Narrator Gover 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.

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

AudioFile’s 2023 Best Nonfiction & History Audiobooks are:

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

WASTELAND by Oliver Franklin-Wallis, read by Chris Harper

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Grover Gardner photo courtesy of the narrator.

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