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01/25/2025

In a warm, comforting voice, brings .evison's epic love story to life, giving full attention and spirit to each character. Abe and Ruth Winter met on a blind date in college in the 1950s and moved through the ups and downs of marriage, children, relocation, debilitating illness, and family tragedies. Penguin Random House Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: In a warm, comforting voice, award-winning narrator Kimberly Farr brings this epic love story to life, giving full attention and spirit to each charac

01/24/2025

Barrie Kreinik gives a stellar performance as a child who is desperate to understand her place. When she tumbles through an underwater portal to the land of Belyyreka, she’s accepted as one of the “drowned girls.” Listeners will revel in Nadya’s happiness and sense of purpose as expressed in Kreinik’s narration of Seanan McGuire's latest story. Macmillan Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: As Barrie Kreinik narrates Book 10 in the Wayward Children series, listeners meet Nadya, a one-armed orphan who gets adopted. But even in her new home

01/24/2025

The rich, evocative voice of Justin Allen Price Voice Over Leo Daughtry - Author - Talmadge Farm conjures the members of three North Carolina families who live on a to***co farm during the '50s and '60s. One family is the Talmadge family, landowners and wannabe local gentry. Two sharecropper families, one Black and one white, also capture the interest of listeners. This enthralling family saga from 409482338913978 includes episodes of racism, cruelty, addiction, misogyny, and other social ills, all set in a landscape that is changing. Some characters prosper with that change, and some can't cope. Price reflects their passion and conveys a sense of place. The most memorably crafted character is the bigoted landowner and banker Gordon Talmadge. Price creates a man who is insufferable--yet evokes empathy. by is a notable debut novel and listening experience. Books Forward https://bit.ly/40z8qTw

01/24/2025

🎧 New Ep: Sam Woolf creates a foreboding atmosphere in this disturbing mystery with strong Christie vibes. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss this newest story from Ragnar Jonasson set in Iceland in 1952, 1983, and 2012. Listeners enter a tuberculosis sanatorium repurposed from the 1940-50s and meet likable Helgi, who is reopening an investigation into earlier unsolved murders. Woolf maintains a consistent atmosphere of dread while flawlessly segueing from ordinary to terrifying situations. Audio is ideal for the slowly unfolding police procedural and its abrupt, disturbing conclusion. Macmillan Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

01/23/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss a new historical audiobook from Fiona Davis. Charlotte Cross is an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1978. Charlotte is quietly conducting Egyptology research that harkens back to her devastating experience in Egypt in 1936. Linda Jones’s excellent narration reflects Charlotte’s ambivalence: She’s determined to prove her controversial theory about an Egyptian ruler but fearful of returning to Cairo. When an artifact is stolen, Charlotte and her young student Annie must travel to Egypt to pursue the thief and prove Charlotte’s hypothesis. Penguin Random House Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

01/23/2025

Rosa Escoda’s performance captures the essence of this magical and emotional story. Serin is a lonely young woman who enters a magical market where she must choose her perfect life within a week—or risk vanishing forever. Written by You Yeong-Gwang, translated from the Korean by Slin Jung. Penguin Random House Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Rosa Escoda's performance captures the essence of this magical and emotional story. Serin is a lonely young woman who enters a magical market where sh

01/22/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss this compelling coming-of-age novel set on a Maine island. performs .robinson.731’s audiobook with narrative drive, a convincing tone, and a sure sense of the unfolding drama. The setting is a posh but remote club on fictional Whaleback Island—just the place to retrain young misfits to work hard on land and sea to please the billionaires who have founded this Outward-Bound-style experience to fight against the “soft” youths of today. Skillfully written and performed. Vibrance Press https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

01/22/2025

Samantha Bond is winning as Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth mystery in this delightful series by S J Bennett Author. is in Paris on State business, when several mishaps occur that could be sabotage. Bond’s performance highlights political intrigues, murderous intentions, and a sharp-witted, spirited queen. Highly enjoyable listening. Dreamscape

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Samantha Bond is winning as Queen Elizabeth II in the fourth mystery in this delightful series. The Queen is in Paris on State business, when several

01/22/2025

Do YOU hunger for British mystery audiobooks?
Narrators Antonia Beamish, John Hopkins, Jennifer Kirby, and Audio Book and Voiceover London perform live readings from mystery audiobooks, and answer audience questions about their work. Listen to hear how they got their start, learn about their favorite characters to perform, and more.

