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3 out of 5 stars
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Roots
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,335
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,276
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Beale Street Could Talk
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- By: James Baldwin
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Told through the eyes of Tish, a 19-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions - affection, despair, and hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite Narration
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Bastard Out of Carolina
- By: Dorothy Allison
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Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family - a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard- drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,154
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Goodness, What a Audiobook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mama Day
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Miranda Day, known as "Mama Day", is the elderly matriarch of Willow Springs, a small sea island off the southeast coast of the United States. Mama Day finds herself pitted in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her beloved great-niece, Cocoa, who has gone "mainside" and married an urban Northerner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant story marred by bad recording
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- By: Harper Lee
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27,051
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24,432
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24,368
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,404
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,219
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,216
Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish - and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation creates among the women an urgent need to remember the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nice read
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The Bell Jar
- By: Sylvia Plath
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,740
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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under - maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, brilliantly performed.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- A Novel
- By: Fannie Flagg
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,520
Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Here is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women - of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth - who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Curious What was Left Out of the Movie
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,652
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A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book: flawless. SKIP THE RECORDED INTRO!!
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Invisible Man
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- By: Ralph Ellison
- Narrated by: Joe Morton
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,264
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,682
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of 20th-century African-American life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching - yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterfully written; perfectly narrated
- By Imhokhai on 03-04-13
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Life Among the Lowly
- By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,832
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,672
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,671
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." A thrilling and important piece of American literature!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Narration
- By Linda on 04-14-16
Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.
In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women. She meets Shug Avery, her husband’s mistress and a jazz singer with a zest for life, and her stepson’s wife, Sophia, who challenges her to fight for independence. And though the many letters from Celie’s sister are hidden by her husband, Nettie’s unwavering support will prove to be the most breathtaking of all
The Color Purple has sold more than five million copies, inspired an Academy Award-nominated film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey and directed by Steven Spielberg, and been adapted into a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Lauded as a literary masterpiece, this is the groundbreaking novel that placed Walker “in the company of Faulkner” (The Nation) and remains a wrenching - yet intensely uplifting - experience for new generations of listeners.
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- Precious Honey
- 01-09-19
In depth
having only ever seen the movie it was nice to have a more in-depth fleshed-out look at all of the characters things that are hinted at in the movie play all the way out in the book very much worth the credit
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 02-14-19
spectacular
The narration itself itself is remarkable. Lyrical, subtle and warm. The characters seem full and on the blind cusp of their own unfolding experiences.
Sectacular story as well as audio production.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Zelda
- 02-13-19
what the heart wants
saw the movie years ago but as usual the movie left out some pretty important details.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- Paula
- 03-17-19
uncomfortably honest and genuine
This story has so many parts that parallel my white grandmother's life. It is well thought out and writen, not just pulp fiction. I listened to it all in one sitting because it was so resonant and meaningful to me, and the best audio books are always the ones read by the author. No one else could have done this one justice. It must have been so hard to write.
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- TSS
- 03-16-19
Great!
I have seen the movie many times but the book closed so many gaps. Great!
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- Delores Nelson
- 03-13-19
The color purple
A little harsh but a good story. A lot of characters to remember. It took a while to get into it but after the letters began I liked it a lot.
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- made it to the end
- 03-07-19
Hallelujah
That was a great read, every detail and struggled was realistic and sad at the same time.
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- KELISHIA KING
- 01-28-19
Tear dropper
This was WAY better than the movie!! I'm glad I read it. Definitely a good read!!
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- audrey christensen
- 01-16-19
Excellent story.
Wonderful story. Has unexpected turns. And is hard to put away. Very enhaging. Highly recommend.