Quiz: Your Audiobook Gift Finder
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Tag: Historical Fiction
2021’s Bestselling Audiobooks by Genre
Libro.fm’s bestselling audiobooks of 2021 in our top 12 genres, based on sales through our 1,500+ independent bookstore partners.
August’s Bookseller Picks
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July’s Bookseller Picks
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Bookseller Recommended: A Libro.fm Gift Guide
Check our holiday gift guide, based on the recommendations of our bookseller partners, and find an audiobook gift for everyone on your list!
What I Learned from Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr recently gave a talk, which he titled “Some Thoughts on Artistic Failure in 6 Parts”. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See had some great insights.
Book of the Month: All the Light We Cannot See
If you haven’t yet read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, it’s probably on your to-be-read list. And if it’s not, I’m thrilled to be the one to tell you about it.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Genres, Complex Characters, and Healing Our Wounds
Dolen Perkins-Valdez follows the rabbit hole of historical footnotes, adds robust, nuanced characters, rhythmic dialogue, and intricate subtexts, and produces some of the best historical fiction around. She took the time to speak to me about both books over the phone, while she was visiting her home state of Tennessee.
Summer Listens
Already through your summer reading list? These engrossing books will keep you occupied until Labor Day. Kick your feet up and have a listen to some of our favorite audiobooks perfect for those lazy beach afternoons.
7 Books for a Stimulating Book Club Discussion
The best book club selections foster discussion, whether it’s for their beauty, their complex characters and plots, or their place in our cultural landscape. From books by David Foster Wallace to Bill O’Reilly, spanning topics from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Salem witch trials, fast-paced thrillers to humorous essays, these books are sure to get your book club talking.