Collection Development, Collection Development, Featured Our Recommendations for First-Time Listeners Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on June 21, 2018

To celebrate listening to audiobooks (and that June Is Audiobook Month), we’re giving away a tote bag full of classic productions and new favorites! From children’s titles to adult titles and fiction to nonfiction, it is the ultimate audiobook tote. To enter to win it, click here. For official rules, click here.

The benefits of listening to audiobooks are clear: audiobooks are the ultimate tool for multitaskers, as well as a great way to relax. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher, Douglas Adams, Elizabeth Strout, Ernest Cline, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, I've Got Your Number, ILLUMINAE, J.K. Rowling, Jay Kristoff, Jayne Entwistle, Jim Dale, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Lincoln Hoppe, Max Brooks, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Philip Pullman, READY PLAYER ONE, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen Fry, the golden compass, THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, The Princess Diarist, Wil Wheaton, WORLD WAR Z

Awards & Recognition, Awards & Recognition, Featured-LL 2016 Audie Award winners Submitted by Kristen Luby on May 13, 2016

We’re extremely proud to announce that Books on Tape had four winners at the 21st annual Audie Awards! View our featured collection of winners here. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, Audie Awards, GHETTOSIDE, ILLUMINAE, January LaVoy, Jay Kristoff, Jill Leovy, LAIR OF DREAMS, Libba Bray, Paula Hawkins, Rebecca Lowman, THE DIVINERS, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

Featured Titles With 20 narrators and a special sound bed, the ILLUMINAE audiobook is out-of-this-world Submitted by Kristen Luby on May 12, 2016

Update May 2016: ILLUMINAE is the 2016 Audie Award winner for Multi-Voiced Performance! If you’ve seen a copy of ILLUMINAE, filled with scratched out emails and interview transcripts, you probably thought how are they going to bring this story to audiobook? Only the team at Listening Library could create a production this extraordinary. It’s Battlestar Galatica meets 10 Things I Hate About You and it’s unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Read more

Tagged: Amie Kaufman, ILLUMINAE, Janet Stark, Jay Kristoff, Johnathan McClain, Lincoln Hoppe, Olivia Taylor Dudley

Collection Development, Promotions & Events Get Away @ Your Library with Great Teen Titles on Audio Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on October 23, 2015

Teen Read Week is a national adolescent literacy initiative created by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to encourage teens to be regular readers and library users. And providing teens with the choice of an audiobook can generate new excitement about reading Read more