Edoardo Ballerini

The RUSA Listen List award “highlights extraordinary narrators and listening experiences that merit special attention by a general adult audience and the librarians who advise them.” Check those holds! Do you offer these audiobooks?

It’s all about empathy. As Booklist shares, “Across this year’s wide-ranging ‘best’ selections, from historical fiction to contemporary satire and personally insightful nonfiction, these productions are unified by an element so vital to audio: empathy. Narrators who empathize with their subjects and convey that in such a way that listeners can sink deeper into understanding another’s perspective are the best of what audio offers us.”

Are these standouts in your library’s adult audio collection?

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.