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The Brian Lehrer Show

Shout Out Your Favorite Audiobook

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

York, News, Politics, Radio, Arts, News Commentary, Public, Lerer, Media, Wnyc, Bryan, Daily News, New, Nyc, Npr

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to talk about the latest or best book they've listened to instead of read.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Lair on WNYC.

0:12.6

Okay, when do you choose audio books over print books?

0:16.3

And that category that I mentioned is getting a lot of response.

0:20.9

People who read their own memoirs or autobiographies,

0:25.6

listener writes, I listen to Sheenade O'Connor, read her own autobiography.

0:29.6

It was incredible.

0:30.9

Another one, I only listen to audiobooks that are memoirs read by their authors,

0:35.5

for example, Barbara Streisand and Lena Dunham.

0:38.7

So those are coming in.

0:40.2

Allison and Bergen County, you're on WNYC.

0:42.9

Hi, Allison.

0:44.2

Hi, good morning.

0:45.4

Thank you for taking my call.

0:47.4

I'm very fired up over this topic.

0:49.6

I listen to audiobooks continuously.

0:51.8

I do still read print, but I last night just finished the Rachel

0:56.4

Goldberg-Pollin book, and she read it herself, her husband read the last chapter. It's a whole other

1:03.0

experience having with what she went through with her son being kidnapped and murdered in captivity.

1:09.3

It's such a different experience. Having her, it's so heavy when you hear her in captivity. It's such a different experience.

1:11.4

Having her, it's so heavy when you hear her do it.

1:14.6

It doesn't do it justice to just read it because I did start reading it in print.

1:19.2

Also, a couple weeks ago I finished this book Eternal.

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