In fewer than 20 hours, this insightful, deeply immersive audiobook offers a full education on the 20th-century novel. The author is an esteemed "New York Review of Books" editor; here he distills a lifetime of reading and reflection. His narrative is probing and eclectic, covering a wide range of links and parallels while focusing on 30 or so significant novels. Narrator BJ Harrison contributes a skilled, pleasing voice, but not one as distinctive and nuanced as the assignment requires. A narrative that sprints from Dostoevsky to Wells, from Gide to Woolf to Marquez and back again, demands a certain gravitas and singularity. This is a history best listened to in chapters, over weeks rather than days, with ample time for digestion.
Pub Date: Oct. 14, 2025
Duration: 18 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9798855599541
Publisher: Tantor Media
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Inspiring collections of Angelou reading her poetry. These selections showcase Angelou's smooth, lyrical voice and her warm vitality. Her innate rhythm celebrates her verse and offers the poems to listeners as they should be remembered. Occasionally Angelou comments between the selections, and occasionally she interjects a resonant laugh.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: N/A
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Moving from deeply despairing to wildly successful, only West could do his own poignant story justice.
Fans of voice actor West may have difficulty reconciling his disturbing childhood with the numerous joyful characters he’s best known for. In this revealing, painfully honest memoir, West recalls life before, during, and after animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show and Futurama, in which he voiced multiple characters. Occasionally reverting to his comic voices to illustrate a point or an anecdote, West details his experiences with his brutal, psychotic father; his early efforts to disassociate himself from beatings and abuse; and the profoundly positive effects TV comics like Sid Caesar and Danny Kaye had on him. Late-in-life diagnoses of ADHD and OCD also gave West some comfort.
Moving from deeply despairing to wildly successful, only West could do his own poignant story justice.Pub Date: July 14, 2026
Duration: 7 hrs, 1 min
DD ISBN: 9798898850111
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
Review Posted Online: July 29, 2026
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