Bestsellers
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The Night Before Christmas
- By: Clement Moore, Charles Santore
- Narrated by: Jeff Bridges
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance26
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Story26
The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this #1 New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem read by Jeff Bridges. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
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The Dude makes an excellent Santa!
- By FrogfaceAmazon Customer on 12-26-22
By: Clement Moore, and others
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, Peter Jones - introduction, E. V. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance43
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Story43
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...
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A good read
- By Tad Davis on 10-15-19
By: Homer, and others
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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Ada reading her work is a must listen!
- By C. Beale on 05-11-24
By: Ada Limón
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My Childhood in Pieces
- A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
- By: Edward Hirsch
- Narrated by: Edward Hirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age. “My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them...
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Taking me back
- By Jack C. Doppelt on 08-03-25
By: Edward Hirsch
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other
- A Poetry Unbound Collection
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.
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love this guy's voice
- By Bevdotcom on 08-09-25
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher 'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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The Night Before Christmas
- By: Clement Moore, Charles Santore
- Narrated by: Jeff Bridges
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance26
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Story26
The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this #1 New York Times bestselling edition of the classic poem read by Jeff Bridges. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...
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The Dude makes an excellent Santa!
- By FrogfaceAmazon Customer on 12-26-22
By: Clement Moore, and others
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The Odyssey
- Penguin Classics
- By: Homer, Peter Jones - introduction, E. V. Rieu - translator, and others
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance43
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Story43
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by George Blagden, star of Versailles and Vikings. This definitive recording is translated by E.V. Rieu, revised by D.C.H. Rieu, and contains an introduction by Peter Jones. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after...
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A good read
- By Tad Davis on 10-15-19
By: Homer, and others
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The Carrying
- Poems
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Story10
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet....
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Ada reading her work is a must listen!
- By C. Beale on 05-11-24
By: Ada Limón
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My Childhood in Pieces
- A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
- By: Edward Hirsch
- Narrated by: Edward Hirsch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet's coming-of-age. “My grandparents taught me to write my sins on paper and cast them...
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Taking me back
- By Jack C. Doppelt on 08-03-25
By: Edward Hirsch
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other
- A Poetry Unbound Collection
- By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves.
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love this guy's voice
- By Bevdotcom on 08-09-25
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
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Beautiful Chaos
- On Motherhood, Finding Yourself, and Overwhelming Love
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'The words awaken the magic of life by celebrating the ordinary' - Giovanna Fletcher 'Beautifully heartfelt, inspiringly poignant and therapeutically validating' - Anna Mathur Motherhood is messy and beautiful, and hard and humbling. We adore our children, and...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
- Poems
- By: Warsan Shire
- Narrated by: Warsan Shire
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Story29
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist...
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The poems
- By Anne on 04-02-25
By: Warsan Shire
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Death by Living
- Life Is Meant to Be Spent
- By: N. D. Wilson
- Narrated by: N. D. Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall184
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Performance165
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Story165
A poetic portrait of faith, futility, and the joy of this mortal life. In this astoundingly unique audiobook, best-selling author N. D. Wilson reminds each of us that to truly live, we must recognize that we are dying....
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Phenomenal non-fiction narrative!
- By Cedarland on 07-05-20
By: N. D. Wilson
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They Bloom Because of You
- Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
- By: Jessica Urlichs
- Narrated by: Jessica Urlichs
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Sunday Times bestselling author and Instagram sensation Jessica Urlichs returns with a new collection of beautifully observed poems about the ever-evolving journey of motherhood—the hard, the magic, and the fleeting. The love you have for your children Only deepens as they grow As poet Jessica...
By: Jessica Urlichs
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I'll Fly Away
- By: Rudy Francisco
- Narrated by: Rudy Francisco
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance28
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Story28
In his stunningly intimate, highly anticipated follow up to Helium, Rudy Francisco has created a collection of poems that savor the day-to-day, treating it as worship, turning it into an opportunity to plant new seeds of growth....
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you can feel his raw emotion
- By Ken on 06-03-25
By: Rudy Francisco
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Promises of Gold
- By: José Olivarez, David Ruano
- Narrated by: José Olivarez
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on....
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I laughed thru my tears and cried thru my laughter
- By NG on 04-27-23
By: José Olivarez, and others
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The Last Song of the World
- By: Joseph Fasano
- Narrated by: Joseph Fasano
- Length: Less than 1 minute
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Joseph Fasano’s The Last Song of the World delves into the chaos of the modern world, and searches for resilience in the face of environmental and societal devastation.
