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Narrator:
Esther Perel
- The State of Affairs
- By: Esther Perel
- 44 ratings
- Narrator: Esther Perel
- Duration: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- An affair: It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, the prohibition against it - in fact it has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions.
Narrator:
Hillary Rodham Clinton
- What Happened
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- 4059 ratings
- Narrator: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Duration: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.
Narrator:
Steven Weber
- It
- By: Stephen King
- 17338 ratings
- Narrator: Steven Weber
- Duration: 44 hrs and 57 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Welcome to Derry, Maine. It's a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children.
Narrator:
Brené Brown
- Braving the Wilderness
- By: Brené Brown
- 2880 ratings
- Narrator: Brené Brown
- Duration: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- "True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives - experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization.
Narrator:
Jon Ronson
- The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson
- By: Jon Ronson
- 8927 ratings
- Narrator: Jon Ronson
- Duration: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Format: Original
- [Contains explicit content] Hear the story of what happened when the tech industry gave the world what it wanted: free porn. Lives were mangled. Fortunes were made. All for your pleasure. Follow writer and narrator Jon Ronson as he uncovers our web of desire.
Narrator:
John Lee
- A Column of Fire
- By: Ken Follett
- 1598 ratings
- Narrator: John Lee
- Duration: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- In 1558 the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious divide sweeping across the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England.
Narrator:
Kevin Hart
- I Can't Make This Up
- By: Kevin Hart, Neil Strauss - contributor
- 17751 ratings
- Narrator: Kevin Hart
- Duration: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in yourself since Old Yeller.
Narrator:
Ray Porter
- All These Worlds
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- 18193 ratings
- Narrator: Ray Porter
- Duration: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper.
Narrator:
Claire Danes
- The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
- By: Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
- 12085 ratings
- Narrator: Claire Danes, Margaret Atwood, full cast
- Duration: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
Narrator:
Emily Rankin
- Before We Were Yours
- By: Lisa Wingate
- 8079 ratings
- Narrator: Emily Rankin, Catherine Taber
- Duration: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge - until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents - but they quickly realize the dark truth.
Narrator:
Trevor Noah
- Born a Crime
- By: Trevor Noah
- 50788 ratings
- Narrator: Trevor Noah
- Duration: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.
Narrator:
Roger Wayne
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- By: Mark Manson
- 48457 ratings
- Narrator: Roger Wayne
- Duration: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Narrator:
David Pittu
- The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- 21571 ratings
- Narrator: David Pittu
- Duration: 32 hrs and 29 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling force and acuity. It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
Narrator:
Edoardo Ballerini
- Beautiful Ruins
- By: Jess Walter
- 10220 ratings
- Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duration: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
Narrator:
Trevor Noah
- Born a Crime
- By: Trevor Noah
- 50788 ratings
- Narrator: Trevor Noah
- Duration: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.
Narrator:
Amy Schumer
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
- By: Amy Schumer
- 15179 ratings
- Narrator: Amy Schumer
- Duration: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is - a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Down to earth and relatable, frank and unapologetic, Amy Schumer is one of us: She relies on her sister for advice, still hangs out with her high school pals, and continues to navigate the ever-changing boundaries in love, work, and life.
Narrator:
Julia Whelan
- Gone Girl
- By: Gillian Flynn
- 43935 ratings
- Narrator: Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne
- Duration: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
Narrator:
George Guidall
- American Assassin
- By: Vince Flynn
- 13284 ratings
- Narrator: George Guidall
- Duration: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world...and then tragedy struck.
Narrator:
Jake Gyllenhaal
- The Great Gatsby
- By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 8912 ratings
- Narrator: Jake Gyllenhaal
- Duration: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby....