AudioFile Magazine is excited to share a conversation with narrators of British mystery audiobooks. Narrators Antonia Beamish, John Hopkins, Jennifer Kirby, ...

01/21/2025

One of the top titles we're anticipating in February is a must-hear memoir about love and loss from novelist Geraldine Brooks. More to love—new audiobooks from Anne Tyler and Curtis Sittenfeld, and a fresh recording of a collection of ’s poems. https://bit.ly/40r4kMU

01/21/2025

🎧 New Ep: When executed as beautifully as this one, multigenerational novels are all consuming in the best way. 's performance of Min Jin Lee’s audiobook makes the experience even more immersive. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss this story of young Sunja, who is saved from ruin and moves from Korea to Japan. Thus a family tale begins and proceeds through four generations in the early 20th century. Oh is an outstanding narrator. Her pace is brisk yet easy to follow, and her crisp enunciation and gentle tone are a pleasure to hear. PACHINKO is a visit to another place and time, and Oh is an exceptional guide. Hachette Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

01/21/2025

Greta Jung performs winner Han Kang’s latest novel, a haunting story focused on the friendship of two women. As the plot unfolds, Jung’s pacing is impeccable, and she maintains the mysterious tension of the story until its rapturous conclusion. Penguin Random House Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Greta Jung performs Nobel Prize winner Han Kang's latest novel, a haunting story focused on the friendship of two women. Kyungha receives an urgent re

01/20/2025

An audiobook can sometimes be superior to a printed text--and this is a great example of that fact. That is, it would be interesting to read these 11 sermons, but it’s interesting, inspiring and pleasurable to hear King in these original recordings, which demonstrate his knowledge, social commitment and tremendous rhetorical ability. With a powerful voice, clever phrases and great pacing, King is truly one of the great orators of this century. The editors provide an excellently written and well-read introduction and postscript to this collection. For each of the sermons there are also well-written and well-read introductions written by religious leaders, such as Father Theodore Hesbaugh, Reverend Billy Graham and Archbishop . Hachette Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: An audiobook can sometimes be superior to a printed text--and this is a great example of that fact. That is, it would be interesting to read these 11

01/20/2025

🎧 New Ep: , a poet, performance artist, and devotee of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes presents a selection of Hughes’s early poems, songs, and other writings, created from 1921 to 1927. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss this collection and Smith’s extraordinary performance. With their clear baritone voice and extraordinary vocal talent, Smith’s performance is beautiful to hear and unfailingly connected to the core messages within these poems, journal entries, and other works. Performed with stunning authenticity and verve, this audiobook is a showcase for the artistry of Danez Smith, as well as a revelatory lesson on one of America’s greatest writers. Hachette Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

01/20/2025

This remarkable box set of CDs can be cherished for its historic collection of Dr. King’s speeches and sermons but also because it's just a beautiful package, with photos and quotes on the slip jackets and discs. The discs also helpfully list details of the specific speeches and audiences. That's before we even get to the sound parts, for which this is eminently collectable. Originally released as A CALL TO CONSCIENCE and A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT, the speeches and recordings are introduced by ministers, activists, and world leaders, providing historical context and balance to the live sound recordings of Dr. King. The power of the speeches, and of King's oratorial style, is essential to understanding his impact on his time, and on history. A collectable, and essential, audio program. Hachette Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: This remarkable box set of CDs can be cherished for its historic collection of Dr. King’s speeches and sermons but also because it's just a beautiful

01/20/2025

The warmth of Shamaan Casey’s baritone surrounds listeners just as words envelop young in this biography by Quartez Harris. Beneath Casey’s narration a music track provides aural texture. Young listeners may not know Baldwin before encountering this audiobook, but they’ll emerge appreciative of the power of words in shaping him. Hachette Audio

AudioFile Audiobook Review: The warmth of Shamaan Casey's baritone surrounds listeners just as words envelop young James Baldwin in this biography. Quartez Harris's text shifts b

01/20/2025

subtly narrates this audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. .’s, speeches. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Alan Minskoff discuss this narrator’s captivating performance

A monumental biography performed exquisitely