AudioFile Magazine

11/18/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed welcomes AudioFile publisher Michele Cobb to discuss three powerful memoirs, narrated by their authors. Booker Prize–winning writer Arundhati Roy returns with a complex look at her relationship with her challenging and ‘visionary,’ mother in MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME; an unflinching, polarizing memoir about Elizabeth Gilbert’s s*x and love addiction in ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER; and VAGABOND, a restrained dive into the long, varied career of inimitable actor Tim Curry.

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11/14/2025

🎧 Bonus Ep: narrator speaks to AudioFile publisher Michele Cobb about the most recent entry in Patricia Cornwell’s Series, SHARP FORCE. January is a nine-time winner, and she shares what it's like to revisit the voice of enduring character Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist who now must deal with a new nightmare where tech, AI, and murder converge. January discusses how she keeps character voices consistent from book to book, and how she balances narrating technical passages with keeping the pace thrilling for listeners. Hachette Audio Grand Central Publishing
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11/11/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed welcomes AudioFile’s founder and editor, Robin Whitten, to discuss Phillip Pullman’s world and THE ROSE FIELD, read by Michael Sheen, the much anticipated conclusion of the extraordinary epic fantasy. It began in 1999 with THE GOLDEN COMPASS and with the story of Lyra Silvertongue, in an all-time-favorite full-cast performance. Lyra’s story plays out over six audiobooks—a double trilogy, HIS DARK MATERIALS and THE BOOK OF DUST. We could revel in Pullman’s alternate universe for hours, but for this episode, Jo and Robin compare the different narrations and storytelling styles of the audiobooks that bring Pullman’s imagination to us.

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Listening Library Penguin Random House Audio

11/07/2025

As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect time to curl up with an audiobook that stirs wanderlust. This selection of audiobooks will keep you company as the seasons change, whisking you from mysteries in England to an Italian dog’s dreamy escape to memoirs that journey across Asia and Africa. There’s no need to pack a suitcase; just let these audio adventures carry you to faraway places for discovery and reflection.

As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, it’s the perfect time to curl up with an audiobook that stirs wanderlust. This selection of audiobooks will keep you company as the seasons change, whisking you from mysteries in England to an Italian dog’s dreamy escape to memoirs that j...

11/07/2025

🎧 Bonus Ep: Author Brian Andrews, who is, along with Jeffrey Wilson, half of the author duo Andrews & Wilson, speaks with AudioFile publisher Michele Cobb about THE ADVERSARY, the ninth book in the Tier One thriller series, narrated by Ray Porter. In their conversation, Andrews shares his longtime love of audiobooks and talks about his persistence in getting Ray Porter involved as the narrator for the Tier One series. Blackstone Publishing https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

11/05/2025

R.C. Bray's narration transforms Into The Storms by Nicholas Sansbury Smith into a visceral audio experience. R.C. Bray distinguishes Tyron Red, Sergeant Rodriguez, and Corporal Pepper with subtly varied tones and inflections, making each character instantly recognizable. The plot follows multiple storylines and R. C. Bray’s narration and vocal depth make for a nuanced, fully immersive listening experience - highlighting the stakes (and the humanity) within a world dominated by machines.
Blackstone Publishing https://bit.ly/47vhgFk

11/04/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed welcomes AudioFile contributor Alan Minskoff this week to dig into three new audiobooks that delight and satirize, often using humor to shed light on social issues. Three unlikely characters bond in an anger management class in SNAP, a comedic novel by Susin Nielsen, and read by Carol Schneider; a failed poet with a snarky alter-ego struggles with an autoimmune disease and a polyamorous wife in the debut novel OLD SCHOOL INDIAN by , read by Jason Grasl; and a teenage flag-twirler switches sides in the satirical Civil War-era novel HOW TO DODGE A CANNONBALL by , read by William DeMeritt. HarperAudio Macmillan Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

10/31/2025

🎧 Bonus Ep: AudioFile publisher Michele Cobb speaks with author and illustrator Christy Mandin and narrator Elizabeth Knowelden about the new audiobook MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT. This enchanting story for children, where night-blooming plants come alive, reassures the residents of Garden Glen—and the listener—that the dark is nothing to be afraid of, as long as you're brave enough to turn off the lights and see what wonders are waiting. Scholastic https://bit.ly/4qr3DPX

10/30/2025

Mary Bennet is a young, q***r scientist who finds the real world drab. As her sisters are entering the world of courtship, Mary is more enraptured by her deadliest experiment yet: raising the dead. As Mary struggles with social expectations, Amy Hoggart’s charming narration is relatable, unique, and highly entertaining. Hachette Audio https://bit.ly/4oDtO4n

10/29/2025

🎧 Our audiobook picks this month run the gamut from fiction to memoir to , natural history to , and inspiration from living legend . November’s chilly days and dark nights call for settling in with excellent listening. https://bit.ly/4oFuu98

10/28/2025

🎧 New Ep: This week on Behind the Mic, host Jo Reed welcomes our resident horror expert, Alex Richey. Together they discuss three gripping audiobooks that are more about the spooky atmosphere than jump-scares. A catastrophic event kicks off a series of bizarre deaths in LUCKY DAY by Chuck Tingle, read by Mara Wilson; a woman falls into a mirrored world in HEMLOCK & SILVER, ’s unique take on Snow White, read by Jennifer Pickens, Audiobook Narrator; and a boy who can see and speak with ghosts hides in a haunted abbey in AMONG GHOSTS by Rachel Hartman, read by Will M Watt. Macmillan Audio Listening Library https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

10/28/2025

Samin Nosrat's warm and encouraging voice guides listeners through various kitchen adventures in these selections from her cookbook GOOD THINGS. Nosrat narrates beautifully while still sounding relatable, which helps her advice on everything from how to select produce to how to be a good host sound both inspiring and manageable. Penguin Random House Audio https://bit.ly/4o5R7Up