Today we share AudioFile Magazine’s list of the 2018 Best Nonfiction & Culture Audiobooks. Listen in as we discuss these audiobook winners and share a sound clip from one of the best of the year, Ijeoma Oluo’s SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE, narrated by Bahni Turpin.
AudioFile Magazine’s Best Nonfiction & Culture Audiobooks of 2018


BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN by Ben Fountain, read by Ron Butler, published by Harper Audio


I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK by Michelle McNamara, read by Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn [Intro.], Patton Oswalt [Afterword], published by Harper Audio


SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by Ijeoma Oluo, read by Bahni Turpin, published by Blackstone Audio


THE DEATH OF TRUTH by Michiko Kakutani, read by Tavia Gilbert, published by Random House Audio


THE HAPPINESS CURVE by Jonathan Rauch, read by Robert Fass, published by Macmillan Audio


WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE? by Marilynne Robinson, read by Carrington MacDuffie, published by Blackstone Audio


Explore ALL of the audiobooks in AudioFile’s Best of the Year Ezine with sound clips and narrator videos at https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/bestof/.
On today’s episode are Robin Whitten, Founder and Editor, and Michele Cobb, Publisher at AudioFile Magazine.
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