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The best biographies are often more engaging than fiction. Whether they're autobios or told from an outside perspective, a good biography or memoir is like listening to someone interesting tell you their life story. The best biography audiobooks make it easier to listen to interesting lives while you go about yours at work, or just doing tasks around the house.

Some of the best biographies have inspired movies, such as Wild , American Sniper and Eat, Pray, Love . Great biography audiobooks also range from the life stories of the very famous, such as Steve Jobs , to people who lived fascinating lives without achieving fame, like the historical biography Maude . There are even versions of biographies read by the author, such as The Glass Castle , written and read by Jeannette Walls; What Happened, written and read by Hilary Rodham Clinton; and Becoming , written and read by Michelle Obama.

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Lucky: A Memoir

Born a crime.

Educated: A Memoir

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

The Glass Castle

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed

The Yorkshire Shepherdess

High school: a memoir tegan quin , sara quin.

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

The Magnolia Story

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What Happened

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Inside out demi moore.

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

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The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2022

Featuring buster keaton, jean rhys, bernardine evaristo, kate beaton, and more.

We’ve come to the end of another bountiful literary year, and for all of us review rabbits here at Book Marks, that can mean only one thing: basic math, and lots of it.

Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we’ll be calculating and revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2022, in the categories of (deep breath): Fiction ; Nonfiction ; Memoir and Biography; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Poetry; Mystery and Crime; Graphic Literature ; and Literature in Translation .

Today’s installment: Memoir and Biography .

Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.”

1. We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole (Liveright) 17 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed • 1 Pan

“One of the many triumphs of Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves is that he manages to find a form that accommodates the spectacular changes that have occurred in Ireland over the past six decades, which happens to be his life span … it is not a memoir, nor is it an absolute history, nor is it entirely a personal reflection or a crepuscular credo. It is, in fact, all of these things helixed together: his life, his country, his thoughts, his misgivings, his anger, his pride, his doubt, all of them belonging, eventually, to us … O’Toole, an agile cultural commentator, considers himself to be a representative of the blank slate on which the experiment of change was undertaken, but it’s a tribute to him that he maintains his humility, his sharpness and his enlightened distrust …

O’Toole writes brilliantly and compellingly of the dark times, but he is graceful enough to know that there is humor and light in the cracks. There is a touch of Eduardo Galeano in the way he can settle on a telling phrase … But the real accomplishment of this book is that it achieves a conscious form of history-telling, a personal hybrid that feels distinctly honest and humble at the same time. O’Toole has not invented the form, but he comes close to perfecting it. He embraces the contradictions and the confusion. In the process, he weaves the flag rather than waving it.”

–Colum McCann ( The New York Times Book Review )

2. Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri Ní Dochartaigh (Milkweed)

12 Rave • 7 Positive • 2 Mixed

“Assured and affecting … A powerful and bracing memoir … This is a book that will make you see the world differently: it asks you to reconsider the animals and insects we often view as pests – the rat, for example, and the moth. It asks you to look at the sea and the sky and the trees anew; to wonder, when you are somewhere beautiful, whether you might be in a thin place, and what your responsibilities are to your location.It asks you to show compassion for people you think are difficult, to cultivate empathy, to try to understand the trauma that made them the way they are.”

–Lynn Enright ( The Irish Times )

3. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Drawn & Quarterly)

14 Rave • 4 Positive

“It could hardly be more different in tone from [Beaton’s] popular larky strip Hark! A Vagrant … Yes, it’s funny at moments; Beaton’s low-key wryness is present and correct, and her drawings of people are as charming and as expressive as ever. But its mood overall is deeply melancholic. Her story, which runs to more than 400 pages, encompasses not only such thorny matters as social class and environmental destruction; it may be the best book I have ever read about sexual harassment …

There are some gorgeous drawings in Ducks of the snow and the starry sky at night. But the human terrain, in her hands, is never only black and white … And it’s this that gives her story not only its richness and depth, but also its astonishing grace. Life is complex, she tell us, quietly, and we are all in it together; each one of us is only trying to survive. What a difficult, gorgeous and abidingly humane book. It really does deserve to win all the prizes.”

–Rachel Cooke ( The Guardian )

4. Stay True by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)

14 Rave • 3 Positive

“… quietly wrenching … To say that this book is about grief or coming-of-age doesn’t quite do it justice; nor is it mainly about being Asian American, even though there are glimmers of that too. Hsu captures the past by conveying both its mood and specificity … This is a memoir that gathers power through accretion—all those moments and gestures that constitute experience, the bits and pieces that coalesce into a life … Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of Stay True sneaks up on you, and the wry jokes are threaded seamlessly throughout.”

–Jennifer Szalai ( The New York Times )

5.  Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove)

13 Rave • 4 Positive

“Part coming-of-age story and part how-to manual, the book is, above all, one of the most down-to-earth and least self-aggrandizing works of self-reflection you could hope to read. Evaristo’s guilelessness is refreshing, even unsettling … With ribald humour and admirable candour, Evaristo takes us on a tour of her sexual history … Characterized by the resilience of its author, it is replete with stories about the communities and connections Evaristo has cultivated over forty years … Invigoratingly disruptive as an artist, Evaristo is a bridge-builder as a human being.”

