A Typo Leads to a Couple of Audiobook Suggestions

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Out of curiosity, I listened to The Bell Jar around 20 years ago.  I tempted to listen to this exception recording again, as the reader Christina Moore's voice is a perfect match for Sylvia Plath's text.  I have no idea how Maggie Gyllenhaal approaches the book is a subsequent recording, but I can't imagine how it could possibly improve on Moore's purposefully and effectively disengaged performance.

From Recorded Books website:

Critics consistently praise her ability to convey a book’s distinctive emotional tone.

My favorite match of voice and text?

Barrett Whitener's expansive reading of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.  Hands down!  The novel's episodic narrative relies heavily on dialogue, and Whitener creates pitch-perfect voices for every character.