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Interview with Marin Ireland: 2020 Best Audiobooks

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English - December 01, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - ★★★★★ - 123 ratings
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AudioFile is celebrating the best audiobooks of the year, and in this special episode narrator Marin Ireland joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to discuss LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. Rumaan Alam’s fascinating audiobook exploring race, class, family, and global catastrophe is one of AudioFile’s Best Fiction Audiobooks of the year. Listen to the episode to hear Marin’s thoughts on the audiobook -- and add it to your wish list. Published by Harper Audio.

2020 Best Fiction Audiobooks:
AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez, read by Alma Cuervo
DEACON KING KONG by James McBride, read by Dominic Hoffman
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam, read by Marin Ireland
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON (Dramatic Production) by Elizabeth Strout, Rona Munro [Adapt.], read by Laura Linney
THE PULL OF THE STARS by Emma Donoghue, read by Emma Lowe
THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett, read by Shayna Small

For the full list of AudioFile’s 2020 Best Audiobooks, visit audiofilemagazine.com

Today's episode of Behind the Mic is brought to you by Oasis Audio, publisher of DUST, the first in the new Heirs of Neverland series, a dark and dramatic take on the classic story of Peter Pan.
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AudioFile is celebrating the best audiobooks of the year, and in this special episode narrator Marin Ireland joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to discuss LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND. Rumaan Alam’s fascinating audiobook exploring race, class, family, and global catastrophe is one of AudioFile’s Best Fiction Audiobooks of the year. Listen to the episode to hear Marin’s thoughts on the audiobook -- and add it to your wish list. Published by Harper Audio.


2020 Best Fiction Audiobooks:

AFTERLIFE by Julia Alvarez, read by Alma Cuervo

DEACON KING KONG by James McBride, read by Dominic Hoffman

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam, read by Marin Ireland

MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON (Dramatic Production) by Elizabeth Strout, Rona Munro [Adapt.], read by Laura Linney

THE PULL OF THE STARS by Emma Donoghue, read by Emma Lowe

THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett, read by Shayna Small


For the full list of AudioFile’s 2020 Best Audiobooks, visit audiofilemagazine.com


Today's episode of Behind the Mic is brought to you by Oasis Audio, publisher of DUST, the first in the new Heirs of Neverland series, a dark and dramatic take on the classic story of Peter Pan.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices