Summer Newsletter 2022 Audiobooks

Read by the author

Pure Color stretches the boundaries of what a novel can be. Lyrical, strange, and fascinating, this is a mediation on life, death, love, nature, and art. Author Sheila Heti’s narration of the audiobook creates a special listening experience. Her voice and her words captivated me from beginning to end. This is experimental literature at its very best and well worth a listen. —Trey

Read by Imogen Church & Theo Solomon

When it comes to audiobooks, I’m often looking for the most enjoyable read possible: good narrators, great storytelling, easy to follow, immediately loved. Rosie Walsh has written such a novel, one of a perfect, quirky little family, secrets from the past that threaten to undo it all, British accents, and seaside landscapes. I hope you’re planning on a long walk or a lot of laundry, because this one is too captivating to pause. —Melinda

Read by Tashi Thomas

This vibrant novel, told in the collective we, translates perfectly to audio form, each chapter a poem, a spoken word song. Through the symphonic voices of a friend group of Brown girls growing up, sometimes leaving, sometimes returning to Queens, Andreades captures myriad truths of living as some shade of Brown, straddling the worlds of family and future, expectation and reality, celebration and struggle. Beautifully written, life affirming. —Melinda

Read by Kathe Mazur

Numbers can be intimidating, overwhelming, and contextless. Billions? Millions? Same difference, right? Making Numbers Count is an essential read for designing simple, clear, and practical data. Click play, close your eyes, listen, and learn to weave your numbers into vivid examples, like depicting the percentage of freshwater on Earth using ice cubes or Jeff Bezos’s net worth using flights of stairs. Celebrate your nerdy side with this insightful audiobook. —Charlotte