–Emily Bernard ( The Times Literary Supplement )

1. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

14 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Rundell is right that Donne…must never be forgotten, and she is the ideal person to evangelise him for our age. She shares his linguistic dexterity, his pleasure in what TS Eliot called ‘felt thought’, his ability to bestow physicality on the abstract … It’s a biography filled with gaps and Rundell brings a zest for imaginative speculation to these. We know so little about Donne’s wife, but Rundell brings her alive as never before … Rundell confronts the difficult issue of Donne’s misogyny head-on … This is a determinedly deft book, and I would have liked it to billow a little more, making room for more extensive readings of the poems and larger arguments about the Renaissance. But if there is an overarching argument, then it’s about Donne as an ‘infinity merchant’ … To read Donne is to grapple with a vision of the eternal that is startlingly reinvented in the here and now, and Rundell captures this vision alive in all its power, eloquence and strangeness”

–Laura Feigel ( The Guardian )

2. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland (Harper)

12 Rave • 3 Positive

“Compelling … We know about Auschwitz. We know what happened there. But Freedland, with his strong, clear prose and vivid details, makes us feel it, and the first half of this book is not an easy read. The chillingly efficient mass murder of thousands of people is harrowing enough, but Freedland tells us stories of individual evils as well that are almost harder to take … His matter-of-fact tone makes it bearable for us to continue to read … The Escape Artist is riveting history, eloquently written and scrupulously researched. Rosenberg’s brilliance, courage and fortitude are nothing short of amazing.”

–Laurie Hertzel ( The Star Tribune )

3. I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour (W. W. Norton & Company)

11 Rave • 4 Positive • 1 Pan

“…illuminating and meticulously researched … paints a deft portrait of a flawed, complex, yet endlessly fascinating woman who, though repeatedly bowed, refused to be broken … Following dismal reviews of her fourth novel, Rhys drifted into obscurity. Ms. Seymour’s book could have lost momentum here. Instead, it compellingly charts turbulent, drink-fueled years of wild moods and reckless acts before building to a cathartic climax with Rhys’s rescue, renewed lease on life and late-career triumph … is at its most powerful when Ms. Seymour, clear-eyed but also with empathy, elaborates on Rhys’s woes …

Ms. Seymour is less convincing with her bold claim that Rhys was ‘perhaps the finest English woman novelist of the twentieth century.’ However, she does expertly demonstrate that Rhys led a challenging yet remarkable life and that her slim but substantial novels about beleaguered women were ahead of their time … This insightful biography brilliantly shows how her many battles were lost and won.”

–Malcolm Forbes ( The Wall Street Journal )

4. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

9 Rave • 5 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Grisly yet inspiring … Fitzharris depicts her hero as irrepressibly dedicated and unfailingly likable. The suspense of her narrative comes not from any interpersonal drama but from the formidable challenges posed by the physical world … The Facemaker is mostly a story of medical progress and extraordinary achievement, but as Gillies himself well knew—grappling daily with the unbearable suffering that people willingly inflicted on one another—failure was never far behind.”

5. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life by James Curtis (Knopf)

8 Rave • 6 Positive • 1 Mixed

“Keaton fans have often complained that nearly all biographies of him suffer from a questionable slant or a cursory treatment of key events. With Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life —at more than 800 pages dense with research and facts—Mr. Curtis rectifies that situation, and how. He digs deep into Keaton’s process and shows how something like the brilliant two-reeler Cops went from a storyline conceived from necessity—construction on the movie lot encouraged shooting outdoors—to a masterpiece … This will doubtless be the primary reference on Keaton’s life for a long time to come … the worse Keaton’s life gets, the more engrossing Mr. Curtis’s book becomes.”

–Farran Smith Nehme ( The Wall Street Journal )

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2022

Heartfelt memoirs from Richard E Grant and Viola Davis, childhood tales of religious dogma, and vivid insights into Agatha Christie and John Donne

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C elebrity memoirs often follow the same trajectory: a difficult childhood followed by early professional failure, then dazzling success and redemption. But this year has yielded a handful of autobiographies from famous types determined to mix things up. Richard E Grant’s vivacious and heartfelt A Pocketful of Happiness (Gallery) recounts a year spent caring for his late wife, Joan Washington, who was diagnosed with lung cancer shortly before Christmas in 2020, and the “head-and-heart-exploding overwhelm” that followed. The book interweaves hospital appointments with memories of the couple’s courtship plus showbiz stories of Grant at the Golden Globes, or hijinks on the set of Star Wars. This juxtaposition of glamour and grief shouldn’t work, but it does.

Minnie Driver’s Managing Expectations (Manila) comprises spry and amusing autobiographical essays that detail pivotal moments in the actor’s life. These include her experience of becoming a mother, cutting off all her hair on a family holiday in France and the time her father sent her home to England from Barbados alone, aged 11, including a stopover at a Miami hotel, as punishment for being rude to his girlfriend (Driver got her revenge by buying up half the gift shop on her dad’s credit card). She also recalls the disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein bemoaning her lack of sex appeal, which she notes was rich from a man “whose shirts were always aggressively encrusted with egg/tuna fish/mayo”.

Alan Rickman’s Madly, Deeply (Canongate) diaries provide insight into the inner life of the late actor who, despite his many successes, frets over roles turned down and rails at the perceived ineptitude of script writers, directors and co-stars. He nonetheless keeps glittering company, hobnobbing with musicians, prime ministers and Hollywood megastars, and almost single-handedly keeps the tills ringing at the Ivy. And while he seethes at critics’ reviews of his own work, his assessments of less-than-perfect films and plays are so deliciously scathing, they deserve a book of their own.

In Finding Me (Coronet), the actor Viola Davis gives a clear-eyed account of her deprived childhood and her rise to fame, along with the violence, abuse and racism she endured along the way. The book is not so much a triumphant tale of overcoming adversity as a howl of fury at the injustice of it all. Davis may now be able to survey her career from a place of Oscar-winning privilege, but she doesn’t hesitate in calling out her industry and its ingrained racial bias, which leads to white actors landing plum roles and “relegates [Black actors] to best friends, to strong, loudmouth, sassy lawyers and doctors”. In The Light We Carry (Viking), the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Becoming, Michelle Obama also touches on the impossible-to-meet expectations that dog anyone trying to make it in a world that sees them as different, or deficient. “I happen to be well acquainted with the burdens of representation and the double standards for excellence that steepen the hills so many of us are trying to climb,” she writes. “It remains a damning fact of life that we ask too much of those who are marginalised and too little of those who are not.”

