All Points West November 2024 Audiobooks

Recommendations shared by GVPL librarian, Leah Pearse and Jason D'Souza on CBC Radio's All Points West.

All audiobooks listed below are available through Overdrive/Libby.

Updated November 5, 2024
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Barnhill, Kelly Regan.
Paper Book

For children. Also available as a CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Narrated by Christina Moore.

Magic Marks the Spot The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates Series, Book 1
Carlson, Caroline.
Audiobook
Pirates! Magic! Treasure! A gargoyle?! Caroline Carlson's funny tween novel The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates #1: Magic Marks the Spot is perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart's Mysterious Benedict Society. Hilary...

For children. Also available as a CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Popular narrator Katherine Kellgren and a personal favorite.

The Bad Beginning A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1
Snicket, Lemony.
Paper Book
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children

For children. Also available as a CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Celebrity narrator Tim Curry.

The Hate U Give
Thomas, Angie.
Audiobook
8 starred reviews · Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best  ·  William C. Morris Award Winner · National Book Award Longlist · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Absolutely riveting!" --Jason Reynolds "Stunning." -...

For teens. Also available as a CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Popular narrator Bahni Turpin.

Sadie
Summers, Courtney
Paper Book
Available now: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller from Courtney Summers, based loosely on The Epstein case and "not for the faint of heart" (The New York Times) "Sadie: a novel for readers of...

For teens.

Narrated by a full cast of over 30 narrators, including Rebecca Soler, Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, and Gabra Zackman.

Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Hibbert, Talia
Paper Book

For adults.

Celebrity narrator Adjoa Andoh.

All the Light We Cannot See
Doerr, Anthony
Audiobook
Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning...

For adults. Also available on CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

How High We Go in the Dark
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK * FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE "Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." --...

For adults.

Narrated by popular narrator Julia Whelan.

The Dutch House
Patchett, Ann
Paper Book
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O:...

For adults. Also available on CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Narrated by celebrity Tom Hanks.

Broken (in the best possible way)
Lawson, Jenny
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety. ...

For adults.

Narrated by the author Jenny Lawson.

Finding Me
Davis, Viola
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2022 * A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK * A MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK "It's clear from the first page that Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical of the average (often ghost-written)...

For adults. Also available on CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Narrated by the author and celebrity Viola Davis.

Pageboy
Page, Elliot
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2023" A TIME Magazine "100 Must-Read Books of 2023" A Washington Post "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" An Autostraddle "Best Queer Books of 2023" "Vivid...Moving...

For adults. Also available on CD. See gvpl.ca for more details.

Narrated by the author and celebrity Elliot Page.


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