Bruce Cameron
Author of A Dog's Purpose


Keeping my list of favorite novels to only ten is nearly impossible, so as a selection criterion I picked books that I’ve read over and over again.
Bruce's Favorites
  • Play Word of Honor
    Word of Honor
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    Word of Honor

    • UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 2 mins)
    • By Nelson DeMille
    • Narrated By Scott Brick
    Overall
    (856)
    Performance
    (300)
    Story
    (301)

    He is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam.There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity -- and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson.

    Diana says: "Nelson does it again"
    A modern classic, The Caine Mutiny for the Vietnam era.
  • Play Waking the Dead
    Waking the Dead
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    Waking the Dead

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Scott Spencer
    • Narrated By George Guidall
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (11)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (2)

    Fielding Pierce is a rising young Chicago attorney who has been offered a seat in Congress. But even in the midst of the demanding campaign, Pierce still mourns the loss of his love, Sarah. Five years ago, in an attempt to provide sanctuary for refugees, she was apparently killed by a car bomb. As Pierce becomes immersed in the world of politics, he begins to suspect that Sarah is still alive. Soon, his obsession drives Pierce to question all he sees and hears.

    One of our greatest working novelists delivers a ghost story without a ghost. Superb.
  • Play The Great Gatsby
    The Great Gatsby
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    The Great Gatsby

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 44 mins)
    • By F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Narrated By Tim Robbins
    Overall
    (1101)
    Performance
    (555)
    Story
    (554)

    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, "a wonder". It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated, and studied 20th-century works of American fiction.

    Erin says: "Something you won't fall asleep to..."
    Some of the sentences in this book positively ring with clarity and purpose.
  • Play Presumed Innocent
    Presumed Innocent
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    Presumed Innocent

    • UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
    • By Scott Turow
    • Narrated By Edward Herrmann
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (807)
    Performance
    (297)
    Story
    (301)

    Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case - that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.

    Glen says: "Excellent Book, Gripping Entertainment!"
    Sets the bar almost impossibly high for the legal thriller.
  • Play Life of Pi
    Life of Pi
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    Life of Pi

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
    • By Yann Martel
    • Narrated By Jeff Woodman
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (8234)
    Performance
    (3712)
    Story
    (3721)

    Pi Patel has been raised in a zoo in India. When his father decides to move the family to Canada and sell the animals to American zoos, everyone boards a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks, and 16-year-old Pi finds himself alone on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger.

    Theresa says: "Best audio of the year for me"
    Thrilling and spiritual, profound themes interwoven with taut suspense.
  • Play Valdez is Coming
    Valdez is Coming
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    Valdez is Coming

    • ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 19 mins)
    • By Elmore Leonard
    • Narrated By Keith Carradine
    Overall
    (33)
    Performance
    (12)
    Story
    (12)

    They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him. But when a dark-skinned man was holed up in a shack with a gun, they sent the part-time town constable to deal with the problem, and made sure he had no choice but to gun the fugitive down. Trouble was, Valdez killed an innocent man. And when he asked for justice, and some money for the dead man's woman, they beat Valdez and tied him to a cross. They were still laughing when Valdez came back. And then they began to die.

    Alan O. Mortenson says: "Valdez is Coming"
    A perfect example of the Western novel.
  • Play The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp
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    The World According to Garp

    • UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 26 mins)
    • By John Irving
    • Narrated By Michael Prichard
    Overall
    (308)
    Performance
    (128)
    Story
    (125)

    Here are the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her times. Here are the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes, even of sexual assassinations. The World According to Garp is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow", yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust.

    CH says: "Terrific"
    The first time I read this book it changed the way I regarded novels as an art form. Subsequent reads have reinforced my initial impression.
  • Play Never Let Me Go
    Never Let Me Go
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    Never Let Me Go

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 46 mins)
    • By Kazuo Ishiguro
    • Narrated By Rosalyn Landor
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1431)
    Performance
    (289)
    Story
    (293)

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.

    Christopher says: "Moving, haunting, but slow developing"
    Thunders with moral implications even as the characters ignore them, a work of genius.
  • Play Interview with the Vampire
    Interview with the Vampire
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    Interview with the Vampire

    • ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 56 mins)
    • By Anne Rice
    • Narrated By F. Murray Abraham
    Overall
    (282)
    Performance
    (56)
    Story
    (55)

    Interview with the Vampire is a novel that evokes the brilliance, the decadence, the horror of The Vampire's world - as he pours out the erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead.

    Tara says: "Where's the ending????"
    All the modern vampire stuff started right here with this book. Worth re-reading just to see how many of the author’s conventions have been copied by current writers.