Clara Hayes

Clara Hayes

Clara Hayes is the founder and lead reviewer at Audio Book Spot. A lifelong listener, she has worked her way through thousands of hours of audio across every genre — epic fantasy, literary fiction, romance, thrillers, and memoir. Clara reviews with the listening experience front and center: narrator performance, pacing, production, and whether a title truly rewards the hours it asks of you. Her goal is simple — to help you spend your listening time on audiobooks you'll actually love.

Behind Closed Doors Audiobook

There is a particular kind of book that ruins your commute, your laundry-folding, your before-bed wind-down, because you cannot bring yourself to press pause. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Behind Closed Doors audiobook. B.A. Paris built one of…

The Chain Audiobook

Here’s what listening to The Chain does that reading it can’t: January LaVoy won’t let you look away. Let me walk you through the Chain audiobook. On the page you can skim the ugly part, skate past the moment a…

Rock Paper Scissors Audiobook

Snow piles against the door of a converted chapel deep in the Scottish Highlands, the last road out already erased under white, while inside a couple who barely speak anymore settle in for a weekend that will not go the…

Freakonomics Audiobook

Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms? (And Other Questions That Actually Matter) That’s the kind of question that stops you mid-commute. And it’s exactly the kind of question Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner answer in…

None of This Is True Audiobook

Some thrillers hand you a villain in the first chapter. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the None of This Is True audiobook. Lisa Jewell hands you a woman named Josie Fair and dares you to decide what she actually…

The Housemaid Audiobook

Some thrillers announce themselves from the first line. Settle in for my take on the Housemaid audiobook. This one just hands you a duster, points you up a narrow staircase, and lets the quiet do the work. By the time…

The Girl on the Train Audiobook

Press play and the first thing that gets you is Rachel’s voice. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Girl on the Train audiobook. Clare Corbett gives her this slightly frayed, over-explaining quality, the sound of a woman who has…

The Guest List Audiobook

How well do you really know the people you would put on your own wedding guest list? This is the Guest List audiobook, from one listener to another. Lucy Foley builds a whole novel out of that uneasy question, drops…