Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine
Find your next great audiobook on our podcast, Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine. Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile Editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. All in 6 minutes or less. It’s short, sweet, and just what your ears need. Want more? Listen to our bonus episodes featuring conversations with the best voices in the audiobook industry.
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Best Young Adult Audiobooks 2018 from AudioFile...
Young Adult audiobooks from Tomi Adeyemi, Gayle Forman, Mackenzi Lee, Elizabeth Acevedo, and a collection edited by Rose Brock and packed with works by star YA writers. Discover the full Best Audiobooks of 2018 list at audiofilemagazine.com/bestof
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Best Nonfiction & Culture Audiobooks 2018 from ...
Nonfiction audiobooks from Ben Fountain, Michelle McNamara, Ijeoma Oluo, Michiko Kakutani, Jonathan Rauch, and Marilynne Robinson with outstanding narrations. Get the full list of the Best Audiobooks of 2018 at audiofilemagazine.com/bestof
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Interview with Michael Crouch on OLIVER LOVING
On our 2018 Best Fiction list, Michael Crouch shines as the narrator of Stefan Merrill Block’s OLIVER LOVING. It’s a brilliant, propulsive audiobook and Michael gives an expert performance, altering his voice and attitude for each character.
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Best Fiction Audiobooks 2018 from AudioFile Mag...
Fiction audiobooks from Anne Tyler, Stefan Merrill Block, Kate Atkinson, Esi Edugyan, Madeline Miller, and Michael Ondaatje with brilliant narrations by top narrators. Get the full list of the Best Audiobooks of 2018 at audiofilemagazine.com/bestof
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WITCHMARK by C.L. Polk, read by Samuel Roukin
A charming fantasy with intrigue and a hint of romance. Dr. Miles Singer, a veteran from a deadly world war, is actually a magical healer hiding away from the world. Samuel Roukin’s dramatic British-accented narration will draw listeners in.
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SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT by Samin Nosrat, read by ...
You’ll feel like the author is a helpful friend by your side in the kitchen. Samin Nosrat cheerfully imparts culinary wisdom through a combination of accessible scientific explanations and tales of past cooking disasters—and triumphs—of her own.
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WHAT IF IT'S US by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silve...
Can life be like a Broadway play? Two teens, one summer, New York City. Arthur has a chance encounter with Ben at the post office. Has the universe has thrown them together? The only problem—neither knows the other’s name.
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FRONT DESK by Kelly Yang, read by Sunny Lu
Meet 5th grader Mia Tang. Her qualities of cheer, ingenuity, and resilience see her through transitions and challenges when she helps her parents manage a motel by taking over the front desk.
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THE RAVENMASTER by Christopher Skaife, read by ...
Christopher Skaife’s memoir of his life as a Yeoman Warder—aka Beefeater—and Ravenmaster of the ravens of the Tower of London. Learn about “The Magnificent Seven” ravens. Charming, irreverent, and informative listening.
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Interview with Author Maryrose Wood
The author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place audiobook series, Maryrose Wood talks about her special relationship with the two narrators who performed her titles. She also shares some delicious tidbits about the Incorrigibles series.
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Ruth Reichl: Audiobooks from a Celebrated Food ...
In the run-up to Thanksgiving, enjoy food writer, GOURMET MAGAZINE editor, and restaurant critic Ruth Reichl’s memoirs MY KITCHEN YEAR: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life and GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES. Let her audiobooks inspire you for the holidays.
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THE PATH TO THE SPIDERS' NESTS by Italo Calvino...
A scintillating performance of Italo Calvino’s first novel, written when he was 23, just a few years after the end of WWII. A young cobbler’s apprentice becomes involved with a group of partisans in German-occupied Italy.
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THE CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER by Kate Morton, read ...
A tale of mystery, thievery, and murder unfolds over 150 years from an English country house to present-day London. “Downton Abbey” alum Joanne Froggatt skillfully engages listeners in every scene, inhabiting all the accents and personalities.
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PAST TENSE by Lee Child, read by Scott Brick
Jack Reacher continues his fight for justice. Iconic loner and mysterious stranger Reacher adds another caper to the hugely popular audiobook series. Scott Brick—a new voice for the series—admirably fills Reacher’s big shoes.
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WAITING FOR EDEN by Elliot Ackerman, read by Ma...
Honoring Remembrance Day, Ackerman’s novel puts human faces on the challenges and losses of veterans, friends, and families. This part romance, part ghost story is told by Eden’s Marine buddy who died in the explosion that left Eden so severely wounded.
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GMORNING, GNIGHT! by Lin-Manuel Miranda, read b...
Let Lin-Manuel Miranda greet or close your day—how joyful and inspiring! The creator and star of “Hamilton” offers intimate affirmations—sometimes sweet, sometimes moving, sometimes funny—compiled from years of his posts on Twitter.
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ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE by Eric ...
Founding member of Monty Python and creator of “Spamalot,” Eric Idle delivers his “sortabiography” in one of the funniest audiobooks of the year. No one else could narrate, and Idle will have you revisiting Monty Python classics and singing along.
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DARK SACRED NIGHT by Michael Connelly, read by ...
L.A. Detective Harry Bosch is joined by young, fierce police detective Renée Ballard, who Connelly introduced in THE LATE SHOW. They collaborate on a cold case. The narrators—Titus Welliver and Christine Lakin—are an Earphones-winning duo.
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SWING by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess, read ...
Do you want to “own” cool? With a poet’s passion, Kwame Alexander narrates his novel-in-verse about high school friends Noah and Walt. Connecting to these teens in a fully believable way, Alexander’s heartfelt performance will hook you.
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THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean, read by Susan...
Part memoir, part tribute to libraries and librarians, this fascinating audiobook written and narrated by the author of THE ORCHID THIEF is full of bizarre factoids about the Los Angeles Public Library and the library’s catastrophic 1986 fire.
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NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME by James Baldwin, read by ...
Baldwin’s 1961 essay collection is an audiobook for the first time and sheds light on one of America’s great writers and social observers. THE FIRE NEXT TIME was published two years later. Narrator Kevin Kenerly gives a knock-out performance.
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IN THE HURRICANE'S EYE by Nathaniel Philbrick, ...
Maritime historian Philbrick (IN THE HEART OF THE SEA) explores the key role the French navy played in the American Revolution prior to the 1781 Battle of Yorktown. An AudioFile Earphones Award goes to narrator Scott Brick.
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AMERICAN EDEN by Victoria Johnson, read by Susa...
The attending doctor at the duel between Hamilton and Burr, David Hosack was also a pioneer in medicine and in botany. This captivating biography looks at both daily life and aspects of medical and political history in the early 1800s.
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ELEVATION by Stephen King, read by Stephen King
Not another macabre tale from Stephen King, but instead a timely tale about finding common ground set in the familiar town of Castle Rock—a place where people have deep-rooted differences. Narrated by the author, and includes a bonus short story!
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INVISIBLE by Stephen L. Carter, read by Karen C...
This biography of Manhattan District Attorney Eunice Carter is remarkable—both for her accomplishments—including helping to take down the notorious mobster “Lucky” Luciano—and also for being a trailblazer as an African-American woman in the 1930s.
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