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Kirkus Audiobook Reviews
Find your next great audiobook on Behind the Mic with Kirkus Reviews. Every Thursday, host Jo Reed and her guests discuss what they’ve been listening to and recommend the very best audiobooks. It’s the perfect way to keep up with new releases and hear about the ones you may have missed. Launched by AudioFile magazine in 2018, Behind the Mic now has its home at Kirkus Reviews, the most trusted voice in book discovery for more than 90 years. Visit us at kirkusreviews.com.
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Interview with Maggi Meg-Reed: Best Multi-Voice...
On narrating THE CORRESPONDENT
14 min
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Interview with Eunice Wong: Best Science Fictio...
On narrating DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS
15 min
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Interview with Mia Hutchinson-Shaw: Best Myster...
On narrating HOMEMAKER
8 min
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Who’s Listening? Author Sara DiVello
Talking audiobooks with the author
16 min
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Interview with Grover Gardner: Best Nonfiction ...
On narrating THE FATE OF THE DAY
9 min
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Interview with Ron Butler: Best Biography & Mem...
On narrating BALDWIN
13 min
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Interview with Shaun Taylor-Corbett: Best Ficti...
On narrating BIG CHIEF
21 min
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AudioFile’s 2025 Best Audiobooks!
Celebrating the best in audiobooks
11 min
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Earphones Award Round Up
Worth your listening time
15 min
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Three Multifacted and Moving Memoirs
Strong-spirited narration by three memoirists
17 min
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Behind the Mic talks SHARP FORCE with January L...
Patricia Cornwell’s latest in the Scarpetta Series
11 min
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Phillip Pullman’s World
The much anticipated conclusion to the author’s extraordinary epic
18 min
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Behind the Mic talks with author Brian Andrews
THE ADVERSARY, the 9th book in the Tier One Series
20 min
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Stories that Spin and Satirize
Humor and wit delight in these three audiobooks
15 min
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Embracing the dark in MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT
Author Christy Mandin and narrator Elizabeth Knowelden
26 min
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What Haunts Us: 3 Halloween Tales
Bizarre catastrophes, mirrored worlds, and a haunted abbey
17 min
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Who’s Listening? Actor Courtney B. Vance
Talking audiobooks with the actor, author, and narrator
12 min
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Stories of Resilient Writers
New Memoir & Biography Audiobooks
20 min
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MOCKINGBIRD COURT, Book 6 in the Shady Hollow M...
Behind the Mic with Cassandra Campbell
10 min
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Dark Academia
Campuses and other worlds come to haunting life
18 min
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Behind the Mic talks Classic Crime Novels with ...
A conversation with the prolific British narrator
22 min
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Captivating and Cruel: True Crime Spotlight
Murders and more at a military base, hospital, and university campus
20 min
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Three Engaging and Complex Mysteries
Dark wit and flawed anti-authoritarians
18 min
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Earphones Award Roundup
Three audiobooks worth your listening time
19 min
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Secrets From The Past Can Hide Anywhere
Exceptionally written and performed characters
19 min