Circe by Madeline Miller is based on Greek mythology, but as Alexandra Alter of The New York Times says, Miller has managed to recast “the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right.”
Calypso by David Sedaris is a hilarious audiobook, read by the author himself. And if you’ve ever laughed your way through his cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you’re getting with Calypso. You’d be wrong.
Educated by Tara Westover currently holds the #2 spot on the Libro.fm Bestselling Audiobooks list, with good reason. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
The Libro.fm Top 10 Audiobooks of 2018 were selected based on sales through more than 550 independent bookstores and recommendations by our 5,000 bookselling partners. Congratulations to the authors, narrators, and publishers of these audiobooks!
The excitement surrounding Becoming, the memoir by former First Lady Michelle Obama, is continuing to build. It currently holds the #1 spot on the Libro.fm Pre-Order Bestsellers list and tickets are now on sale for Obama’s book tour, which includes appearances at ten major arenas across the United States.
We are excited to share Behind the Mic from AudioFile Magazine. This podcast highlights favorite audiobooks in short daily episodes, along with extended feature conversations with narrators and authors—like this bonus episode with LeVar Burton!
The Great American Read has sparked a national conversation about reading and the books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us. You voted on 100 novels, which you can see on our The Great American Read playlist.
We are excited to share the podcast that is for book and bookstore enthusiasts everywhere: The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan. Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years.
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He is also a champion of local, independent bookstores as the American Booksellers Association’s spokesperson for Indies First.
Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in a celebration of our freedom to read. This year it will be held September 23-29 with the theme “Banning Books Silences Stories.” Books and the stories in them provide us with lenses through which we can view the world. So what are we saying if […]
This September, we celebrate twenty years of everyone’s favorite wizard, Harry Potter.
It’s Audiobook Month! What’s to celebrate? For starters, the growth of this amazing category as people find creative ways to read, learn, and discover in a society that is short on time. While we love ourselves a physical book, audio enables you to read on the go and works as the perfect compliment to your literary closet.