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Summer Listens: What Dion Graham Recommends
Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024): One of my favorites that will hook you from the beginning, as 107-year-old Josey and 12-year-old Alex (who did something truly bad) find a lot in common as they rise to the occasion of their lives.
The 2024 Audie Winners for Best Audiobooks
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The winners for this year’s Audie Awards were announced on March 4, 2024, at the Audio Publishers Association Gala in Los Angeles. The Audies, presented by the Audio Publishers Association, recognize excellence and distinction in audiobook and spoken-word entertainment. They are given to the performer of the audiobook. Find below the winning title in each of the 27 categories.
AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of February
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * FEBRUARY FICTION Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar| Read by Arian Moayed AudioFile Earphones Award [Random House Audio | 10.5 hrs.] Iranian American actor Arian Moayed gives the performance of a lifetime in poet Kaveh Akbar’s extraordinary debut novel.
New Listening to Love: AudioFile Editors Pick 14 Big Audiobooks for February
New Listening to Love: AudioFile Editors Pick 14 Big Audiobooks for February Our most-anticipated listens this month include a new novel from Tommy Orange, narrated by an ensemble of narrators, and a memoir from iconic actor Billy Dee Williams. It’s time to fall in love with your next audiobook. OWNING UP: New Fictionby George Pelecanos, read by Dion Graham Hachette Audio Release date: February 6 Golden Voice Dion Graham narrates four novellas from crime fiction powerhouse George Pelecanos.
Grover Gardner and AudioFile’s 2023 Best Nonfiction and History Audiobooks
Narrator Grover Gardner joins AudioFile’s Robin Whitten to discuss his narration of John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa, one of the 2023 Best Nonfiction & History Audiobooks. It’s an audio collection of essays and sketches that brings two storytellers together for a memorable listen. Gardner discusses the challenges of recording an audiobook that ranges over so many topics, and how McPhee’s storytelling style is so well suited to audio. Read AudioFile’s review of the audiobook, published by Recorded Books.
The Best Audiobooks of 2023
Each month, for your literary listening pleasure, our friends at AudioFile Magazine bring us the cream of the audiobook crop. Now, at 2023 draws to a close, they’ve rounded up the very best audiobooks of the year. Happy listening and happy holidays! * FICTION AudioFile’s 2023 Best Fiction Audiobooks include beautifully written stories, performed by talented narrators.
The Best Audiobooks of 2023, According to AudioFile
A couple of weeks ago, we covered the bestselling audiobooks of 2023. Now, the 30-plus-year-old bimonthly magazine AudioFile has released its annual list for the best audiobooks of 2023. This year’s list includes 53 titles spread out over nine categories: Fiction, Nonfiction & History, Biography & Memoir, Mystery & Suspense, Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror, Children & Family Listening, Young Adult, Romance, and Audio Originals.
'AudioFile' Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2023
AudioFile, the 30-year-old bimonthly magazine dedicated to covering and reviewing audiobooks, has named its Best Audiobooks of 2023. The list, selected annually by AudioFile editors, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: biography and memoir; children and family listening; nonfiction and history; sci-fi, fantasy, and horror; audio originals; fiction; mystery and suspense; romance; and young adult.
All Booked | All About Audiobooks
This edition of All Booked was originally emailed to subscribers on February 28, 2023. To receive our literary newsletter in your inbox, sign up at independent.com/newsletters. Greetings! I’m Jackson Friedman, the Independent’s Associate Editor. I’m filling in this week for Book Worm in Chief Emily Lee, who’s out on maternity leave.
AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of March
Each month, for your literary listening pleasure, our friends at AudioFile Magazine bring us the cream of the audiobook crop. This month’s horde of harmonious audiobooks includes Salman Rushdie (read by Sid Sagar), Jenny Jackson (read by Marin Ireland), and Matthew Desmond (read by Dion Graham). * Victory City by Salman Rushdie| Read by Sid Sagar AudioFile Earphones Award [Random House Audio | 11.75 hrs.] Rushdie’s latest novel defies easy description.
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From the sexy to the searing, the metaphysical to the unabashedly depraved, horror to high camp, these recent audiobooks in a variety of genres are hard to turn off. ???? Finding Me By Viola Davis. Read by the author. There are many moments in this sobering memoir that are painful to hear, as when an 11-year-old Davis tries to physically stop her father from beating her mother, or when the family’s Rhode Island apartment is flooded, killing an entire litter of their dog’s puppies.
6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
From the sexy to the searing, the metaphysical to the unabashedly depraved, horror to high camp, these recent audiobooks in a variety of genres are hard to turn off. ???? Finding Me By Viola Davis. Read by the author. There are many moments in this sobering memoir that are painful to hear, as when an 11-year-old Davis tries to physically stop her father from beating her mother, or when the family’s Rhode Island apartment is flooded, killing an entire litter of their dog’s puppies.
6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
From the sexy to the searing, the metaphysical to the unabashedly depraved, horror to high camp, these recent audiobooks in a variety of genres are hard to turn off. 🎧 Image Finding Me By Viola Davis. Read by the author. There are many moments in this sobering memoir that are painful to hear, as when an 11-year-old Davis tries to physically stop her father from beating her mother, or when the family’s Rhode Island apartment is flooded, killing an entire litter of their dog’s puppies.
