Readings Recommends: Audio Books
Selected Shorts: New American Stories
$25.95 – Audio / Symphony Space
A diverse selection of stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and then found, this audio CD from the acclaimed Selected Shorts series features works from four of today’s most talented authors: Sherman Alexie,... Buy or find out more→
Wolf Hall
$69.95 – Audio / Audio Renaissance, Div of Holtzbrink Publishers
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe... Buy or find out more→
Bring Up the Bodies
$51.95 – Audio / MacMillan Audio
The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall. 'My boy Thomas, give him a dirty look and he'll gouge your eye out. Trip him, and he'll cut off your leg', says Walter Cromwell in the year 1500. 'But if you don't cut across him... Buy or find out more→
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
$41.95 – CD-Audio / Simon & Schuster
Lewis intelligently--and humorously--explains the global effects of the economic crisis in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World. Buy or find out more→
The Art of Fielding
$37.95 – CD-Audio / Hachette Audio
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. Buy or find out more→
A Monster Calls
$34.95 – Audio / Bolinda Publishing
Costa Award Winner and Guardian Prize Author, Patrick Ness delivers an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. Buy or find out more→
Freedom
$46.00 – Audio / HarperCollins Publishers
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul -- the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle... Buy or find out more→
Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
$32.95 – CD-Audio / Recorded Books
Told from the perspective of a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling audiobook weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a... Buy or find out more→
Never Let Me Go
$25.95 – Audio / Random House USA Inc
Imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. This novel dramatises the author's attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School,... Buy or find out more→
Siddhartha
$27.95 – CD-Audio / Recorded Books
This classic novel of self-discovery by a Nobel Prize winner has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, this story follows a young Brahmn on his quest for the ultimate reality.... Buy or find out more→
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
$29.95 – Audio / Blackstone Audiobooks
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a... Buy or find out more→
The Prince
$26.95 – Audio / Highbridge Classics
Describes the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. This book argues that sometimes it is necessary to abandon ethics to succeed. It is suitable for strategists, politicians and business people. Buy or find out more→
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
$55.95 – Audio / Penguin Audiobooks
Read discussion questions for The Last Stand. The bestselling author of Mayflower... Buy or find out more→
Fahrenheit 451
$29.95 – CD-Audio / Blackstone Audiobooks
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were burning--along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think--and Guy Montag suddenly realized... Buy or find out more→
The Orson Welles Library
$27.95 – Audio / Blackstone Audiobooks
Orson Welles's remarkable career as director, producer, screenwriter, author and actor may have caused some to forget his days in radio theater. This set is a wonderful reminder. Welles's marvelous voice, moving in pitch and... Buy or find out more→
The White Tiger
$35.00 – Audio / Orion Publishing Co
Meet Balram Halwal, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story...Born in a village in the dark... Buy or find out more→
The Black Book
$40.00 – Audio / Orion Publishing Co
Five years ago, a mysterious fire burned Edinburgh's seed Central Hotel to ashes. Long-forgotten and unsolved, the case reappears when a charred body--with a bullet in its head--is found amongst the ruins. Inspector John... Buy or find out more→
8th Confession: (Women's Murder Club 8)
$32.95 – Audio / Cornerstone
THE SIZZLING #1 BESTSELLER Someone is killing the richest people in the city - and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous... Buy or find out more→
Watkin Tench's 1788
$39.95 – Audio / Bolinda Publishing
Tench is the most readable of writers, and his books are fascinating for the vivid portraits they provide of early Australia. He introduces us to the iconic figures of Arthur Phillip and Bennelong, and provides fascinating... Buy or find out more→
The Dig Tree
$39.95 – Audio / Bolinda Publishing
In 1860, an eccentric Irish police officer named Robert O'Hara Burke led a cavalcade of camels, wagons and men out of Melbourne. Accompanied by William Wills, a shy English scientist, he was prepared to risk everything to... Buy or find out more→
No Country for Old Men
$34.95 – Audio / Naxos AudioBooks
Comac McCarthy is considered one of America's greatest living writers. His epic novel No Country for Old Men, released in 2005, traces the violent consequences of a single decision which soon spiral horribly out of control.... Buy or find out more→
The Age of Innocence
$29.95 – Audio / Blackstone Audiobooks
A young lawyer endures a moral struggle between passion and social conscience in Old New York. Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal earned her the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman. Buy or find out more→
The Alchemist CD: The Alchemist CD
$41.95 – CD-Audio / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
At last -- the unabridged recording of this timeless bestseller that has sold millions. To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation , This quotation taken from The Alchemist sums up the focus of the book. The journey... Buy or find out more→
The Women
$51.95 – CD-Audio / Blackstone Audiobooks
Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish... Buy or find out more→
Three Men In A Boat
$25.95 – CD-Audio / CSA Word
Presented in a book and a CD pack, this semi-autobiographical title recounts the many adventures and mishaps of George (George Wingrave), Harris (Carl Hentschel), J. (the author and narrator) and his remarkable dog, Montmorency,... Buy or find out more→