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Bestsellers
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
By: Shelby Van Pelt
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Story Telling At Its Best
- By Regina on 05-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
By: Ann Patchett
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
By: Bonnie Garmus
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Novel
- By: Shelby Van Pelt
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....
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Hidden gem, incredible narration!
- By Christine T on 05-17-22
By: Shelby Van Pelt
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The Covenant of Water
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
- Length: 31 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....
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Story Telling At Its Best
- By Regina on 05-06-23
By: Abraham Verghese
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Tom Lake
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....
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So incredibly boring
- By Rhonda Morrison on 08-05-23
By: Ann Patchett
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
By: Bonnie Garmus
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The Three-Body Problem
- By: Cixin Liu
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.
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They create a computer using a 30 million man Army
- By Josh P on 12-07-14
By: Cixin Liu
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The Alchemist
- A Fable About Following Your Dream
- By: Paulo Coelho
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.
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A Timeless Tale
- By Judi on 01-07-07
By: Paulo Coelho
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Hello Beautiful
- A Novel
- By: Ann Napolitano
- Narrated by: Maura Tierney
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him....
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Book was great, performance terrible
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-23
By: Ann Napolitano
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Mad Honey
- A Novel
- By: Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side....
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Good writing but...
- By Suzanna on 10-08-22
By: Jodi Picoult, and others
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
By: Amor Towles
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North Woods
- A Novel
- By: Daniel Mason
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier comes a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate....
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An American Masterpiece
- By Psumissyh on 09-21-23
By: Daniel Mason
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A Little Life
- A Novel
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition....
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And the hits just keep on coming…
- By Mark T. Vernon on 01-04-23
By: Hanya Yanagihara
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Lady Tan's Circle of Women
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....
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Another Beautiful Novel from Lisa See!
- By TuxedoedCorgi95 on 06-06-23
By: Lisa See
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....
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This book sucked the life out of me
- By RMan on 08-08-22
By: Gabrielle Zevin
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The Searcher
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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"One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we stake on that decision....
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WONDERFULLY DREARY IRISH ATMOSPHERE & STORY
- By McSusie on 10-06-20
By: Tana French
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The Measure
- A Novel
- By: Nikki Erlick
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live....
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heavy content
- By Cherece on 09-12-22
By: Nikki Erlick
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....
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Afraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review
- By Elizabeth on 08-06-14
By: Anthony Doerr
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
By: Hernan Diaz
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.
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A gift to be treasured
- By David Shear on 07-09-14
By: Harper Lee
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend....
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Not sure why the reviews are so polar opposite.
- By Aaron Altman on 06-28-09
By: Patrick Rothfuss
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....
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I wanted to love this book...
- By Stine on 03-17-19
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Horse
- A Novel
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history....
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Love Geraldine Brooks
- By Regina on 06-25-22
By: Geraldine Brooks
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go....
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Loved every word
- By J. P. Fitzpatrick on 02-24-17
By: Colm Toibin
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl....
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Don't listen to the negative reviews.
- By Kyle on 12-03-19
By: Delia Owens
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
- A Novel
- By: Claire Lombardo
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest....
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Wonderful book
- By Kaysi12 on 07-08-19
By: Claire Lombardo
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Yellowface
- A Novel
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American....
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I've never hated a character harder
- By ashelyn downs on 07-26-23
By: R. F. Kuang
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War from the author of Circe.
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- By susan on 06-11-14
By: Madeline Miller
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The Paris Novel
- By: Ruth Reichl
- Narrated by: Kiiri Sandy
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading “Go to Paris.” Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her comfort zone....
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Magical, but read the actual book do not listen
- By Gina DiMartino on 04-25-24
By: Ruth Reichl
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring, like her mother....
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
By: Madeline Miller
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The Dutch House
- A Novel
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Narrated by Tom Hanks, The Dutch House is a moving story that explores the bond between two siblings and the house of their childhood.
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Not my favorite Patchett
- By Regina on 12-07-19
By: Ann Patchett
New releases
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Tell
- By: Jonathan Buckley
- Narrated by: Emma Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interview transcripts with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared. The joint winner of The Novel Prize, Tell is a work of strange and intoxicating immediacy that explores money, art and industry, the intimacy and distance between social classes, and the complex fluidity of memory.
By: Jonathan Buckley
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Fallen Skies
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning ...
