Award-winning narrator Shaun Taylor-Corbett joins host Jo Reed to tell listeners about narrating Jon Hickey’s debut audiobook, BIG CHIEF, one of our picks for Best Fiction of 2025. It’s a story about a political fixer, Mitch Caddo, who must navigate both political and personal dramas, while confronting his identity as a mixed-race Anishinaabe man. Taylor-Corbett shares how he found Caddo’s voice in this audiobook, which is a unique look into tribal politics, identity, and how power is both given and taken.

Read AudioFile’s review of the audiobook: Published by Simon & Schuster Audio

AudioFile’s 2025 Best Fiction Audiobooks are:

• AMITY by Nathan Harris, read by André Santana, Angel Pean

• THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell, read by Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss, Mark Bramhall, Shayna Small, Jon Orsini, Natasha Soudek, Karen Russell, James Riding

• BIG CHIEF by Jon Hickey, Shaun Taylor-Corbett

• BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan, read by Michael Crouch

• JUNIE by Erin Crosby Eckstine, read by Angel Pean

• WHAT WE CAN KNOW by Ian McEwan, read by David Rintoul, Rachel Bavidge

Explore the full list of 2025 Best Audiobooks on our website:  

Support for our podcast comes from Dreamscape, an award-winning audiobook publisher with a catalog that includes authors L.J. Shen, Freida McFadden, and Katee Robert. Discover your next great listen at dreamscapepublishing.com.

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