Listening in Translation
When books in other languages are translated into English and then performed by English-speaking narrators, listeners can experience a powerful combination of creative energy. Author, translator, and narrator(s) are each and all essential to the success of bringing books originally in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and other languages to ears that can appreciate—and be enriched by—hearing these narratives in English.
September’s 10 Best Audiobooks Await!
AudioFile (www.audiofilemagazine.com) is the magazine for discovering more about audiobooks. It reviews and recommends the best listening, most interesting performances, and what audiobooks are worth your listening time. AudioFile reviews about 50 audiobooks per week, features narrator profiles, and awards exceptional performances with AudioFile’s Earphones Awards. AudioFile publishes in print, newsletters and a blog, and podcasts daily recommendations on "Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine."
Loved WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER? Check out 7 Listen-Alike Audiobooks
The Asian immigrant experience, family dynamics, and making friends in a new town collide with Korean mythology in the 2021 Newbery Medal-winning WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER about a “Q.A.G” (quiet Asian girl) Lily, who has just moved with her mother and sister to care for her ailing Korean halmoni (grandmother). I was cheering for Lily in her brave determination to help save her halmoni by trapping the mythical tiger that only she can see.
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s. "Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family.
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña
The team behind the Newbery Medal winner and Caldecott Honor book Last Stop on Market Street and the award-winning New York Times bestseller Carmela Full of Wishes once again delivers a poignant and timely children's book that's sure to become an instant classic. Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister. To pass the time, he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives.
Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan, Dion Graham On Sale: 08/28/2018 by Esi Edugyan On Sale: 08/28/2018 Format: Book Overview Author Info About the Book A dazzling, original novel of slavery and freedom, from the author of the international bestseller Half-Blood Blues Longlisted for the 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE When two English brothers arrive at a Barbados sugar plantation, they bring with them a darkness beyond what the slaves have already known.
Lot by Bryan Washington: 9780525533689
Praise for Lot “Washington’s subtle, dynamic and flexible stories play out across [Houston’s] sprawling and multiethnic neighborhoods… An alert and often comic observer of the world… Washington cracks open a vibrant, polyglot side of Houston about which few outsiders are aware… [T]here is a fair amount of joy in Washington’s stories… An underthrob of emotion beats inside them. He’s confident enough not to force the action.
10 Editors’ Picks From February Earphones Award Winners
Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors give “Earphones Awards” to the best new audiobooks — the listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. BookTrib, thanks to our partnership with AudioFile, offers this month’s picks of the newest do-not-miss titles. Don’t forget your earbuds.
Author Nic Stone and Narrator Dion Graham on the impact of DEAR MARTIN
Author Nic Stone and narrator Dion Graham make a powerful team. Stone’s newest audiobook CLEAN GETAWAY came out this winter, and it’s another Earphones Award winner narrated by Dion Graham. We thought this was the perfect opportunity to revisit our conversation with the author and narrator duo. Host Jo Reed spoke with both Stone and Graham when their audiobook DEAR MARTIN first released.
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Clean Getaway 3 Hours and 57 Minutes Imprint: Listening Library (Audio) Ages 8-12 years Release Date: January 07, 2020 From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a middle-grade road-trip story through American race relations past and present, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Jason Reynolds. How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma: • Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
The New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller USA Today Bestseller "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come...
21 Incredible (and Prolific) Audiobook Narrators
When it comes to audiobooks, narration is everything. Good narration can elevate already fantastic books to new levels. Bad narration can turn a perfectly excellent book into a chore to slog through. I’ve listened to a lot of incredible audiobooks preformed by many talented voice actors. It’s always exciting to discover a new narrator I adore. But it’s even more exciting if that person has narrated dozens (or even hundreds!) of audiobooks.
Southern Audiobooks with Narrators with Decent Accents
Sponsored by Macmillan Audio When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. It looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside—burned alive—Kate suspects murder. But who would want a well-liked, hardworking Amish man dead? Kate delves into the investigation and discovers Daniel had a dark side.
10 of the Best Audiobook Narrators on Audible to Listen to Now
There’s something about a well-acted audiobook that makes the writing jump off the page and onto the screen in your mind’s eye. Not every book adapts well into the audio format, but when you have voice actors like these audiobooks do, well, the odds are much more in our favor.
Cash City Audiobook | Audible.com
What made the experience of listening to Cash City the most enjoyable? A Classic Noir Detective, in the mold of the great Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade in a Present Day Setting with a modern twist: Despite his hardened, tough guy veneer, "Cash City's" Nick Malick is a tragic, deeply wounded hero, whose cynicism covers a wellspring of raw emotion.
The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule
Fleeing persecution in 1960s America, a Black couple seeks asylum in Ghana, but fresh dangers and old secrets threaten their newfound freedom in this hypnotic debut novel. “I am truly blown away by this novel.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone When the windshield of his Chevy Impala shatters in a dark diner parking lot in Alabama, Melvin moves without thinking.
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