
Thriller
-
The Apartment
- De: K. L. Slater
- Narrado por: Tuppence Middleton, John Chancer
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Freya Miller is struck by tragedy, losing her husband and her home within a short time, she is burdened with many worries. The main one being where she and her five-year old daughter, Skye, are going to live. A chance meeting with the charismatic Dr Marsden changes all that. He offers the young mother the most amazing opportunity: an apartment at one of London’s most exclusive addresses for a fraction of the market rental cost. It’s an offer Freya simply can’t refuse.
-
-
Very lightweight little psychological thriller!
- De Wayne en 09-01-19
🤭 Stay far, FAR AWAY from that perfect-sounding apartment! 🤭
You know the expression "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"? You can multiply that by about 1,000 for real estate. And when you’re in the hands of suspense master K.L. Slater (The Mistake, The Liar), it’s time to run, not walk, from the beautifully restored two-bedroom flat in prime Kensington Gardens that the owner is offering on a "pay what you can" basis. Unfortunately, Freya Miller is in a tight spot—after the disastrous breakup of her marriage, she’s now the sole caretaker of her young daughter, and she leaps at the chance. But who is her mysterious new landlord, what terrible tragedy do the neighbors seem to know about, and why does Freya feel like her family is being watched? With dual narration from Tuppence Middleton, who stars in the upcoming Downton Abbey film, and John Chancer, this utterly devourable treat will keep you guessing until the last moment.
Memoir
-
It's Not What It Looks Like
- De: Molly Burke
- Narrado por: Molly Burke
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Close your eyes and get ready to see the world in a new and more positive way. As a child in Toronto, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world. She speaks with authenticity and candor about how she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness; Molly has made it her mission to make us see her - and ourselves- in a wholly empowering way.
-
-
Authentic, heart-wrenching, infinitely hopeful
- De B Halliday en 08-02-19
Molly Burke is a blind YouTuber. Those words alone might be enough to have you 🤔, but challenging widely held assumptions is the driving principle behind the videos she makes for her 1.8 million subscribers — and is the powerful undercurrent of her new Audible Original, It’s Not What It Looks Like. What’s most striking about Burke is not that she’s blind, but how in so many ways she sounds just like any other early-20s internet phenom: obsessed with the color pink and makeup tutorials, and starstruck in the presence of those more famous than her. Her subtly raspy voice, which always seems to have a smile at its root, brings added authenticity to this compelling memoir from an upbeat motivational speaker whose work to normalize disabilities is so ever-present it’s almost imperceptible (much like her blindness).
Fiction
-
They Could Have Named Her Anything
- A Novel
- De: Stephanie Jimenez
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Every morning, seventeen-year-old Maria Anís Rosario takes the subway an hour from her boisterous and close-knit family in Queens to her private high school on the Upper East Side, where she struggles to fit in as one of the only Latina students - until Rocky welcomes her into this new life. White, rebellious, and ignored by her wealthy parents, Rocky uses her money toward one goal: to get away with anything. To Maria, it’s a dazzling privilege.
-
-
Teen Drama with a cultural twist
- De Pam BJ en 11-15-19
For those who don’t need to be coddled
Jimenez has happily and ruthlessly adorned her characters with true-to-life flaws in this hyper-real coming of age story set in New York City. Maria, a scholarship student who lives in Queens, is far out of her comfort zone attending a private high school in Manhattan where most of the girls wear Prada purses like book bags to class. She makes unlikely friends with the popular Rocky, and the two girls’ fraught friendship causes their families to become entangled. The strengths of narrator Almarie Guerra shine through in the performance here. Though there are many personalities to contend with, Guerra has an impressive ability to slip into new voices like so many worn-in pairs of shoes. The cacophony of the voices in the narration, in turn, makes the clash of worlds hit home in a real way.
Thriller
-
The Last Widow: A Novel
- The Will Trent Series, Book 9
- De: Karin Slaughter
- Narrado por: Kathleen Early
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast - followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta's busiest and most important neighborhoods - the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC - has been bombed.
