July 2024

Haere mai, welcome to our Audiobooks newsletter. Pop on your headphones - there's plenty of new fiction and non-fiction to listen to.

Big Library Read - Twilight Territory by Andrew X. Pham

Twilight Territory is available with no waitlists or holds from Libby from 11 to 25 July 2024. Borrow the eBook or eAudiobook.

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O'Reilly for Public Libraries audiobooks

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Recommended listens

Tune into audiobooks loved by staff and customers.

The Cleaner by Paul Cleave

Christchurch author Paul Cleave's book has been made into a tv series. Now we have the audiobook if you want to listen to an edge-of-your-seat, twisted and twisty thriller.

Every man for himself and God against all: a memoir by Werner Herzog

I have been keen to read German filmmaker Werner Herzog's memoir for a while. Now it's out as an audiobook - read by Herzog himself, so I am plumping for that option. Should be dry and amazing!

Saying It Loud: 1966 - the year Black Power challenged the civil rights movement by Mark Whitaker

A sharp and interesting history of SNCC, the Black Panthers, and the leading figure in the Civil Rights movement. JD Jackson reads the book by Mark Whitaker well.

Everything must go: The stories we tell about the end of the world by Dorian Lynskey

This sounds scary, but it is surprisingly good fun too. Dorian pulls together movies, history, religion, and science in service of a story about stories about the end of the world. It runs the gamut from the Book of Revelations to nukes to Melancholia (there are a lot of comets in this book). Aotearoa alert: We feature a bit, as an apocalypse-escaping destination, and also for the dystopian movie classic The Quiet Earth.

uLibrary Bookclubs

Talking Books Book Club

Join the Talking Books Book Club from uLibrary. November's title is The Bookseller at the end of the World by Ruth Shaw.

Bookworms Book Club

Join Bookworms Book Club, uLibrary's kids audio bookclub. The title for November is Between Sea and Sky by Nicola Penfold