For whatever reason, when Walter Isaacsons’s seminal biography shipped on Monday, October 24, you could only get the audiobook on CD — yeah, bits encoded on a shiny plastic disk. Really? Well, Audible has stepped up with the offer we’ve …

You certainly know his face — Spiderman 2, The Good Wife, Damages, Burn Notice, The Cell — and soon millions will also know him as the voice of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, the authorized biography of the late Apple cofounder …

Toru Okada is going through a difficult time. He is without a job, his cat has disappeared and his wife is behaving strangely. Into this unbalanced world comes a variety of curious characters: a young girl sunbathing in a nearby …

Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can’t buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of Major League teams and dugouts. …

A 12-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of Northern Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder — four men who know exactly who the children are and where their …

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. …

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Jennifer Egan brings her unique gifts as a novelist and short story writer to a compulsively listenable narrative that centers on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful …

First in the Kurt Wallander mystery series. It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her …

An atmospheric tale of life and love in a Depression-era traveling circus. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini …

The King’s Speech (iTunes, $5.95) was written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue — grandson of Lionel Logue, whose recently discovered diaries and correspondence contain fascinating details about these true events.
At the urging of his …