Narrated

This week we celebrated Non-Fiction November by discussing some of our favorite non-fiction reads and listens from 2024.

Biography/Memoir:

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Other Non-Fiction Picks:

Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed The Maid and the Crocodile, written by Jordan Ifueko and narrated by Adetinpo Thomas.

The Maid and the Crocodile [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Raybearer [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 91]

Redemptor [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 118]

"The Sin of America" [Uncanny Magazine]

Other References:

The Vorkosigan Saga (Series) [Overdrive/Libby] / [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

Barrayar [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible Plus] / [Hugos There #62]

Litter Mates on Bluesky

This time we discussed She Who Knows, written by Nnedi Okorafor and narrated by Yetide Badaki.

She Who Knows [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

Who Fears Death [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Book of Phoenix [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Remote Control [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Nsibidi Scripts (series): Akata Witch [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time on Narrated, we celebrated Halloween with a Narrated draft of some of our favorite creepy, eerie, and mysterious stories.

Round 1:

Shachi: Girl One [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: These Lifeless Things [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott: What Moves the Dead [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Round 2:

Shachi: Firekeeper's Daughter [https://tidd.ly/48iqc0x">Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 116]

Lisa: The Murders of Molly Southbourne [OverDrive/Libby]

Scott: The Witness for the Dead [Libro.fm] / [] / [Audible] / [Episode 093]

Round 3:

Shachi: A Deadly Inside Scoop [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa: The Warm Hands of Ghosts [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Scott: The Scourge Between Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 201]

Additional Picks:

Shachi: VenCo, We Ride Upon Sticks

Lisa: Small Gods of Calamity, The Butcher of the Forest, No Gods, No Monsters, The Reformatory

Scott: Haunt Sweet Home, The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Silver Nitrate, All Souls Lost

This time we discussed Lady Eve's Last Con, written by Rebecca Fraimow and narrated by Tamika Katon-Donegal.

Lady Eve's Last Con [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Iron Children [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Discussions from Readercon 33 [https://narratedpodcast.com/episodes/266">Episode 266]

The Expanse (Series): Leviathan Wakes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Vorkosigan Saga (Series) [Overdrive/Libby] / [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti (Series): The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Universe of Xuya (Series): Seven of Infinities [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed Haunt Sweet Home, written by Sarah Pinsker and narrated by Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey & Robb Moreira. We also shared some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight.

Haunt Sweet Home [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

We are Satellites

[Overdrive/Libby] /

[Libro.fm] / [Audible]

"Two Truths and a Lie" written by Sarah Pinsker [Reactor]

Short Fiction Spotlight:

"Signs of Life" written by Sarah Pinsker, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Fifty-Nine

"An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor" written by Cara Masten DiGirolamo, narrated by M.K. Hobson [Beneath Ceaseless Skies] - Issue 409, June 13, 2024

"The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain'd" written by Archita Mittra, narrated by Arthur Morey Bews [Lightspeed] - August 2024 (Issue 171)

"The Invention of a Cat" written by Carolina Valentine, narrated by Laura Pearlman [CatsCast 25]

"Ace of Knives" written by E. A. Xiong, narrated by Alexa Aguinaldo [khōréō]

"Reconstructing "The Goldenrod Conspiracy," Edina Room, Saturday 2:30-3:30" written by Gabriela Santiago, narrated by Stefen Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - September 2024 (Issue 172)

This time we discussed Space Oddity, written by Catherynne M. Valente and narrated by Heath Miller

Space Oddity [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Space Opera [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 149]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Past is Red [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 117]

The Refrigerator Monologues [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, written by P. Djèlí Clark and narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman

Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Recorded Books, Inc. for providing audio review copies of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins for today's episode.

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins [Libro.fm]

A Master of Djinn [https://tidd.ly/3QFM1hp">Libro.fm]

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [https://tidd.ly/3ZUKFms">Libro.fm]

This time we discussed The Mercy of Gods, written by James S.A. Corey and narrated by Jefferson Mays.

The Mercy of Gods [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Mercy-of-Gods-Audiobook/B0CQZ5167B">Audible]

Livesuit - Available Oct 1 [Libro.fm] / [Audible]

The Expanse (Series): Leviathan Wakes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, written by Malka Older and narrated by Lindsey Dorcus. We also shared some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our short fiction spotlight.

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 201]

Short Fiction Spotlight:

"Wonderland Is a Parking Lot in Revere" written by John Chu, narrated by Matt Peters [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Fifty-Nine

"Scrap Dragon" written by Naomi Kritzer, narrated by Rachel Lackey and Heather Klinke [Cast of Wonders 591]

"The Best Version of Yourself" written by Grant Collier, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 214: July 2024

"The Time Capsule" written by Alice Towey, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 215: August 2024

"What He Woke" written by Jess Whitecroft, narrated by Kat Day [PseudoPod 931]

"The Scientist Does Not Look Back" written by Kristen Koopman, narrated by Ant Bacon, Valerie Valdes and Adam Pracht [Escape Pod 951]