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…
If you’ve only read Daisy Jones & the Six in print, you’ve experienced the novel as a screenplay—all dialogue and stage directions, a literary blueprint waiting for actors. The audiobook, though, is where this book lives. With twenty-one narrators lending…
Most of us met Scout Finch in a classroom—assigned, underlined, summarized into themes about racial injustice and moral courage. But you haven’t really heard Scout until you’ve listened to her through Sissy Spacek’s voice. The acclaimed actress brings something to…
Most love stories flatter you; Sally Rooney’s Normal People does the opposite, holding a quiet mirror up to every time you have loved someone badly and called it fate. Settle in for my take on the Normal People audiobook. It…
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…
The arcade bleeps in the background—chiptune soundtrack bleeding through worn speakers. Here’s what the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow audiobook is really like. You can almost feel the curve of the controller in your palm, the give of the buttons…
Some books feel like a warm room you never want to leave, and for me the audiobook of A Gentleman in Moscow was exactly that. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the A Gentleman in Moscow audiobook. I pressed play…
Marcellus is a giant Pacific octopus with a dim view of humans and an uncanny eye for the secrets they think they’re hiding. Settle in for my take on the Remarkably Bright Creatures audiobook. In Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright…
Some novels feel like they were written to be overheard rather than read, and Little Fires Everywhere is one of them. Let me walk you through the Little Fires Everywhere audiobook. Celeste Ng’s story of two families colliding in orderly…
Some characters win you over slowly, and Ove is the champion of the slow burn. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the A Man Called Ove audiobook, then. I pressed play expecting a cranky old man complaining about parking permits, and…