By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Not sure, but I think I might’ve mightily liked this…?!
Love
Once There Was a War
By: John Steinbeck / Edited By: Mark Bowden / Narrated By: Lloyd James
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
A look at the details of war—often humorous, sometimes touching, always oh so human…
The Illustrated Man
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated By: Paul Michael Garcia
Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
This narration is hard to find, but oooh is it sooo worth it!
Island Treasures
Growing Up in Cuba
By: Alma Flor Ada, Antonio Martorell / Narrated By: Trini Alvarado
Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
Oh what a delight!
With the Fire on High
Written and Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Even if all the bumps got smoothed over quickly, this was a fine Listen
Bel Ria
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
By: Meg Medina / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo
Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
A truly likable heroine who has a lot of curveballs thrown at her
Bikeman
By: Thomas F. Flynn / Narrated By: Jim Dale
Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
The “forever September morning” told in heartrending verse
American Dunkirk
Fall and Rise
The Story of 9/11
Written and Foreword By: Mitchell Zuckoff / Narrated By: Sean Pratt
Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
An instant “classic” that tells us sooo many stories, of loss, of course, but also of those living their haunted survival
9/12
The Wages of Sin
Series: The Sarah Gilchrist Series, Book 1
By: Kaite Welsh / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
Wonderful, and there’s a sequel I’m hoping will be even better!
Watchers
Written and Afterword By: Dean Koontz / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
I wanted to love this, really I did—but the tangents! oh the tangents!
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
Deep and fraught; shallow and histrionic: Ronson always, ALWAYS provides a hilarious descent into Hell
The Magician's Elephant
By: Kate DiCamillo / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
More and more lovely with each passing Listen
Operation Mincemeat
How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By: Ben Macintyre / Narrated By: John Lee
Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
I hear tell this is only for history buffs?!? Well, hallelujah and huzzah: That I most certainly am!!!
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Series: Zamonia, Book 1
By: Walter Moers / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
I can see where this might be tedious in print—but in audio? Pinchot knocks this outta the park!
Allegedly
By: Tiffany D. Jackson / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Not a Did She/Didn’t She—More like a young girl trying to survive, trying to live Hope in a brutal world…
The Séance
By: John Harwood / Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
More a creep show than a horror fest but still soooo verrry Gothic!