By: Joseph Fasano
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Radicle, or When the World Lived Inside Us
- Poems
- By: Stephanie Catudal
- Narrated by: Steph Catudal
- Length: 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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From the New York Times bestselling author Everything All at Once comes a beautiful poetry collection exploring motherhood, grief, the unending road to healing, and the redeeming power of love. The word radicle is defined as the root of a plant embryo, the first organ to appear when a seed...
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The Tower
- By: W. B. Yeats
- Narrated by: Denis Daly
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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This anthology of twenty poems was Yeats's first major collection after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.
By: W. B. Yeats
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A Peculiar People
- By: Steven Willis
- Narrated by: Steven Willis
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis crafts an entire cast of characters, showcasing their struggles, identities, & underlying emotions....
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Every white man should listen to this until he gets it.
- By Erla Champ-Gibson on 08-22-25
By: Steven Willis
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My Baby First Birthday
- By: Jenny Zhang
- Narrated by: Jenny Zhang
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent....
By: Jenny Zhang
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Self Love Poetry
- For Thinkers & Feelers
- By: Melody Godfred
- Narrated by: Melody Godfred
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
Melody Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme....
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relatable, moving, & enlightening
- By MzAri on 12-24-25
By: Melody Godfred
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Tears For My Father
- Outlaw Thoughts & Poems
- By: Michael Madsen, THomas Warming, Maya Sloan
- Narrated by: Michael Madsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts & Poems explores not only Madsen's remarkable life and experiences in and out of Hollywood, but also his familial influences that have participated in crafting and shaping him.
By: Michael Madsen, and others
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
- Poems
- By: Misha Collins
- Narrated by: Misha Collins
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance36
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Story36
This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys....
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Love, Life and Garbage Trucks
- By Susan T Vigilante on 12-07-23
By: Misha Collins
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Love Poems for Anxious People
- By: John Kenney
- Narrated by: John Kenney
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
In the spirit of his New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People and Love Poems for People with Children, as well as his wildly popular New Yorker pieces, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for anxious people. With the same brilliant wit...
By: John Kenney
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The Study of Human Life
- By: Joshua Bennett
- Narrated by: Joshua Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Griffin Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise...
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Soul-Stirring Brillance
- By Amazon Customer on 03-29-23
By: Joshua Bennett
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Water, Water
- Poems
- By: Billy Collins
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life. “Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written.”—Maureen...
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Billy Collins is charming witty and somewhat irreverent.
- By Kathryn Grammer on 04-18-25
By: Billy Collins
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The Hurting Kind
- By: Ada Limón
- Narrated by: Ada Limón
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Story17
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón....
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The Beauty of her insights
- By Tom on 07-30-24
By: Ada Limón
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Billy Collins Live
- A Performance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space April 20, 2005
- By: Billy Collins, Bill Murray - introduction
- Narrated by: Billy Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance134
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Story129
In this exclusive audio publishing event, Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate, shares an evening of his poetry in a benefit reading for WNYC, New York Public Radio. Often compared to Robert Frost, his poetry has been embraced by people of all ages and backgrounds, and his readings are most...
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Does Not Get Better Than This
- By Mel on 09-27-10
By: Billy Collins, and others
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Night Watch
- Poems
- By: Kevin Young
- Narrated by: Kevin Young
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From the award-winning poet at the height of his career, a book of personal and American experiences, both beautiful and troubling, touching on...
By: Kevin Young
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Poukahangatus
- Poems
- By: Tayi Tibble
- Narrated by: Tayi Tibble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation. Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious...
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It was not well written
- By Rita Marie on 08-19-24
By: Tayi Tibble
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Worldly Things
- By: Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Narrated by: Michael Kleber-Diggs
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss....
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Vinegar Hill
- Poems
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Story1
From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín’s first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens Fans of Colm Tóibín’s novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to...
By: Colm Tóibín
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No Sweet Without Brine
- Poems
- By: Cynthia Manick
- Narrated by: Cynthia Manick
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations and bitter truths voiced with breathtaking lyricism. No Sweet Without Brine is both a soulful and celebratory collection that summons sticky sweet memories with an acrid aftertaste of deep...
By: Cynthia Manick
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The New Book
- Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things
- By: Nikki Giovanni
- Narrated by: Kwame Alexander, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Jericho Brown, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
An all-star ensemble cast of poets and performers bring to life Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature! For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the...
By: Nikki Giovanni