The Oxford Brotherhood
By Guillermo Martínez. Read by P.J. Ochlan.
Arriving at Oxford in 1994 on a scholarship to study mathematical logic, a grad student named G finds himself embroiled in the shadowy history of Lewis Carroll. Ochlan, an Audie Award-winning voice actor and dialect coach, moves nimbly in this one-man play between the multiple characters’ accents: Argentine, Scottish, British. This brainy and utterly consuming thriller is the long-awaited English-language sequel to Martínez’s 2003 “The Oxford Murders,” written originally in Spanish.
Blackstone Publishing, 9 hours, 20 minutes
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Love That Story: Observations From a Gorgeously Queer Life
By Jonathan Van Ness. Read by the author.
Once, while filming “Queer Eye” in Missouri, Van Ness — the show’s grooming expert — went to a local clinic and requested an anal Pap test, “because I’m a busy person with no time for bum cancer.” The doctor and nurse looked at him like they’d seen a ghost. “Thank God I used to be a rural male cheerleader,” he says; “I can withstand awkward embarrassment like nobody’s business.” He reads this essay collection (a follow-up to his 2019 memoir, “Over the Top”) in his signature blend of gravitas and self-deprecating humor, carrying the listener from discussions of gender identity and the business of hairstyling to considered reflections on grief, transphobia, racism and a reported history of his hometown, Quincy, Ill.
HarperAudio, 5 hours, 44 minutes
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Finding Tamika
By Erika Alexander, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, Ben Arnon, Rebkah Howard, David Person and James T. Green. Read by Erika Alexander.
The actor and activist narrates the disturbing true-crime story of 24-year-old Tamika Huston, who went missing from her Spartanburg, S.C., home in 2004. A window onto the largely ignored disappearances of Black women and girls in this country, this audiobook (for mature audiences only) is the first from Hart and Charlamagne Tha God’s new S.B.H. Productions.
Audible Originals, 5 hours, 42 minutes
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Liar’s Poker
By Michael Lewis. Read by the author.
This new, unabridged recording of a 1989 classic — Lewis’s account of the three years he worked at the now defunct Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers in the ’80s — is accompanied by an original score, sound effects and archival news clips that bring this moment, and this culture, to life.
Pushkin Industries, 10 hours, 16 minutes
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
By Lori Gottlieb. Read by Brittany Pressley.
Someone described the experience of reading this 2019 book to me as “like being a fly on the wall of a therapist’s office,” and I found that to be even more true of listening to it. Pressley’s tone, as self-confident as it is humorously self-aggrandizing, lures you into the molten core of Gottlieb’s consciousness as she investigates her own roles as both therapist and patient, homing in on the nuances of the practice, of mental health, aging, loss and so much more.
Audible Studios, 14 hours, 21 minutes
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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
By Geoffrey Roberts. Read by Stewart Crank.
Though he never kept a diary or published a memoir, Joseph Stalin did leave behind “a well-marked literary trail” in his social, political and historical writings and readings. Roberts, a British historian, follows that trail to gather a fascinating intellectual history of the determinedly intellectual Bolshevik dictator, who in Roberts’s words “believed that reading could help transform not just people’s ideas and consciousness, but human nature itself.”
Tantor Audio, 12 hours, 19 minutes
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
By Juli Berwald. Read by the author.
Like the audiobook version of Barry Lopez’s “Arctic Dreams” (read by James Loughton), this second book by the author of “Spineless” immerses the listener in the author’s sense of pure awe at a corner of our planet many of us will never experience in our lifetimes. The journalist and scientist’s deep dive into these underwater ecosystems reveals their mesmerizing complexity as well as the perils they face today.
Penguin Audio, 10 hours, 41 minutes
Lauren Christensen is an editor at the Book Review.
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