2024 Summer Reading Guide: Absorbing Audiobooks
Audiobooks are my favorite soundtrack to summer – whether you’re road-tripping or need some entertainment while you fold pool towels, these audiobooks are funny, fascinating and very hard to turn off! Here are picks for adults or the whole family!
The Ivies by Alexa Donne
I was SO INTO this book in the fall and couldn’t wait to see how it all played out. At an elite prep school, a group of girls known as The Ivies each decide on their chosen Ivy League school that they’ll apply to so as not to hurt the chances of the other girls getting into their dream school. But when someone gets into the Ivy that they were NOT supposed to apply for, someone ends up dead. And everyone is a suspect.
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
In this dual timeline book, Ashlyn, the owner of an inherited antique bookstore, has a special gift. She can feel the echoes of a book’s previous owner just by touching its pages. After rummaging through a box of donated books, Ashlyn finds two old books which pique her interest and begins a hunt to find the origin of their stories. It appears the two books were unpublished, but packed with a story of forbidden love, regret, and betrayal, each written by one side of the couple. The two narrators make this one extra fun.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
I wasn’t sure about this one, but when it started getting ALLLLL the buzz after it was published, I picked up an audio copy and ended up really enjoying it. Each chapter alternates between three seemingly unconnected characters including an octopus at an aquarium. It sounds bizarre, but somehow it totally works!
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay
Growing up in the US with her German grandparents who left Berlin in the 60s after the Berlin Wall went up, Luisa thought both her parents died in a car accident. Then in her work at the CIA, she comes across a piece of information that makes her question everything she knows about her family. Could her father still be alive and trapped in East Berlin? This gripping Cold War novel tells the story of a family divided by the Berlin Wall – told in a dual timeline from the perspective of Luisa, and her father Haris.
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