Away from the world of global fame and its attendant scrutiny, the journalist Chitra Ramaswamy’s touching memoir Homelands (Canongate) documents the author’s friendship with 97-year-old Henry Wuga, who escaped Nazi persecution as a teenager and began a new life in Glasgow. Interwoven with Wuga’s recollections is Ramaswamy’s own family story – she is the daughter of Indian immigrant parents – through which she digs deep into matters of identity, belonging and the meaning of home. Similar themes are explored in Ira Mathur’s multilayered Love the Dark Days (Peepal Tree), which, set in India, Britain and the Caribbean, reads like a fictional family saga as it leaps back and forth in time. The book charts the lives of the author’s wealthy, dysfunctional forebears against a backdrop of patriarchal hegemony and a collapsing empire.

The Last Days (Ebury) by Ali Millar and Sins of My Father (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Lily Dunn each tell harrowing stories of families torn apart by religious dogma. Millar, who grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness on the Scottish borders, reflects on a childhood haunted by predictions of Armageddon and blighted by her eating disorder. As an adult she marries, within the church, a controlling man and has a baby, though at 30 she makes her escape and is “disfellowshipped”, meaning she is cut off for ever from her family. Meanwhile, Dunn recalls losing her father to a commune in India presided over by the cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, where disciples were encouraged to “live in love”, meaning they could engage in guilt-free sex. Dunn’s book is her attempt to pin down this charismatic, mercurial and unreliable figure and the ripple effects of his actions on those closest to him. In Matt Rowland Hill’s scabrously funny Original Sins (Chatto & Windus), it is the author who is the agent of chaos. The son of evangelical Christians, Hill shoots heroin at the funeral of a friend who died from an overdose, and tries to score drugs on a visit to Bethlehem. Were his account a novel, you might accuse it of being too far-fetched.

In Kit de Waal’s first autobiographical work, Without Warning and Only Sometimes (Tinder Press), the author recalls how she and her four siblings would go to bed hungry while their father blew his earnings on a new suit, and her mother would work off her rage by collecting empty milk bottles and throwing them at a wall in the back yard. After a bout of depression in her teens, De Waal eventually found comfort and escape in literature. Her book is a brilliant evocation of the times in which she lived, when children learned to make their own entertainment and adults didn’t talk about their feelings, and a funny and tender portrait of a complicated family.

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The Crane Wife (Viking), by the American author CJ Hauser, began life as a confessional essay about the time she travelled to the gulf coast of Texas to study whooping cranes 10 days after breaking off her engagement. Published in the Paris Review, the essay blew up online, prompting Hauser to expand her thoughts on love and relationships into this thoughtful and fitfully funny book. Across 17 confessional essays, we find her furtively spreading her grandparents’ ashes at their old house in Martha’s Vineyard, contemplating breast reduction surgery and reflecting on her relationships with a high-school boyfriend and a divorcee who is clearly still in love with his ex.

Finally, some excellent biographies. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton) by Lucy Worsley is a riveting portrait of the queen of crime viewed through a feminist lens. The book acknowledges Christie’s flaws, most notably in her views on race, while portraying her as ahead of her time in putting women at the centre of her stories and showing how older women “have more to offer the world than meets the eye”. Super-Infinite (Faber), winner of this year’s Baillie Gifford prize, is a biography of the 17th-century preacher and poet John Donne by Katherine Rundell, the children’s novelist and Renaissance scholar. Ten years in the writing, the book approaches its subject with wit and vivacity, bringing to life Donne’s inner world through his verse.

Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist (John Murray) is a remarkable account of the life of Rudolf Vrba, a prisoner at Auschwitz who was put to work in “Kanada”, a store of belongings removed from inmates which revealed that the line fed to them was a lie: they were not there to be resettled but murdered. Vrba and his friend Fred Wetzler pledged to escape and tell the world about the Nazis’ industrialised murder, hiding beneath a woodpile for three days before slipping through the fence to freedom. The horror of this story lies not just in its account of “cold-blooded extermination” but in the slowness of authorities to react to the Vrba-Wetzler report, which laid out the workings of Auschwitz, complete with maps showing the chambers. Freedland recalls the words of the French-Jewish philosopher Raymond Aron, who, when asked about the Holocaust, said: “I knew, but I didn’t believe it. And because I didn’t believe it, I didn’t know.”

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The following are the best biographies 2022 had to offer, according to my brain and my tastes. And I know it might sound like something everyone says, but it was really hard to pick them this year. Like many people, I love “best of” lists for the year, even when I disagree with the titles that make the cut. There is something about narrowing the field to “the best” that makes me excited to read the list and see what I’ve read already and which gems I’ve missed that year. If you want to look back at some of the titles Book Riot chose in 2021, try this best books of 2021 by genre or best books for 2020 . Both will probably quadruple your TBR, but they’re super fun to read anyway.

For 2022 in particular, there were a ton of excellent titles to choose from, in both biographies and memoirs. I am not being polite here but let me just say that it was genuinely hard to choose. To make it easier on myself, I have included some memoirs to pair with the best biographies of 2022 below. If you don’t see your absolute favorite, it’s either because I didn’t like it (I don’t believe in spending time on books I don’t like) or because I ran out of space. And it was most likely the latter!

His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Samuels and Olorunnipa are two Washington Post journalists who meticulously researched Floyd’s personal history in order to better understand not only his life and experiences before his death, but also the systemic forces that eventually contributed to his murder. While very interesting, this is also a harder read and very frustrating at times as there is so much loss wrapped up into this story. Definitely one of the best biographies of 2022 and one that I think will be read for years to come.

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird by Gene Andrew Jarrett

This is one of those classic biographies that I think readers will just love diving into. Rich in detail and nuance, it drops readers into Dunbar’s life and times, offering a fascinating look at both the literary and personal life of this great American poet. If you are able to read on audio, you may want to check out actor Mirron E. Willis’s excellent narration.

