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The Papaya Portfolio

A selection of audiobook productions shaped through direction, engineering, editing, mastering, original music, and sound design.

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AudieWinner2024

It. Goes. So. Fast.

Mary Louise Kelly

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NPR journalist Mary Louise Kelly reflects on her eldest son’s final year at home, the death of her father, and the choices that shape work, parenthood, and the time we cannot get back.

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Editing · mastering

Edited and mastered by Lawrence Carroll of The Papaya Club for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast. Narrated by Mary Louise Kelly.

2024 Audie Award winner, Narration by the Author · Macmillan Audio

New York Times bestseller

Where There’s Room for Us

Hayley Kiyoko

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In a reimagined Victorian England, daring poet Ivy and society favorite Freya are pulled between duty and a love that asks them to risk everything.

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Sound design, original music, editing, and mastering by The Papaya Club for Macmillan Audio.

New York Times bestselling novel · Macmillan Audio

Obama favorite · 2025

Flashlight

Susan Choi

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After ten-year-old Louisa survives a night on the beach and her father vanishes, one family’s mystery unfolds across decades, nations, grief, and memory.

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Engineered and directed by founder Lawrence Carroll for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast. The audiobook is narrated by Eunice Wong.

Barack Obama’s 2025 favorite books

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Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

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As Hurricane Katrina approaches, fourteen-year-old Esch and her brothers navigate poverty, family bonds, and survival in rural Mississippi.

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Edited and mastered by Lawrence Carroll of The Papaya Club.

National Book Award for Fiction

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Nathan Thrall

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After a school-bus crash outside Jerusalem, a Palestinian father searches for his young son through a maze of checkpoints, hospitals, and bureaucracy.

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Edited and mastered by Lawrence Carroll of The Papaya Club for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast.

Macmillan Audio · via .wavEnthusiast

#1 New York Times bestseller

Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko

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After her mother’s death, seventeen-year-old Coley moves to rural Oregon, where an unexpected connection with Sonya opens the possibility of first love.

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Original music composed by The Papaya Club for the Macmillan Audio production.

#1 New York Times bestselling novel · Macmillan Audio

A Killer in the Family

Amin Ahmad

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After marrying into a wealthy New York real-estate dynasty, a young man investigates the dangerous secrets behind his new family’s power.

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Directed and engineered by founder Lawrence Carroll.

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The Last Mandarin

Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung

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An estranged mother and daughter confront an international crisis when a coordinated worldwide alarm attack is traced to China.

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Directed and engineered by founder Lawrence Carroll.

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Authority

Andrea Long Chu

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A sharp essay collection asks what criticism is for, moving through literature, culture, politics, and the contested relationship between freedom and authority.

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Edited and mastered by Lawrence Carroll for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast. The collection is written and narrated by Andrea Long Chu.

Macmillan Audio · via .wavEnthusiast

Across the catalog

One studio. A very wide shelf.

800+audiobook titles · 15+ years of production experience

SpeechlessThe MayorThe Horse and IIt’s Got to Be FunkyA Destiny So CruelWedlockedIt Looks Like You in the DarkThe Confederacy MythTides: Paj & AusterA Wall Is Also a RoadUncagedForged in FIYAHBad Boy for LifeMerry ChristmessRapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, EmpathyThe Harrow Home for Wayward GirlsThe Black ShieldHeart of GlassThe Secret DinnerMurmurationTendernessLeading in ChaosThe Neighbors Are WatchingEstrogen, InterruptedHow to Try AgainFight ReadyThe Last MandarinHandbook for the Revolution

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Speechless

Jordan Sawyer

The Mayor

Brian Alexander

The Horse and I

Genki Kawamura

It’s Got to Be Funky

Alan Leeds

A Destiny So Cruel

Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman

Wedlocked

Hillary Frank

It Looks Like You in the Dark

Mathilda Zeller

The Confederacy Myth

Connor Williams

Tides: Paj & Auster

Adrienne Young

A Wall Is Also a Road

Annalee Newitz

Uncaged

Katia Vlachos

Forged in FIYAH

DaVaun Sanders (editor)

