AudioFile Magazine

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

10/24/2025

A full cast delivers a gripping listening experience in The End of the Ski Season, a fast-paced audio exclusive. Australian journalist Chrissy, a new mom, stumbles upon a photograph linked to a decades-old cold case. Sound effects like the beeping of recording equipment, falling rain, and blowing snow enhance the drama and atmosphere. Main narrator Anna Skellern shines as she captures Chrissy's balancing act of caring for her infant while relentlessly pursuing the case. A versatile supporting cast keeps listeners guessing. Penguin Random House Audio https://bit.ly/4nh2UhC

10/24/2025

🎧 Bonus Ep: Host Jo Reed speaks with actor Courtney B. Vance. His shelves are lined with awards—two Emmys, a Tony, a Critics Choice Award, and several NAACP Image Awards. Vance is also a dedicated audiobook listener and occasional narrator, nominated for a Grammy for his performance of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s and Avis Lang’s ACCESSORY TO WAR. Vance’s latest project is a monumental one—narrating historian David Levering Lewis’s two-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of , available as an audiobook for the first time. But it’s a recording that might never have happened if Courtney B. Vance hadn’t picked up the phone and called the author. https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

10/23/2025

Fiona Shaw’s inviting narration captures the humor and intrigue of this delightful new mystery. Shaw’s performance balances comedy and compassion, revealing both the mayhem and heart that make this series an irresistible listen. Penguin Random House Audio https://bit.ly/47eCgzO

10/22/2025

🎃 If your fall wreath is on the door and pumpkin muffins are on the counter, it’s time to settle in for some ! And have we got a huge trove of supernaturally appealing romances for you! Here are 13 new audiobooks that feature witches, ghosts, and other seasonal spirits.

If you’re like me, the fall wreath is on the door, pumpkin muffins are on the counter, and it’s time to settle in for some October listening. And have we got a huge trove of supernaturally appealing romances for you! Here are 13 new audiobooks that feature witches, ghosts, and other seas...

10/22/2025

’s genius for real-life drama and the creation of compelling characters, coupled with narrator Peter Giles’s talent for ratcheting up tension and delivering emotion, makes for a totally engaging addition to the series. www.audiofilemagazine.com

10/21/2025

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed welcomes AudioFile contributor Kendra Wi******er to Behind the Mic this week to discuss one memoir and two biographies which center three different writing lives: A deaf, mixed-race writer finding his voice in THE QUIET EAR by Raymond Antrobus, read by the author; a cultural biography of , the groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy writer in POSITIVE OBSESSION by Susana M. Morris, read by .murray.9674; and an expansive biography of told through the lens of friendship and love in BALDWIN by Nicholas Boggs, read by . Penguin Random House Audio HarperAudio Macmillan Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast

10/17/2025

🎧 New Ep: AudioFile contributor Stephen Cummings is on Behind the Mic this week with host Jo Reed. This week’s theme is all about —suspenseful and often fantastical audiobooks that take place in a campus or school setting. Two graduate students descend into hell to get a recommendation from their professor in KATABASIS by , read by and Will Watt; affairs are revealed in a creative writing thesis in SEDUCTION THEORY by Emily Adrian, read by Jennifer Pickens, and a teacher at a magical school needs help wrangling demons in THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, read by Zara Ramm. HarperAudio Hachette Audio Macmillan Audio https://bit.ly/AFMpodcast