Read the inaugural spotlight here for even more great listens and an interview with the American Library Association’s Listen List Council about what makes a great audiobook.

Ranging from swoony romances to edgeof-seat thrillers, from memoirs to investigative journalism, the June edition offers listeners a range of choices to entertain, inspire, and inform.

Listeners will find narrators that pull them into immersive settings, readers that embody characters, and euphonious voices that simply delight.

The manifold pleasures of audiobooks continue to delight in the newest quarterly edition of LJ’s special focus on reviews for those who read with their ears.