but not yet a star. She’s a geneticist on the brink of a major discovery, either that... Read more

Planet of the Blind

By: Stephen Kuusisto
Narrated by: Brian Keeler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Blindness in the 195Os was a social stigma. Stephen's mother wanted a normal life for him, so he fought desperately to uphold the illusion of sight.

For a child frantic to fit in, each day was an exhausting pretence. He managed to ride a bike, when even reading involved pressing his nose to the page and painfully forcing his eyes to concentrate.... Read more

Dear Elizabeth

A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again

By: Sarah Ruhl
Narrated by: JoBeth Williams & Julian Sands
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

The complicated relationship between the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell is revealed in nearly thirty years’ worth of correspondence. Taken from their exchange of letters, Dear Elizabeth is a study in friendship, intimacy, and the power of words.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring JoBeth Williams and Julian Sands, with... Read more

To the Bones

By: Valerie Nieman
Narrated by: Eric Fritzius
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful—and dangerous—than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure out how to have a future.
Hard-as-nails Lourana... Read more

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Min Jin Lee
Narrated by: Sandra Oh & Min Jin Lee
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

In this New York Times bestseller, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan–the inspiration for the television series on Apple TV+.

 In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for... Read more

Later

My Life at the Edge of the World

By: Paul Lisicky
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

A stunning portrait of community, identity, and sexuality by the critically acclaimed author of The Narrow Door



When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time, known for its values of inclusion, acceptance, and art. In this idyllic haven, Lisicky... Read more

The Sea Gives Up the Dead

By: Molly Olguín
Narrated by: Heather Kay Ling
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

“There is not a single weak link in this collection of short stories—every tale caught me quickly and carried me away. A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Queer historical fiction with an expert application of fantasy and horror that more sharply illustrates what it means to be... Read more

Smile

The Story of a Face

By: Sarah Ruhl
Narrated by: Sarah Ruhl
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

“The story of Sarah Ruhl’s smile—how it broke and how it healed again—encompasses so many other stories, so many other journeys: through early motherhood, through postpartum depression, through maintaining an artistic self when you are torn in many directions. She asks why it’s so important—for women in particular—that we always keep a smile on... Read more