Didn’t We Almost Have it All: In Defense of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy

Maybe you’re a huge fan or maybe you don’t know who Whitney Houston was, but either way, you can still read this and enjoy it. Kennedy is very clear that he didn’t set out to write a traditional biography. He wasn’t trying to dig up new “dirt” about the singer or to ask people in her life to reflect back on her now that she has been gone for 10 years. Instead, Kennedy tackles something deeper and possibly harder: to see and appreciate Houston as the fully-formed and talented human being that she was and to understand in full her influence over popular culture and music.

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Finding Me by Viola Davis

If you are also interested in reading a memoir from 2022, you could pair Whitney Houston’s biography with Viola Davis’s book. It was a title I saw everywhere in 2022, but didn’t pick up until the end of the year. My only two cents to add to this strong choice is that I was also just about the last person on earth who hadn’t heard about Davis’s childhood. Please don’t go into this without knowing at least something about what she had to overcome. However, despite all that, I still think it is an excellent and ultimately uplifting read. Content warnings include domestic violence, child endangerment, physical and sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, drug addiction, and animal death. And also the unrelentingly grinding nature of poverty.

Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee by Daryl Joji Maeda 

This is a much more academic presentation of Bruce Lee and the myriad of ways he can be “read” in his connections and contributions to American pop culture. If you or someone you know is itching to read an extremely detailed and deeply considered look at Lee’s life, then this is the book for you. If you read on audio, be sure to check out David Lee Huynh’s narration.

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu

If you want to read something much lighter but still connected to Asian representation in Western movies, you could do worse than Liu’s 2022 memoir. In comparison to other books on this list, this felt like a much lighter read to me, but it is not without some heavier moments. While I am not a superfan of Liu (because I’m not really a superfan of anyone), I did enjoy learning about Liu’s childhood and especially hearing little details like that his grandparents called him a nickname that basically translated to “little furry caterpillar” as a child. I mean, is there anything more adorable for a kid?

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

This is another meaty biography that readers will just adore. Complex and fascinating, von Neumann’s curiosity was legendary and his contributions are so far-reaching that it is hard to imagine any one person undertaking them all. This is a good choice for readers who are fascinated by mathematics, big personalities, and intellectual puzzles.

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

This is another best biography of 2022 that many, many readers will want to sink into. The audio is also by the author so you may want to read it that way. Whether someone reads it with eyes or ears (or both!), this book is sure to interest many curious Christie fans. And if Worsley’s biography isn’t enough for you, you may also enjoy this breakdown of why Christie is one of the best-selling novelists of all time or these 8 audiobooks for Agatha Christie fans .

The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler by Deborah Cadbury

Cadbury writes a fascinating biography of Anna Essinger, a schoolteacher who managed to smuggle her students out of a Germany succumbing to Hitler’s rise to power and all the horror that was to follow. Essinger’s bravery and clear-eyed understanding of what was happening around her is amazing. This is a thrilling and fascinating biography readers will no doubt find inspirational.

The Escape Artist: The Man who Broke out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

Freedland is a British journalist who has written this thoroughly engrossing book about Rudolf Vrba, a man who managed to escape from Auschwitz. It’s no surprise that this is a very important but difficult read. For those who can manage it, I highly recommend immersing oneself in this historical nonfiction biography about a man who survived some of the darkest events of human history.

That is my list of the best biographies of 2022, with a few memoirs for those who are interested. And now of course, I need to mention several titles I have yet to get to from 2022: Hua Hsu’s Stay True , Zain Asher’s Where the Children Take Us , Fatima Ali’s Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More , and Dan Charnas and Jeff Peretz’s Dilla Time , to name a few!

Also Bernardine Evaristo published Manifesto: On Never Giving Up in 2022 and somehow it slipped through the cracks of my TBR. I will have to make time for that one soon.

If you still need more titles to explore, try these 50 best biographies or 20 biographies for kids . And to that latter list, I might add that a children’s biography came out about Octavia Butler in 2022 called Star Child by Haitian American author Ibi Zoboi, so you might want to check that out too!

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20 Audiobooks You Should Listen to Right Now

Run out of great podcasts to listen to? Looking for something a bit weightier? Audiobooks could be the perfect solution. Whether you're driving to work or wandering the streets, this selection will keep you entertained. With A-list actors providing the narration and a host of new productions of old favorites, there's never been a better time to start listening. Should you want to read actual pages, give WIRED's guides to the best sci-fi books and the best fantasy books a try.

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By Siddhartha Mukherjee

You may think a book subtitled “A Biography of Cancer” would not be the lightest of listens, and you would be right, but that doesn’t make it any less brilliant. Siddhartha Mukherjee‎ does a remarkable job of charting the history of this complex disease, weaving together the narrative with stories from his own experience as an oncologist. It’s a triumph precisely because it never loses sight of the people at the heart of the story: the researchers who pushed forward and found treatments in unusual places and the patients and their families who faced losing everything.

By Amit Katwala

Penned by WIRED's Amit Katwala, with spine-tingling narration by Matt Reeves, Tremors in the Blood tells the true story of two murders—one in San Francisco in 1922, the other in Chicago in 1935—and how they intersect with the creation of the polygraph machine. The book combines true crime elements, tense gunfights, and courtroom drama with science and history as it explores how the inventors of the lie detector—a rookie cop, a teenage magician, and a visionary police chief—ended up unleashing a power they couldn't control. 

By David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas is a difficult book to get through, there’s no doubt about that. But the beauty of audiobooks is that they make getting through such novels a breeze. Cloud Atlas spans a number of centuries and is told from the perspective of six interconnected characters. The tonal shift from flowery 19th-century prose to the incomprehensibly simplistic final chapter comes across beautifully in audio form. Best of all, each tale is read by a different narrator, bringing the book to life better than the novel's polarizing film adaptation ever could. 

