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Audiobooks for the Summer Solstice Based on Your Astrological Sign Submitted by Erin Murphy on June 17, 2019

What are you going to do with the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere (June 21st, 2019)? We’re considering celebrating with a full blown Popsicle buffet, but that has yet to be determined. Read more

Tagged: 1000+ Little Things Happy Successful People Do Differently, A Single Thread, alex mckenna, angel chernoff, Ani DiFranco, Bahni Turpin, Bina Venkataraman, Bob Martin, Bryn Greenwood, Catherine Ho, Chad Beguelin, Chelsea Handler, Claire Mazur, Color Me In, Elizabeth ames, Ellie and the Harp Maker, Emily Rankin, Erica Cerulo, Evvie Drake Starts Over, Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks, Hazel Prior, How to Skimm Your Life, Inland, jacqueline woodson, Jennifer Pastiloff, Jessica Francis Kane, Julia Whelan, Katharine McEwan, Kirby Heyborne, Life Will Be the Death of Me, Linda Holmes, Mahesh Rao, marc chernoff, Matthew Sklar, Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune, Natasha Diaz, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, On Being Human, Patricia Wiltshire, patti smith, Philip Battley, Polite Society, Red at the Bone, Roselle Lim, Rules for Visiting, Saundra Mitchell, Scott Galloway, Téa Obreht, The Algebra of Happiness, The Nature of Life and Death, The Optimists Telescope, The Other's Gold, The Prom, The Reckless Oath We Made, Tracy Chevalier, Work Wife, Year of the Monkey

If You Like The Handmaid’s Tale, Try These Audiobooks Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on May 23, 2019

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is one of those special must-read classics that leaves you hungry for more. Luckily, Atwood’s sequel, The Testaments, will be arriving later this year so fans can travel back to Gilead.

While you wait, though, there are plenty of enthralling audiobooks that you can listen to if you love The Handmaid’s Tale. Read more

Tagged: bookclub, Charlotte Ritchie, Christina Dalcher, crafter, Erin Spencer, Eve of Man, Fran de Leon, Gemma Whelan, Giovanna Fletcher, Hannah Murray, Joanne Ramos, Josh Dylan, Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne, margaret atwood, Morfydd Clark, scifi, Shannon Schuren, Sophie Mackintosh, The Children of Men, The Farm, The Testaments, The Virtue of Sin, The Water Cure, Tom Fletcher, Vox

7 Adult Audiobooks That Teens Will Enjoy Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on May 23, 2019

Teens looking to explore the realms of adult fiction and nonfiction have an overwhelming plethora of titles to sift through. But, not to worry! We’ve curated a selection of fantasy, contemporary fiction, and enthralling nonfiction of fantastic adult audiobooks that teens will love listening to. Read more

Tagged: bookclub, clemantine wamariya, Delilah S. Dawson, Educated, Elizabeth Weil, Erin Spencer, Family Listening, green, Jim Dale, Julia Whelan, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, Leife Shallcross, Lisa Flanagan, Luke Daniels, Meghan MacLean Weir, Naomi Novik, Prentice Onayemi, Robbie Daymond, Robin Miles, Sam Graham-Felsen, Spinning Silver, tara sands, Tara Westover, The Beast's Heart, The Book of Essie, the girl who smiled beads

Audiobooks for a Silly Spring Break Submitted by Erin Murphy on April 12, 2019

What has four wheels, plenty of snacks, and giggles that can be heard from miles around? Your car, playing audiobooks on the way to your vacation destination! Read more

Tagged: Brittany Pressley, Bryan Kennedy, Chris Grabenstein, dean hale, Hot Dog Girl, Ian Doescher, Jennifer Dugan, Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne, Matthew Gray Gubler, Peter Bognanni, Rumple Buttercup, shannon hale, The Princess in Black, This Book is Not Yet Rated, Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel, William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future, William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls

Kathleen Glasgow How to Make Friends with the Dark

Audiobooks Make Movies in Your Brain Submitted by PRHA Contributor on April 9, 2019

By Kathleen Glasgow, author of How to Make Friends with the Dark

I tend to write complicated girls carrying around a lot of pain. Read more

Tagged: author guest post, bookclub, Family Listening, Girl in Pieces, Guest Post, How to Make Friends with the Dark, jorjeana marie, Julia Whelan, Kathleen Glasgow

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

Audiobooks For the Spring Equinox Based on Your Astrological Sign Submitted by Erin Murphy on March 20, 2019

Congratulations, you’ve made it through another winter! Today (March 20, 2019) is the Vernal Equinox, which means spring has sprung and a brand new astrological year has begun. Read more

Tagged: A Woman of No Importance, Adenrele Ojo, Anissa Gray, Anthony Mark Barrow, Aoife McMahon, Bahni Turpin, Benjamin Bratt, Blair Brown, Cassandra Campbell, City of Girls, Colson Whitehead, Craig Ferguson, Daisy Jones & The Six, Dominic Hoffman, Elaine Welteroth, elizabeth gilbert, Elsey Come Home, Field Notes on Love, Frances Mayes, Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi, Higher Etiquette, Hugh Ambrose, Ibi Zoboi, Isabel Sterling, January LaVoy, Jenna Glass, Jennifer Beals, Jennifer E. Smith, John Schuttler, Judy Greer, Julia Whelan, Juliet Stevenson, Kamala Harris, Karissa Vacker, Kristen DiMercurio, Liberated Spirits, Lindsay Stern, Lizzie Post, Macleod Andrews, Matthew Gray Gubler, Minnie Darke, More Than Enough, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, Normal People, Norman Juster, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Pablo Schreiber, Rainn Wilson, Riding the Elephant, Robin Miles, Rumple Buttercup, Ruth Reichl, Sally Rooney, Save Me the Plums, See You in the Piazza, Sonia Purnell, Star-Crossed, Susan Conley, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, The Nickel Boys, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Study of Animal Languages, The Truths We Hold, The Women's War, These Witches Don't Burn

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

Explore the Complexities of Love for People and Places in These February Debuts Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on February 15, 2019

When we think of February, we think of hearts (instead of wintery, blustery weather!). Hearts can mean a lot of different things: love of a place, love of an activity, romantic love, familial love, friendship love, and, best of all, the love you have for yourself.

So, whatever type of love you’d like to immerse yourself in with your next audiobook, we have a fantastic selection for you from bright, new voices in literature. Read more