-
-
Intense!! Karin Slaughter's best!
- De Wayne en 08-21-19
An FBI thriller practically ripped from the headlines
Karin Slaughter slays when it comes to writing suspenseful tales so devastatingly real that Netflix (see: Pieces of Her) and the big screen are on high alert. Her latest detective novel, The Last Widow, proves this Georgia native ain’t slowing down anytime soon. This recommendation (thanks, Editor Tricia!) introduced me to the Will Trent series, which works soundly as a standalone. With a fast-paced plot that dives deep into the topics of (trigger warning) rape trauma, child exploitation, and domestic terrorism—and that references recent world events—you could easily imagine the frightening storyline being more fact than fiction. The characters—each incredibly performed by Kathleen Early—are richly developed, with the leads displaying a satisfying touch of heartache and passion that kept me invested to the end. It’s a wild ride, so buckle in.
Kids & Family
-
Kristy's Great Idea
- The Baby-Sitters Club, Book 1
- De: Ann M. Martin
- Narrado por: Elle Fanning
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club - a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do - she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients...running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick together....
-
-
Fun
- De Beka B. en 08-14-19
10 (and 31) year old me are SO excited
I’m a millennial, so '90s nostalgia is a regularly experienced phenomenon for me. I first came to Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitter’s Club through the '90s film, and I immediately rushed out to get the books. The entrepreneurial spirit of these girls sparked in me my love of the side hustle, which remains a key part of my DNA. Needless to say, I freaked out when I first learned that we were going to record the entire BSC series. I identify as a Kristy, so it just felt right to dive back into this series from the very beginning with Kristy’s Great Idea, performed by actress Elle Fanning. There are so many great ways to experience (or re-experience) this series, so my TBLT list is tied up for the foreseeable future.
Memoir
-
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying
- Essays
- De: Bassey Ikpi
- Narrado por: Bassey Ikpi
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi explores her life - as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.
-
-
Full, poignant, purposeful
- De Bree en 08-21-19
I am here for it
I was already really curious about this memoir when I saw two of my favorite writers—Kiese Laymon and Samantha Irby—say really nice things about it, including these phrases: "I want to scream my joy," "momentous art object," and "human miracle" (!). Bassey Ikpi is a poet who had a mental breakdown while touring the world with HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. During her hospitalization, she was diagnosed with bipolar II. As we become collectively more woke about intersectionality in our culture, Ikpi’s voice as a Black woman dealing with mental illness is arguably one of the most powerful voices you should put everything down for and just listen to already. She’s one of our most important mental health advocates, and I am here for it.
Nonfiction
-
Trick Mirror
- Reflections on Self-Delusion
- De: Jia Tolentino
- Narrado por: Jia Tolentino
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity.
-
-
Couldn’t stop listening
- De Alice en 08-25-19
Make sense of the chaos
I’ve never really been okay with my addiction to the internet. It’s something I’m constantly at odds with, but like a '90s cartoon character stuck in a pit of quicksand, only seem to sink further into the harder I try to escape. Jia Tolentino’s essays on self-delusion struck me immediately as a possible salve to my digitally swollen daily existence. I knew nothing about Tolentino or her prolific career at Hairpin, Jezebel, and The New Yorker beforehand, and I didn’t need to. I’ve never heard someone with such a keen understanding of digital culture in all of its wondrous, disheartening perversity. She pinpoints the exact issues at the heart of every multifaceted topic she approaches, and deftly lends compassion and a neutral journalistic perspective to even the most outrageous memories. She’s a damn good nonfiction narrator too. I just wish she were always around to make sense of the chaos.
