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Bestsellers
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The Guncle Abroad
- The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties…at a big family wedding in Lake Como, Italy....
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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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Boyfriend Material
- By: Alexis Hall
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....
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The right material!
- By Cranky Reader on 07-08-20
By: Alexis Hall
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Less
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else....
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Endearing, funny, but sometimes overly clever
- By Lili on 07-30-17
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How to Leave the House
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Newman
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house—which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider.
By: Nathan Newman
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Less Is Lost
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again....
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dead end
- By Joe Puzzo on 09-23-22
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
By: Melissa Broder
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The Guncle Abroad
- The Guncle
- By: Steven Rowley
- Narrated by: Steven Rowley
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties…at a big family wedding in Lake Como, Italy....
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Such a fun read.
- By CAT1943 on 05-22-24
By: Steven Rowley
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Boyfriend Material
- By: Alexis Hall
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Luc O'Donnell is tangentially - and reluctantly - famous. His rock-star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next 20 years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making a comeback, Luc's back in the public eye....
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The right material!
- By Cranky Reader on 07-08-20
By: Alexis Hall
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Less
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else....
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Endearing, funny, but sometimes overly clever
- By Lili on 07-30-17
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How to Leave the House
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Newman
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson, Imogen Wilde
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house—which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider.
By: Nathan Newman
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Less Is Lost
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again....
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dead end
- By Joe Puzzo on 09-23-22
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Milk Fed
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control through obsessive food rituals while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency....
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Funny and uncomfortable
- By Kayla on 04-01-21
By: Melissa Broder
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Tales of the City
- Tales of the City, Book 1
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Frances McDormand
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture....
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Sparkling, Witty and Touching!
- By Nancy J on 01-19-14
By: Armistead Maupin
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Big Gay Wedding
- A Novel
- By: Byron Lane
- Narrated by: Noah Galvin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A small town is forever changed by a big gay wedding...and nothing will ever be the same....
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Creative, simple, and sweet.
- By Jonathan Hurst on 08-01-23
By: Byron Lane
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The Fall
- By: Robin Alexander
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Noel Savino has no problems attracting women. After several failed relationships, she's more than happy to keep it casual. Sunny Chase is willing to be another notch on Noel's bedpost....
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Simply delightful
- By Meredith on 07-06-16
By: Robin Alexander
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Choke
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Chuck Palahniuk
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: He pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants....
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Oh please, not another abridged!!!
- By Pamela on 10-26-03
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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Interesting Facts About Space
- A Novel
- By: Emily Austin
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps....
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Slow start to a beautiful ending
- By Desirae Blackstone on 06-23-24
By: Emily Austin
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Looking for a Sign
- A Novel
- By: Susie Dumond
- Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A newly single queer woman moves to New Orleans and sets off on a mission to find her most compatible match by going on a date with someone of each astrological sign.
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Call me out why doncha?
- By Kindle Customer on 07-08-24
By: Susie Dumond
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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A story close to Sandi Toksvig's heart, Friends of Dorothy is a wonderful, funny, touching novel about making a family that is not biological, but logical.
By: Sandi Toksvig
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Mona of the Manor
- A Novel (Tales of the City, Book 10)
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfill his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, Teddy’s grand, romantic country manor in the UK....
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loved Monas life in UK
- By mike on 03-06-24
By: Armistead Maupin
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Your Driver Is Waiting
- A Novel
- By: Priya Guns
- Narrated by: Priya Guns
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast-food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take....
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Did not deliver
- By Alexis on 05-31-23
By: Priya Guns
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
- A Novel
- By: Paul Rudnick
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of American’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author....
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Great audiobook
- By Ryan Macht on 11-30-23
By: Paul Rudnick
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Idlewild
- A Novel
- By: James Frankie Thomas
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Two adults look back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel....
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Loved every single part of it
- By Casey on 03-13-24
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The Liar's Dictionary
- A Novel
- By: Eley Williams
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Jon Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom....
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The liar’s Dictionary
- By phyllis howe on 01-19-21
By: Eley Williams
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Women's Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Daniel M. Lavery
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.
By: Daniel M. Lavery
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The Bump
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime in this hilarious and poignant novel by Sidney Karger, author of Best Men....
By: Sidney Karger
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You Only Call When You're in Trouble
- A Novel
- By: Stephen McCauley
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece....
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Terrible Narrator
- By Miss B on 01-21-24
By: Stephen McCauley
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Sellevision
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession and third tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home shopping network....
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A Peek behind the Scenes..
- By Nadine on 05-03-08
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Confidence
- A Novel
- By: Rafael Frumkin
- Narrated by: Em Grosland
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Best friends (and occasional lovers) Ezra and Orson are teetering on top of the world after founding a company that promises instant enlightenment in this thrilling caper about scams, schemes, and the absurdity of the American Dream....
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Disappointed
- By jeremiah letterman johnson on 05-16-23
By: Rafael Frumkin
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Tales of the City
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Abridged
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The first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga....
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a collection of abridged books
- By Dan on 02-16-07
By: Armistead Maupin
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Mr. Loverman
- A Novel
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Ron Butler
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years....
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Don’t miss this one.
- By Ruth Johnson on 05-04-21
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The Girls
- By: John Bowen
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A wry, macabre tale of simple living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple.
By: John Bowen
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Mostly Dead Things
- A Novel
- By: Kristen Arnett
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles....
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Animal lovers beware.
- By Megan T on 06-10-19
By: Kristen Arnett
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The Last Romeo
- By: Justin Myers
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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James is 34 and fed up. His six-year relationship with Adam has imploded, he hates his job making up celebrity gossip and his best friend, Bella, has just announced she's moving to Russia....
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Im beside myself
- By Yos on 09-10-20
By: Justin Myers
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Our Little Secret
- By: Laura Jordan
- Narrated by: Jamie Treselyan
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Introducing Ezra Darling and Teddy Montgomery: millennials from two of the world's biggest reality TV families who are contractually obligated to play nice when a scandalous collaboration between networks sees Teddy marrying Ezra's sister....
By: Laura Jordan
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The American People, Vol. 1
- Search for My Heart
- By: Larry Kramer
- Narrated by: full cast, Robertson Dean, Traber Burns, and others
- Length: 38 hrs and 41 mins
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The long-awaited new novel by America's master playwright and activist - a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fears....
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Black Humor, Sarcasm, Wit, Revisionist
- By Jeffrey on 09-11-15
By: Larry Kramer