Pen & Voice: Authors Read Their Own Work
Some person in authority designated June Audiobook Appreciation Month. We appreciate audiobooks year-round, but with vacation season upon us, now is a great time to highlight our rich collection of books you can listen to!
You can browse our full offerings of downloadable audiobooks on Cloud Library or CDs available in the building - and here's a big look at recordings of poets reading their own work.
As a special highlight, this is just a sprinkling of the many audiobooks read by their authors. Happy listening!
CDs in Stack 9
- Alan Bennett, Diaries, 1980-1990 and The Uncommon Reader
- Dick Cavett, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened
- Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
- Neil MacGregor, Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
- David McCullough, 1776
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
- Sheila Nevins, You Don’t Look Your Age and Other Fairy Tales (read by the author and an all-star cast)
- Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
- Alice Oswald, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
- Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
- Carly Simon, Boys in the Trees (with original music)
- David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (selections)
- Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman and Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
CDs in the Children’s/YA Library
- Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Double Fudge
- Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (also a downloadable audiobook)
- E.B. White, Charlotte's Web (also a downloadable audiobook)
- Elizabeth Winthrop, The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle (also downloadable audiobooks - The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle)
- Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Downloadable Audiobooks for Adults
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (also available on CD)
- Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader
- Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk (also available on CD)
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Barack Obama, A Promised Land
- Michelle Obama, Becoming
- David Sedaris, The Best of Me
- Patti Smith, Just Kids
- Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Downloadable Audiobooks for Kids and Teens
- Dean Atta, The Black Flamingo
- Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
- Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor’s Tale (performed by the author and a full cast) (also available on CD)
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (also available on CD)
- Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby
- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (performed by the author and a full cast)
- Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
Thanks to Randi Levy, Simen Kot, and Harriet Shapiro (photos) for their assistance with this post.
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