Kids & Family
-
Foreverywhere
- De: Steve Burns, Steven Drozd, Gabe Soria
- Narrado por: Steve Burns, Carly Ciarrocchi, Stephanie Mayers
- Duración: 3 h
- Grabación Original
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Foreverywhere tells the tale of a young unicorn (perhaps the last on Earth?!) and his quest, along with a Giant named Rick, a spider named Betsy and the guitar-shredding Princess Rainbow, to form the best band in the fantastical world of Anyville. But first, they’ll have to contend with the increasingly strange weather that seems to follow Princess Rainbow everywhere, and a rival band determined to bring them down. Will this group of misfits be able to rise above?
-
-
My new favorite Audible Original
- De GranularGray en 08-05-19
Not unlike Jukebox Joyride, this listen pairs a proven writer, Steve Burns of Blue’s Clues fame, with a proven musician, Steven Drozd from The Flaming Lips (!!) to incredible effect. The musical compositions build upon each other in a way that reminds me of good storytelling structure; introduce separate elements that seem unrelated, then gradually unite them to produce something far greater than the individual parts. There’s a sort of fractal and holistic beauty to the way everything in this listen is laid out, and I found myself soothed by the effortlessness way the words and music intermingle. In particular, Mote the unicorn’s compositions reveal aspects of his personality; his tunes (as well as the rest of the compositions) are sometimes videogame-esque, sometimes synthwave-y, sometimes alt rock, but they’re always majestic and compelling—just like Mote the unicorn and his lively pals. There’s a lot to love here for you and your kids.
Fiction
-
Going Dutch
- A Novel
- De: James Gregor
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Exhausted by dead-end forays in the gay dating scene, surrounded constantly by friends but deeply lonely in New York City, and drifting into academic abyss, 20-something graduate student Richard has plenty of sources of anxiety. But at the forefront is his crippling writer’s block, which threatens daily to derail his graduate funding and leave Richard poor, directionless, and desperately single. Enter Anne: his brilliant classmate who offers to “help” Richard write his papers in exchange for his company, despite Richard’s fairly obvious sexual orientation.
-
-
Kind of good
- De Jessica Pereira en 04-06-20
A beautiful (and uncomfortable) exploration of the urban millennial experience
This debut from James Gregor perfectly captures the utter confusion of the urban millennial (and LGBTQIA+) experience. With an often-frustrating cast of characters and one bad decision after another, there are elements of this story that almost feel like a thriller—though it’s entirely about relationships in the age of online dating. With its beautiful and stylized prose and pointed examinations of the fluidity of sexuality, labels, and everyday life, Going Dutch blends some of my favorite elements of romantic comedies, thrillers, and literary fiction into one story. And while it may be difficult to categorize, there’s just something about the story and narrator Michael David Axtell’s heartfelt performance that keeps you engaged and curious until the very last second.
Memoir
-
How to Be an Antiracist
- De: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrado por: Ibram X. Kendi
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.
-
-
80% of the useful content is in the first 1-2 chapters
- De Anonymous User en 03-09-20
History has its eyes on you
As the Audible History Editor, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about what listeners want and need from audio. Strangely, then, my own curiosity about this title — an intensely personal desire for the promise of the the title to be fulfilled — took me by surprise. Ibram Kendi’s stories and observations aren’t always comfortable for me as a white American to take in, but the audio listening experience is easy. The author’s stories are authentic, especially in his own voice, and looking at our nation's history — past and future — through his lens is a rich imaginative exercise. I'm still listening with hope, as a path toward an antiracist future beckons.
Thriller
-
Poison Orchids
- De: Sarah A. Denzil, Anni Taylor
- Narrado por: Aimee Horne
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A dark, compelling new thriller from best-selling authors Sarah A. Denzil and Anni Taylor. Young backpackers Gemma and Hayley arrive at a remote fruit farm in Australia’s Northern Territory, out of money and desperate for work. The weeks go on, a blur of fruit picking, parties, campfires and wading beneath waterfalls in the nearby hot springs. Until the night the girls find themselves on a dark highway, bruised and bloodied. Senior Detective Bronwen McKay and psychologist Megan Arlotti question the terrified girls.
