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What Happened to Nina? By Dervla McTiernan. Read by a full cast. 2024. 10.5hr. HarperAudio, DD (9780063042285). International best-seller McTiernan spotlights two families in small-town Vermont whose children grew up [...]

Some of these titles feature full, star-power casts; others are performed by a solo (wow!) narrator. All are high entertainment for sure, like Amy Tintera's podcast-informed adult debut, Listen for [...]

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? By Nicci French. Read by Jane Collingwood. 2024. 12.5hr. HarperAudio, DD (9780063298323). In December 1990, Charlotte Salter missed her husband's 50th birthday celebration--and vanished. Three [...]

* Prima Facie. By Suzie Miller. Read by Jodie Comer. 2024. 9hr. Macmillan Audio, DD, $26.99 (9781250332516). Miller has transformed her award-winning play of the same title, first performed in [...]

* Family Family. By Laurie Frankel. Read by Patti Murin and the author. 2024. 15hr. Macmillan Audio, DD, $26.99 (9781250332301). Social media is threatening to ruin India Allwood's career. Her [...]

The Story Game. By Shze-Hui Tjoa. May 2024. 208p. Tin House, paper, $17.95 (9781959030751). 810. "You've forgotten so much," the prologue warns. "About the past. About yourself." UK-based Singaporean writer […]

Dark Soil: Fictions and Mythographies. By Karen Tei Yamashita. Ed. by Angie Sijun Lou. May 2024. 240p. Coffee House, paper, $26 (9781566896870). 813.54. Writing about place is nothing new, although […]

Welcome TO ONE OF THE MORE hope-filled, albeit cautious, Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Months in recent history. Plenty remains unsettled, challenging, and tragic, but a glass-half-full outlook extols the [...]

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. By Leonie Swann. Tr. by Amy Bojang. Read by Moira Quirk. 2023. 12hr. Recorded Books, DD (9798889566564). Sunset Hall is both home and haven [...]

Kin: Rooted in Hope. By Carole Boston Weatherford. Read by Janina Edwards and Leon Nixon. 2023. 2.5hr. Simon & Schuster Audio, DD (9781797167282). Gr.5-8. The prolific, award-winning Weather ford reclaims [...]

Others Were Emeralds. By Lang Leav. Read by Shiromi Arserio. 2023. 7.5hr. HarperAudio, DD (9780063304031). Arserio, who voiced poet/writer Leav's YA best-selling debut, Sad Girls (2017), fittingly returns to narrate [...]

* Lunar New Year Love Story. By Gene Luen Yang. Art by LeUyen Pham. Jan. 2024. 352p. First Second, $25.99 (9781626728103); paper, $17.99 (9781250908261). Gr. 8-12.741.5. Former National Ambassador for [...]

The article features nine stellar voice actors including comedic actor Johnny Heller, television (TV) film actor Bahni Turpin, and theater-trained Avi Roque. Also mentioned are the finding of the 2024 Audio Publisher Association's (APA's) 2024 sales survey, characteristics that make an exceptional narrator, and common factors among the nine voice actors featured in the article.

Land of Milk and Honey. By C Pam Zhang. Read by Eunice Wong. 2023. 8hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593788981). Zhang's (How Much of These Hills Is Gold, 2020) stellar [...]

River East, River West. By Aube Rey Lescure. Read by David Shih and Jennifer Lim. 2024. 12hr. HarperAudio, DD (9780063257887). Lescure's first sentence intertwines her dual narratives: 'A man called [...]

* The Fury. By Alex Michaelides. Read by Alex Jennings. 2024. 8hr. Macmillan Audio, DD, $26.99 (9781250329523). 'This is a tale of murder.' The body, 'in a widening pool of [...]

Stars in Your Eyes. By Kacen Callender. Read by a full cast. 2023. 10hr. Hachette Audio, DD (9781668631386). Callender indubitably gets the full redcarpet audio treatment they deserve. Even the [...]

* Fortune. By Ellen Won Steil. Read by a full cast. 2023. 10.5hr. Brilliance/Audible, DD (9798400138034). Edie and Johnny Parker, 47 years married from modest beginnings to established billionaires, are [...]

The Tatami Time Machine Blues. By Tomihiko Morimi. Tr. by Emily Balistrieri. Nov. 2023. 192p. HarperVia, $24.99 (9780063158498); e-book (9780063158511). Morimi's darkly comical The Tatami Galaxy debuted in Japan in [...]

Mr Kato Plays Family. By Milena Michiko Flasar. Ed. by Caroline Froh (Tr). Read by Brian Nishii. 2023. 5-5hr. Macmillan, DD (9781250901156). Old people--mostly male, many cranky--finding rewarding fulfillment in [...]

The Postcard. By Anne Berest. Tr. by Tina Kover. Read by Barrie Kealoha. 2023.13hr. Europa, DD (9781609459963). The titular postcard is a spare thing: just four names--Ephralm, Emma, Noemie, Jacques--written [...]

I'm a Fan. By Sheena Patel. Sept. 2023. 216p. Graywolf, paper, $16.95 (9781644452455). London born and based Patel's debut arrives stateside already lauded and feted. Her novel is a barbed, [...]

Good Night, Irene. By Luis Alberto Urrea. Read by Barrie Kreinik and the author. 2023. 13.5hr. Hachette Audio, DD (9781668617007). Pulitzer finalist Urrea has built his formidable career mining his [...]

