Looking for your next great book listen? “The Stacks” creator and host Traci Thomas joins host Scott Tong to share her audiobook picks.
Book recommendations from Traci Thomas
NONFICTION
- “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage” by Belle Burden, read by the author
- “Phases: A Memoir” by Brandy, read by the author
- “London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth” by Patrick Radden Keefe, read by the author
- “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe, read by Matthew Blaney
- “Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast” by Pamela Colloff, read by Gabra Zackman
- “A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides” by Gisele Pelicot, read by Emma Thompson and translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver
- “This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark” by Craig Ferhman, read by Jason Culp, Curtis Michael Holland, Kamali Minter, Leon Nixon, Fred Sanders, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- “In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure” by Rowan Jacobsen, read by the author
FICTION
- “Pool House” by Mary H. K. Choi, read by Joy Osmanski
- “Vigil” by George Saunders, read by Judy Greer, Stephen Root, MacLeod Andrews, Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall , Barrett Leddy, Eric Jason Martin, Karissa Vacker, Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Aaron Goodson, and Maggi-Meg Reed
- “Half His Age” by Jeanette McCurdy, read by the author
- “Don’t Tell Me How It Ends” by Adrienne Thurman, read by Shayna Small
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