Carol Monda has become synonymous with Jodi Picoult's emotionally charged fiction — she narrates four titles in our collection, including My Sister's Keeper and Nineteen Minutes, and her clear, composed delivery is a near-perfect match for Picoult's style. Monda's voice is calm and precise without being cold, which matters enormously when the material involves courtroom anguish, fractured families, and moral dilemmas that have no clean resolution. She doesn't oversell the emotion — she trusts the text, and that restraint makes the gut-punch moments hit harder. Beyond Picoult, she appeared in the sprawling Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View anthology alongside a massive ensemble cast, holding her own in very different territory. Listeners who love literary fiction built around women's experiences and family drama will find her an exceptionally reliable guide through difficult stories.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Book 1
by Holly Jackson
Narrated by Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny, Various
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Richard Poe, Julia Gibson, Barbara McCulloh, Tom Stechschulte, Carol Monda, Jennifer Ikeda, Andy Paris
Each family member gets their own narrator in this multi-voice production, creating distinct perspectives on Anna's lawsuit against her parents for medical emancipation.
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda
Picoult dissects a school shooting from every angle—victim, shooter, parent, judge—in this devastating examination of how quickly everything can change.
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda, Susan Bennett, Michele O. Medlin
Assistant DA Nina Frost's world implodes when her five-year-old son becomes a sexual abuse victim, leading her to vigilante justice. The three-narrator approach effectively captures different perspectives on maternal protection and legal ethics.
Star Wars • Book 9
by Cavan Scott
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff, Rebecca Soler
The full-cast performance transforms this into a theatrical experience—each narrator inhabits a different character so distinctly that you forget you're listening to a book, not watching a play unfold.
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 1
by Elizabeth Schaefer, Ben Acker, Jonathan Davis, Tom Angleberger, Janina Gavankar, Ben Blacker, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Christie Golden, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Pierce Brown, Ashley Eckstein, Carol Monda, Mur Lafferty, Marc Thompson, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel José Older, Ian Doescher, Daniel M. Lavery, Madeleine Roux, Gary D. Schmidt, Matt Fraction, Cavan Scott, Sabaa Tahir, Kieron Gillen, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Christopher, Rae Carson, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Paul Dini, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Paul S. Kemp, Elizabeth Wein, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, Charles Soule, Wil Wheaton, Renée Ahdieh
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson
Multiple celebrity narrators including Neil Patrick Harris and Jon Hamm bring variety to these 40 short stories retelling A New Hope from background characters' perspectives.
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda
When fourteen-year-old Trixie accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape, her family's dark secrets surface. Carol Monda navigates the shifting perspectives and moral complexity of this family-in-crisis drama with emotional precision.
D.C. Noir • Book 1
by George P. Pelecanos, Quintin Peterson, James Grady, Jim Beane, Rubén Castañeda, Jennifer Howard, Lester Irby, Robert Andrews, David Slater, Jim Fusilli, Robert Wisdom, Richard Currey, Laura Lippman, James M. Patton, Kenji Jasper, Norman W. Kelley
Narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts, Cassandra Campbell, William Dufris, Mirron Willis, Carol Monda, Ray Porter, Nick Sullivan, Victor Bevine
Sixteen authors explore Washington's criminal underbelly across neighborhoods from Dupont Circle to Southeast. Multiple narrators guide you through each district's distinct flavor of corruption.