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AudioFile (www.audiofilemagazine.com) is the magazine for discovering more about audiobooks. It reviews and recommends the best listening, most interesting performances, and what audiobooks are worth your listening time. AudioFile reviews about 50 audiobooks per week, features narrator profiles, and awards exceptional performances with AudioFile’s Earphones Awards. AudioFile publishes in print, newsletters and a blog, and podcasts daily recommendations on "Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine."

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Earphone Awards: What Gems Have You Missed?

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors give “Earphones Awards” to the best new audiobooks — the listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. BookTrib, in new partnership with AudioFile, offers this month’s picks of the newest do-not-miss titles – memoirs and bios first, some fiction, and a history…
AudioFile
June 20, 2019
AudiobooksMiscellany

AudioFile’s Golden Voice Lifetime Awards

AudioFile Magazine has honored five new recipients, January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini, Bahni Turpin, Suzanne Toren, and Johnny Heller, with its highest accolade, the Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Award.  About Golden Voices Since 1992, AudioFile has bestowed the Golden Voice prize on only 24 voice artists, including Frank Muller, George Guidall, Barbara Rosenblat, Simon Vance, Jim Dale, Martin Jarvis, Katherine…
AudioFile
June 5, 2019
AudiobooksChildren's Books

Transforming a Graphic Novel Into an Audiobook

AudioFile spoke with Dreamscape Media publisher Tammy Faxel and Deyan Audio’s Khai Dattoli and Bryan Lincoln about adapting and producing Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin’s graphic novel Illegal for audio. AudioFile: What was it about Illegal that made you interested in adapting it as an audiobook? Why is it an important title…
AudioFile
May 28, 2019
AudiobooksListiclesMiscellany

Stop the Presses: May’s Earphone Awards are Here

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors give “Earphones Awards” to the best new audiobooks — the listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. BookTrib, thanks to our partnership with AudioFile, offers this month’s picks of the newest do-not-miss titles – memoirs and bios first, some fiction, and a history…
AudioFile
May 16, 2019
AudiobooksFictionListicles

Spring Cleaning Audiobook Companions

I don’t know about your part of the world, but here in central Pennsylvania we’re finally enjoying some lovely spring weather, which is made all the nicer as the fruit trees come into blossom. These days I’m all about shaking off the indoor stuffiness and getting ready to open the…
AudioFile
May 9, 2019
AudiobooksFictionListicles

5 Novels in Verse for National Poetry Month

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? That makes this month the perfect time to push your audiobook envelope and add some variety to your listening. Although your first inclination might be to listen to a poetry collection (try Richard Blanco’s How to Love a Country), I have another…
AudioFile
April 17, 2019
AudiobooksListiclesMiscellany

10 Editors’ Picks from March 2019 Earphones Awards

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors give “Earphones Awards” to the best new audiobooks — the listens that combine blow-you-away narrations with standout writing. BookTrib, thanks to our new partnership with AudioFile, offers this month’s picks of the newest do-not-miss titles – memoirs and bios first, some fiction, and a…
AudioFile
March 13, 2019
AudiobooksFiction

Narrator of “Friday Black” discusses Afrofuturism

Corey Allen narrates Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s moving collection of short stories, Friday Black (Recorded Books). The themes of these stories include the power divide, minimum-wage work, racism, education, and the consequences of ethical decisions, and Corey shares why it’s a collection well worth your listening time. “What Nana manages to capture in this…
AudioFile
February 22, 2019
AudiobooksFiction

Adriana Trigiani and a Sweeping Big Band Era Novel

Novelist Adriana Trigiani joins us to talk about her latest audiobook, Tony's Wife, and narrator Edoardo Ballerini’s engaging performance. In a story about the music of the last century—the Big Band music of the 1940s—two talented working class kids, Tony & Chi Chi, marry and become a successful singing act until time, temptation, and the responsibilities…
AudioFile
February 1, 2019