Books by Rebecca Makkai
“This book is set in the United States. It’s a beautiful, tragic, perfectly written novel about the HIV crisis. It’s written from the point of view of a protagonist who witnesses a friend’s death, or various friends’ deaths. It’s delicately done. There’s nothing voyeuristic or trauma porn about it. If you were too young to remember the HIV crisis, there was a lot of scaremongering that went on at the time, and there was a lot of prejudice.” Read more...
The Best Historical Novels Set in the 1980s
Eleanor Anstruther, Novelist
I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai and narrated by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson
🏆 An AudioFile Best Fiction Audiobook of 2023
“This one was fun for me because I love a good mystery, but it also has a true crime podcast focus. It’s about a woman who is a podcaster. She went to high school in New Hampshire—a made-up boarding school—and she returns to teach some classes. It turns out a student had been murdered while she was there and someone who worked at the college was convicted of the murder. Now as a teacher, with her students, she reinvestigates, ‘What actually happened to her classmate? What happened to the person who was ultimately convicted of her murder?’ It was an intriguing listen. The main character’s life is a mess. Her husband is going through a scandal. You’ve got the layers of the mystery, her personal life and her returning to a place where she didn’t have the best experience.” Read more...
Best Audiobooks of 2023 (so far)
Michele Cobb, Publisher
Interviews where books by Rebecca Makkai were recommended
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Birnam Wood: A Novel
by Eleanor Catton & Saskia Maarleveld (narrator) -
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All the Sinners Bleed
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Eunice Wong -
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The Secret Hours
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I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai and narrated by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson
The Best Mystery & Suspense Audiobooks of 2023, recommended by AudioFile Editors
The Best Mystery & Suspense Audiobooks of 2023, recommended by AudioFile Editors
It’s a lot of fun listening to mystery books or crime novels as audiobooks, with good narrators adding suspense and enjoyment to the reading experience. Editors at AudioFile magazine, who specialize in reviewing audiobooks, pick out the best ones of 2023, good books made even better by being read aloud by a skilled narrator.
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto and narrated by Eunice Wong -
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Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
by Farzon Nahvi and narrated by Aden Hakimi -
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I Have Some Questions for You
by Rebecca Makkai and narrated by Julia Whelan and JD Jackson -
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The Survivalists
by Kashana Cauley and narrated by Bahni Turpin -
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Pineapple Street: A Novel
by Jenny Jackson and narrated by Marin Ireland
Best Audiobooks of 2023 (so far), recommended by Michele Cobb
Best Audiobooks of 2023 (so far), recommended by Michele Cobb
As summer kicks off in the northern hemisphere, it’s a great time to relax and listen to a good audiobook. Michele Cobb, publisher of AudioFile magazine, shares her favourite new audiobooks from the first half of 2023—from cozy mysteries and beach reads to the memoir of an ER doctor during Covid.
The Best Historical Novels Set in the 1980s, recommended by Eleanor Anstruther
With its music and fashion and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, the 1980s are ripe for fiction, argues Eleanor Anstruther, author of Fallout, a novel about the decades-long protest against cruise missiles at Greenham Common. She recommends five of her favourites—including two Booker Prize winners—from the excesses of Thatcherite London to a coming of age on the slagheaps of Glasgow.