By Lucy Foley

A modern murder mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie, The Hunting Party sees a group of friends—Londoners, Oxford graduates, just the worst people—heading up to a remote lodge in Scotland for their annual New Year’s Eve get-together. Things quickly take a dark turn, and with the lodge cut off from the outside world, it’s up to the place's only two staff members to piece together what happened, all while battling dark secrets of their own. It’s a fun, slightly ridiculous story—and you will probably hate some of the main players, but it works well for audiobook because the story switches between different characters, each with their own voice actor. Just don’t listen if you’re somewhere remote.

By Stephen Fry

Greek mythology can at times feel a little impenetrable. There are just too many gods, goddesses, and nymphs—all with countless stories of love, wrath, and revenge. Stephen Fry makes it easily digestible by picking out key events and adding dialogue to modernize them. Though your head will boggle at the complex family tree of the Greek deities, you’ll learn about the legends that inspired millennia of writers, from Shakespeare to Rick Riordan.

By Graham Greene

Set during the blitz, Graham Greene's classic novel is a semi-autobiographical account of an adulterous man's jealousy toward his lover. When she breaks off their tryst, he's consumed by insecurity and hires a private investigator, suspecting she is seeing someone else. It's based in no small part on a notorious affair Greene himself conducted with Catherine Walston, the wife of a prominent Labour MP. This real-life context and Greene's customary skill combine for one of his most highly regarded works. It's narrated expertly by Colin Firth, who is perfectly cast to voice the inner monologue and lamentable pettiness of Maurice Bendrix.

By Caitlin Moran

If you are a woman, you should have already read this book. But if you don't have time to read it right now, let Caitlin Moran do it for you. Her awkward, autobiographical account tackles hair removal, getting fat, tiny pants, and being one of too many siblings in a way that will leave you cringing one minute and laughing the next. 

By David Sedaris

If you're a fan of David Sedaris' previous books and podcasts, strap in: You're about to have (possibly) the best one-sided conversation of the year. But if you don't want to hoot with laughter on public transport, this is not the book for you. In Calypso , Sedaris delivers a barrage of sheer brilliance with his remarkably deadpan voice. A quest to feed his benign tumor to a snapping turtle; disastrous family gatherings at his dream holiday home, dubbed the Sea Section; and his wildly inappropriate compulsion to buy useless fashion (including a toilet brush hat)—all of these stories are here. Sedaris has built his essays on the weird and wonderful things of everyday life, but with Calypso he bravely exposes ugly flaws with the same panache as his finest quips. You'll walk away transformed.

By Anthony Daniels

Since Star Wars first premiered in 1977, millions of people have met, loved, and loathed the now-iconic golden droid C-3PO from a galaxy far, far away. Inside the minute hinges of C-3PO’s suffocatingly tight metal costume was Anthony Daniels, who acts as a soft-spoken guide with a unique backstage pass to the intricate world unveiled on screen. In a deeply personal account of the personalities behind the iconic movie series, Daniels unveils how he became an accidental star of the franchise, the pain and challenges of being trapped in a golden cage, and the friendships he made along the way. 

By Bill Bryson

Travelogue master Bill Bryson has retired to the library in recent years, and his gentle Midwestern tones are perfect for audiobooks. In his latest book, The Body , Bryson takes a characteristic approach familiar to his readers, unearthing fascinating, disgusting, and hilarious nuggets of information about our bodies. He explores everything from genetics to our immune system, all in a soothing voice that will keep you calm while you panic-Google various ailments.

By Adam Kay

This diary of life on the medical frontlines by junior-doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay sold more than a million copies in print and shone a light on the chaotic and compassionate world of the UK's NHS. The audiobook is read by Kay—who first came to fame in the mid-2000s with a Tube-strike-inspired parody of “Going Underground” by The Jam that he made while part of comedic musical duo Amateur Transplants. The audio version includes extra diary entries about Kay's life in the hospital ward.

By Philip Pullman

The long-awaited follow-up to Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy shows the protagonist of those books, Lyra Belacqua, much earlier in life. The action of the first part of this new trilogy, The Book of Dust, follows Malcolm Polstead—an 11-year-old living on the outskirts of Oxford—as he’s swept away in a flood of biblical proportions while trying to protect the infant Lyra from mysterious assailants. The audiobook is read by Michael Sheen, who brings his customary energy to Pullman's wild tale.

By Ben Aaronovitch

Set in modern-day London, the series follows copper Peter Grant as he’s slowly introduced to the world of magic lurking beneath the city’s streets. If you’re reluctant to dive into a tale of wizard’s hats and magic wands, don’t worry—author Ben Aaronovitch approaches the premise like a scientist, and Grant conducts controlled experiments that would put the stars of CSI to shame. The audiobooks, expertly narrated by Kobna-Holdbrook Smith, are a pleasure, particularly when the series ventures into the jazz world in book two, Moon Over Soho .

By George Saunders

Acclaimed short story writer George Saunders’ first foray into long fiction was a huge critical success. He won the 2017 Man Booker prize for his portrayal of a grieving Abraham Lincoln, harangued by ghosts after his son’s death. The audiobook has a suitably stellar cast, featuring Susan Sarandon, Lena Dunham, Ben Stiller, and a host of other famous—and slightly less famous—actors. There are 166 cast members in total.

By William Boyd

If you're after an easy listen, William Boyd's James Bond novel Solo fits the bill. In a fictional African nation, an aging Bond goes undercover as a journalist in an attempt to foil a separatist movement. Read skillfully by actor Dominic West, the novel is set in 1969 and offers a pleasant antidote to the modern Bond movies while benefiting from an excellent villain in Kobus Breed, a ruthless mercenary on whom Bond seeks revenge.

