Below, and on the next several pages, you’ll see all the books AudioFile Magazine’s reviewers deemed worthy of an Earphone Award. There are quite a few and, although I have listed them below chronologically by year, you may want to go back to the drop down menu above and isolate each particular year.
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Read by Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, Simon Vance From AudioFile Magazine: Each of the stories in Kazuo Ishiguro’s first collection is told by a musician, and each explores the theme of music’s idealism and life’s harsh reality. This production uses four narrators to great effect: Mark Bramhall reads the first and last stories, [...]
The Runner by Peter May
From AudioFile Magazine: Simon Vance’s performance will leave listeners breathless in the fifth episode of Peter May’s China series. Vance brings his superior narrating skills to May’s police procedural starring the detective team of Li Yan, chief of the Beijing Municipal Police, and Margaret Campbell, a forensic pathologist who is Li Yan’s American fiancée. China’s [...]
Paradise Lost by John Milton
From AudioFile Magazine:If you’re in the mood for a heart-pounding morality tale, this is the book for you. This seventeenth-century classic has survived all these years for many reasons, not least of which is that it portrays Satan as a sympathetic hero. Narrator Simon Vance is equipped with a forceful British accent, which he uses [...]
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
From AudioFile magazine:At 34 hours in length, this is quite a tome, but there’s no one better qualified than Simon Vance to lead us through this audio journey. He parses the author’s long sentences well, pausing sufficiently to make the details easy to follow while still maintaining a quick enough pace to keep the story [...]
Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
From AudioFile Magazine:Imriel was once a pirates’ slave. It’s no wonder that he’s sometimes unpredictable and seemingly lost in a dark place—but he’s always loyal to the few he calls friends. During his sojourns, he studies at university and then travels to a friend’s wedding, ending up in a city under siege. There he fights [...]
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
From AudioFile Magazine:Set in medieval Germany, this much-lauded 1930 novel contrasts its hero, the mercurial wandering artist Goldmund, with his great friend, Narcissus, an Apollonian intellectual and priest. The former meanders through medieval Germany, womanizing and striving to discover the meaning of his wayward life, while the latter dedicates his life to science and contemplation. [...]
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
From AudioFile magazine:Fair warning: Once begun, you will not be able to stop listening to this audiobook. So prepare to spend a lot of sleepless time with fabulous narrator Simon Vance and amazing Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. This sequel to Larsson’s critically acclaimed bestseller, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, which Vance also narrated, reunites [...]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
From AudioFile Magazine:The art of detection was in its infancy when the murder of 3-year-old Saville Kent rocked Britain’s sensibilities. The child’s body was found on the family’s estate, stuffed down the servants’ outdoor privy. It was a week before DI Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard was called in to investigate. Summerscale uses excerpts from [...]
Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears
From AudioFile Magazine:Iain Pears unravels the story of an English arms supplier whose mysterious death (and mysterious wife) intersect with twentieth-century history. This lengthy story proceeds in a backwards chronology, starting in England in 1909 (after a prologue set in the 1950s), moving to Paris in the 1890s, and then to Venice in 1867. Like [...]
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