Listening to audiobooks has seen a steady rise in recent years. We’ll learn what makes for a good listen, the process behind getting from page to recording, and where to find some great audiobooks.
Guests
Robin Whitten, editor and founder, AudioFile Magazine
Michele Cobb, executive director, Audio Publishers Association
Mark Pearson, co-founder and CEO, Libro.fm
Julia Whelan, actor, writer, narrator of over 400 audiobooks; recently named one of AudioFile’s “Golden Voices”
Phuc Tran, author of “Sigh, Gone,” based in Maine
Lily King, award-winning author; her most recent book is “Writers and Lovers”
Resources
- Audiobooks: The Rise And Rise Of The Books You Don’t Read
- LibriVox
- Archive.org Audio Books & Poetry
- cloudLibrary free audiobooks
- Yoto Player for kids
- Wisconsin Public Radio Chapter a Day
- AudioFile Magazine Audiobook Break podcast: “David Copperfield,” by Charles Dickens, read by Nicholas Boulton
- “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale
- “Writers & Lovers,” by Lily King
- “Educated,” by Tara Westover
- “Evie Drake Starts Over,” by Linda Holmes
- “Painted Horses,” by Malcolm Brooks
- “Cloud Maker,” by Malcolm Brooks
- “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” by Mark Twain
- “Jack McMorrow” crime novels by Maine author Gerry Boyle
- “Sigh, Gone,” by Phuc Tran
- “The Jane Austin Society,” by Natalie Jenner, narrated by Richard Armitage
- Neil Gaiman audiobooks
- “Heaven Is Beautiful,” by Rev. Peter Panagore
- “The Way of Kings,” by Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading
- “Dutch House,” by Anne Patchett, read by Tom Hanks
- Baily White short stories
- “Brave New World,” by Aldous Huxley
- “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy,” by Gary D. Schmidt
- “Nothing To See Here,” by Kevin Wilson
- Audiobooks read by Louise Penny
- “Anxious People,” by Francis Bachman
- “You Don’t Belong Here – How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War,” by Elizabeth Becker, read by Lisa Flanagan
- “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles
- “Caste – The Origins of our Discontent,” by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles
- “Four Hundred Souls - A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,” by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, read by various
- “The Three Mothers - How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation,” written and read by Anna Malaika Tubbs
- “Dead Wake,” by Erik Larson
- Alan Horowitz murder mystery books
- Stephen King audiobooks
- “Mouth to Mouth,” by Michael Kimball, read by George Guidall
- “An Hour Before Midnight,” written and read by Jimmy Carter
- “Born a Crime,” by Trevor Noah