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List of the 2017 Best of FICTION Audiobooks with review links

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ANNE BOLEYN: A KING’S OBSESSION by Alison Weir, read by Rosalyn Landor

BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman, read by Marin Ireland

THE ESSEX SERPENT by Sarah Perry, read by Juanita McMahon

FIVE-CARAT SOUL by James McBride, read by Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, Dominic Hoffman

FOREST DARK by Nicole Krauss, read by Gabra Zackman

THE GOLDEN HOUSE by Salman Rushdie, read by Vikas Adam

ISADORA by Amelia Gray, read by Jen Tullock

LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders, read by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and a Full Cast

MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan, read by Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza

THE REASON YOU’RE ALIVE by Matthew Quick, read by R.C. Bray

REFUGE by Dina Nayeri, read by Mozhan Marno, Youssif Kamal

THE RULES OF MAGIC by Alice Hoffman, read by Marin Ireland

SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward, read by Kelvin Harrison Jr., Rutina Wesley, Chris Chalk

TRAJECTORY by Richard Russo, read by Amanda Carlin, Arthur Morey, Fred Sanders, Mark Bramhall

WHITE TEARS by Hari Kunzru, read by Lincoln Hoppe, Danny Campbell, Dominic Hoffman

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If you do listen to audiobooks, I’d love to hear where you listen to them – and – WHY you choose audiobooks over the printed word.