• Fifty Shades of Grey

  • Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
  • By: E. L. James
  • Narrated by: Becca Battoe
  • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (37,743 ratings)

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Fifty Shades of Grey

By: E. L. James
Narrated by: Becca Battoe
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Publisher's summary

More than 150 million copies sold worldwide.

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too - but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success - his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

This audiobook is intended for mature audiences.

Look for E L James’ passionate new love story, The Mister, coming April 16, 2019.

©2011 E L James (P)2012 Random House

Critic reviews

  • Finalist, GoodReads Choice Awards, Best Romance

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Love this book!

Great series. I'm listening again. Look forward to it every time. Audible allows me to listen while moving about.

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Needs a better Narrator!

Porn for lonely housewives! A different narrator would improve my overall rating of this novel!

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I can't listen to this

It's so much a ripoff of twilight that I can't listen to it. The whole time all I can think is "you stole that from Twilight, you stole that from Twilight, and that. The narrator isn't so bad but she's hard to listen to because of the way she reads part of the story but that's probably not her fault; it's just badly written.

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Not bad but poorly written

It was an ok book. Concepts were interesting but the writing left something to be desired

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Great

This is an amazing book and I would listen to it again. Hope there is more

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Love it!

Narrator was GREAT! Storyline​ is amazing! Now it time to read the next one.

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could use a different narrator

it was good but the narrator is rather bland and when she reads bad language it's like she's never cursed before. she also at times leaves you wondering who's lines she's reading especially when she's read Jose and Christian's parts.

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great story

the story was great but the character voices was a tad distracting to me. oh

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Narrator

The book was good, but I almost wish there was a male and female narrator.

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Not a very good, nor realistic book.

I know I'm just saying what everybody else had said. I got so tired of the whining and unrealistic backdrop of this story, that I couldn't finish the series. I wish I had listened to the other reviewers before buying. Instead I listened to a friend who swore by this book. It kind of makes me sad for her to think what kind of relationship she was in where she needed this crappy love story to make her happy.

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