By Douglas Adams

The BBC's radio adaptations of Douglas Adams' seminal comedy works are legendary and all six series—one for each book—are available on Audible. With each clocking in at around two-and-a-half to three hours, complete with brilliant music, sound effects, and full cast, they're the perfect way to enjoy the adventures of the last surviving man from Earth and his alien “friends” through your headphones. If you'd rather experience the books in full, all six are also available with narrations from Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman, who played Arthur Dent in the movie adaption. 

By Margaret Atwood

Narrated by Elizabeth Moss, the star of the ongoing television adaptation, The Handmaid’s Tale is an increasingly powerful reminder of the thin ice the modern, relatively liberal society we live in rests upon. Margaret Atwood’s novel has spawned countless imitators since it was first published in 1985, but its description of Offred’s life in Gilead and the slow ratcheting back of progress that led society to that point remains chilling.

By John le Carré

Written by John le Carré, A Legacy of Spies acts as both prequel and sequel to one of his earliest novels, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold —famously adapted into a film starring Richard Burton. Here a now-retired intelligence officer is summoned to London to defend his actions during a Cold War operation in which a British agent was killed. Decades later, the agent’s son is suing the British government for wrongful death, and the bureaucratic apparatus is desperate to shift the blame. It’s an absorbing listen, thanks to le Carré’s skill in building character and tension, and it’s further enhanced by the deft narration of actor Tom Hollander.

By Frank Herbert

In 2012, WIRED readers voted Dune the best science-fiction novel of all time. It’s also the best-selling of all time and has inspired a mammoth universe, including 18 books set over 34,000 years. The series takes place 20,000 years in the future in galaxies stuck in the feudal ages, where computers are banned for religious reasons and noble families rule whole planets. Frank Herbert focuses on the planet Arrakis, which holds a material used as a currency throughout the universe for its rarity and mind-enhancing powers. 

By Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere is a tale of London—not the city you know, but the London Below, a city unseen by the majority yet no less real, populated by the ignored, lost, and forgotten. It's a world that Richard Mayhew, a Scottish expatriate to the Big Smoke, slips into when he helps Door, a young woman on the run from unstoppable assassins who have killed her entire family. Now invisible and forgotten by London Above, Richard and Door—along with the trickster Marquis de Carabas and the stoic Hunter—must travel across Night's Bridge, seek an audience at the Earl's court, and acquire a rare key from the Black Friars for the angel Islington if either of them has a hope of returning to their former lives. Gaiman's urban fantasy takes the metropolis of London and rebuilds it into a unique realm of mythology, one that will leave you wondering what's really happening, a half-glance out of sight, the next time you find yourself wandering around the city. The audiobook is read by Gaiman himself, while a full-cast audio drama offers a more immersive journey through London Below. 

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With a library of over 200,000, finding the best Audible books can sometimes be a little bit harder than it seems thanks to the massive number of possible choices. To help you make the most of those free audiobook tokens, we've got a top list right here with some suggestions to make that decision a little easier or simply give you an idea of the best Audible books currently available.

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Rated our best audiobook site , Audible currently has the biggest audiobook library available online with over 200,00 books, original series, podcasts and much more. You'll literally find anything in its vast repertoire of audiobooks - fiction, travel, history, politics, or even self-help. That's a lot to browse, which is why we've curated this list of 20 of the best books on Audible right now. You can listen to them online or offline, wherever you are. We'll also keep adding to this page, so pop back when you're ready for more recommendations. 

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1. Heads Will Roll

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If the finale of Game of Thrones left a hole in your life, fill it with epic fantasy comedy instead. Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon and her sister Emily Lynne have created a hilarious 10-part series that pulls in many of McKinnon's SNL pals, as well as A-listers such as Meryl Streep and GoT's very own Peter Dinklage.

• Buy from Audible now for $29.95 / £27.49 / AU$41.73
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2. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

When Ronan Farrow broke the Harvey Weinstein scandal in The New Yorker, it sent shock waves around the world and kick-started the #MeToo movement. Catch and Kill reveals the long and rocky journey he took to get the truth out, and the many intimidating tactics used to try and stop him doing so.

• Buy from Audible now for $29.65 / £19.99 / AU$30.38

3. Becoming

Since it was released at the end of 2018, the enormous popularity of Michelle Obama's self-narrated memoir shows no sign of waning - which is why it's still in our list of the best Audible books. Documenting her inspirational journey from the South Side of Chicago to the White House, it's an intimate glimpse into the life of the former First Lady.

• Buy from Audible now for $35.71 / £31.99 / AU$48.62

4. The Body

Best known for his quirky, whimsical travelogues, Bill Bryson has now turned his attention inwards with a fascinating exploration of the human body. It's packed with nuggets of information, from the disgusting to the hilarious. Bryson's soft, Midwestern narration is soothing. According to some reviewers he may lull you to sleep, but this Audible book remains a best-seller across the globe.

• Buy from Audible now for $20.72 / £18.99 / AU$28.87

5. Gotta Get Theroux This

Louis Theroux's wry, self-deprecating style comes to the fore in this engaging account of the documentary-maker's unlikely rise to success. If you're a fan of Theroux's awkward yet insightful encounters with larger-than-life characters, from racist US militias to Joe Exotic and Jimmy Savile, there's plenty for you here.

• Buy from Audible now for $15.26 / £13.99 / AU$21.26

6. If It Bleeds

Horror master Stephen King needs no introduction, and this chilling collection of four novellas – Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the titular If It Bleeds – intrigues and terrifies in equal measure. Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption both started life as King novellas, so it's a format with huge potential.

• Buy from Audible now for $27.27 / £24.99 / AU$37.98

7. I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

Star Wars fans will love this intimate portrait of life inside one of the series most enduring characters: C-3PO. Anthony Daniels endured many hours inside a claustrophobic metal suit to bring the iconic golden droid to life. In this Audible book he provides a backstage pass, shedding light on the processes and personalities involved in the blockbuster movie franchise. 