By: Philippa Gregory
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Designing Dreams
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amanda Romriell is finally starting to feel like herself again after a major heartbreak when she gets the news of her parents’ death. Once again, she is reeling and wondering what else can go wrong. After she and her sisters move into their family’s lake house, she is ready to start fresh, but she knows to guard her heart and never let anyone else in. She watches as her eldest sister marries and the next one starts dating…but she expects to grow old alone. Her career as an interior designer keeps her going and hoping and wishing and dreaming. Until finally her life starts to level out...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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The Saggar
- By: CJ Walley
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Saggar" is a riveting narrative that plunges listeners into the gritty, vibrant life of Teddy Saggar, a man wrestling with the shadows of his past in Stoke-on-Trent. Through a series of vivid, compelling episodes, we journey with Teddy as he navigates a world teeming with old friends, uneasy reunions, and the stark realities of a life spent on the fringes.
By: CJ Walley
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Finding Dreams
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Lauren feels lost at sea. Her parents recently died, so she and her four sisters move to Idaho to turn their family’s lake home into a Bed and Breakfast. But all of her sisters have dreams. All but her. She’s been out of college for months, and she still isn’t sure what she wants to be when she grows up. For now, she’s working at the B&B, but she can’t do that forever. Well, she could, but would she feel fulfilled doing it? Lauren is happy-go-lucky most of the time, riding on her sisters’ coat tails as they work toward their own dreams, but she needs to find her own. She just ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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The Summer It Rained Champions
- By: Sarah Smith
- Narrated by: Maria Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Six-year-old Sharon Rowling has a lot to contend with. Her gorgeous mum, Maria, literally stops traffic with her beauty, much to the annoyance of dodgy dad, Ricky, who is under-height as well as underemployed. And then there are her three excruciating siblings who remain stubbornly oblivious to her unrelenting fear of being outed as a "gypo." Sharon opens her comical tale during the sweltering British summer of 1976 when even an incredibly handsome World Boxing Champ finds himself on the wrong end of her clueless dad's fists.
By: Sarah Smith
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Tell
- By: Jonathan Buckley
- Narrated by: Emma Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A tale of intense, flickering intelligence, Tell is structured as a series of interview transcripts with a woman who worked as a gardener for a wealthy businessman and art collector who has mysteriously disappeared. The joint winner of The Novel Prize, Tell is a work of strange and intoxicating immediacy that explores money, art and industry, the intimacy and distance between social classes, and the complex fluidity of memory.
By: Jonathan Buckley
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Fallen Skies
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She's determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s, with its music, singing, laughter and pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated hero back from the Front, she's drawn to his wealth and status. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephen's nightmares merge ever closer with reality and the truth of what took place in the mud and darkness brings him and all who loves him to a terrible reckoning ...
By: Philippa Gregory
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Designing Dreams
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Amanda Romriell is finally starting to feel like herself again after a major heartbreak when she gets the news of her parents’ death. Once again, she is reeling and wondering what else can go wrong. After she and her sisters move into their family’s lake house, she is ready to start fresh, but she knows to guard her heart and never let anyone else in. She watches as her eldest sister marries and the next one starts dating…but she expects to grow old alone. Her career as an interior designer keeps her going and hoping and wishing and dreaming. Until finally her life starts to level out...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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The Saggar
- By: CJ Walley
- Narrated by: Aubrey Parsons
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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"The Saggar" is a riveting narrative that plunges listeners into the gritty, vibrant life of Teddy Saggar, a man wrestling with the shadows of his past in Stoke-on-Trent. Through a series of vivid, compelling episodes, we journey with Teddy as he navigates a world teeming with old friends, uneasy reunions, and the stark realities of a life spent on the fringes.
By: CJ Walley
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Finding Dreams
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Lauren feels lost at sea. Her parents recently died, so she and her four sisters move to Idaho to turn their family’s lake home into a Bed and Breakfast. But all of her sisters have dreams. All but her. She’s been out of college for months, and she still isn’t sure what she wants to be when she grows up. For now, she’s working at the B&B, but she can’t do that forever. Well, she could, but would she feel fulfilled doing it? Lauren is happy-go-lucky most of the time, riding on her sisters’ coat tails as they work toward their own dreams, but she needs to find her own. She just ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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The Summer It Rained Champions
- By: Sarah Smith
- Narrated by: Maria Johnson
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Six-year-old Sharon Rowling has a lot to contend with. Her gorgeous mum, Maria, literally stops traffic with her beauty, much to the annoyance of dodgy dad, Ricky, who is under-height as well as underemployed. And then there are her three excruciating siblings who remain stubbornly oblivious to her unrelenting fear of being outed as a "gypo." Sharon opens her comical tale during the sweltering British summer of 1976 when even an incredibly handsome World Boxing Champ finds himself on the wrong end of her clueless dad's fists.
