Piranesi Audiobook
Some books you read. That is the setup; now the Piranesi audiobook itself. Piranesi is one you inhabit. I went into Susanna Clarke’s slim, strange second novel knowing almost nothing, and I’d urge you to do the same — this…
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.
East of Eden
There’s a particular kind of terror that comes with opening a 1,100-page brick of American literature, and East of Eden carries it in spades. John Steinbeck’s generation-spanning Salinas Valley saga—a retelling of Cain and Abel woven through the lives of…
The Fifth Season Audiobook
Some audiobooks I finish and admire. Here’s what the Fifth Season audiobook is really like. This one I finished and immediately sat in silence. The Fifth Season is N.K. Jemisin’s opening salvo in The Broken Earth trilogy, and on audio…
The Lies of Locke Lamora Audiobook
What happens when a con artist this charming collides with a city this rotten? I’ve spent real hours with the Lies of Locke Lamora audiobook, so here is the verdict. Scott Lynch answers with The Lies of Locke Lamora, a…
Red Rising Audiobook
Red dust caked under the fingernails, the crushing heat of the mines, a low song hummed in the dark so the overseers cannot hear. This is the Red Rising audiobook, from one listener to another. That is where Pierce Brown…
Die with Zero Audiobook
The goal isn’t to die with the most money. It’s to die with none—having spent it on the experiences that mattered most at exactly the right moment in your life. That’s the provocation Bill Perkins lays out in Die with…
The Hobbit Audiobook
I have listened to a lot of fantasy this year, but I keep circling back to the one book that started it all for me. That is the setup; now the Hobbit audiobook itself. The Hobbit was the first “grown-up”…
Dune Audiobook
I have lost count of how many times I have opened Dune, but this was the first time I let a full cast carry me across Arrakis, and it turned a book I already loved into something closer to a…
A Game of Thrones Audiobook
I have lost whole evenings to the A Game of Thrones audiobook, and I regret none of them. This is the opening volume of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, and in audio it becomes something closer…
The Name of the Wind Audiobook
Some books you read; a few you want to be told, out loud, by a fire. I’ve spent real hours with the Name of the Wind audiobook, so here is the verdict. Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind is…