• Buy from Audible now for $28.00 / £25.99 / AU$39.50

8. Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

There's only one Elton John, and his first and only official autobiography packs 72 years of incredible stories and life-changing experiences into just under 12 hours of enthralling listening. Fittingly, it's narrated by Taron Egerton, the actor who portrayed him in the smash-hit movie Rocketman.

9. Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid's striking debut novel Such a Fun Age tackles themes of social justice head-on in a tale of racial profiling, privilege, and identity. The story revolves around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.

• Buy from Audible now for $14.95 / £12.99 / AU$19.75

10. Talking to Strangers

Drawing on expert insights from criminologists, scientists, and military psychologists, Malcolm Gladwell provides a thought-provoking exploration of how we engage with strangers, and the role that can play in starting conflicts. After nine hours of listening, you may completely reappraise the way you see the world.

• Buy from Audible now for $34.90 / £31.99 / AU$48.62

11. Get Sh*t Done: The Ultimate Guide to Productivity, Procrastination, & Profitability

If procrastination is the bane of your life, Jeffrey Gitomer's bluntly titled Get Sh*t Done could be one of the best Audible books for you. Its simple goal: make you more productive, by providing the strategies you need to achieve your goals and be more profitable.

• Buy from Audible now for $13.99 / £12.89 / AU$19.49

12. Blowout

The 2016 presidential election put Trump in the White House, an outcome that few around the world thought possible at the start of the campaign. Throwing petrol on the fire of political debate that has raged ever since, MSNBC personality Rachel Maddow gives her take on the role that Russia played in the election, in Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth.

13. The Baddest Bitch in the Room

By telling her warts-and-all journey from underground hip-hop clubs to the top of the music industry, Sophia Chang hopes to inspire more young minds to do the same. She doesn't pull any punches in the process, and The Baddest Bitch in the Room is so packed with explicit content that Chang has also produced a second, toned-down version for younger audiences.

• Buy the explicit version from Audible now for $29.95 / £27.49 / AU$41.73
• Buy the clean version from Audible now for $29.95 / AU$41.73

14. Tales of Beedle The Bard

An ideal way to introduce a younger audience to the global Potter phenomenon, Tales of Beedle The Bard is a bite-sized listen, with a similar run-time to a kids' movie. This is easily one of the best Audible books for children of the year. 

Of course, the rest of the much-loved Harry Potter book series is on Audible too: you can pick between Stephen Fry, Jim Dale or J.K. Rowling herself as your narrator for those.

• Buy from Audible now for $14.95 / £12.00 / AU$20.20 (free for members)

The second kids' title in our best Audible book round up is the latest hilarious tale from best-selling author and comedian David Walliams. Slime introduces us to the Isle of Mulch, home to many deplorable adults who like nothing more than to make children's lives a misery. Up steps Ned: a boy whose special slime power could liberate Mulch once and for all.

• Buy from Audible now for $8.72 / £7.99 / AU$12.14

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

There are multiple ways to engage with Douglas Adams' seminal cult classic on Audible, from the BBC radio adaptations – complete with music, sound effects and full cast – to the full-blown audiobook experience, narrated by either Stephen Fry or Martin Freeman. We recommend Fry's version. 

• Buy from Audible now for $13.08 / £11.99 / AU$18.22

2. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

Stephen Fry has made quite a name for himself as an audiobook narrator. This incredible 72-hour bundle of all four Sherlock Holmes novels, plus five short story collections, is sure to sate your appetite for detective fiction, as well as Fry. As a lifelong Holmes fan, he has also recorded exclusive personal introductions to each title.

• Buy from Audible now for $82.77 / £79.99 / AU$124.90

3. The Handmaid’s Tale

Following the huge success of the TV adaptation, Margaret Atwood's dystopian feminist masterpiece from 1985 has won a whole new audience. This new version is narrated by Elizabeth Moss (who plays Offred in the series), which gives it a contemporary twist.

4. The Great Gatsby

A favourite of English literature students the world over, F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal 1925 work The Great Gatsby is given a new lease of life thanks to expert narration from A-list star Jake Gyllenhaal. Journey back to the decadence and opulence of the Roaring Twenties, and enjoy this classic cautionary tale that cuts to the heart of the American Dream.

• Buy from Audible now for $14.95 / £11.29 / AU$17.56

5. A Song of Ice and Fire

Famously still unfinished in book form, with the next instalment eagerly anticipated, George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire has captured the imagination of millions. All five of the books so far are available on Audible – for over 200 hours of listening pleasure in total. From 33hrs 45min (A Game of Thrones) to 48hrs 53min (A Dance with Dragons)

• Buy from Audible now for $29.44 / £26.99 / AU$41.01 each
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New autobiographies from Jemele Hill, Matthew Perry and Hua Hsu are in the mix, along with books about Martha Graham, Agatha Christie and more.

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Solito: A Memoir , by Javier Zamora

When he was 9, Zamora left El Salvador to join his parents in the United States — a dangerous trek in the company of strangers that lasted for more than two months, a far cry from the two-week adventure he had envisioned. Zamora, a poet, captures his childhood impressions of the journey, including his fierce, lifesaving attachments to the other people undertaking the trip with him.

Hogarth, Sept. 6

A Visible Man: A Memoir , by Edward Enninful

The first Black editor in chief of British Vogue reflects on his life, including his early years as a gay, working-class immigrant from Ghana, and his path to becoming one of the most influential tastemakers in media.

Penguin Press, Sept. 6

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman , by Lucy Worsley

Not many authors sell a billion books, but Christie’s nearly 70 mysteries helped her do just that. Born in 1890, she introduced the world to two detectives still going strong in film adaptations and elsewhere: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Her life even included its own mystery, when she vanished for 11 days in 1926 . Worsley, a historian, offers a full-dress biography.

Pegasus Crime, Sept. 8

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands , by Kate Beaton

This graphic memoir follows Beaton, a Canadian cartoonist, who joins the oil rush in Alberta after graduating from college. The book includes drawings of enormous machines built to work the oil sands against a backdrop of Albertan landscapes, boreal forests and northern lights.

