Reviews of Award Winning Audio Books

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Good Omens Author: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Reader: Martin Jarvis Available on Audible.com Short review: One of my favorite humorous novels, expertly read by Martin Jarvis. I’m sure I’ll listen to this book over and over again. Long review: I have a deep and abiding love for this novel. I’ve read it on paper [...]

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex: A Novel Available from Audible.com Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Reader: Kristoffer Tabori Short Review: A novel I absolutely love, full of gorgeous language, beautifully-rendered characters, and entrancing history and myth. Tabori’s reading is downright fantastic, and Eugenides remains one of the most talented writers of his generation. This is one of the best books I’ve [...]

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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

The Book of Lost Things Author: John Connolly Reader: Steven Crossley Short Review: A decent book with a major flaw, read beautifully by Steven Crossley. Connolly’s book starts out as a promising depiction of the interior life of a bookish, depressed boy with apparently undiagnosed epilepsy and OCD. Unfortunately, it continues on into an all-too-familiar [...]

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Author: Roald Dahl

Reader: Eric Idle

Short Review: Dahl’s award-winning children’s book read wonderfully by Eric Idle.

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

 The Graveyard Book  Author: Neil Gaiman  Reader: Neil Gaiman  Short Review: Neil Gaiman reads his Newbery Medal winning book beautifully. His nod to Kipling’s The Jungle Book is just scary enough, intriguing, inventive, well-written, enchanting . . . it’s downright wonderful. I loved Bod, Silas, Scarlett, Liza, Miss Lupescu, and the rest of the graveyard’s [...]

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The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel Author: Michael Chabon Reader: Peter Riegert Extra features: The audiobook includes an interview with Michael Chabon about his inspiration for the book, his favorite books and genres, and his writing process. Short Review: Chabon’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning alternate history of a world without Israel but with a temporary [...]

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The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Shipping News Author: Annie Proulx Reader: Paul Hecht Short Review: Proulx’s amazing, National Book Award- and Pulitzer-winning novel about loss, reclamation, love, and Newfoundland read well but slightly too stiffly by Paul Hecht. Long Review: I love this novel, well and truly. It’s one of the finest books I’ve read on paper in years, [...]

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In the Woods by Tana French

 In the Woods  Author: Tana French  Reader: Steven Crossley Short Review: This Edgar Award winning novel traces a murder in Ireland, following the detectives investigating the case and flashing back to an earlier, similar unsolved case. It is a good novel beautifully read by Crossley, but the novel itself annoys me in a few spots [...]

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Fragile Things: Stories Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

 Fragile Things: Stories  Author: Neil Gaiman  Read by: Neil Gaiman  Short Review: A solid book of short stories read beautifully by the author.  Long Review: I am a fan of Gaiman’s, so I was bound to pick this up eventually. Jeanne’s glowing review spurred me to pick it up at the library, and I was [...]

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Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Cat’s Eye Author: Margaret Atwood Reader: Barbara Caruso Short Review: Atwood’s Governor General’s Award-winning bildungsroman about girls’ cruelty to other girls, art, childhood, and memory; read crisply by Barbara Caruso. The book follows Elaine Risley, an artist, as she remembers her youth in Canada while preparing for a retrospective of her artwork. It is heartbreaking [...]

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