Reading List Audiobooks
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The audiobook sector is the fastest growing in publishing, with Nielsen estimating 87% growth in the past five years—and it just keeps getting bigger. The shortlist of the Nibbies Audiobook of the Year award, in its second year, demonstrates the new heights the format is reaching, in terms of quality and significance. Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming, the UK’s Christmas Number One in print, has shattered audiobook records— the self-narrated memoir is yet to move from the top of Audible’s monthly chart, nearly six months on from publication. Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize winner
Audiobooks to challenge
Milkman, narrated by Brid Brennan, sees a teenage girl navigating family and social politics in Troubles-era Northern Ireland, while Robert Galbraith’s fourth Cormoran Strike novel, Lethal White, involves a tangled web of parliamentary secrets, a dysfunctional family, a crumbling countryside manor and a troubled young man with a disturbing memory of a long-ago murder. As with the previous Cormoran Strike titles, Robert Glenister narrates. And Robert Galbraith is, of course, a certain J K Rowling.
Hawking, published posthumously following his death last year, Brief Answers to the Big Questions covers his thoughts on the universe’s most pressing questions. Narrated by Ben Whishaw, Hawking tackles climate change, the rise of artificial intelligence and the challenges facing the human race.
THESE TITLES DEMONSTRATE THE NEW HEIGHTS THE FORMAT IS REACHING, IN TERMS OF QUALITY AND SIGNIFICANCE
Their Lost Daughters, by Audible’s break-
out crime author of 2018, Joy Ellis, kicks off the Jackman and Evans series with a mystery surrounding three teenagers and an isolated stretch of land in the Lincolnshire Fens, where each meet their fate. Actor Richard Armitage narrates. And in First Man In, the self-narrated military memoir by Ant Middleton, he shares the lessons he learned during his time in the Special Boat Services.
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