Narrated

This week we discussed The Surviving Sky, written by Kritika H. Rao and narrated by Sharmila Devar & Pranshu Mishra. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. The Surviving Sky [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Broken Earth (Series): The Fifth Season [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  

This week we discussed Walking Practice, written by Dolki Min and narrated by Nicky Endres.We also shared some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight. Discussion with Shachi, Lisa, and Scott. Walking Practice [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Short Fiction Spotlight: "Silo, Sweet Silo" written by James Castles, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 197: February 2023 "Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont" written by P A Cornell, narrated by Nan McNamara [Fantasy magazine] - Issue 96: October 2023 "How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub" written by P. Djèlí Clark, narrated by Matt Peters [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Fifty "The Only Living Cabby In New York City" written by Jason Smith, narrated by Laurice White [Kaleidocast] - S4 Ep5 "Better Living Through Algorithms" written by Naomi Kritzer, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 200: May 2023 "Crystal Hexagons on Windowsills" written by Prashanth Srivatsa, narrated by Sonali Misra [Cast of Wonders 560]  

We celebrated Non-Fiction November by discussing some of our favorite non-fiction audiobooks from 2023 and a few we are looking forward to in 2024. Shachi’s Picks: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Poverty, by America [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Lisa’s Picks: Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect what is Human in a World of Machines [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Burn it Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mark’s Pick: All It Takes Is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap into Your Massive Potential [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Scott’s Pick: Slow AF Run Club: The Ult

This week we discussed People Collide, written by Isle McElroy and narrated by Daniel Henning & Aida Reluzco. Discussion with Shachi and Lisa. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and HarperAudio for providing an audio review copy of People Collide for today’s episode. People Collide [Libro.fm]  

This week we discussed To Shape a Dragon's Breath, written by Moniquill Blackgoose and narrated by Charley Flyte. Discussion with Shachi, Lisa, and Scott. To Shape a Dragon's Breath [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] Tess of the Road [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] In the Serpents Wake [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Temeraire (Series) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Legendborn [Libro.fm] VenCo [Libro.fm]  

This week we discussed If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, written by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, and narrated by Jefferson Mays. Discussion with Mark and Scott. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Tackling the To Be Listened List [Episode 67] Cloud Atlas [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Starless Sea [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 55] The Expanse (Series) [Libro.fm]  / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 128]

This week we discussed Bookshops & Bonedust, the upcoming prequel to Legends and Lattes, written and narrated by Travis Baldree. We also briefly discussed the 2023 Hugo Awards. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of Bookshops & Bonedust for today’s episode. Bookshops & Bonedust [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 150]

This week we discussed Mammoths at the Gates, written by Nghi Vo and narrated by Cindy Kay. We also shared some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our audio short fiction spotlight. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Mammoths at the Gates [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Light From Uncommon Stars [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 141]  Starling House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 225] ”Destination Star” written by Gregory Marlow, narrated by LeVar Burton [Levar Burton Reads] - 20 Feb 23 ”All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury ”The Breaks” written by Scott King, narrated by Alicia Atkins [Cast of Wonders 552] - 24 Sep 23 ”There’s Magic in Bread” written by Effie Seiberg, narrated by Gigi Yelen [Fantasy Magazine] - Mar 2023 (Issue 89) ”The Tenth Life” written by Sheryl R. Hayes, narrated by Alethea Kontis [CatsCast - Ep 15] - Ep 15 (May 2023) ”The Adoration of Random Strangers” written by Azure Arther, narrated by Tonia Ransom [

This week we discussed Starling House, written by Alix E. Harrow and narrated by Natalie Naudus. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of Starling House for today’s episode. Starling House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Fractured Fables (Series): A Spindle Splintered [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Spring Hills Cycle (Series): The Empress of Salt and Fortune [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] /  [Audible]   The Hazel Wood [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan and narrated by Natalie Naudus. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. He Who Drowned the World [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] She Who Became The Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] 158: 2022 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel The Poppy War [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed The Saint of Bright Doors, written by Vajra Chandrasekera and narrated by Sid Sagar. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Victory City [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Green Bone Saga (Series): Jade City [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Blue Skinned Gods [Libro.fm]  Where I Can’t Follow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] We Could Be Heroes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  

This week we discussed audio short fiction including where to find it and some of our recent listens. Escape Artists Podcasts: [Escape Pod] / [PodCastle] / [PseudoPod] / [Cast of Wonders] / [CatsCast] Uncanny Magazine Podcast Levar Burton Reads The Clarkesworld Podcast Lightspeed Podcast Beneath Ceaseless Skies khōréō Magazine Fantasy Magazine Kaleidocast Nightlight The Drabblecast Upbeat Tales Tall Tale TV / [Episode 23] StarShipSofa Apex Magazine Strange Horizons Glittership Available Audio for 2023 Hugo Best Short Story & Best Novelette Finalists: ”D.I.Y.” [PodCastle 800] ”Rabbit Test” [Uncanny Magazine Podcast 49A] ”The Difference Between Love and Time”: Someone in Time [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] ”A Dream of Electric Mothers”: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] ”If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” [Uncanny Magazine Podcast 47B] ”Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness

