Authors Share Their Love of Audiobooks
Authors Share Their Love of Audiobooks
in celebration of Audiobook Appreciation Month
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Jean Kwok
I have a special place in my heart for audiobooks because I get to choose the narrators for my novels and I'm just blown away by how they bring my work to life. It's amazing to hear something I've written be read with so much feeling and wit.
Aimee Liu
I spend hours each week listening to audiobooks as I walk around my neighborhood. I love the fusion of story and place that occurs in the process. For instance, my memory of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins is framed in images of Venice Beach, where I listened to most of it. Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins is interlaced in my mind with the hills in Mar Vista that I trudged while struggling to keep track of her leaps and bounds in time and sorrow and narrative invention.
Brittainy Cherry
I love when the narrators match the written word like a missing puzzle piece.
Gabriella Saab
I absolutely love audiobooks! They're so wonderful to listen to while I'm driving, walking my dog, folding laundry, or doing just about anything. It's a great way to get more fiction reading in, as much of my physical book reading is spent on research.
Dinah Jefferies
Audiobooks every time. I just devour them, and I have my favorite narrators. Julia Whelan in the US, and in the UK Stephanie Racine who narrated Daughters of War. I must have about 400 audiobooks, and it all started when Audible gave me ten free credits after I’d done an interview with them.
Tammy Euliano
…the vast majority of my "reading" is audiobooks while walking the dogs, grocery shopping (yeah, not very sociable I'm afraid), cooking dinner (and not a very good cook). The value of a good narrator cannot be overstated.
Vivian Mae
Audiobook is my favorite, only because it's the best way I can get reading in. Otherwise, I'm writing 90% of my spare time. What I absolutely love about audiobooks though is how sexy the narrators sounds. Have you heard Priest by Sierra Simone yet? If not, you'll definitely understand the hype for audiobooks. Oof, that narrator did a great job for Father Bell.
Will Dean
I was an early adopter of audiobooks. I used to listen to Bill Bryson books on tape through my Walkman. Not a cool look when you’re a teenager. Then, building my forest cabin, putting in the windows, I listened to The Secret History by Donna Tartt (narrated brilliantly by the author). I’m very attached to that memory.
Julie Ryan McGue
Covid made me a huge fan of audio and I have one going all the time as I drive here and there. Having an audiobook makes long trips and heavy traffic seem less burdensome.
Victoria Christopher Murray
I buy the ebook and audiobook for every single book. I listen while I’m out walking and then, I read it every other time. I love that it syncs.
