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.

A Court of Mist and Fury Audiobook

Some sequels tread water. This is the A Court of Mist and Fury audiobook, from one listener to another. This one kicks the door off its hinges. Coming to A Court of Mist and Fury on audio felt like being…

The Poppy War Audiobook

Smoke, gunpowder, and the metallic tang of a war that never quite lets up — that is the world Rin drags you into within the first hour of The Poppy War. Settle in for my take on the Poppy War…

The Goldfinch Audiobook

I don’t say this lightly, but pressing play on The Goldfinch felt like signing up for a relationship. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Goldfinch audiobook. This is a big, sprawling, decade-spanning novel, and in audio it runs a…

Children of Blood and Bone Audiobook

The reed staff cracks against Zélie’s ribs before she can raise her guard, and Mama Agba’s voice cuts louder than the blow: fight like your life depends on it, because in Orïsha it does. This is the Children of Blood…

And Then There Were None

Ten strangers lured to an island, a creepy nursery rhyme, and the count starts dropping. What begins as a cruel mystery game becomes something far darker, and by the time you realize what you’re listening to, there’s no turning back.…

The Daily Stoic Audiobook

I came to this one expecting a quick philosophy primer and ended up with a companion I still return to on ordinary Tuesdays. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the Daily Stoic audiobook, then. The Daily Stoic isn’t a book you…

It Ends with Us Audiobook

Few contemporary romances have earned the cultural gravity that It Ends with Us now carries. Let me walk you through the It Ends with Us audiobook. It became the book that turned casual readers into evangelists, sold millions of copies…