Bad Boy for Life

Cheyenne Roundtree

Merry Christmess

Tegan Quin

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy

Martha Wells

The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls

Jessica Spotswood

The Black Shield

Wilbert L. Cooper

Heart of Glass

Jennifer Hillier

The Secret Dinner

Raphael Montes

Murmuration

TJ Klune

Tenderness

Rowan Beaird

Leading in Chaos

Nicholas Janni & Amy Elizabeth Fox

The Neighbors Are Watching

Aggie Blum Thompson

Estrogen, Interrupted

Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su & Amy Voedisch

How to Try Again

Steve Kamb

Fight Ready

Santino DeFranco

The Last Mandarin

Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung

Handbook for the Revolution

Derrick Palmer

A Killer in the Family

Amin Ahmad

The Science of Second Chances

Jennifer Doleac

The Forest on the Edge of Time

Jasmin Kirkbride

Saltcrop

Yume Kitasei

Trip

Amie Barrodale

Ignited Soul

Reverie Hargrove

The Island of Last Things

Emma Sloley

Dwelling

Emily Hunt Kivel

Mean Moms

Emma Rosenblum

Death by Astonishment

Andrew R. Gallimore

What Will People Think?

Sara Hamdan

I Don’t Believe in Astrology

Debra Silverman

Where the Axe Is Buried

Ray Nayler

Soft Core

Brittany Newell

Iron Hope

James Lawrence

All the Water in the World

Eiren Caffall

Shadow Assignment

Christy Barritt

The Shutouts

Gabrielle Korn

Of Claws and Chaos

M. Sinclair

Deadly Match

D.N. Hoxa

Blood of the Old Kings

Sung-il Kim

Shadow Chaser

Christy Barritt

Damsel in Distress

D.N. Hoxa

Shadow Operative

Christy Barritt

A Pair of Wings

Carole Hopson

Savage Ax

D.N. Hoxa

Pull

Nyla K

The Flowers of Buffoonery

Osamu Dazai

Dragon Girls

Maddy Mara

Songs of Irie

Asha Bromfield

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods

Rick Riordan

Lie by the Pool

Susan Walter

The Serpent’s Tooth

Nancy Marston

If the Dress Fits

Liz Talley

Nobody’s Pilgrims

Sergio Troncoso

The Salt Black Tree

Lilith Saintcrow

Wealthcare

Brigitte Piniewski

Diablo: Moon of the Spider

Richard A. Knaak

Tales from the Pizzaplex: Nexie

Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra & Andrea Waggener

The Pornography Wars

Kelsy Burke

Where Coyotes Howl

Sandra Dallas

No Boy Summer

Amy Spalding

The Big Myth

Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

Who Killed Jerusalem?

George Albert Brown

The Blacker the Berry

Wallace Thurman

Decent People

De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Through a Darkening Glass

R. S. Maxwell

She’s Gone

David Bell

Wherever the Wind Takes Us

Kelly Harms

Beneath the Wide Silk Sky

Emily Inouye Huey

Two Degrees

Alan Gratz

The Getaway

Lamar Giles

A New History of Life

Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink

Deeply Rooted Dreams

Alexander Mukte

The Recruiter

Alexander Mukte

We Lie Here

Rachel Howzell Hall

Take No Names

Daniel Nieh

Maud Martha

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Origin of Storms

Elizabeth Bear

Epic Athletes: Lionel Messi

Dan Wetzel

A Haunted Road Atlas

Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

Tsering Yangzom Lama

Black Moses

Mark Ribowsky

Child of the Forest

Jack L. Grossman & James Buchanan

A Light in the Dark

David Thomson

Honey Girl

Morgan Rogers

Inca Gold

Clive Cussler

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End

Jeff Kinney

Black No More

George S. Schuyler

Invisible No More

Andrea J. Ritchie

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

The wider catalog reflects contributions in engineering, editing, mastering, scoring, and sound design in partnership with publishers, production companies, and authors.