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Cult Classic
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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2022 Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year, Long-listed
2022 Washington Post Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
"This is a surreal and hilarious insight into millennial dating with a big twist, and the narrator will have you hooked from the very beginning." -Buzzfeed
"Crosley reads with an incisive understanding of Lola's psyche. She hits all of the notes of sarcasm and reluctant self-reflection, and somehow even manages to give her searching optimism a fatalistic undertone. There are no character voices or modulations in pacing, leaving listeners with only Lola's perspective—a fitting narration for this delightfully cynical love story." -Booklist on Cult Classic
"...anyone will enjoy listening to Sloane read her novel about Lola, a young arts-and-culture editor who mysteriously keeps running into her ex-boyfriends." -Vulture
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Lit Hub, The Millions, and more!
This program is read by the author.
One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past.
What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only with the viability of her current relationship but the fact that both her best friend and her former boss, a magazine editor turned mystical guru, might have an unhealthy investment in the outcome. Memories of the past swirl and converge in ways both comic and eerie, as Lola is forced to decide if she will surrender herself to the conspiring of one very contemporary cult.
Is it possible to have a happy ending in an age when the past is ever at your fingertips and sanity is for sale? With her gimlet eye, Sloane Crosley spins a wry literary fantasy that is equal parts must-listen and poignant portrayal of alienation.
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It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. More than anything else, she loves this new life for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Domínguez. When a reporter calls from the US asking for an interview, the careful separation Tatum has constructed between her past and present begins to crumble. Domínguez has been accused of assault, and the reporter is looking for corroboration.
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Greta & Valdin
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca K Reilly
- Narrated by: Natalie Beran, Jackson Bliss, Eilidh Beaton, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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It’s been a year since his ex-boyfriend dumped him and moved from Auckland to Buenos Aires, and Valdin is doing fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta, a good career where his colleagues only occasionally remind him that he is the sole Maaori person in the office, and a good friend who he only sleeps with when he’s sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and he’s thrown back in his former lover’s orbit, Valdin is forced to confront the feelings he’s been trying to ignore—and the future he wants.
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strange narrating choices
- By Barbara S on 02-21-24
By: Rebecca K Reilly
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This Time Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Emma Straub
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Emma Straub
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday.
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Loved!
- By AE on 05-25-22
By: Emma Straub
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
- A Novel
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a breakup, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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Passes my test!
- By NightOwl on 09-12-21
By: Sally Rooney
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
- A Memoir
- By: Maggie Smith
- Narrated by: Maggie Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes.
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Beautiful, relatable, profound
- By Betty Blue on 04-16-23
By: Maggie Smith
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Mercury
- A Novel
- By: Amy Jo Burns
- Narrated by: Maria Liatis
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.
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Perhaps for a teenager?
- By Bonnie b. on 01-11-24
By: Amy Jo Burns
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Piglet
- A Novel
- By: Lottie Hazell
- Narrated by: Rebekah Hinds
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always cooking.
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Wonderful and poignant
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-24
By: Lottie Hazell
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Pineapple Street
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Jenny Jackson
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
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I lost brain cells.
- By Angela on 03-17-23
By: Jenny Jackson
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Hard by a Great Forest
- A Novel
- By: Leo Vardiashvili
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Saba is just a child when he flees the fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia with his older brother, Sandro, and father, Irakli, for asylum in England. Two decades later, all three men are struggling to make peace with the past, haunted by the places and people they left behind.
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Evocative and deeply moving
- By 2Rivers on 04-11-24
By: Leo Vardiashvili
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation.
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I love the work
- By MainelyJill on 05-17-24
By: Percival Everett
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Ghosts
- A Novel
- By: Dolly Alderton
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Nina Dean is not especially bothered that she's single. She owns her own apartment, she's about to publish her second book, she has a great relationship with her ex-boyfriend, and enough friends to keep her social calendar full and her hangovers plentiful. And when she downloads a dating app, she does the seemingly impossible: She meets a great guy on her first date. Max is handsome and built like a lumberjack; he has floppy blond hair and a stable job. But more surprising than anything else, Nina and Max have chemistry.
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I’m glad I bought this on accident
- By James M. on 06-13-22
By: Dolly Alderton
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Wellness
- A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
- By: Nathan Hill
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the gritty '90s Chicago art scene, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in the thriving underground scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to suburban married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting, they encounter the often-baffling pursuits of health and happiness from polyamorous would-be suitors to home-renovation hysteria.
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you have to believe it'll work
- By Alex halladay on 09-22-23
By: Nathan Hill
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- Anonymous User
- 02-28-23
Just fine
Easy and fun read. The main character was a bit annoying but all her character flaws seem intentional.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-31-22
Beautifully narrated
I went in with zero expectations and came out the other side with little more than a good way to pass the time.
The Sloane Crosley knows how to deliver her work, but the story itself was buried in overextended metaphors that made the whole book hard to listen to for more than 15 minutes at a time. If I had picked up a copy instead of listen to it, I’m not sure I would have made it all the way through.
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- Claire C.
- 10-02-22
Still confused
I finished this months ago and I’m still confused. I liked the author’s style with the vivid imagery, however the way the story was told made me think one of the main characters was dead from the start and that there was a ghost involved? Which wasn’t the case. *Spoiler* And her boyfriend in the end was super controlling and disrespectful and then she still chose him??? And there was all this build up that just came crashing down in the great glass elevator. So, I guess the book helped me pass the time, but I still feel very unresolved.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-21-22
Riveting, poignant, hilarious, and insightful
I found myself making notes every few minutes, as this book is so full of clever, unique observations about human behavioral quirks, relationships, and the odd little moments in life that we all have witnessed but never really had the words to capture in amber the way Sloane Crosley has the singular capability of doing.
The real intrigue of the novel doesn't pick up right away, but the beginning takes its time to setup the main character and her personality and history, deepening your connection in preparation for what's in store. it never feels dragging, since every moment is so witty and funny and full of realism.
even the surreal elements have a groundedness that makes them believable. overall such a well crafted and compelling story, I will be recommending it to all my friends who are aware of themselves and navigating a relationship, whether single or not, there is lots to take away here.
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- Kayleigh Durm
- 03-31-24
eh 🤷🏻♀️
i dont think i became really interested or invested in the story until maybe the last 20-30 minutes.
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- alina
- 12-04-22
Great listen, good story
Really enjoyed this book. Super related to the main character and loved the ending. And the narrator’s voice is so soothing and nice to listen to.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-23-23
Good for a light read
Didn't love it but didn't hate it either. A bit light weight. This one won't stick with you.
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- ShellzNCheez
- 01-15-23
Whoa that’s original
Took a minute to get to the amazingly original plot, but it was ok because the wordsmithing is gorgeous. Screamed at my girlfriends that they also need to read it NOW.
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- Brittany
- 06-13-22
Favorite Author
Sloane Crosley is my favorite author and Cult Classic was amazing! It had her charming, dark wit and interesting story line. Loved that she was the narrator also.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-30-22
Fun and moving
This book is for everyone who’s ever been single in New York- a book about connection, longing, loss, and love, and looking at your rear window and hoping for the best. Such beautiful, incisive writing- an instant classic.
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