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

Collection Development, Featured Titles Audiobooks put you in the room where it happened. The Nerdy Book Club names top books for Hamilton fans. Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on August 30, 2016

Attention all “Hamilnerds” who have listened to the Hamilton soundtrack on repeat hundreds of times: Listening Library has TWO NEW Hamilton-related listens to add to the mix. These fall ’16 drop-ins allow famous historical figures to tell their stories, bringing this fascinating period in American history to life—a perfect choice for classrooms! Read more

Tagged: Adenrele Ojo, Alexander Hamilton, ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S GUIDE TO LIFE, ALEXANDER HAMILTON: THE OUTSIDER, Arthur Morey, Bob Walter, Cynthia Holloway, FOUNDING BROTHERS, Hamilnerds, Hamilton, Jean Fritz, Jeff Wilser, JEFFERSON'S SONS, John H. Mayer, Johnathan McClain, Joseph J. Ellis, Judith St. George, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, M.T. Anderson, Matthew Quick, Nerdy Book Club, Octavian Nothing, Peter Francis James, Ron Chernow, Scott Brick, SORTA LIKE A ROCK STAR, THE DUEL, THE QUARTET

Featured, Featured Titles Wish you could press pause on summer? Tackle summer TBR lists with audiobooks! Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on August 8, 2016

It’s that time of year when all of us tend to say, “Where has the summer gone? How is it flying by so quickly?!” And if you’re a librarian or book-lover, a common complaint is: “But I still have so many summer reads on my list!” Remind patrons that audiobooks can help. Read more

Tagged: beach listens, Camille Aubray, Catherine Taber, Emily Foster, Emily Giffin, Graham Moore, Janet Evanovich, Johnathan McClain, Lorelei King, Mozhan Marno, Scott Brick, Summer 2016, Summer Listening

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

Awards & Recognition, Collection Development, Featured-LL School Library Journal’s Top Audiobook Picks of 2015 Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on November 20, 2015

School Library Journal unveiled their Top 10 Audiobook Picks of 2015 on Twitter this week. Media editor Stephanie Klose explained that “for an audiobook to make the #SLJBest2015 list, the work’s plot, characterization, prose craft, narration, and production all had to be ace.” They also aim to include titles for kids of all ages, as well as a wide range of voices and experiences. Listening Library is thrilled to have two groundbreaking titles for teens on School Library Journal’s list Read more

Tagged: 2015, Ann Bausum, Best of Lists, Johnathan McClain, School Library Journal, SLJ, STONEWALL, Stonewall Riots, Teresa Toten, THE UNLIKELY HERO OF ROOM 13B, Tim Federle

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