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The best audiobook experience? The top four titles of 2013, according to the Audio Publishers Association, are listed below. The organization announce the finalists for the two premier categories recognized at the Audies Awards today. I announced the nominees for Audiobook of the Year earlier today, and the complete list of all 28 categories in [...]

Four finalists: great listening combined with savvy marketing – the criteria for APA’s Audiobook of the Year. You can read the whole list of Audies nominees in this post – 28 categories! But Audiobook of the Year is the highest honor, and the APA just released the titles vying for the top prize – here’s the [...]

John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, the 2013 Odyssey Award-winner, is the subject of my interview with Laura Grafton, who has directed all of Green’s audiobooks for Brilliance Audio. The interview appears in the current issue of Booklist magazine, but the word-count limit means that some of Grafton’s remarks had to be left out. So [...]

FREE – The Unremarkable Heart by Karin Slaughter, Edgar Award nominee for Best Short Story. Download this contender for the Mystery Writers of America’s top award, from the short story collection Vengeance, edited by Lee Child. Thanks to publisher AudioGo for this great Freebie Friday offer! Here’s how to get your one-and-a-half  hour audio edition narrated by Shannon Cochran. [...]

28 catagories, 5 nominees in each – that’s 140 top audiobooks nominated for this year’s Audies Awards, given by Audio Publishers Association. You can read the complete list of honored narrators and publishers here. The nominees represent the wide range of audio productions, from children to adults, literary fiction to business/educational, multi-voiced drama to the [...]

Society’s Child: My Autobiography, written & read by Janis Ian  has won the Grammy for the Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling). You can learn more about  recording icon Ian’s experience recording her memoir for Audible / Brilliance Audio in  Ellen Myrick’s “Talking With… Janis Ian” Booklist interview. Visit the Grammy website to [...]

Perfect timing for the just-announced nominations for the Agatha Awards, named for the grande dame of the poison pen. There’s nothing better than a cozy mystery on a winter’s day, and you don’t have to venture outside to download from your public library or online audiobook store. Take a look at all the nominees here http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html I [...]

Top audiobooks named by American Library Association, from birth to adult. Last weekend, committee members debated the merits of the best audios of 2012 in Seattle. The complete results are now final & posted on the ALA website. Click the links below for the top recommended titles for school & library purchases – and for [...]

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, a list of top teen audios from the American Library Association’s YALSA division, will be finalized during the upcoming Midwinter conference. I’ve copied the (huge!) list of nominations below, plus you’ll want to check out the past lists on the Amazing Audiobooks website:  http://www.ala.org/yalsa/amazing-audiobooks. And here are more  than a [...]

The Notable Children’s Recording discussion list has top titles for ages birth-14. Wondering what the American Library Association committee members will be discussing during the up coming annual conference in Seattle? ALSC has released its discussion list today for the Notable Children’s Recordings 2013 list, and invites observers to their deliberations. I’m copying the complete notification from [...]