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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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Family Tumult and Turmoil
Nuanced family sagas, the effects of war on neighbors, and mismatched beliefs
16 min
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Experimental Genre-blending that Works
Tech-Warnings, a Sci-Fi Sun Death, and a Fantasy Horrormance
20 min
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Expertly Woven Fantasy & Sci-Fi Tales Across Time
Vampires, Monsters, and Witches
19 min
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Three Icons of Culture: Lives Shaped by New Yor...
Biographies with a 1970s and ’80s pulse
18 min
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Multi-Voice Journeys Update Stories You Thought...
From space race romance to a Berlin house swap, three tales told by multiple narrators
17 min
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Who’s Listening? Author Adriana Trigiani
Talking audiobooks with the author
16 min
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Earphones Award Roundup
Three audiobooks worth your listening time
15 min
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Behind the Mic talks TRANSMENTATION | TRANSIENCE
Behind the Mic with Cadwell Turnbull and Dion Graham
29 min
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SOUTH OF NOWHERE by Jeffery Deaver, read by Kal...
A taut thriller
7 min
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WARRIOR POSE by Susan Rogers, John Roosen, read...
A fast-paced mystery set in Australasia
7 min
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KING OF ASHES by S.A. Cosby, read by Adam Lazar...
A dark southern thriller
6 min
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KILL YOUR DARLINGS by Peter Swanson, read by St...
A murder mystery in reverse
8 min
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Behind the Mic talks THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SA...
Behind the Mic with Bahni Turpin
13 min
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ORDINARY TIME by Annie B. Jones, Emily P. Freem...
How an ordinary life can feel extraordinary
7 min
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MY FRIENDS by Fredrik Backman, read by Marin Ir...
Indelible characters and laugh-out-loud moments
8 min
66
LIFE IN THREE DIMENSIONS by Shigehiro Oishi, re...
Advice for a fuller, better life
7 min
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I SEE YOU'VE CALLED IN DEAD by John Kenney, rea...
Funny and affirming
9 min
68
Celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th Birthday
On PERSUASION
11 min
69
THE LIVING MOUNTAIN by Nan Shepherd, read by Ti...
An audiobook for the soul
5 min
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AFTERTASTE by Daria Lavelle, read by Ari Fliak...
An immersive debut
4 min
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THE CONTAINMENT by Michelle Adams, read by Jan...
Desegregation in Detroit
6 min
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MARK TWAIN by Ron Chernow, read by Jason Culp
44 hours of expert narration
6 min
73
Earphones Award Roundup
Worth your listening time
15 min
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MURDER AT GULLS NEST by Jess Kidd, read by Siob...
A creepy yet moving mystery
7 min
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FAULT LINES by Nora Shalaway Carpenter, read by...
Teens on opposite sides of the fracking debate
7 min