About this list
With the arrival of each new year comes a fresh array of bios and memoirs, each housing a uniquely intimate take on what it means to be human. These 20 listens represent just a few of the very best released in 2023—living, breathing records of all the complexities of identity, culture, family, and coming of age. From lyrical reflections on trauma and healing to examinations of life with chronic illness to introspective studies of art and literature, these vivid accounts lay bare the life of one person while extending a universality to anyone who presses play.-
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Better Living Through Birding
- Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
- By: Christian Cooper
- Narrated by: Christian Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 163
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Story5 out of 5 stars 164
Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen and great book!
- By L.B.
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Better Living Through Birding
- Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
- Narrated by: Christian Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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Life on Delay
- USA Today Book Club
- By: John Hendrickson
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story5 out of 5 stars 46
In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden’s decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching listeners around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson’s life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Way to go john I really enjoyed it
- By Bjk
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Life on Delay
- USA Today Book Club
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-17-23
- Language: English
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They Called Us Exceptional
- And Other Lies That Raised Us
- By: Prachi Gupta
- Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story5 out of 5 stars 108
Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: that Asian Americans have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, ambitious families that are immune to hardship....
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5 out of 5 stars
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In awe
- By sumaiya islam
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They Called Us Exceptional
- And Other Lies That Raised Us
- Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-22-23
- Language: English
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- By: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story5 out of 5 stars 120
When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown....
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5 out of 5 stars
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highly recommend
- By Stephanie A Hannahs
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-07-23
- Language: English
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How to Say Babylon
- A Memoir
- By: Safiya Sinclair
- Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 298
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 288
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Story5 out of 5 stars 288
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- By Andrew
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How to Say Babylon
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 239
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures, All the Beauty in the World is by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding and Delightful
- By Purchaser
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 02-14-23
- Language: English
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Counting the Cost
- By: Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard - contributor, Craig Borlase - contributor
- Narrated by: Jill Duggar
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4609
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4368
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4363
Jill and Derick knew a normal life wasn’t possible for them. As a star on the popular TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, Jill grew up in front of viewers who were fascinated by her family’s way of life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw and Honest
- By Emylee Scheideman
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Counting the Cost
- Narrated by: Jill Duggar
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-12-23
- Language: English
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Life on Other Planets
- A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
- By: Aomawa Shields PhD
- Narrated by: Aomawa Shields PhD
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could not stop!
- By Dylan
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Life on Other Planets
- A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe
- Narrated by: Aomawa Shields PhD
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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Sink
- A Memoir
- By: Joseph Earl Thomas
- Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture....
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautifully and humorously told story
- By Amelia Z
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Sink
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-21-23
- Language: English
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Women We Buried, Women We Burned
- A Memoir
- By: Rachel Louise Snyder
- Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. This is her own story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By mindovermatter65
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Women We Buried, Women We Burned
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Rachel Louise Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-13-23
- Language: English
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Think You'll Be Happy
- Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude
- By: Nicole Avant
- Narrated by: Nicole Avant
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
The USA Today bestseller, a spirit-lifting memoir on how to turn pain into purpose, how to live always in gratitude, and how to face down tragedy and turn it into love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very comforting book
- By MSD
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Think You'll Be Happy
- Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude
- Narrated by: Nicole Avant
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-17-23
- Language: English
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King: A Life
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 516
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 442
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Story5 out of 5 stars 441
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential Reading
- By Julius Rex
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King: A Life
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-16-23
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
- By: Jane Wong
- Narrated by: Jane Wong
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Written Autobiography
- By Ziggy
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
- Narrated by: Jane Wong
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 05-16-23
- Language: English
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Losing Music
- A Memoir
- By: John Cotter
- Narrated by: John Cotter
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vulnerability Stripped Bare
- By AH
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Losing Music
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: John Cotter
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-11-23
- Language: English
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Good for a Girl
- A Woman Running in a Man's World
- By: Lauren Fleshman
- Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 363
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story5 out of 5 stars 321
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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So. Dang. Good!! A true gift from Lauren Fleshman.
- By Melissa M. Samuel
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Good for a Girl
- A Woman Running in a Man's World
- Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-10-23
- Language: English
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
- By: Imani Perry
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Imani Perry’s Audible Original A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain tells the dramatic story of her ongoing struggle with lupus—an autoimmune disease that attacks multiple organ systems—and what we can all learn from those who are grappling with chronic illness....
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5 out of 5 stars
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You can relate
- By Jenna Felt
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
- Narrated by: Imani Perry
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-02-23
- Language: English
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While You Were Out
- An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
- By: Meg Kissinger
- Narrated by: Meg Kissinger
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story5 out of 5 stars 165
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best lived experience memoir I have ever read
- By Dewey
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While You Were Out
- An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
- Narrated by: Meg Kissinger
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The author bares his soul and brain in the most beautiful and honest way.
- By Sarah
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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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