Hanya Yanagihara Audiobooks

Hanya Yanagihara, born in 1974, is an American novelist, editor and travel writer who grew up in Hawaii. She leads a striking double life in letters: alongside her fiction she is editor-in-chief of T Magazine, placing her at the centre of American cultural journalism.

Her name was made by A Little Life, the bestselling novel that was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize and became one of the most discussed literary novels of its decade. Few contemporary writers inspire such devotion from their readers – or such intense debate about the experience of reading them.

Yanagihara is a novelist of total immersion, and audio suits that ambition: her books are worlds you move into rather than visit. In our catalogue, A Little Life is the defining work – the Booker-shortlisted bestseller that readers tend to describe in terms of survival as much as enjoyment – while To Paradise shows the scale of her ambition on an even broader canvas.

An honest word for UK listeners: this is demanding, emotionally serious fiction, best approached when you have the reserves for it. Those who commit tend to come out the other side evangelical.