AudioFile magazine has announced the return of its program that offers free audiobooks for teens. The AudiobookSYNC program — tailored toward making books accessible and free — is the perfect fix as book bans grow, the pandemic continues, and young people have less access to their school and local libraries.…
AudioFileApril 4, 2023
Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks for BookTrib’s readers. These award-winning February audiobooks are the perfect way to finish out the winter.
AudioFileMarch 1, 2023
BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our BookTrib editors artfully curate book stories that we hope you like. If you read a story you’d like to see in The Pulse, please email chelsea@booktrib.com. Here’s what’s pulsing this week: All Proceeds From Penguin Random House's…
BookTribMay 1, 2020
3.4 million copies sold last year made Becoming (Random House) by Michelle Obama the best-selling book of 2018! We are thrilled to share an excerpt of the memoir read by the former first lady herself. AudioFile Magazine says “In a rich, warm timbre, Michelle Obama treats us to reminiscences and reflections on her life…
Just The Right Book PodcastJanuary 18, 2019
Every January offers the chance for new beginnings, but this year we seem to crave that change more than ever. Most of us are anticipating a bright 2021 filled with the hope that the normal rhythms of our lives are on the near horizon. It does indeed appear that we’re…
Candace LevyJanuary 27, 2021
Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. These award-winning October audiobooks are sure to keep you captivated! This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with AudioFile and contains material originating from the AudioFile website.
AudioFileNovember 1, 2022
Are you a travel-loving, mystery-loving audiophile who needs a staycation? Although traveling can be satisfying, sometimes you just don’t feel like packing bags or dealing with airports and security checkpoints. So put on your slippers and travel the world from the comfort of home with these cozy mystery audiobooks. Bon…
AudioFileNovember 4, 2022
AudioFile Magazine, the #1 source globally of audiobook reviews, announces that the third season of the popular Audiobook Break podcast will feature Jane Austen’s universally-acknowledged Pride and Prejudice as narrated by the gifted comedienne, Alison Larkin. The magazine is notable for its reviews and recommendations of top-notch performances that create…
BookTribFebruary 18, 2022
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson’s powerful new work of nonfiction, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, (Random House Audio) examines how caste, or a hereditary class system, underlies the oppression of Black people and other people of color in America. Racism certainly exists, she posits, but the country’s caste system, developed…
Aurelia C. ScottSeptember 23, 2020
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…
AudioFileApril 17, 2019
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…
AudioFileMay 9, 2019
Aurelia's mother on stage When I say that I come from a family of spoken word enthusiasts, it’s not just that we talk a lot. It’s that when I was born, my mother was a theater actress and my father a lighting designer. And, as I’ve mentioned before, my father…
Aurelia C. ScottJanuary 25, 2019
AudioFile editors are proud to celebrate another year of exceptional audiobooks and audio artists. Below you'll find their favorites from this year's fiction genre.
AudioFileNovember 20, 2018
PBS has just concluded a national survey and an eight-part series that explored and celebrated the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels: THE GREAT AMERICAN READ. The final results just released put TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD definitively on top, with four finalists: the Outlander series, the Harry Potter series, PRIDE…
Robin WhittenNovember 9, 2018
