As our lives get busier and busier, sitting down to read a book has become harder to do. One solution is audiobooks, which allow us to listen while doing something else: cooking, doing our makeup, sitting in a traffic jam. Newly published books now almost always come in audio form as well, often read by their own authors. Are they the same as print books? Are they the future of ‘reading’? Listen as Marina speaks to bibliophile, author and freelance writer Sharon Bakar as they ponder these questions. Mentioned this episode: George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo Marina Mahathir: Dancing on Thin Ice L Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Malachi Edwin Vethamani: Malaysian Millennial Voices Anthony Doerr & Heidi Pitlor: The Best American Short Stories 2019 Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement / The Calcutta Chromosome / Sea of Poppies Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna Barack Obama: A Promised Land Michelle Obama: Becoming Mary L Trump: Too Much and Never Enough Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Night Sky with Exit Wounds Monique Roffey: The Mermaid of Black Conch Lionel Shriver: Property: Stories Between Two Novellas Tash Aw: We, The Survivors Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking Richard Thompson: Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun / The Buried Giant Margaret Atwood: The Testaments Bernadine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other Karen Russell: Swamplandia! / Orange World and Other Stories Diane Cook: The New Wilderness / Man V. Nature M Shanmughalingam: Marriage and Mutton Curry Visit zafigo.com/busy-reading-books to learn more about us