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Also known as Johanna Ward

Kate Reading is an Audie Award–winning narrator with hundreds of titles in many genres. She has received numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, as well as being named Narrator of the Year, and Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her narration has been recognized as Reader of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and by Booklist's 2019 Top of the List, for the American Library Association. She and her husband, narrator Michael Kramer, record at their home studio in Maryland, Madison Productions.

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It's been five years 😲

Time flies!
In 2020, Michael and I released our Indy audiobook of The Prophet, COVID was raging, and we decided to invite authors to contact us directly to produce audiobooks for them.
Five years later, we have a host of happy Indy authors, scores of audiobooks produced for them, and five of our own Indy audiobooks: The Prophet, Queen Victoria, Wanderer of the Wasteland, The Letters of Jane Austen, Read more of this blog post »

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	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.29 avg rating — 4,715,632 ratings — published 1813 — 5113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Read by) 4.17 avg rating — 2,422,526 ratings — published 1868 — 5929 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Host (The Host, #1) by Stephenie Meyer, Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.86 avg rating — 1,044,487 ratings — published 2008 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author), Michael Kramer (Narrator), Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.66 avg rating — 647,584 ratings — published 2010 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) by Robert Jordan, Michael Kramer (Narrator), Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.19 avg rating — 584,319 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author), Michael Kramer (Narrator), Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.76 avg rating — 470,632 ratings — published 2014 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author), Kate Reading (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.82 avg rating — 471,640 ratings — published 2003 — 184 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin Luther: The Early Years 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Gathering Storm: Interview with the Narrators by Kate Reading (Goodreads Author), Laura Wilson (Narrator), Michael Kramer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Queen Victoria: (Annotated and Illustrated)

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The Letters of Jane Austen

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Hudson River Bracketed: Annotated

by Edith Wharton

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Kate Reading liked Gwladys's review of Les dieux arrivent ( Vance Weston, #2): "Coup de cœur pour ce roman qui est la suite de « Sur les rives de l’Hudson », ce que j’ignorais lorsque je l’ai acheté. J’aurais aimé que ce soit indiqué quelque part mais avoir lu le premier tome n’est pas nécessaire à la compréhension (et à l’appré" Read more of this review »
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Kate Reading liked Catherine's review of Les dieux arrivent ( Vance Weston, #2): "Être une femme dans les années 20, ou comment être libre dans un monde d'hommes, sans se soumettre à la bien pensance et garder son intégrité."
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Kate Reading and 75 other people liked Julie G's review of The Gods Arrive (Vance Weston #2): "I live with a designer. She's only 16, but she's been an artist and a designer since birth, and I can see, easily, that she may one day be the next Vera Wang. When you live with a designer, you are being advised, quite frequently, to "change that shir" Read more of this review »
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