Book award season is here! We’re proud to be the audiobook publisher for titles nominated for the National Book Awards, Booker Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Check out these fantastic titles and authors.

 

National Book Awards for Fiction (Longlist)

National Book Award winners to be announced 11/16

Shutter

Written by Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Published by: Recorded Books, an RBmedia audio brand

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.

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Maria, Maria & Other Stories

Written by: Marytza K Rubio

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Published by: Tantor Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut.

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National Book Awards for Nonfiction (Longlist)

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Written by: Kelly Lytle Hernández 

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Published by: HighBridge Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States.

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National Book Awards for Translated Literature

Scattered All Over the Earth (Finalist)

Written by: Yoko Tawada

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Published by: Tantor Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian).

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Jawbone (Finalist)

Coming January 2023!

Written by: Mónica Ojeda 

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal 

Published by: Tantor Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?

 

A New Name: Septology VI-VII (Finalist)

Coming soon! Available wherever audiobooks are sold

Written by: Jon Fosse

Published by: Tantor Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers

 

Seasons of Purgatory (Longlist)

Written by: Shahriar Mandanipour

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi 

Published by: HighBridge Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

In Seasons of Purgatory, the fantastical and the visceral merge in tales of tender desire and collective violence, the boredom and brutality of war, and the clash of modern urban life and rural traditions. Mandanipour, banned from publication in his native Iran, vividly renders the individual consciousness in extremis from a variety of perspectives: young and old, man and woman, conscript and prisoner. While delivering a ferocious social critique, these stories are steeped in the poetry and stark beauty of an ancient land and culture.

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Booker Prize (Shortlist)

Booker Prize winner to be announced 10/17

Small Things Like These

Written by: Claire Keegan

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly 

Published by: HighBridge Audio, an RBmedia audio brand

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery that forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. 

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Scotiabank Giller Prize (Shortlist)

Giller Prize winner to be announced 11/7 

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Written by: Noor Naga

Narrated by: Amin El Gamal and Noor Naga

Published by: Recorded Books, an RBmedia audio brand

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack.

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*This post will be updated as finalists and winners are announced