TIMES reporter Pringle’s painstaking multi-year investigation into corruption that makes for a true-crime story as compelling as any novel. Ireland’s welcoming voice and deft pacing keep listeners fully engaged in the insightful, generous plot.īad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angelsīy Paul Pringle | Read by Robert Petkoff | Macmillan Audio | 9.75 hrs. Marin Ireland offers an adroit and heartfelt performance of Emma Straub’s clever time-travel novel that explores what makes life meaningful. With Joniece Abbott-Pratt’s empathetic understanding of this novel’s complex characters, especially in the dialogue she performs, she creates one of the most moving and emotionally intimate audiobooks of the year.īy Emma Straub | Read by Marin Ireland | Penguin Audio | 8.5 hrs. Hear the story of Lucrezia de’ Medici of Florence, who married Duke Alfonso d’Este of Ferrara in 1559.īy Leila Mottley | Read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt | Random House Audio | 10.75 hrs. Genevieve Gaunt’s captivating performance illuminates this gripping historical novel set in Renaissance Italy like gold leaf on a beautiful manuscript. Ho's skillful approach pairs beautifully with Wang's penetrating writing to draw listeners into Joan's insightful journey toward self-realization.īy Maggie O'Farrell | Read by Genevieve Gaunt, Maggie O'Farrell | Random House Audio | 13.5 hrs. Narrator Catherine Ho gives a superb performance as she perfectly inhabits Joan, a first-generation Chinese American ICU physician. His poignant stories paired with memorable narrations create a satisfying listening experience.īy Weike Wang | Read by Catherine Ho | Random House Audio | 6.5 hrs. This audiobook, narrated by the author and a talented cast, offers a cornucopia of Boyle’s vivid imaginings. Boyle, Cheryl Smith, Jason Culp, Derek Perkins, Jeremy Arthur, Stephen Mendel, Johnathan McClain, Ewan Chung, Pete Simonelli, David de Vries, Nan McNamara, Rex Anderson | Harper Audio | 8.75 hrs. Golden Voice narrators Edoardo Ballerini and Julia Whelan narrate these empathic, witty, and finely wrought short stories that make the ordinary extraordinary.īy T.C. In keeping with the list's multimedia approach, the magazine has released a Spotify playlist featuring its Behind the Mic episodes on certain listed titles, and Whitten recorded an introductory "audiogram" exclusively for PW, which can be played below.īy Jess Walter | Read by Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan | Harper Audio | 8 hrs. The list also includes sound samples from each of the listed titles, short episodes of AudioFile's Behind the Mic podcast on a number of the titles, narrator interviews, and more. That audiobook, Whitten said, “may well signal a new trend in audio programs.” “We look at the narrators as the ones who make the magic of an audiobook, so they are celebrated in our lists,” and “variety of style in the audio program is also an important criterion.” Whitten noted that, this year, the editors chose to include “a program that is not a traditional audiobook at all”: Inside Voice by Lake Bell, which i ncludes interactive exercises and games alongside other ancillary material. “AudioFile’s list might share many of the same categories as other ‘best’ lists, but our list is all about audio performance and listening experiences,” Whitten said. To put it together, AudioFile founder and editor Robin Whitten said, the magazine's editors sat down with a list of the 2,500 audiobooks the magazine reviewed in 2022, highlighting winners of the magazine's Earphones Award-which recognizes exceptional audio-and whittling down the list to roughly 250 titles before winnowing further and breaking out titles into categories. The list, selected by AudioFile editors each year, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: fiction, nonfiction and culture, mystery and suspense, memoir, biography and history, science fiction and fantasy, romance, young adult, and children and family listening. AudioFile, the 30-year-old bimonthly magazine dedicated to covering and reviewing audiobooks, has named its Best Audiobooks of 2022.
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