Listen to a Good Book
June is Audio Book Month and our staff has compiled a list of great reads.
Family/Young Adult * Fiction * Mystery & Adventure Suspense * Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror * Non-Fiction
Titles are available as Book on CD (BCD) unless otherwise noted
Family/Young Adult
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Y Anderson
Faerie Wars by
Herbie Brennan, Y Brennan
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, Y Colfer
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher, Y Fisher
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, J Funke
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, J Gaiman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon,
FIC Haddon
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, J Lewis
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
47 by Walter Mosley, Y Mosley
Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Y Paolini
Nation by Terry Pratchett, Y Pratchett
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Y Pullman
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, J
Rowling
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
Fiction
The Yokota Officers
Club by Sarah Bird, FIC Bird
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, HIS Blake
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks, FIC Brooks
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas, FIC Dallas
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg, FIC
Flagg
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, FIC
Ford
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova, FIC Genova
Still Alice by Lisa
Genova, FIC Genova
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass, FIC Glass
The False Friend by Myla Goldberg, FIC Goldberg
Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman, FIC Goodman
The Confessions of Max
Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer, FIC Greer
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, FIC Gruen
Never Let Me Go by Kazua Ishiguro, FIC Ishiguro
More Than You Know
by Beth Gutcheon, FIC Gutcheon
North River by Pete
Hamill, FIC Hamill
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, FIC Kidd
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, FIC Kingsolver
Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts, FIC Letts
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes, FIC Marlantes
Song Yet Sung by James McBride, HIS McBride
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore, FIC Moore
The Magician’s
Assistant by Ann Patchett, FIC Patchett
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, HIS Perkins-Valdez
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult, FIC Picoult
House Rules by Jodi Picoult, FIC Picoult
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
& Annie Barrow, FIC Shaffer
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson, FIC Simonson
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg, FIC Spragg
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, FIC Stockett
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese, FIC Verghese
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson, FIC Wilson
Mystery & Adventure Suspense

Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr, MYS Barr
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black, MYS Black
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich, MYS Evanovich
Skinny Dip by Cal Hiaasen, AS Hiaasen
No. 1 Ladies Detective
Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, MYS McCall
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk, AS Moerk
Dog on it by Spencer
Quinn, MYS Quinn
Naked in Death by J. D. Robb, MYS Robb
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

Watership Down by Richard Adams, SF Adams
Domino Men by
Jonathan Barnes, SF Barnes
The Promise by Donna
Boyd, HOR Boyd
Storm Front by Jim
Butcher, E-audio
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler, HOR Butler
Ladies of Grace, Adieu by Susanna Clarke, SF Clarke
The Gates by John
Connolly, SF Connolly
Stolen Child by
Keith Donahue, SF Donahue
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, SF Gaiman
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, SF Grossman
The Magicians by Lev Grossman, SF Grossman
Dead Until Dark by
Charlaine Harris, HOR Harris
Heart-Shaped Box by
Joe Hill, HOR Hill
Johannes Cabal the
Necromancer, FIC Howard
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, AS Koontz
The City & the City by China Miéville, SF Miéville
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, SF Rothfuss
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, SF Simmons
Non-Fiction
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, 302 Gladwell
Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich,
305.569 Ehrenreich
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill
Bolte Taylor, 362.196810092 Taylor
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, 613 Pollan
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by
Barbara Kingsolver, 641.0973 Kingsolver
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson, 917.404 Bryson
Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, 920
Hall
Marriage and Other Acts Of Charity by Kate Braestrup, 921
Braestrup
The House at Sugar
Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper, 921
Cooper
Eat, Pray, Love: One woman's search everything across Italy, India, and
Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, 921 Gilbert
Infidel by Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, 921 Hirsi
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda
Janzen, 921 Janzen
Ice Bound by Dr. Jerri Nielsen, 921 Neilsen
The Prize Winner of
Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan, 921 Ryan
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table by Molly
Wizenberg, 921 Wizenberg
Zeitoun by David Eggers, 976.335064 Eggers
List compiled by Deb, Kathy, and Jessica with special thanks to Jenni & Jeri.

