The 10 Best Audiobooks of 2024
Slate has relationships with various online retailers. James by Percival Everett, narrated by Dominic Hoffman Percival Everett’s retelling of Huckleberry Finn might be the year’s most praised literary novel, but it also makes for a terrific listening experience. The twisty case permits Dinios and Ana to infiltrate many levels of the empire’s stratified class system and gradually reveal them to the reader, unfurling Robert Jackson Bennett’s setting in a fashion that never overwhelms. Related From Slate The 10 Best Books of 2024 Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, narrated by Kimberly Farr They say that Elizabeth Strout’s fans tend to be either Olive Kitteridge people or Lucy Barton people, but in this most recent installment in Strout’s series of novels set in and around the small town of Crosby, Maine, you don’t have to pick. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor, narrated by Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyworth, Jot Davies, and Nick Griffiths Set on a small, sparsely populated Welsh island in the late 1930s, Elizabeth O’Connor’s novel portrays a way of life on the verge of vanishing, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who longs to leave it behind.
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