By: Sarah Smith
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The Church - A Short Story Collection
- By: Henry James, D H Lawrence, Vladimir Korolenko, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles. In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining.
By: Henry James, and others
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The Germans
- By: Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, E T A Hoffman, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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The German peoples spent centuries as tribes and regions without being a whole. Otto von Bismarck was instrumental in unifying these central European states into one country albeit based on the militaristic doctrine of Prussia. In the 20th Century its history was blighted by its capacity to resort to war to fulfill its ambitions, or right its perceived historical wrongs. In this volume the short stories by its greatest authors readily attest that their talents are equal to the greatest in World literature.
By: Friedrich Schiller, and others
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The Top 10 Short Stories - The German Language
- By: Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Schiller, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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In this volume we examine the German language. Or rather the authors who wrote in German but are here translated into English. German is most often called the language of philosophers due to its precision and clarity. However, if you’ve studied German, you will know that sentence construction can be difficult to grasp. However, within these stories the language of these great talents express themselves in dazzling prose and searching narratives. And the characters? Clearly the works of genius.
By: Rainer Maria Rilke, and others
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The Devil - The Europeans - A Short Story Collection
- By: Anatole France, E T A Hoffman, Niccolo Machiavelli, and others
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Our fear of the Devil, whatever his temptations and rewards, is amplified by the thought of eternal damnation in his hell house service. In this volume our authors are all from Europe and see the Devil in ways that we recognise and yet are culturally distinct to the European mainland.
By: Anatole France, and others
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Stephen Crane - A Short Story Collection
- By: Stephen Crane
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Stephen Crane was born 1st November, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the eighth surviving child out of fourteen. Incredibly he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of sixteen. His poems, predominantly short and abstract, display another facet of his talent which questions, advises and presents his audience with much to contemplate. Some are difficult to engage with but with the effort comes the reward.
By: Stephen Crane
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The Victorian Ghost Story - Volume 2
- The iconic ghost stories of English literature
- By: Henry James, Amelia Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, and others
- Narrated by: Robert Maskell, Elliott Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known facts are that if you want a really good ghost story to bring that edge of chill, that foreboding of dread, that feeling that in an empty house we are not quite alone and that sometimes the sharp, sheer shock of what just happened is upon us then look no further than ‘The Victorian Ghost Story’ for your listening pleasure.
By: Henry James, and others
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Inventions - A Short Story Collection
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ethel Dell, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and delightful.
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others
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The Dead Hand
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 45 mins
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Wilkie Collins was born on 8th January 1824 in Marylebone, London. He pursued his education at Mr Cole’s private boarding school in Highbury, Islington. Here, he began his literary career under unusual circumstances: the school bully would give him no peace until he had been told a bedtime story. This ‘little brute’ helped create one of England’s greatest writers.
By: Wilkie Collins
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Love in her Big Two-Hearted River
- By: Paul Michael Peters
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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At 62, Sonny's world has been shaken. The love of her life, Mitch, is no more, leaving behind dreams yet to be fulfilled. They had imagined adventures together, tracing the footsteps of the literary giant Ernest Hemingway—from the vibrant streets of Paris, the thrilling rush of running with the bulls in Spain, to the wild expanse of the African safari. But now, with Mitch gone, Sonny embarks on an adventure of her own, an exploration of the Big Two-Hearted River by canoe. Dive into this stirring novella as Sonny faces rapids, untamed wildlife, and the challenges of survival. But amid the ...
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The Road to the Country
- By: Chigozie Obioma
- Narrated by: Junior Nyong'o
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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The twice Booker-shortlisted author returns with his third novel, THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY, about a young man, Tunde, whose brother is involved in an accident and stranded just as the Biafran war begins. Tunde spends the novel travelling through a war zone to be reunited with his brother - to bring him home and to ask for forgiveness for the part he played in the accident, a part his brother has no knowledge of.
By: Chigozie Obioma
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- By: Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, and others
- Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting.
By: Ali Smith, and others
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Mouthing
- By: Orla Mackey
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Jessica Regan
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Welcome to Ballyrowan. This sleepy corner of rural Ireland may seem tranquil, but scratch the surface and you'll find a hotbed of gossip and intrigue - endless material for mouthing - and a town full of people only too happy to oblige in spreading the bad news. Narrated by several generations of villagers, Mouthing traces the fortunes of one small community from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, in a series of highly confessional and darkly hilarious monologues.
By: Orla Mackey