Cooking at home and listening to audiobooks? Yes, please. We have two delicious recipes for you to make and share. With the Fig and Cider Pork Chops from Half Baked Harvest Cookbook and Caramelized Winter Squash with Toasted Coconut Gremolata from Dining In, you’ll be well on your way to a fantastic dinner.
Here are four engrossing audiobooks to keep you company while you cook:
Rich with epic love and epic loss, and diving deep into an often forgotten part of America, Shiner reveals the hidden story behind two generations’ worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. An incredible debut audiobook about female myth-making in a land of men—and one young girl who must open her eyes.
Listen to an excerpt Shiner
A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children’s private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust-fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board that will do anything to find her.
Listen to an excerpt The Misfortune of Marion Palm
This celebrated, unforgettable first novel, shortlisted for the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction and set in Nigeria, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage and the forces that threaten to tear it apart.
Listen to an excerpt Stay with Me
The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school commit a crime against a classmate and film it. The tape, however, goes missing along with the ringleader. Ten years later Kinsey is called in, when the tape resurfaces with a ransom demand.
Listen to an excerpt Y is for Yesterday
For more suggestions on what to listen to in the kitchen, take a look at these audiobooks.