Audio books

摘要

The past year's best audiobooks, all recipients of starred LJ reviews, rnare more varied than ever-they include a posthumously published novel (The Girl Who Played with Fire), two debut works of hard-boiled fiction (The Manual of Detection and Bad Things Happen), a meditation on the wonders of nature (Summer World), and a joint first-person account of injustice and redemption (Picking Cotton), To capture better the breadth of exceptional audio titles released in 2009, we've expanded the number of LJ Best Audiobooks to 40, as well as added an Honorable Mentions listing (p. 54). Thanks to our distinguished roster of audio reviewers for their nominations.