Narrator:
Will Patton
- Mr. Mercedes
- By: Stephen King
- 23716 ratings
- Narrator: Will Patton
- Duration: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
Narrator:
Wil Wheaton
- Ready Player One
- By: Ernest Cline
- 107129 ratings
- Narrator: Wil Wheaton
- Duration: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
Narrator:
Edward Herrmann
- The Boys in the Boat
- By: Daniel James Brown
- 21839 ratings
- Narrator: Edward Herrmann
- Duration: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Narrator:
Mike Chamberlain
- Smarter Faster Better
- By: Charles Duhigg
- 11619 ratings
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Duration: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics - as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters - this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies, and organizations don't merely act differently. They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways.
Narrator:
Dan Harris
- 10% Happier
- By: Dan Harris
- 12601 ratings
- Narrator: Dan Harris
- Duration: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure, involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists.
Narrator:
Kate Rudd
- Turtles All the Way Down
- By: John Green
- 430 ratings
- Narrator: Kate Rudd
- Duration: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Narrator:
Marin Ireland
- The Rules of Magic
- By: Alice Hoffman
- 111 ratings
- Narrator: Marin Ireland
- Duration: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the '60s, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique.
Narrator:
Thom Rivera
- All the Crooked Saints
- By: Maggie Stiefvater
- 26 ratings
- Narrator: Thom Rivera
- Duration: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. At the heart of Bicho Raro, Colorado you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles.
Narrator:
Stefan Rudnicki
- Children of the Fleet
- By: Orson Scott Card
- 115 ratings
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duration: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.
Narrator:
Luis Moreno
- Fairytale
- By: Danielle Steel
- 36 ratings
- Narrator: Luis Moreno
- Duration: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all treasure. But after Joy's early death from breast cancer, a lonely Christophe soon falls prey to the machinations of a sophisticate from his native France - who moves, with her two reprobate sons, to consolidate her power over Camille and the property when Christophe is killed in a plane crash.
Narrator:
R. Jones
- Mirror, Mirror
- By: Cara Delevingne
- 2 ratings
- Narrator: R. Jones
- Duration: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Among the students of Pimlico Academy, Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits - outsiders who have found a safe haven in music and their band, Mirror, Mirror. For these 16-year-olds, fitting in at school is nearly as difficult as navigating their complicated home lives. Red has an alcoholic mother and a father who's never around. Leo's brother is in prison. Rose uses sex and alcohol to numb the pain of a brutal attack. Naomi's punk rock princess persona gives her the freedom to be her true self.
Narrator:
Mark Bramhall
- Grant
- By: Ron Chernow
- 19 ratings
- Narrator: Mark Bramhall
- Duration: 48 hrs and 1 min
- Format: Unabridged
- Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow sows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency.
Narrator:
Esther Perel
- The State of Affairs
- By: Esther Perel
- 44 ratings
- Narrator: Esther Perel
- Duration: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- An affair: It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, the prohibition against it - in fact it has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions.
Narrator:
Rhett McLaughlin
- Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality
- By: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
- 319 ratings
- Narrator: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
- Duration: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- From YouTube superstars and creators of Good Mythical Morning comes the ultimate guide to living a "mythical" life, featuring stories from their lifelong friendship as well as tips for laughing more, learning more, and never taking yourself too seriously.
Narrator:
Suzanne Toren
- Red Famine
- By: Anne Applebaum
- 3 ratings
- Narrator: Suzanne Toren
- Duration: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization - in effect a second Russian Revolution - which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief, the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem.
Narrator:
Aaron Mahnke
- The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
- By: Aaron Mahnke
- 41 ratings
- Narrator: Aaron Mahnke
- Duration: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken of in stories and superstitions, relics of an unenlightened age, old wives' tales, passed down through generations. Yet no matter how wary and jaded we have become, as individuals or as a society, a part of us remains vulnerable to them: werewolves and wendigos, poltergeists and vampires, angry elves and vengeful spirits.
Narrator:
Donald Miller
- Building a StoryBrand
- By: Donald Miller
- 52 ratings
- Narrator: Donald Miller
- Duration: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Format: Unabridged
- Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services.
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