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Most very good novels, like this one, cover a broad range of subjects, but they also often focus on some specific questions about human existence--in this case, what we do for love and how we recover from that. Narrator Marin Ireland manages to keep everything in this novel tied together without creating voices for all the numerous characters. She trusts the text to tell us who... Read More

Golden Voice Narrator Marin Ireland performs this debut novel, which features two queer artists. Housemates Bernie and Leah set off on a road trip to capture the heart of Pennsylvania in photographs and words. While they travel across the state, their relationship grows deeper as they try to make sense of the world around them through their art. Ireland's performance makes... Read More

A star-studded cast masterfully performs Napolitano's debut novel. Her recent success with HELLO BEAUTIFUL has brought this long out-of-print title back. And this stellar audiobook demonstrates its worth. It's hard to limit praise to just a few of the half-dozen sparkling narrations. But Brittany Pressley as Gracie, the lost-soul writer who works as a kind of "Dear Abby," gives... Read More

After award-winning author James Lee Burke delivers his introduction, a series of introspective monologues is brought vividly to life in six stellar performances. The setting is Louisiana during the late days of the Civil War. MacLeod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Dana Gourrier, Marin Ireland, January LaVoy, and Ray Porter portray all manner of humanity, including a ragtag... Read More

Thanks to Marin Ireland's sure-footed narration, listeners will eagerly follow Kaitlyn Day through multiple plot twists in this thriller. Kaitlyn is one of 10 Americans who have been selected to beta test Fusion, spyware, which was developed by the CIA, ostensibly to track down terrorists. At the appointed time, when all the participants receive a text telling them to "Go... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland excels at depicting the insular, privileged world of the Stockton family in contemporary Brooklyn Heights in this debut audiobook. Ireland gracefully takes listeners into an exclusive milieu of private schools, galas, and grand townhouses while beautifully conveying the frailties and emotional confusion that render this family relatable. In alternating... Read More

Marin Ireland navigates an ever-expanding world of characters and details. In a mysterious city recently devastated by conflict, museums and universities have been turned to rubble. Dora finds work as a curator at the last remaining museum, where she seeks her long-lost brother. In the city, cats are highly revered. King's audiobook unfolds in a dreamlike fashion, with much... Read More

To call this performance just an audiobook would be an enormous understatement. It’s an immersive listening experience with an original score, sound effects, and an entire cast. A disease has taken over the entire world, making social interactions rare and beloved destinations dystopian. Beta-test player John Chambers joins a lifelike virtual reality game in which he can... Read More

By now, the Beartown series without Marin Ireland's confident narration would be unimaginable. She maintains her consistently high standard, often with moving and ultimately heartbreaking results. Backman's latest installment finds the residents of the beleaguered hockey town grappling with a severe approaching storm, while a mounting series of backdoor deals threaten the... Read More

Grad student Cassie Quinn rushes home to her wealthy New York City family when her younger brother is arrested for raping his ex-girlfriend. Marilyn Ireland narrates this provocative story told by Cassie, which recounts the family's defense of her unfairly accused brother. She sees herself as sophisticated beyond her years, due to her own heartbreak after an affair with an... Read More

Marin Ireland offers an adroit and heartfelt performance of Emma Straub’s clever new novel, which repurposes the time-travel trope to explore what makes life meaningful. On her fortieth birthday, Alice realizes that her perfectly fine single, professional, happy life doesn’t feel so satisfying anymore. Plus, her dad is dying. But what to do? Why, go to sleep and wake up on your... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland delivers a stellar understated performance in this character-driven romantic novel. Ireland captivates listeners as she portrays Merit, a married mother of two who's lost her identity and feels trapped. She experiences a much needed spark once she returns to her career and finds herself working with a beautiful Danish architect named Jane. Jane is... Read More

This fantastical debut audiobook will enchant listeners. Gifted vocal artist Marin Ireland portrays Tova, a 70-year-old widow with a heart of gold whose teenage son died under mysterious circumstances 30 years earlier. Ireland's encouraging tones suit Tova, whose compassion touches everyone, and every creature, in her small Washington town. After she injures herself at her job... Read More

