One of the top titles we're anticipating in February is a must-hear memoir about love and loss from novelist Geraldine Brooks. More to love—new audiobooks from Anne Tyler and Curtis Sittenfeld, and a fresh recording of a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems.
MEMORIAL DAYS: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks, read by the author
Penguin Audio
Release date: February 4
Novelist Brooks reflects on the life and death of her partner, author Tony Horwitz, and her own journey through the loss.
ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
by Rick Steves, read by the author
Hachette Audio
Release date: February 4
Travel writer Rick Steves’s journal of his trip through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal when he was 23 years old.
UNDER THE SAME STARS
by Libba Bray, read by January LaVoy, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Major Curda
Macmillan Audio, Ages 12+
Release date: February 4
In this YA novel, three timelines—in Germany during WWII and the Cold War and New York City during the COVID-19 lockdown—are connected.
THREE DAYS IN JUNE
by Anne Tyler, read by J. Smith-Cameron
Random House Audio
Release date: February 11
A mother navigates the days leading up to her daughter’s wedding. Actress J. Smith-Cameron (“Succession”) narrates.
DEVOTIONS: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver, read by Kimberly Farr
Penguin Audio
Release date: February 18
Mary Oliver’s poems remain meaningful for many, and we’ve loved Kimberly Farr’s performances of her work.
WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance
by Riley Black, read by Wren Mack
Macmillan Audio
Release date: February 25
This should be a fascinating prehistory of our world.
SHOW DON’T TELL: Stories
by Curtis Sittenfeld, read by Michael Crouch, Curtis Sittenfeld, George Newbern, Xe Sands, Emily Rankin, Nicole Lewis, Kristen Sieh
Random House Audio
Release date: February 25
Seven narrators, including author Sittenfeld, read this new story collection.
THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O.
by Karen Thompson Walker, read by Jay Myers, Alex Sarrigeorgiou
Random House Audio
Release date: February 25
From the author of THE AGE OF MIRACLES and THE DREAMERS, a novel about a young mother who suffers mysterious psychological incidents.
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