This episode we’re talking about Audiobook Fiction! We discuss narrators vs casts, sound effects, music, adaptations, footnotes, and more! Plus: How do you picture the hosts in your mind when you listen to us?
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In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
Other Media We Mentioned
Links, Articles, and Things
20 Fiction Audiobooks written & read by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors and Narrators
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
- Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, narrated by Catherine Ho
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, narrated by the author
- Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
- The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas; narrated by Janelle Monae and Bahni Turpin
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Robin Miles
- War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, narrated by Adepero Oduye
- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote narrated by the author, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, Drew Woodson, Phillip Cash Cash and Keevin Hesuse
- Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma, narrated by Soneela Nankani, Sunil Malhotra and Vikas Adam
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, narrated by Cherise Boothe
- Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
- The Strangers by Katherena Vermette, narrated by Michaela Washburn
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, narrated by the author
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Beresford Bennett
- The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, narrated by Kyla Garcia
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, narrated by Joel de la Fuente
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Join us again on Tuesday, September 20th when we’ll be discussing the winner of our “we all read the same book” poll and discussing Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart!
Then on Tuesday, October 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies!
