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In the Woods by Tana French
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…
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Fragile Things: Stories Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
Read by: Neil Gaiman
Short Review: A solid book of short stories read beautifully by the author.
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Cat’s Eye by 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 and beautiful, which makes it hard to listen to at times. Pain is perhaps more real when it’s expressed out loud–this isn’t a fun listen, but it’s a very good one.
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels
Available from Audible.comAuthor: Michael Shaara
Reader: Stephen Hoye
Short Review: Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork about the Battle of Gettysburg, well-read and voiced by Stephen Hoye. One of… -
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel
Author: Susanna Clarke
Reader: Simon Prebble
Short Review: A gorgeously read version of a Hugo Award winning modern epic I absolutely love. Clarke’s novel…
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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Author: Annie Proulx
Reader: Campbell Scott
Short Review: A ground-breaking story about the nature of love and sexuality, beautifully-read by one of my favorite audio book narrators.
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Read by: Becket Royce
Short Review: Robinson’s prize-winning, gorgeous, intricate novel about women and the fragility of family, and of sanity, and the need to create and maintain a sense of home, no matter what happens. It is read well, if not perfectly, by Beckett Royce.
