Spring is finally here and whether you are hitting the road for Spring break or hunkering down for Spring cleaning you will want to check out AudioFile Magazine’s Picks of the Best New Young Adult Audiobooks for Spring to keep you company chosen by Aureila C. Scott !
Finding one’s own true way is full of challenge and reward. Here are our picks of five great new audiobooks about making your own rules and being yourself no matter what. Some edgy, some sweet, some joyful, some weepers. All awesome. [The linked] titles below to reveal AudioFile’s full review and a soundclip. Here’s to having an audiobook in your ear
– Aurelia C. Scott, AudioFile Magazine blogger.
GEORGIA PEACHES AND OTHER FORBIDDEN FRUIT
by Jaye Robin Brown | Read by Amanda Dolen
Tantor Media | Unabridged | Earphones Award Winner
Amanda Dolen totally channels high school senior Jo Dolan, a devout Christian who moves in with her dad and step-mom in an evangelical small town. What could go wrong? Well, Jo is gay and when she finds love, her new girlfriend can’t understand why Jo won’t go public. Dolen captures Jo’s vulnerability, humor, and determination perfectly.
by In This Together Media, Foreward by Amy Klobuchar | Read by Amy Klobuchar [Fore.], Vikas Adam, Jonathan Davis, Ari Fliakos, Sullivan Jones, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Adenrele Ojo, Nancy Wu, Gabra Zackman
Listening Library | Unabridged | Earphones Award Winner
Forty-eight stirring short essays about speaking truth to power and standing up for oneself are terrifically read by some of the best narrators around. They bring vibrancy and understanding to a huge range of remarkable stories, from former NFL player Wade Davis’s bullying of gay classmates in an effort to hide his own sexuality to Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr remembering what it was like to lose her friends and family one by one in Auschwitz.
by Courtney Summers | Read by Rebecca Soler, Dan Bittner, Gabra Zackman, and a Full Cast
Macmillan Audio | Unabridged | Earphones Award Winner, Audie Award Winner
Rebecca Soler, Dan Bittner, and supporting actors keep listeners glued to this podcast-like in-the-moment account of a teen on the trail of a killer. The daughter of a drug addict, Sadie has been left to care for her younger sister. When her sister is murdered, Sadie sets out to discover the truth in a tense and unforgettable tale about love and revenge.
STRONGER, FASTER, AND MORE BEAUTIFUL
by Arwen Elys Dayton | Read by Michael Crouch, Karissa Vacker, Brittany Pressley, Christopher Gebauer, Ari Fliakos, Rebecca Lowman
Listening Library | Unabridged | Earphones Award Winner
A fine cast of narrators drop us into the middle of a twilight zone tomorrow where you can do so many things to change yourself genetically and surgically. What would you do for yourself or your kids? How far would you go? The interconnected stories in this right-now book are addicting.
by April Genevieve Tucholke | Read by Saskia Maarleveld
Recorded Books | Unabridged | Earphones Award Winner
Saskia Maarleveld beautifully expresses the disparate personalities of the three unusual young women in this enveloping fantasy. They sell death, you see. Kind death to those who are ill. With witchy backgrounds, they have the power to end your life just the way you want. But what’s really for sale? And what exactly are they earning?
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1/2 of the blogging duo at Books and Sensibility, I have been blogging about and reviewing books since 2011. I read any and every genre, here on the blog I mostly review Fantasy, Adult Fiction, and Young Adult with a focus on audiobooks.