Audiobooks, top audiobooks, download free audiobooks from eMusic.com

Getting Started in Audiobooks

New & Noteworthy

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
Review by Leah Friedman, eMusic

A page-turning tale of art and obsession
Not content to jump back on the vampire bandwagon, even after her success with the Dracula-centric The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova moves into the dreamy world of the fine arts with her newest work, The Swan Thieves. Shifting between 1879 France and present-day Washington D.C., Thieves presents us with the enigmatic Robert Oliver — a fantastically skilled artist —...

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic

Sharp African stories from a promising new voice
Given the weight of his compelling New Yorker short stories and the fact that he was shortlisted for the "African Booker," Uwem Akpan's first collection, Say You're One of Them, comes with high expectations. Akpan, a Jesuit priest turned writer, grandly delivers. His stories of an impoverished Africa are bracing without being heavy-handed, and the strong audio narration...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Review by Jami Attenberg, eMusic

A thrilling, immersive, multi-narrator audiobook experience — not to be missed
Feeling more like a classic radio theatrical presentation than the average audiobook, The Help is one of the best dramatic spoken interpretations of a book to arrive in a long time. It doesn't hurt that the source material is top-notch: Kathryn Stockett's bestselling debut novel written from the perspectives of three women — tw...

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
Review by Scott Esposito, eMusic

The world's preeminent atheist lays out a case for evolution
On the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins has attempted to silence evolution's critics once and for all. Good luck with that. Though is unlikely to end a debate that's raged for well over 100 years, it's nonetheless a splendid read for those who want to know the facts behind the theory.

Fresh off The God Delusion — which flam...

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Review by Alice Gregory, eMusic

The author of the megahit Eat, Pray, Love returns to make peace with marriage
Four years after publishing her mega bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert returns with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Here she tells the story of her unexpected marriage to her lover, Felipe, the Brazilian gem-dealer that she meets at the end of Eat, Pray, Love. Both divorced and having sworn off legal marriage for ...

I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic

I Am Ozzy, And So Can You
Let’s raise a glass for the ghost writers, the co-writers, the written-withs who dare to transcribe the ramblings and mis-recollections of fried celebrity minds and then somehow alchemize them into coherent, linear stories. And let’s send a case of scotch to I Am Ozzy “contributor” Chris Ayres who, in a miracle worthy of the gospels, sat down with the Prince of Darkness and walked away with a...

Going Green

Ulysses

by James Joyce
Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney
The Giants of Irish Literature

by George O'Brien
Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt

Discover Audiobooks

Baseball Books by Tobias Carroll

The structure and rhythm found in nine innings of baseball are unique among sports. The dynamics of the game, from the one-on-one clashes between batters and pitchers to the economic relationships between owners and players, have inspired countless narratives. Journalists and essayists write gripping explorations of everything from statistics to scandals, and the athletes themselves contribute decade-spanning biographi...

Discover Audiobooks

Books That Thrill by Elisa Ludwig

You've seen them in airports, and on the morning commute. They're littered along beaches, foiled letters glittering in the sun. A good thriller is its own kind of travel — all-consuming, briskly-paced and easily digested. Escapism.

Essentially, all thrillers are about a threat to human happiness, whether it's grand government conspiracies, computer hackers, terrorist plots, serial killers or bitter ex-lovers. ...