This week, we continued our 2023 awards discussion with the finalists for the 2023 Lodestar Award. Discussion with Lisa and Scott. 2023 Lodestar Finalists: Akata Woman [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Golden Enclaves [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 174] Bloodmarked [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] In the Serpents Wake [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 149] 2023 Hugo Episodes: 213: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel 219: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series Narrated on Bluesky: Lisa: @lisajune.bsky.social Scott: @sullery.bsky.social Shachi:@sundrybookclub.bsky.social Mark: @marksiegal.bsky.social  

This week we discussed Silver Nitrate, written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and narrated by Gisela Chípe. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Penguin Random House Audio for providing an audio review copy of Silver Nitrate for today’s episode. Silver Nitrate [Libro.fm] The Daughter of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Episode 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel Ring Shout [Overdrive/Libby] / [Libro.fm] / [Audible] Siren Queen [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 153] Prime Meridian (ebook) [Overdrive/Libby]

This week, we continued our look at the 2023 Hugo Finalists with the Best Series category. Lisa on Bluesky: @lisajune.bsky.social 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series: Children of Time (Series): Children of Time [Audible] The Founders Trilogy (Series): Foundryside [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] October Daye (Series): Rosemary and Rue [Libro.fm] / [Audible] The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Rivers of London (Series): Midnight Riot [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] 2023 Hugo Episodes: 213: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel 219: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series  

This week we discussed More Perfect, written by Temi Oh  and narrated by Nneka Okoye and Adam Courting. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. More Perfect [Overdrive/Libby] We are Satellites [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 120] Do You Dream of Terra-Two? [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  Discipline and Punish [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible Plus]  Machinehood [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 120]  Minority Report (2002) [IMDb] Inception (2010) [IMDb]  

This week, we had a great time discussing the 2023 Hugo Finalists for Best Novel with three special guests. Hugo, Girl! Podcast [Website] / [Twitter] / [Mastadon] / [Instagram] / [Facebook] Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog [Blog] / [Mastadon] Hugos There Podcast [Website] / [Twitter] 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Kaiju Preservation Society [Audible] / [Episode 144] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 150] Nona the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 171] Nettle & Bone [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Spare Man [Audible] / [Episode 176]  Other Referenced Works: The Island of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Winter Tide [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Lock In (series) [Audible] Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Harrow the Nint

This time we discussed Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, a memoir written and narrated by Eddie Ndopu. Review & discussion with Lisa and Shachi. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Hachette Audio for providing an audio review copy of Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw for today’s episode. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw [Libro.fm] Sitting pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body [Libro.fm] Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century [Libro.fm] Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): First-Person Stories for Today [Libro.fm] A Mind Unraveled [Libro.fm] Babel [Libro.fm] / [Episode 169] Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space [Libro.fm]  

More discussions from Readercon 32. Readercon John Wiswell: [Newsletter] / [Patreon] / [Linktree] Someone You Can Build a Nest In (April 2, 2024) [Penguin Random House]  ”Bad Doors” [Uncanny]  ”The Coward Who Stole God’s Name” [Uncanny] / [Psuedopod] ”Under the Rubble” [Psuedopod]  ”The Lie Misses You” [Cast of Wonders]  ”Open House on Haunted Hill” [LeVar Burton Reads]  All the Seas of the World (written by: Guy Gavriel Kay and narrated by: Simon Vance) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Golem and the Jinni (written by: Helene Wecker and narrated by: George Guidall) [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 14]   The Echo Wife (written by: Sarah Gailey, narrated by: Xe Sands) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Moby Dick (written by: Herman Melville, narrated by: Frank Mullerv) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Noah Beit-Aharon (N.S. Dolkart): [Website] / [Angry Robot] Silent Hall [Audible] Wings of Fire (Series): The Dragonet Prophecy  (written by: Tui T. Sutherl

Sharing our discussions with authors at Readercon 32. Readercon Vajra Chandrasekere: [Website] The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Short Stories: [Clarkesworld ] /[“Ulde” - Glittership] Strange Horizons Podcast Nightmare Magazine Glittership Cameron Roberson (Rob Cameron): [Website] / [Tor.com] / [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction] / [Foreign Policy Magazine] Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers Daydreamer (Forthcoming in Summer 2024) The Silk Roads [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Bloodmarked [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Monsters We Defy [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Saint Death’s Daughter [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Hidden Palace [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby]   A Master of Djinn [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] LJ Cohen: [Website] / [IndieBound] / [Amazon] Derelict [Overdrive - eBook ] / [Audible] Ithaka Rising [Overdrive - eBook ] / [Audible] For Flux Sake Podcast Clarkeswo