Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about Audiobook Fiction! We discuss narrators vs casts, sound effects, music, adaptations, footnotes, and more! Plus: How do you picture the hosts in your mind when you listen to us?

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, narrated by a full cast
• Coasting Trade by Robin McGrath, narrated by Robert Joy, Rick Boland, and Anita Best 
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell, narrated by Tanya Eby
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
• What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, narrated by Hillary Huber

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases (Wikipedia)
• The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) (Wikipedia)
• What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
• Welcome to Nightvale (podcast)
• Mostly Void, Partially Stars: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes #1 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
• 99% Invisible (podcast)
• The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
• The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast)
• The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Control (video game)
  • Control || Talking Simulator
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson, narrated by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, and Marc Thompson
• The Stanley Parable (Wikipedia) (it’s not quite as narrated as Matthew and Jam implied)
  • Official website
• Gadsby (novel) by Ernest Vincent Wright (Wikipedia)
  • “does not include any words that contain the letter E”
• A Void by Georges Perec (Wikipedia)
  • “entirely without using the letter e”
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• My Brain is Different: Histoires of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders by MONNZUSU
• Project X: Challengers - Seven Eleven by Tadashi Ikuta and Namoi Kimura
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, narrated by Ray Porter
• The Sandman (audiobook version)
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, narrated by Marin Ireland
•  House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Links, Articles, and Things

• Episode 133 - Flash Fiction
• Episode 108 - Visual Novels
• Serre - Kinda bilingual anglos play French-language Visual Novel
• Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks
• Audie Awards
• Turns Out Not Everyone Can Picture Things In Their Mind And Sorry, What?
• Lowly Worm (Wikipedia)
• Let's Play (Wikipedia)
• Oulipo (Wikipedia)
• 24-hour comic
• Episode 047b - Terrible Stories by Matthew (you have been warned)
• Episode 142 - Sequels and 2022: The Year of Book Two
• ISO 8601 (Wikipedia) (date standard)
• June Is #audiomonth: Narrator Trading Cards Giveaway
• Two-Fisted Library Stories (Twitter bot) 
• Digital Accessible Information System (Wikipedia)

20 Fiction Audiobooks written & read by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors and Narrators

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen, narrated by Catherine Ho
• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, narrated by Isabella Star LaBlanc
• The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich, narrated by the author
• Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez
• Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
• The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe, Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas; narrated by Janelle Monae and Bahni Turpin
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley, narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, narrated by Nancy Wu
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, narrated by Robin Miles
• War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, narrated by Adepero Oduye
• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama
• The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote narrated by the author, Christian Nagler, Fantasia Painter, Drew Woodson, Phillip Cash Cash and Keevin Hesuse
• Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma, narrated by Soneela Nankani, Sunil Malhotra and Vikas Adam
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, narrated by Cherise Boothe
• Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto, narrated by Risa Mei
• The Strangers by Katherena Vermette, narrated by Michaela Washburn
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, narrated by the author
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Beresford Bennett
• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson, narrated by Kyla Garcia
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, narrated by Joel de la Fuente

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 20th when we’ll be discussing the winner of our “we all read the same book” poll and discussing Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart!

Then on Tuesday, October 4th we’ll be talking about the genre of Fictional Biographies!