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Women’s History Month: Who is Your SHE-ro? Submitted by Erin Murphy on March 21, 2019

Women (real and fictional) have been doing incredible things since…well, since forever. For Women’s History Month, we asked our staff who their SHE-roes are Read more

Tagged: Blanche Wiesen Cook, Cassandra Campbell, Delia Owens, Educated, Eleanor Roosevelt, Flo Salant Greenberg, jojo moyes, Julia Child, Julia Whelan, Kate Reading, Kimberly Farr, My Life in France, Tara Westover, The Giver of Stars, Where the Crawdads Sing

Our 2019 Audie Award Winners Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on March 5, 2019

We’re so excited to share that Penguin Random House Audio received five awards at the annual Audie Award ceremony hosted by Tan France! Congratulations to everyone involved in each of these fantastic productions. Read more

Tagged: Audie Awards, Educated, Elizabeth George, Julia Whelan, Lisa Flanagan, Megan Mullally, Naomi Novik, Nick Offerman, Simon Vance, Spinning Silver, Tara Westover, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, The Punishment She Deserves

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Listening Library’s 2019 ALA Award Winners Submitted by Erin Murphy on February 8, 2019

We have some amazing award-winning titles for you to pass on to the little audiobook listeners in your life! Read more

Tagged: Adib Khorram, Anne Twomey, Blood Water Paint, Boots on the Ground, clemantine wamariya, darius the great is not okay, David Aaron Baker, Deborah Grausman, Educated, Elizabeth Partridge, Erin Spencer, FEED, Front Desk, green, Jaina Lee Ortiz, John Beach, Joy McCullough, Julia Whelan, Kekla Magoon, Kelly Yang, Lisa Flanagan, M.T. Anderson, Meghan MacLean Weir, Michael Levi Harris, monster, Naomi Novik, Prentice Onayemi, Priya Ayyar, Ray Porter, Robbie Daymond, Robin Miles, Sam Graham-Felsen, Sonia Sotomayor, Spinning Silver, sullivan jones, Sunny Lu, tara sands, Tara Westover, The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor, The Book of Essie, the girl who smiled beads, The Night Diary, The Season of Styx Malone, Veera Hiranandani, vesper stamper, Walter Dean Myers, what the night sings, Xe Sands

Congratulations to Our 2019 Audie Award Finalists Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on February 4, 2019

The Audie Award Finalists are in! Read more

Tagged: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Audie Awards, audies, Beastie Boys Book, Educated, Everything's Trash But It's Okay, Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Kill the Farm Boy, Louisiana's Way Home, macbeth, Spinning Silver, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, The Punishment She Deserves, The Wedding Date, there there, you think it I'll say it

Listen Up! AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2018 Submitted by Erin Murphy on November 28, 2018

‘Tis the season for celebrating another great year of audiobook listening! Read more

Tagged: Anne Tyler, Arthur Morey, Becoming, bookclub, Clock Dance, Dion Graham, Educated, Elena Favilli, Esi Edugyan, Francesca Cavallo, Fred Sanders, gayle forman, good night stories for rebel girls, Harbor Me, hope nation, i have lost my way, jacqueline woodson, Jon Meacham, Julia Whelan, Kimberly Farr, Lisa Flanagan, Machiko Kakutani, Michael Crouch, Michael Ondaatje, Michelle Obama, Naomi Novik, Nicole Lewis, Reporter, rose brock, Seymour Hersh, Spinning Silver, Steve West, Sunil Malhotra, Tara Westover, Tavia Gilbert, the death of truth, The Soul of America, Warlight, Washington Black

Adult Audiobooks That Older Teens Can Listen To

Audiobooks to Spark Conversations with Older Teens Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on November 2, 2018

Older teens have a lot of information to sift through. Not only are they confronted with the universal struggles of leaving childhood behind and becoming an adult, but they’re also forming their own opinions on big ideas and issues. Read more

Tagged: Alma Cuervo, Bahni Turpin, behold the dreamers, Cassandra Campbell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cristina Henríquez, Darrell Dennis, Dear Ijeawele, Dear Ijeawele or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, Educated, Emily Janice Card, Family Listening, Imbolo Mbue, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, Karen Thompson Walker, Kyla Garcia, Prentice Onayemi, Rebecca Skloot, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Tara Westover, The Age of Miracles, The Book of Unknown Americans, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, there there, tommy orange

Birth Flower Audiobook Recommendations Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on April 17, 2018

