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Gabrielle Zeven
Author of "Elsewhere" shares her five favorite audiobooks.

About Gabrielle's list

When I’m reading in audio, my preference is for a long, meaty piece of non-fiction, or a short, voice-y novel. I’m never mad at a full-cast audio, but I like hearing authors read their own work, too. Even a mediocre memoir can be elevated by the experience of hearing the writer’s voice interpret it. When I love a book and want to figure it out, I’ll read it multiple times—in paper and in audio. Hearing a text can be revelatory.

I recently recorded two introductions I’d written to anniversary editions (the 20th Anniversary of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, and the 50th Anniversary of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt), and I liked the process of performing and recording a text, which felt like a natural extension of writing. As a novelist though, I truly prefer when my books are performed by someone other than me! A deft narrator can transform a text, and I love to be surprised by a performance. For example, Scott Brick really channels A.J. Fikry in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry—he perfectly captures A.J.’s melancholy and humor. Or in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Julian Cihi brings such emotional depth and tenderness to The NPC chapter. I appreciate the collaborative aspects of audio. So much of novel-writing is solitary, but the production of an audiobook feels like putting on a show.

Here are some of my favorite audiobook listens from the past year or so. — Gabrielle Zevin, author of Elsewhere

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  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia By Mohsin Hamid

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  • The Fall of Roe By Elizabeth Dias

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  • Everything Is Tuberculosis By John Green

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  • Cue the Sun! By Emily Nussbaum

    • Cue the Sun!

    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • Por: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
    • Duración: 15 horas 11 minutos
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 25-06-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 calificaciones

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  • Heartbreak Is the National Anthem By Rob Sheffield

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About Gabrielle Zevin
About Gabrielle Zevin

Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times and internationally best-selling author of several critically acclaimed novels, including The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry and Young Jane Young. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, is a selection of the Tonight Show’s Fallon Book Club, the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award, and one of the best books of the year, according to the New York Times, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic, NPR, and others. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. Her novels have been translated into forty languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Elsewhere By Gabrielle Zevin
Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin