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    • By: Tim O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 13,499 ratings
    • Bryan Cranston is probably a sorcerer
    • ''You don’t even have to be into war stories to get swept up in the witchy magic of Tim O’Brien’s classic about the Vietnam War. He himself served in the army after being drafted as a young, promising college grad. His Vietnam stories are semi-autobiographical, tender like a bruise, and—in the vein of Kurt Vonnegut—filled with razor-sharp reflections about humanity’s beauties and ills. The best part? It’s brilliantly narrated by Bryan Cranston. It’s probably impossible to listen to this one without getting chills.'' —Rachel, Audible Editor

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    • By: Madeline Miller
    • Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 57,797 ratings
    • The best audiobook I've ever listened to
    • ''Though this story is about a goddess, Madeline Miller’s use of perspective and rich, precise language makes each moment evocative, thrilling, and above all human. Narrator Perdita Weeks delivers a flawless performance. The warmth of her voice, constantly challenged by the chaotic tragedies and joys of Greek mythology, imbues the book with its own fascinating and treasured mortality.'' —Michael D., Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: Isabel Allende
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez
    • Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 3,007 ratings
    • Strong women and magical realism, just a few of my favorite things.
    • ''I must admit that it took my mother a lot of persuading to get me to read this book for the first time while I was in college. I had recently emerged from a successful mission to read One Hundred Years of Solitude, (which I raved on and on about for a two-week period) and Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits was an obvious follow up in her mind. Boy was she right. Allende’s four-generation epic is a book that will stay with you forever with its vivid characters and tantalizing scenery. From the moment you hear Marisol Ramirez utter those words ''Barrabas came to us by sea..'' you’ll know you are in for the long haul. '' —Mariana, Audible Editor

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    • By: Naomi Alderman
    • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 8,262 ratings
    • Gender bender
    • ''I love a truly post-apocalyptic novel, in which we've moved far past the point of catastrophe and destruction. Society has been rebuilt, and its members are left puzzling over the artifacts salvaged from our current civilization, trying to piece together the facts of our world. In Alderman's version, the patriarchy has been flipped on its head, with women the dominant gender, and Alderman paints a vivid picture of just what extreme circumstances it took to get us there. (Spoiler alert: it's not pretty.)'' —Emily, Audible Editor

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nick Offerman
    • Series: Twain's Tom and Huck, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 13,228 ratings
    • Offerman and Twain delight
    • ''This recording made me fall in love with Twain's classic ode to adolescence all over again. And, I must admit that I completely forgot how truly laugh-out-loud funny this book is. I have the narration to thank for that. Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman is known for playing the quintessential gruff male, but he thoroughly astonishes here, bending his baritone effortlessly to give Twain's characters life. No question about it: you can actually hear Offerman delighting in the reading and loving Twain's characters. It's a classic he was meant to read.'' —Doug, Audible Editor

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    • By: John Irving
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 27 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 11,077 ratings
    • They said it couldn’t be done in audio. Wrong!
    • ''I read A Prayer for Owen Meany when it published in 1987. For (almost) my entire career in audio, I couldn’t recommend a performance of the audiobook; other publishers thought the distinctive VOICE of Owen Meany to be impossible to render in our format. Joe Barrett proves them wrong. I highly (and at long last) recommend Joe Barrett’s narration of the humor and heartbreak in this epic coming-of-age story.'' —Christina, Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: Diane Setterfield
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5,365 ratings
    • Swept in the current of a spellbinding story
    • ''The events of Once Upon a River take place around the Winter Solstice in the late 19th century, and listening to it truly evokes that sense of sitting by the fireside on cold, dark night and listening to a story that’s at times hard to believe, but impossible to walk away from. Juliet Stevenson’s narration enhances the undercurrent of warmth and intrigue that keeps you glued for “just another hour” until the entire night has escaped you in the grip of transportive story.'' —Lavina, Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: Madeline Miller
    • Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 41,057 ratings
    • I will die on this hill
    • ''Periodically I will check up on Frazer Douglas on Audible, just to see if he’s narrated anything else recently that I could devour. He’s like an elusive unicorn narrator, leaving me with this one perfect performance that I have to come back to again and again. My first experience listening to The Song of Achilles—the debut novel of Madeline Miller, who would later be known for her breakout best seller Circe—was transcendental. Really! I don’t use that term lightly. There’s not much that can live up to it in my eyes (even Circe *side-eyes other editors*).'' —Melissa, Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: John Jay Osborn
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 302 ratings
    • An emotional character study for voyeurs
    • ''Gabra Zackman’s narration put me right in this session with Steven, Gretchen, and their marriage counselor, Sandy—so much so that it almost felt like eavesdropping on all of the intimate details of their lives. I’ve never encountered a story that made me feel so much like a fly on the wall. It’s a captivating exploration of love, marriage, and figuring out (and then holding onto) the most important things in your life.'' —Michael C., Audible Editor

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    • By: Marie Benedict
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 10,654 ratings
    • Glamour icon and scientist
    • ''The story of Hedy Lamarr is certainly one where truth is stranger than fiction. It's utterly unbelievable and amazing that her scientific work somehow became secondary to her Hollywood fame—it's time for that to change.'' —Tricia, Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: Matt Haig
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 3,302 ratings
    • Exploring a new world (ahem, genre)
    • ''I’m not normally a sci-fi listener, but this story was the perfect way to dip my toes in without feeling overwhelmed. Focused a little more on the drama and emotion of the human experience, this story offers a fine balance between comedy, drama, and science fiction that makes it a little hard to classify. Poignant and touching, it offers a kinder take on humanity, highlighting empathy, compassion, and all the good and bad that make us human.'' —Michael C., Audible Editor

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    • By: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 1,233 ratings
    • Mexican folklore mixes with magical realism in this Mexican Revolution-era epic
    • ''Can your family boast of having a Saint in its lineage? Mine definitely does not, but Luis Alberto Urrea took the story of his great-great-great aunt, Teresita Urrea, Saint of Cabrora, and her mystical healing powers and turned it into a beautifully written novel set during the tumultuous and lawless Mexican Revolution. It is magical realism at its absolute best, written with the love that only a relative can bestow. Urrea’s narration allows the story to flow without missing a single beat. '' —Mariana, Audible Editor

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    • By: Elizabeth Wein
    • Narrated by: Morven Christie, Lucy Gaskell
    • Series: Code Name Verity, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 10,648 ratings
    • Cue the ugly crying
    • ''Fellow editor Emily recommended this one to me, and for that I will always be mad at her/eternally grateful. This is a gorgeous story of friendship during WWII that absolutely cracked my heart open—at one point I was crying so hard I had to pull over on the side of the ride. But please don’t let that deter you—it’s absolutely worth it.'' —Katie, Audible Editor

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    • By: Alan Gratz
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 2,617 ratings
    • You'll be thinking about this one long after you finish
    • ''This heart-wrencher of a tale chronicles three separate journeys of children experiencing what none should have to: fleeing a home that is no longer safe. We meet Josef, a Jewish boy leaving Germany in 1939 as he boards the ill-fated ocean liner St. Louis; Isabelle, who, along with her family, flees Cuba as a 1994 rafter; and Mahmoud, who departs Aleppo in 2015, bound for Germany. The first-person narratives humanize the stories that, when viewed as news reports and documentaries, never feel quite real, and the way the three threads connect in the end is both startling and poignant.'' —Emily, Audible Editor

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    • A Novel
    • By: Jennifer Egan
    • Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5,171 ratings
    • A WWII women diver in Brooklyn…multi-voiced.
    • ''The novelist Jennifer Egan started out as a journalist, and at some point in the mid-90s—before she wrote and won the Pulitzer for A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2011—she became fascinated by the stories of women divers in WWII. Manhattan Beach is the fictional life of Anna Kerrigan—with all the historical detail and family drama a great novel can encompass. The three narrators who alternate chapters make the performance even richer.'' —Christina, Audible Editor

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Meet Our Editors

Tricia

Favorite Genres: Contemporary and literary fiction, memoir
Favorite audiobook: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek
Listening Speed: 1.25x

Michael

Favorite Genres: Short stories, fiction, sci-fi, self-dev
Favorite audiobook: Circe by Madeline Miller, narrated by Perdita Weeks
Listening Speed: 1.25x - 1.75x

Christina

Favorite Genres: History that reads like fiction, fiction that reads like history, also big idea nonfiction and epic fantasy
Favorite audiobook: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, narrated by Simon Vance
Listening Speed: 1.25x

Rachel

Favorite Genres: Memoir, humor, fiction
Favorite audiobook: Heartburn by Nora Efron, narrated by Meryl Streep
Listening Speed: 1x

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