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Release Week: 30 May 2023
Posted on 2023-05-30 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Light at the End of the World By: Siddhartha Deb, read by Neil Shah and Sneha Mathan for Recorded Books -- "Connecting India’s tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its potentially apocalyptic future, this sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality reinvents historical fiction for our time: a magisterial work of shifting forms reminiscent of Cloud Atlas and Underworld."
Ink Blood Sister Scribe: A Novel By: Emma Törzs, read by Saskia Maarleveld for Harper -- "For generations, the Kalotay
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Release Week: 23 May 2023
Posted on 2023-05-23 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Halcyon: A Novel By: Elliot Ackerman, read by Steven Jay Cohen for Random House -- "Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is
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Release Week: 16 May 2023
Posted on 2023-05-16 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Yellowface: A Novel by R. F. Kuang, read by Helen Laser for Harper -- "Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I. So what if June
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Release Week: 9 May 2023
Posted on 2023-05-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
BACKLIST WATCH:
The Breath of the Sun By: Isaac Fellman (2018), read by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw for Tantor -- "Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really tell anything. For years she guided pilgrims up the foothills of the Sublime Mount, leading them as high as God would let them go. And then she partnered the apostate Southern priest Mother Disaine on the most daring, most blasphemous expedition in history—an attempt to
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Release Week: 2 May 2023
Posted on 2023-05-02 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Something Bad Wrong: A Thriller By: Eryk Pruitt, read by Khristine Hvam, Aaron Shedlock, Patrick Lawlor, George Newbern, Chris Ruen, and David de Vries for Brilliance -- "To catch the killer who eluded her detective grandfather fifty years ago, a true-crime podcaster must contend with outdated evidence, ulterior motives, and the dark family secrets that got in the way."
The Salt Grows Heavy By: Cassandra Khaw, read by Susan Dalian for Macmillan -- "You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a
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Release Week: 25 April 2023
Posted on 2023-04-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Out of the thousand or so titles out this week I came in with a list of 25, which grew to about 30. Not too shabby at the top of the list, either!
PICKS:
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow, read by Wil Wheaton -- Famously not available from Audible due to their refusal to sell titles without DRM, a "grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works." Get it from Downpour, Libro.fm, etc.
Small Mercies: A Novel By: Dennis Lehane, read by Robin Miles
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Release Week: 18 April 2023
Posted on 2023-04-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
No fewer than 44 (45?) books made my stupidly long list this week. (Out of over 1000 audiobook titles vomited into the world, and untold thousands more in print/ebook formats.) I hardly know what to do anymore with this many books, when most can catch my attention for fewer than a few seconds. But my stupid mind makes me at least scan the listings, and I keep regurgitating these stupidly long lists of new books each week. Well, here's another one! From entropy's heart, I stab at thee!
TOP TEN PICKS:
Greek
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Release Week: 11 April 2023
Posted on 2023-04-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED PICK:
- Veniss Underground: A Novel By: Jeff VanderMeer (2003), read by Ron Butler, Scott Brick, Emily Woo Zeller, and Bronson Pinchot for Blackstone -- "Set in the mysterious and magical city of Veniss, a surreal metropolis that sits over an underground labyrinth of tunnels and mines. In this tale, epic and mythological in scope, VanderMeer takes the listener below the surface of the earth to the dark and decadent future. It’s a world where Living Artists craft works out of biological material, and
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Release Week: 4 April 2023
Posted on 2023-04-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Camp Zero: A Novel By: Michelle Min Sterling, read by Graham Halstead, Greta Jung, and Emily Tremaine for Simon and Schuster -- "In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intertwined in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power."
I'll Stop the World: A Novel By: Lauren Thoman, introduction by Mindy Kaling, read by Michael Crouch, Natasha Tina Liu, Alaska Jackson, Brian Holden, Mark Sanderlin, Sarah Naughton,
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Release Week: 28 March 2023
Posted on 2023-03-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Almost all the same titles as Audible, except not:
- titles published by Audible
- many indie titles published through ACX (very heavily incentivized to be exclusive to Audible)
etc. Now, Downpour does have something which Audible doesn't have: Cory Doctorow! (Audible won't sell his audiobooks DRM free, so he won't allow them to sell them at all.)
PICKS:
Lone Women: A Novel By: Victor LaValle, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt for Random House -- "Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a
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