From love and hope to integrity and regret, each type of flower has a meaning. Read more

Tagged: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, A French Wedding, Adjoa Andoh, Aislinn Hunter, Alan Bradley, Alana Kerr Collins, Alex George, alex mckenna, All Our Wrong Todays, Allegra Goodman, Allison Pataki, Allyson Ryan, Among the Ten Thousand Things, Amor Towles, Anne Ostby, anthony marra, Ari Fliakos, Ash Princess, Ayobami Adebayo, Bahni Turpin, birth flowers, Carnegie's Maid, Cassandra Campbell, Cath Crowley, Cathleen McCarron, Chelsea Bruland, Chemistry, Clare Mackintosh, Colette Whitaker, Courtney Maum, Cristina Caboni, David Sedaris, Diksha Basu, dina nayeri, Dominic Hoffman, don't tell me you're afraid, Educated, Eimear McBride, Elan Mastai, Eleanor Brown, eleanor oliphant is completely fine, Elizabeth Knowelden, Everything Here Is Beautiful, Fallen, fierce kingdom, Fiona Hardingham, Frances Mayes, Francesca Hornak, Francesca Segal, Gail Honeyman, gardener-cook, george saunders, Gin Phillips, Girl on the Leeside, Giuseppe Catozzella, Goodbye Days, Greta Jung, Hamish R. Johnson, Hannah Tunnicliffe, Heather O’Neill, Helen Simonson, Hillary Huber, Home Fire, how to find love in a bookshop, How to Stop Time, I Let You Go, Jane Steele, Janelle Brown, Jardine Libaire, Jayne Entwistle, Jeff Zentner, Jill Santopolo, Jilly Bond, john boyne, jorjeana marie, Julia Emelin, Julia Pierpont, Julia Whelan, Justine Eyre, Kaleo Griffith, Kamila Shamsie, Karissa Vacker, Katharine McEwan, Katherine Heiny, Kathleen Anne Kenney, Kayla Rae Whitaker, Kimberly Farr, Kirsten Potter, Kristen Sieh, Laura Sebastian, Lauren Kate, Lincoln in the Bardo, Liz Kay, Louise Miller, Lucky Boy, Lyndsay Faye, Marie Benedict, Mark Bramhall, Mark Meadows, Mark Tompkins, Mary Lynn Bracht, Matt Haig, Meaty, Melanie Banjamin, Michael Crouch, michael poore, Mira T. Lee, Monsters: A Love Story, Mozhan Marno, Naomi Novik, National Garden Month, Nick Offerman, Nicola Barber, Nicola Yoon, Nina LaCour, Oliver Hembrough, once and for all, Once in Lourdes, Orlagh Cassidy, paul boehmer, Phoebe Strole, Pieces of Happiness, Rachel Joyce, Raymond Lee, Rebecca Lowman, Rebecca Soler, Refuge: A Novel, Reincarnation Blues, Ross Poldark, Roxana Ortega, Rules of Civility, Samantha Irby, sarah dessen, Saskia Maarleveld, Setting Free the Kites, seven days of us, Shanthi Sekaran, Sharon Solwitz, Sile Bermingham, Sisi, Soneela Nankani, Standard Deviation, stay with me, Stephen Hogan, Steven Crossley, Steven Hartley, Susan Rieger, Susie Riddell, Tania Rodrigues, Tara Westover, Tavia Gilbert, The Afterlives, The Animators, The Awkward Age, The Chalk Artist, The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, the grave's a fine and private place, The Heart's Invisible Furies, The Heirs, The Last Days of Magic, the lesser bohemians, The Light of Paris, The Light We Lost, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, The Music Shop, the secret ways of perfume, The Summer Before the War, the sun is also a star, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, THe Windfall, The World Before Us, Thomas Pierce, Touch, Uprooted, Veronica Henry, watch me disappear, we are okay, Weike Wang, White Chrysanthemum, white fur, Winston Graham, Women in Sunlight, words in deep blue, Youssif Kamal

Staff Pick: Educated Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on February 23, 2018

Tara Westover’s exquisite coming-of-age memoir, Educated, was on many Anticipated Books for 2018 lists, ranging from Entertainment Weekly to Vogue to BBC Books. Once you plug into it and hear her amazing journey, you’ll see why people are buzzing about it. Read more

Tagged: bookclub, crafter, Educated, Educated: A Memoir, gardener-cook, Julia Whelan, Tara Westover

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