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Jul 2023
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98: Recent Audiobook Favorites

SARAH HARTLEY
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It’s been a long time since we’ve done an episode specifically about audiobooks, so we want to revisit the topic again today. We’re sharing some of our favorite fiction and nonfiction books we’ve read recently, plus a few we hope to read soon. Happy listening!

 

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Something Bookish:

[3:16] M: Book Off! Podcast

[4:04] S: Pencilvania by Stephanie Watson

 

Fiction Audiobooks We’ve Loved Recently: 

[8:27] M: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

[9:42] S: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[10:28] M: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver

[11:20] S: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

[12:03] M: The One by John Marrs

[12:44] S: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

[13:28] M: The Measure by Nikki Erlick

[14:15] S: Happy Place by Emily Henry

[14:41] M: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

[15:32] S: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

[16:08] S: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

[16:44] S: Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

[17:07] S: Yellowface by RF Kuang

 

Nonfiction Audiobooks We’ve Loved Recently:

[17:45] M: Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

[18:27] S: Spare by Prince Harry

[18:34] S: I’ll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein

[18:52] S: Already Enough by Lisa Olivera

[19:12] S: Scenes From My Life by Michael K. Williams

[19:29] S: Finding Me by Viola Davis

 

Audiobooks We’re Excited to Read Soon:

[19:58] S: Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst

[20:16] M: Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

[21:02] S: Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

[21:36] M: Making a Scene by Constance Wu

[21:56] S: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

[22:26] M: The Night Ship by Jess Kidd 

 

Also Mentioned: 

RTL Episode 56, Learning to Love Audiobooks



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