Narrator Grover Gardner joins AudioFile’s Robin Whitten to discuss his narration of John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa, one of the 2023 Best Nonfiction & History Audiobooks. It’s an audio collection of essays and sketches that brings two storytellers together for a memorable listen. Gardner discusses the challenges of recording an audiobook that ranges over so many topics, and how McPhee’s storytelling style is so well suited to audio.

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Read AudioFile’s review of the audiobook, published by Recorded Books.

 

AudioFile’s 2023 Best Nonfiction & History Audiobooks:

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Differ We Must by Steve Inskeep, read by Steve Inskeep

Misbelief by Dan Ariely, read by Simon Jones

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, read by Dion Graham

Tabula Rasa by John McPhee, read by Grover Gardner

The Wager by David Grann, read by Dion Graham

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Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis, read by Chris Harper

 

Find the full list of 2023 Best Audiobooks on our website: https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/best-audiobooks-2023/

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Photo of Grover Gardner courtesy of the narrator

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