Marin Ireland's nimble narration enriches this final book in King and Chizmar's Button Box Trilogy. Since she was a 12-year-old girl living in Castle Rock, Maine, Gwendy Peterson has been the on-and-off guardian of the button box, a mysterious and sinister box with the power to grant marvelous wishes and destroy entire worlds. Ireland sensitively communicates Gwendy's dismay... Read More

Marin Ireland deftly narrates Krupitsky's debut novel, which traces the lives of two Italian-American girls born into 1920s-era Mafia families. Sofia and Antonia, best friends since birth, know that the Family offers them comfort and financial stability but that it is also capable of destroying everything they hold dear. Ireland skillfully captures the rhythms and flavors of... Read More

Literary duo Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen deliver another electrifying new novel. Narrators Marin Ireland and Karissa Vacker dazzle as they deliver this twisted domestic thriller. Ireland expertly embodies Avery, a razor-sharp therapist who has lost her license for her unconventional methods and "10-session cure." Vacker's layered, emotionally driven portrayal of Marissa,... Read More

Shayna Small and Marin Ireland provide a nuanced and deeply emotional narration of this audio page-turner, ably assisted by brief but well-crafted performances by Kevin R. Free and Chanté McCormick. The narrators splendidly illuminate this timely exploration of race and the enduring importance of friendship. In alternating chapters, Small portrays Riley, a Black television... Read More

This book, perfectly suited for narration, is supercharged by a full cast of award-winning voice actors, each, for the most part, voicing several characters. All are well matched to their multiple roles. The story is a contemporary reimagining of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Author L.R. Dorn is the pen name of Matt Dorf and Suzanne Dunn, two accomplished... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland takes listeners on a journey they won't forget. Diana has her life perfectly planned. But when her long-awaited dream vacation in the Galapagos with her boyfriend, a doctor, is sidetracked by the pandemic, he insists she go without him. Reluctantly, Diana leaves for the isolated island--where her dream becomes a nightmare. Ireland sounds truly flummoxed... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland has a gift for mimicry. She invests each character with a tone, inflection, and pace that establish their identity. Her Valley girls sound vapid and her stoners stoned, but each has slightly different gradations. Hollywood power types, the essence of corruption, are voiced expertly as greedy and affectless. In the darkening landscape of this dystopian... Read More

Three distinguished narrators tell this cross-country adventure tale by the celebrated author Amor Towles. Billy Watson, a precocious 8-year-old, portrayed by Edoardo Ballerini, dreams of traveling to California on America’s first transcontinental roadway, the Lincoln Highway. After his brother is released from reform school, they hit the road, but life takes more turns than... Read More

Marin Ireland and Simon Jones sparkle as they narrate this immersive time-traveling novel. They vividly deliver the stories that weave through this audiobook. A gifted mimic, Ireland performs subtle and effective emulations of Australian, Italian, and English accents. When she slows down to enunciate the classical Greek sprinkled throughout the text, her reading shimmers with... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland delivers an emotionally charged performance in this story of postpartum depression. Blythe received little nurturing or support in her childhood. After she gives birth to her second child, she can't help favoring her first child, her son, over her second, a daughter, and she spirals into depression. In her struggle to connect with her family, she also... Read More

Fast-paced from the outset, this audiobook features Hayley Chill, an agent of the Deep State, who wears many hats. Chill is the primary handler for the U.S. president, a Russian spy who has presumably become a double agent. Now he fears his cover has been blown. Narrator Marin Ireland brings the brilliant and fearless Chill to life with an intense delivery that complements... Read More

Narrator Marin Ireland expertly shares the story of two couples through the ups and downs of their complex, long-standing friendship. The Good Company of the title is a theater group that three of the four friends were active in. It could also refer to the value of long-term, intertwined relationships as their dynamics shift. Ireland serves as a sympathetic narrator and... Read More