From a Golden Voice narrating the latest Scott Turow to new fiction from a Nobel Prize winner and nonfiction from a National Book Award winner, January’s audiobooks offer great options to kick off your new year of listening.

ROSARITA
by Anita Desai, read by Meera Simhan
Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: January 7

A daughter learns secrets about her mother that may or may not be true.

PRESUMED GUILTY
by Scott Turow, read by Grover Gardner
Hachette Audio
Release date: January 14

A new legal thriller from the author of PRESUMED INNOCENT. Golden Voice Grover Gardner narrates.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
by Nnedi Okorafor, read by Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp, Chris Djuma
Harper Audio
Release date: January 14

A writer’s sci-fi novel makes her famous, and also affects the future of humanity.

WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS
by Grady Hendrix, read by Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber, Sara Morsey
Penguin Audio
Release date: January 14

In this new horror from Hendrix, unwed pregnant women and girls are sent to the repressive Wellwood House in 1970s Florida. Then they learn about witchcraft.

THE RAINFALL MARKET
by You Yeong-Gwant, Slin Jung [Trans.], Read by Rosa Escoda
Penguin Audio
Release date: January 21

A young woman, accompanied by a magical cat, searches for a better life.

WE DO NOT PART
by Han Kang, E. Yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris [Trans.], Read by Greta Jung
Random House Audio
Release date: January 21

A new novel from Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

REALM OF ICE AND SKY: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
by Buddy Levy, read by Will Damron
Macmillan Audio
Release date: January 28

We liked the team-up of author Levy and narrator Will Damron in EMPIRE OF ICE AND STONE, and they’re together again for this new Arctic history.

ONYX STORM: The Empyrean, Book 3
by Rebecca Yarros, reader TBA
Recorded Books
Release date: January 21

Super-fans won’t have to be told that this new audiobook in the hyper-popular romantasy series is arriving soon. 

GOOD DIRT
by Charmaine Wilkerson, read by January LaVoy
Random House Audio
Release date: January 28

A family heirloom and a family tragedy form the backbone of this multi-generational novel from the author of BLACK CAKE.

BLACK IN BLUES: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
by Imani Perry, read by the author
Harper Audio
Release date: January 28

Author Perry (SOUTH TO AMERICA, which won the National Book Award) examines how the color blue is intertwined with the history of African and African American people and the concept of Blackness.

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