3 Literary Listens: Audiobooks to Try

A book we loved, one that’s up next and a nonfiction listen worth your time!

We’re more than a little excited that fall is finally here, so as the seasons start to shift and the mornings get a little cooler, we’re thinking about a few good audio books we could add to our TBR lists. (Or should that be TBL?)

However you phrase it, we’re looking for a few great books to listen to on golden afternoon walks, while you’re changing over your closets from summer to winter or raking leaves. If you’re looking for something new, here are a few audio books we think we’ll all enjoy.

Before We Were Yours

Lisa Wingate

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Before We Were Yours is an older release, and the audio version of Lisa Wingate’s award-winning bestseller. Like many of Wingate’s recent novels, it’s a fictional story created from real events told in a couple of time periods. This time, Wingate takes Georgia Tann and the Memphis-based Tennessee Children’s Home Society adoption agency as her starting point and weaves a tale about family, separation, belonging and redemption. You’ll keep listening to figure out how the story of Rill Foss and her siblings, taken from their family illegally by Tann, intersect with modern-day South Carolina native Avery Stafford. A different narrator voices each time period, making it easier for listeners to follow the jump from 1939 to present day without visual clues.

The Keeper of Lost Things

Ruth Hogan

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Ruth Hogan’s The Keeper of Lost Things is a Goodreads Award nominee, so if award nominations influence your reading choices, you’ve got that to consider. It’s the story of Anthony Peardew, the keeper of lost things. After losing a keepsake from his fiance (and her unexpected death that very day), Peardew finds solace in rescuing the things people have left behind and writing stories about them. Eventually, knowing his end is near, he decided to bequeath his collection (and the job) to his assistant, Laura. Yes, that sounds mundane, but sometimes the best novels are all about everyday life! We’ve added this one—which Amazon compares to The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake—to our Audible bookshelf, but haven’t started it yet, so we’re hoping it lives up to the promise!

Killers of the Flower Moon

David Gann

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Killers of the Flower Moon is a nonfiction book by David Gann that traces the birth of the FBI through the Osage murders, a series of deaths within the Osage nation during the 1920s and 1930s that you’ve probably never heard about. The subject matter isn’t pretty and can be disturbing as you begin to realize the depths people will go to when driven by greed and jealousy. Gann wrote his book in three sections: Chronicle 1: The Marked Woman; Chronicle 2: The Evidence Man; Chronicle 3: The Reporter, and the audiobook follows suit, using a different narrator for each section. Chronicle 1 details the family of Mollie Burkhart who watches as her family is picked off one by one for their wealth and oil headrights; Chronicle 2 details the work of Tom White to end the murders and traces the fledgling years of the FBI; Chronicle 3 serves as Gann’s addendum and an acknowledgement that Smith’s conclusion that one man was behind all the murders of the Osage might not have been as cut-and-dry as he thought. The book has been adapted into a movie, set to release on Apple+ later this month, but it’s also well worth the read/listen and opens your eyes to the plight of the Osage people and helps readers explore a point of view outside their own.

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