Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks for BookTrib’s readers. Get ready for spring with these award-winning March audiobooks.
AudioFileMarch 31, 2023
Many readers asked me why I chose to write historical fiction at the events I attended last year. I didn’t have enough time to elaborate, but if I could, I would trace back to my childhood in China, where I first encountered the genre. Growing up there, I perceived the…
Weina Dai RandelJanuary 5, 2023
After closing the cover of Janie Chang’s new release, The Library of Legends (William Morrow), I was filled with a sense of wonder that sent me to my trusty Merriam-Webster dictionary for a way to describe what I’d just witnessed. A legend is a story that comes down to us…
Kathryn CraftApril 30, 2020
I love books that take me somewhere else entirely, especially if I learn new things in the process, and Three Souls (HarperCollins) by Janie Chang manages to hit both marks. Set in China in 1935, the novel follows the ghost of young Leiyin who seeks entry to the afterlife, but…
Abby FabiaschiFebruary 28, 2019
In Dragon Springs Road (William Morrow Paperbacks), Janie Chang constructs a magical, rich and compelling historical novel set in the early twentieth-century about Jialing, a girl of Eurasian descent, as she navigates her life as an orphan near Shanghai, China. The Western Residence of Dragon Springs Road is the place Jialing…
Tif MarceloSeptember 27, 2018
Staycations may be relaxing, but they rarely satisfy wanderlust. Sometimes when your looking for adventure, you don't have to travel any further than your own bookshelf. If you're itching to explore destinations near and far while stuck at home, these reads are your ticket to new and exciting locales.
Julie CantrellJuly 9, 2020
Walking into a library is like walking into an opium den. The exhilarating scent of paper and binding — whether musty with age or fruit-sweet and fresh off the press — is a perfume like no other. Endorphins flood the brain. Ahhhhh ... books! Here we can wander among the…
BookTribApril 5, 2022
