The next few weeks will be a busy travel time and many of us will be taking to the roads, rails and air to make it “home for the holidays”. Before heading out on your journey, be sure to stop by the library to check out some audiobooks to help you pass the time while you drive or fly. If you need ideas, Audiofile Magazine has just published it’s list of the Best Audiobooks of 2007 and Princeton Public Library owns many of those selected. Below are some of the recommendations from the list. Enjoy!
Top Fiction:
THE ECHO MAKER Richard Powers
Read by Bernadatte Dunne (BBC Audiobooks America)
FRAGILE THINGS Neil Gaiman
Read by Neil Gaiman (Harper Audio/BBC Audiobooks America
THE ROAD Cormac McCarthy
Read by Tom Stechschulte (Recorded Books)
Top Non-Fiction:
THE ASSAULT ON REASON Al Gore
Read by Will Patton (Penguin Audio/Books on Tape)
THE LOOMING TOWER Lawrence Wright
Read by Alan Sklar (Tantor Media)
THIS I BELIEVE Jay Allison, Dan Gediman [Eds.]
Read by Various Readers (Macmillan Audio/BBC Audiobooks America)
Top Family Listening:
BEHOLD THE BOLD UMBRELLAPHANT Jack Prelutsky
Read by Jack Prelutsky (Harper Audio)
THE ONE AND ONLY SHREK! William Steig
Read by Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci (Macmillan Audio)
Submitted by J. Hermann, Program Coordinator.