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop. By Hwang Bo-reum. Tr. by Shanna Tan. Read by Rosa Escoda. Feb. 2024. 8hr. Bloomsbury, DD (9781639732449). 'As with everything in life, reading is about [...]

The Museum of Failures. By Thrity Umrigar. Read by Vikas Adam. 2023. 12.5hr. Hachette Audio, DD (9781668632642). From a delighted four-year-old boy to a frail septuagenarian mother, prolific Adam masterfully [...]

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. By Nathan Thrall. Read by Peter Ganim. 2023. 7hr. Macmillan Audio, DD, $19.99 (9781250291530). Jerusalem-based Thrall and [...]

* Your Utopia. By Bora Chung. Tr. by Anton Hur. Feb. 2024. 256p. Algonquin, paper, $18.99 (9781643756219). Chung's anglophone debut, Cursed Bunny (2021), lost nothing in translation, thanks to the [...]

* Secrets of the Sun. By Mako Yoshikawa. Feb. 2024. 168p. Ohio State Univ./Mad Creek, paper, $19.95 (9780814258934). 810. After two lauded novels, Yoshikawa turns to memoir, revealing in 15 [...]

The Lover. By Rebecca Sacks. Read by Gabi Epstein and Eric Altheide. 2023. 11hr. HarperAudio, DD (9780063284265). Published two months before the current Israel-Hamas War, Canadian Israeli author Sacks' second [...]

* Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business. By Roxane Gay. Read by the author. 2023. 10hr. HarperAudio, DD, $26.99 (9780063341494). Little is new here; only [...]

* Roman Stories. By Jhumpa Lahiri. Read by a full cast. 2023. 6hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593788356). Writing in--and translating--Italian has honed Lahiri's prizewinning compositions into works of crystalline [...]

* Normal Rules Don't Apply. By Kate Atkinson. Read by Paterson Joseph. 2023. 5-5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593749050). The 'Great Novel,' as defined in one of the 11 loosely [...]

Village in the Dark. By Iris Yamashita. Feb. 2024. 288p. Berkley, $28 (9780593336700); e-book (9780593336717) Oscar-nominated screenwriter Yamashita's debut, City under One Roof (2023), ended with a promise of more. [...]

The Kamogawa Food Detectives. By Hisashi Kashiwai. Tr. by Jesse Kirkwood. Feb. 2024. 240p. Putnam, $25 (9780593717714). Contemporary Japanese authors have created quite an affecting niche, straightforward stories with overwhelming [...]

Relatively few of the thousands of picture books published get audio adaptations, and for a seemingly obvious reason--you can't see the art! Yet audios can offer another complementary sensory enhancement: [...]

The Borrow a Boyfriend Club. By Page Powars. Read by Christian Banas. 2023. 9hr. Listening Library, DD (9780593746639). Gr. 9-12. Debuts are doubled here: Powars as novelist, Banas as audiobook [...]

A Grandmother Begins the Story. By Michelle Porter. Read by a full cast. Nov. 2023. Hachette Audio, DD (9781668632673). Tenacity is required--and rewarded--here in piecing together poet/memoirist/scholar Porter's multigenerational mosaic [...]

The Puppets of Spelhorst. By Kate DiCamillo. Read by Allan Corduner. 2023. 1.5hr. Listening Library, DD (9780593683088). Gr.3-7. Merely seeing the unparalleled Corduner's name on an audiobook elicits joyful anticipation [...]

* The Golden Gate. By Amy Chua. Read by a full cast. 2023. 13-5hr. Macmillan Audio, DD, $26.99 (9781250291578). Chua--yes, author of the (in)famous Bat tie Hymn of the Tiger [...]

* The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. By James McBride. Read by Dominic Hoffman. 2023. 12-5hr. Books on Tape, DD (9780593684139). Deservedly perennial favorite Hoffman returns to narrate his third [...]

The Storm We Made. By Vanessa Chan. Jan. 2024. 352p. Marysue Rucci, $27 (9781668015148); e-book (9781668015162). The lofty incentive is 'Asia for Asians, a world in which white men didn't [...]

But You Have Friends. By Emilia McKenzie. Art by the author. 2023. 116p. Top Shelf, paper, $14.99 (9781603095273). 741-5 A peripatetic childhood made lasting friendships difficult for McKenzie until her [...]

An interview with Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) audio narrators including Reena Dutt, Farah Kidwai, and Sunny Lu, is presented. They talk about how often they cast because of their matching ethnic heritage, how they prepare for vocabulary in an unfamiliar language, and what they most enjoy about voicing audiobooks.

* Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story. By Sarah Myer. Art by the author. June 2023.272p. First Second, $25.99 (9781250268792); paper, $17.99 (9781250268808). Gr. 9-12.741.5. 'And, sure, my life could've turned [...]

The Spirit of Denendeh, v.2: As I Enfold You in Petals. By Richard Van Camp. Art by Scott B. Henderson and Donovan Yaciuk. 2023.72p. HighWater, paper, $21.95 (9781774920411). 741.5. The [...]

The publishing industry has been hard hit by COVID-19: festival and conference cancelations, library and bookstore shutterings, disappearing book tours, publishers' office closings, production delays--especially with international printers--and, alas, probably [...]