Check your holds for these listens from the LibraryReads October list. Recommend patrons try an audiobook as they get ready to hit the road this holiday season.
#1 October Pick
NoveList Read-alike (or Listen-alike!): Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) by Mara Altman, read by the Author
Why try the audio? Bill Bryson himself reads the audiobook! As Booklist said of his narration of At Home, “Audiobook fans will enjoy Bryson’s inflections and pertinent pauses, which enhance his dry humor.” Fans shouldn’t miss it!
Why try the audio? Series narrator Kate Reading is back and knows how to get into character. AudioFile has called her performance of this series in multiple Earphones Award-winning reviews, “Brilliant listening” and “Masterful in her portrayals in this clever historical mystery with a fabulous twist.”
Why try the audio? Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning narrator who knows how to bring fantasy to shimmering life. Of her Audie Award-winning performance of Spinning Silver, AudioFile said in an Earphones Award review, “[Naomi] Novik’s story would stand on its own, but Flanagan’s fantastic narration makes it even better.”
Hall of Fame Author
Why try the audio? Julia Whelan, Audie Award Winner for Best Female Narration (Educated), who attended ALA Annual earlier this year, shares exactly why she is the perfect person to read this:
A spot of news:
I love @jojomoyes.
I love librarians.
So narrating a Jojo Moyes book *about* librarians was essentially designed in a lab to be the best thing that's happened to me in awhile. https://t.co/c6LFVZuWB5— Julia Whelan (@justjuliawhelan) September 9, 2019
Hall of Fame Author
Read-alikes (or listen-alikes!):
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal, read by Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, read by Jim Broadbent
Why try the audio? Kimberly Farr is a master at inhabiting Strout’s world. In a starred review of Anything is Possible, Booklist raved, “Farr, a veteran performer who also read My Name Is Lucy Barton, narrates magnificently, treating listeners to introspective, thoughtful and humane interpretations of every individual.”
Hall of Fame Author
Why try the audio? Janina Edwards is back to read her fourth Guillory audiobook! AudioFile said of her performance of The Wedding Party, “Narrator Janina Edwards elevates a charming story.”
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