Lynn Lauber’s Audiobook Abridgments
Lynn is acclaimed for her audiobook abridgments of authors’ works.
Read critical response to Lynn’s abridged audiobooks.
See a selected list of audiobooks abridged by Lynn Lauber
Critical response to Lynn Lauber’s abridged audiobooks
“Who are these abridgers? Often, they seem like teachers from your worst nightmare. I picture them—huddled under bare bulbs in basements, no doubt—wielding red pens and wearing scowls. It either takes immense chutzpah or an exceedingly foul temper to reduce a John Updike novel by half.
But then there’s Lynn Lauber. She does the honors, so to speak, for Random House. I wouldn’t even have noticed her name—usually the narrator gets the attention—except that every time I’m astonished at how good an abridgement is (relatively speaking) and I look for a name, there she is.”
- Sandy Bauer, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Selected audiobook abridgments by Lynn Lauber
Jonathan Kellerman, The Murder Book, Doctor Death, Flesh and Blood, A Cold Heart, Twisted, Rage, The Conspiracy Club, Obsession, Gone, Therapy, Compulsion, Bones, True Detectives
Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi through U is for Undertow
Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation; Boom
Oprah Winfrey, Keep the Connection
Oliver Sacks, Anthropologist on Mars, Island of the Colorblind, Musicophilia
Andrew Weil, Optimum Health
Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
John Updike, Bech at Bay, Rabbit at Rest, S, Brazil
Toni Morrison, Tar Baby, Beloved
Barbara Walters, Audition
Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, Skinny Dip, Strip Tease, Nature Girl, Native Tongue, Stormy Weather
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation
Katharine Graham, Personal History
Elie Wiesel, Memoirs
Sherwin Nuland, How We Die
John Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
Jane Fonda, My Life So Far
Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love
Carl Bernstein, A Woman in Charge
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle, Abide with Me
Joseph E. Persico, Franklin and Lucy
Erik Larson, Isaac’s Storm, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck
Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires, Comfort Me with Apples
Maya Angelou, Heart of a Woman
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
Harold Kushner, Life’s Disappointments
Gay Talese, A Writer’s Life
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Ruth Rendell, End in Tears
Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope
Gore Vidal, Hollywood, Empire
Sandra Day O’Connor, The Majesty of the Law
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing
Richard Ford, Independence Day
Scott Turow, Reversible Errors, Ordinary Heroes
Larry King, Love Stories of World War II
Tip O’Neill, Man of the House
Andy Rooney, Not That You Asked, My War
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
Kashuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Katharine Hepburn, Me
James Jones, Thin Red Line
Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, Moo
Mario Puzo, The Last of the Dons
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal
John le Carre, The Russia House
A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh
Alan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow
Jay McInerney, Brightness Falls
Thomas Harris, Hannibal
Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed
John McCain, Worth Fighting For
Richard Russo, Nobody’s Fool
Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows White Whale
Diana Ross, Secrets of a Sparrow
Robert Bly, Iron John
Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson
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