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VIDEO: Narrator Julia Whelan on recording Jojo Moyes’ The Giver of Stars Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on November 7, 2019

Was it written in the stars?…
At this year’s June 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., Julia Whelan was meeting her “favorite people” (librarians) and signing audiobook copies of Educated (for which she won a 2019 Audie Award for Best Female Narration), when just across the aisle, none other than bestselling author, Jojo Moyes, was about to do her own signing. Read more

Tagged: bookclub, In the Studio, jojo moyes, Julia Whelan, Video

Hear Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Faves on Audio Submitted by Erin Murphy on November 1, 2019

There are so many reasons to love Reese Witherspoon: not only is she a smart businesswoman and the actress who elevated Elle Woods to icon status, but she has stellar taste in books to boot. Read more

Tagged: bookclub, braving the wilderness, Brené Brown, Catherine Steadman, celeste ng, cook, crafter, curtis sittenfeld, Daisy Jones and the Six, Delia Owens, eleanor oliphant is completely fine, Gail Honeyman, gardener-cook, holiday, Jasmine Guillory, Jill Santopolo, jojo moyes, Josie Silver, Julia Whelan, Lara Prescott, little fires everywhere, One Day in December, Something in the Water, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Giver of Stars, The Light We Lost, The Proposal, The Secrets We Kept, Where the Crawdads Sing, you think it I'll say it

Go Back in Time with Historical Fiction Audiobooks Submitted by Erin Murphy on October 30, 2019

Everyone knows a good audiobook can take you places, but did you know they can also take you back in time? Jump in to one of these unforgettable stories from yesteryear and see what awaits, no flux capacitor required. Read more

Tagged: A Single Thread, Fenella Woolgar, James L. Haley, Joe Morton, jojo moyes, Julia Whelan, Maite Jáuregui, paul boehmer, ruta sepetys, ta-nehisi coates, The Devil in Paradise, The Fountains of Silence, The Giver of Stars, The Water Dancer, Tracy Chevalier

7 Audiobooks About Reinvention and Self-Discovery Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on May 9, 2019

Wanting to change yourself, learning to live with your past, and then figuring out who you are is a journey that everyone takes. It’s no surprise that many authors decide to write about it. Read more

Tagged: Ani DiFranco, Anna Acton, bernadette dunne, bookclub, Cheryl Strayed, cook, crafter, Emma Straub, gardener-cook, Hope and Other Punchlines, jojo moyes, jorjeana marie, Julie Buxbaum, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, Meredith Hagner, Molly Ringwald, Nina LaCour, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Robbie Daymond, sarah dessen, Still Me, we are okay, What Happened to Goodbye, Wild

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

8 Audiobooks Told Through Letters Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on September 21, 2018

Writing letters may be seen as a nostalgic form of communication, but it’s also one of the most intimate (plus, who doesn’t love opening their mailbox to find a handwritten letter just for them?). Read more

Tagged: Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Wincott, Annie Barrows, bookclub, Dear Committee Members, Donald Sturrock, Gabrielle Glaister, Here and Now, Imogen Wilde, J. M. Coetzee, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jennifer Ryan, John Lee, jojo moyes, Julie Schumacher, Juliet Mills, Laura Kirman, letters, Love From Boy, Mary Ann Shaffer, Mike Grady, Paul Auster, paul boehmer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Roald Dahl, Robertson Dean, Rosalyn Landor, Rosanne Cash, sullivan jones, Susan Duerden, Susan Lyons, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, The Dark Interval, the guernsey literary and potato peel society, The Last Letter from Your Lover, Thomas Judd, To Obama, Tom Clegg, Ulrich Baer

International Romances to Swoon Over Submitted by Erin Murphy on July 26, 2018

Whether you’ve already gone on a long trip this summer or are just planning on a staycation, when you listen to audiobooks you’re transported to dreamy destinations. Read more

Tagged: Catherine Isaac, Crazy Rich Asians, Fiona Hardingham, Jill Santopolo, jojo moyes, Kevin Kwan, Lynn Chen, my not so perfect life, Paris For One and Other Stories, Sophie Kinsella, Tania Rodrigues, The Light We Lost, You Me Everything

Audiobooks For Your Favorite Ice Cream Submitted by Erin Murphy on July 6, 2018

It’s National Ice Cream Month! It’s said that your favorite ice cream flavor reflects your personality, but did you know it can also reveal the audiobooks you should be listening to? Read more

Tagged: A French Wedding, Abby Craden, Adib Khorram, Allyson Ryan, Almarie Guerra, Along for the Ride, Anna and the French Kiss, Ben Elliot, C. J. Tudor, callie bates, camille perri, Caroline Kepnes, Catherine Isaac, Cathy Hapka, darius the great is not okay, David Arnold, DC Trip, E. Lockhart, eleanor & park, Elizabeth Bower, Emily Rankin, Emma Bering, Erik Davies, Erin Spencer, Euan Morton, fruit of the drunken tree, Genuine Fraud, going bovine, green, guy lockard, Hannah Tunnicliffe, Ice Cream, if you come softly, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, jacqueline woodson, Jennifer Van Dyck, jojo moyes, jorjeana marie, Julia Emelin, Katharine McEwan, Kim Mai Guest, leigh bardugo, Libba Bray, Macleod Andrews, Marisol Ramirez, Meet Cute: Some people are destined to meet., Michael Levi Harris, Miriam Parker, mosquitoland, Mozhan Marno, My So-Called Bollywood Life, Naomi Novik, Nicol Zanzarella, nicola stanton, Nicole Lewis, Nina George, Nisha Sharma, One Plus One, Pardon My French, Paul Michael, Phoebe Strole, Prentice Onayemi, Priya Ayyar, Providence, Rachel Botchan, Rainbow Rowell, Rebecca Lowman, Rebecca Soler, Riley Sager, Sam Graham-Felsen, Sara Benincasa, sarah dessen, Saskia Maarleveld, Social Creature, Stephanie Perkins, steven france, Summer, Sunil Malhotra, Tania Rodrigues, Tara Isabella Burton, the chalk man, The Last Time I Lied, The little french bistro, The Shortest Way Home, the waking land, Uprooted, what we lose, when katie met cassidy, wonder woman: warbringer, You Me Everything, zinzi clemons

9 Listens to Sweep You off Your Feet Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on February 5, 2018

Sometimes you just need the escape of a feel-good love story. And if there’s ever a perfect time to listen to a romance, it’s the month of February, when love is in the air. Read more

Tagged: Angelica Lee, Anna Acton, bookclub, crafter, Donna Rawlins, Every Little Thing, Fiona Hardingham, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Jane Green, Janina Edwards, Jasmine Guillory, Jayne Entwistle, jojo moyes, Jude Deveraux, Kate Reading, love, Love by the Book, Melissa Pimentel, romance, Samantha Young, Sophie Kinsella, Still Me, Surprise Me, Tad Branson, Taken by Storm, Tami Hoag, Tavia Gilbert, Terry McMillan, The Wedding Date, To Have and to Hold, true love, valentine's day

Jojo Moyes Shows Us That Life Happens AFTER YOU Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on September 30, 2015

Readers loved–and lost–alongside Louisa Clark in Me Before You, and, now, Jojo Moyes continues Louisa’s story in it’s sequel, After You. Now that Will Traynor is gone, Louisa’s life is solitary and grey. She lives alone, works at an airport bar, and shields herself from getting emotionally attached to anyone. Suddenly, though, she has an accident that changes everything. Read more

Tagged: after you, audiobook, contemporary fiction, fiction, jojo moyes, louisa clark, me before you, romance, will traynor, women's fiction