Most Read This Week In Audiobook

An audiobook is a recording of text. Audiobooks are available in a variety of lengths and formats, most popularly through digital download, which allows people to listen on any smart device.

Spoken audio was first made available in the 1930s on vinyl records and has seen a resurgence in recent years with the proliferation of smartphones and other portable devices. As the medium has gained listeners—with people looking to read while driving, exercising, cleaning house and more—it has expanded past recordings of published books to work crafted exclusively for audio.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Audiobook"

Dear Debbie
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Accidentally Yours
The Correspondent
Woman Down
My Husband's Wife
The Intruder
Half His Age
Project Hail Mary
Time Will Tell
The Boyfriend
The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
Reminders of Him
Heart the Lover
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
The Women
The Love Hypothesis
The Teacher
Death to Valentine's Day
The Tenant
Second Act Romance
Theo of Golden
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2)
Broken Country
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Great Big Beautiful Life
Ward D
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
A Play for Love
Funny Story
Remarkably Bright Creatures
My Friends
Say You'll Remember Me (Say You'll Remember Me, #1)
The Crash
Anatomy of an Alibi
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)
Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
Rock Paper Scissors
Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
Lessons in Chemistry
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
Yellowface
Do Not Disturb
Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
The Coworker
The Four Winds
Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
The Widow
Every Summer After
The Night Prince (The Wolf King, #2)
Don't Let Him In
The Names
That's Not My Name
Not Quite Dead Yet
Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)
The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
Local Woman Missing
The Things We Leave Unfinished
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Dead in the Water
Best Offer Wins
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
First Lie Wins
Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, #1)
Buckeye
Hidden Pictures
Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)
Just for the Cameras (Bay Area Players, #1)
We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
The Mad Wife
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
In Your Dreams (When in Rome, #4)
The River Is Waiting
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)
Fake Skating
Bonds of Hercules (Villains of Lore, #2)
All the Colors of the Dark
First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
She Didn't See It Coming
The Fall Risk (Valentine's Day #2)
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
Flesh
Twice
The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #2)
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
We Used to Live Here
The Favorites
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
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Jonathan Trueman, The Treacle People: Still Sticky

The evidence that the gap is to some extent "built in" is certainly consistent with some of these observations. However, advocating alternative forms of literacy seems like poor advice given that print remains an essential medium, and reading skill (the traditional kind) continues to be a prerequisite for engagement with major institutions that greatly affect quality of life. Are alternative literacies a means to empower a minority population or to ensure their disenfranchisement? A bleeding-edg ...more
Mark Seidenberg, Language at the Speed of Sight

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