-
-
Too long
- De cynth en 09-07-19
They don’t do stranger danger like they used to...
It sounded like a pretty sweet deal when Gemma and Hayley stumbled upon a job offering free lodging, pool access, fresh air, and fruit-picking. What more could you ask for? However, the outcome isn’t what you would expect. After being found bruised and bloody on the road, detectives can clearly tell the girls have been through a very traumatic experience. Held captive by a now dead mad man, it seems like a pretty cut and dry case for the detectives on the case. But why are Gemma and Hayley’s stories so vastly different? The combined masterminds of writers Sarah A. Denzil and Anni Taylor and the stunning narration by Aimee Horne take you down a very twisted road of truth and lies because the more you know, the more you questions you have, and the darker the answers are.
True Crime
-
Savage Appetites
- Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession
- De: Rachel Monroe
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes - Detective, Victim, Attorney, Killer - to four true stories about women driven by obsession. In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a bored heiress began creating dollhouse crime scenes depicting murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. Known as the “Mother of Forensic Science,” she revolutionized the field of what was then called legal medicine.
-
-
A bit disappointed..
- De Lolly en 09-02-19
So that’s why I’m like this…
I’ve been fascinated by true tales of the dark & macabre variety for as long as I can remember, but I have to admit, there are times when I didn’t feel particularly good about sharing that fact. Outwardly, I think I’m a pretty cheery person (fellow Editors, don’t @ me), so what draws me and so, so many other women into such dark stories? Enter Rachel Monroe, who had the very same question about herself. She presents four fascinating, sometimes deeply disturbing, tales of four women who also devoted their lives to crime in very different ways: from the famed forensic miniaturist Frances Lee Glessner to the landscaper who fell in love with an incarcerated man on Death Row. Intertwining these tales with her own observations and experiences, she offers intriguing, if not perfectly comprehensive (because what’s life without a little mystery?) theories about what makes true crime just to irresistible. I saw a lot of myself in this listen, for better or for worse, and Jayme Mattler’s narration is lively and familiar—like listening to a good friend gush about the current case they can’t get off their mind.
History
-
Silver, Sword, and Stone
- Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
- De: Marie Arana
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
-
-
Marie Arana does not Understand Economics
- De Jose en 01-11-21
Powerful and gripping stories
Marie Arana, the writer who brought us the sweeping autobiography of Simon Bolivar, is back in the Latin American history game (my favorite!). Silver, Sword and Stone portrays the sociopolitical dynamics that have shaped the continent through the life stories of three contemporary Latin Americans: Leonor Gonzales, Carlos Buergos, and Xavier Albó. Arana expertly blends personal interviews with academic rigor, to create what I see as a flesh-and-blood reimagining of Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize Speech, "The Solitude of Latin America." Cynthia Farrell’s mellow voice is the perfect vehicle for these powerful and gripping stories. If you are a history lover like me, you’ll want to get your hands on this one.
Fiction
-
Doxology
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals - a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the ‘90s wane, the three friends share in one another’s successes, working together to elevate Joe’s superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city’s unfathomable devastation coincides with a shattering personal loss for the trio. In the aftermath, Flora comes of age, navigating a charged political landscape.
-
-
Extraordinary
- De David en 08-31-19
A retro-hippie earth mother, an '80s hipster dad, and a rock god babysitter
This story did not go where I expected it would when I first started listening. These punk band wannabe, Lower-East-Side social dropouts are far from stereotypical misanthropes. In fact, they’re not misanthropes at all, they’re kind and thoughtful and really uncool at heart. And while I would have openly welcomed a straightforward Gen-X take on things like 9/11 and Trump, it’s not that either. There’s a lot of nuance, and some truly inspired perspective coming from the Baby Boomer and Millennial characters too (something that narrator Eileen Stevens captures perfectly!). It’s multigenerational and sweeping, but at the same time super focused on this one small group of characters—a story about a family making its way in the world that reflects the recent past and present day in a totally fresh way.