Episode 81: Audiobooks

Looking to fit even more books into your life? We think audiobooks are a great solution. This week we chat about reading in different formats and settings and hen and how we both read audiobooks. We also share some of our favorite audio experiences, books, and authors!

Summer Book Club

The book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 has been chosen! It was pretty darn close!

The episode discussing The Story of Lucy Gault will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.

Shownotes

Books

The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor

Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor

Felicia’s Journey, by William Trevor

The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor

The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

The Wind that Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews

Brickmasters, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott

It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken

Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett

Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett

Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett

State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett

A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh

The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett

Run, by Ann Patchett

Taft, by Ann Patchett

The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling

The Trees, by Percival Everett

A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse

Ulysses, by James Joyce

Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Dead Zone, by Stephen King

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King

The Shining, by Stephen King

The Stand, by Stephen King

Fairy Tale, by Stephen King

You Like It Darker, by Stephen King

Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson

Jesus’ Son, by Denis Johnson

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson

Lockwood & Co., by Jonathan Stroud

The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman

The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

Middlemarch, by George Eliot

Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson

The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson

Foster, by Claire Keegan

Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent

Day, by Michael Cunningham

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

“My Purple-Scented Novel,” by Ian McEwan

“Axis,” by Alice Munro

George and Lizzie, by Nancy Pearl

Links

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

The Writer’s Voice Podcast

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