Drawn and Quarterly, Sept. 13

Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir , by Jann S. Wenner

In 2017, Joe Hagan published “Sticky Fingers,” a biography of Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Now Wenner recounts his life in his own words, offering an intimate look at his time running the magazine that helped to change American culture.

Little, Brown, Sept. 13

Stay True: A Memoir , by Hua Hsu

A New Yorker staff writer reflects on a life-changing college friendship cut short by tragedy. Hsu — interested in counterculture, zines and above all music — seemed to have little in common with Ken, a Dave Matthews Band-loving fraternity brother, with the exception of their Asian American heritage. In spite of their differences, they forged a close bond; this is both a memoir of their relationship but also Hsu’s journey to adulthood as he makes sense of his grief.

Doubleday, Sept. 27

Wild: The Life of Peter Beard: Photographer, Adventurer, Lover , by Graham Boynton

A biography of the photographer Peter Beard, who had a fondness for risk, drugs and beautiful women. Boynton, a journalist and author, was a friend of Beard’s for more than 30 years.

St. Martin’s, Oct. 11

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir , by Paul Newman

When Newman and his iconic blue eyes died in 2008, the actor left behind taped conversations about his life, which he had put together with hopes of writing his life story. Now, with the participation of Newman’s daughters, the transcripts have been turned into this book, which sees Newman on his early life, his troubles with drinking and his shortcomings as a husband and parent, as well as his decorated career.

Knopf. Oct. 18

Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

Rickman, the English stage and screen actor who died in 2016, was famous for his roles in “Die Hard,” the Harry Potter movies, “Love Actually” and many other films. He kept a diary for 25 years, about his work, his political activism, his friendships and other subjects, and they promise to be “anecdotal, indiscreet, witty, gossipy and utterly candid.”

Henry Holt, Oct. 18

README.txt: A Memoir , by Chelsea Manning

Manning, a former Army analyst, shared classified documents about the U.S. military’s operations in Iraq with WikiLeaks. In this memoir, she explores her childhood and what drew her to the armed services, her eventual disillusionment with the military and her life as a trans woman.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Oct. 18

The White Mosque: A Memoir , by Sofia Samatar

Samatar, a novelist, turns to nonfiction in this complex work combining religious and personal history. Raised in the United States, the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, Samatar recounts her life while relating a pilgrimage she undertook retracing the route of German-speaking Mennonites who founded a village in Central Asia in the 1800s.

Catapult, Oct. 25

Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern , by Neil Baldwin

The biographer Baldwin’s eclectic list of subjects has included William Carlos Williams, Man Ray, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Here he turns his attention to Martha Graham, the American choreographer who revolutionized modern dance and founded her own company, which is still going strong, in 1926.

Knopf, Oct. 25

Uphill: A Memoir , by Jemele Hill

Hill, now a contributing writer at The Atlantic, rose to fame as a TV anchor on ESPN. Her memoir covers the time in 2017 when ESPN suspended her (she had criticized the politics of the Dallas Cowboys’ owner, Jerry Jones, and had called President Trump a white supremacist). But the book offers a much broader canvas that includes her upbringing in Detroit and the trauma of generations of women in her family.

Henry Holt, Oct. 25

Friends, Lovers and the Terrible Thing: A Memoir , by Matthew Perry

Perry, who played Chandler Bing on “Friends,” has been candid about his substance abuse and sobriety. In this memoir, he returns again to discussions of fame and addiction, but also reaches back to his childhood.

Flatiron, Nov. 1

I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: A Memoir , by Baek Sehee. Translated by Anton Hur.

A best seller in South Korea, Baek’s memoir recounts her struggles with depression and anxiety, told through discussions with her therapist, which she recorded over a 12-week period. The therapy sessions are interspersed with short essays that explore her self-doubt and how feelings of worthlessness were reinforced by sexism.

Bloomsbury, Nov. 1

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No matter your goals, "Atomic Habits" offers a proven framework for improving every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

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Some summers are just destined to be pretty.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the following summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys Belly has known since her very first summer — they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

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From decorated Green Beret sniper and UFC headliner Tim Kennedy comes a rollicking, inspirational memoir. It offers lessons on embracing failure and weathering storms — to unlock the strongest version of yourself.

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It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again, and Conrad stopped caring. Everything right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls, saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started — at Cousins Beach.

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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. 

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Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, the husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

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"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again — until now. 

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In "Atlas of the Heart," Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances — a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

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From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

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In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.

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For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days — even hours — of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.

All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.

In "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning," author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. This means everything about our interconnected world — from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all — is about to change.

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When an elderly customer at a Swedish big-box furniture store ― but not that one ― slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.

To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

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Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all ― until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship driven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves her husband. Enter Avery Chambers.

Avery is a therapist who lost her professional license. Still, it doesn't stop her from counseling those in crisis, though they must adhere to her unorthodox methods. And the Bishops are desperate.

When they glide through Avery's door, and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it's no longer simply a marriage that's in danger.

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Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life seems too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant, and has a soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn't hurt. Lily can't get him out of her head. But Ryle's complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his "no dating" rule, she can't help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

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For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America.

In "Can't Hurt Me," he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

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Belly has only ever been in love with two boys, both with the last name Fisher. And after being with Jeremiah for the previous two years, she's almost positive he is her soul mate. Almost. While Conrad has not gotten over the mistake of letting Belly go, Jeremiah has always known that Belly is the girl for him. So when Belly and Jeremiah decide to make things forever, Conrad realizes that it's now or never — tell Belly he loves her or loses her for good.

Belly will have to confront her feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad and face the inevitable: She will have to break one of their hearts.

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Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask — or not — was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As "Happy-Go-Lucky" opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes.

But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences — the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine.

As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with "Help Wanted" signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter.

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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don't forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It's simple: 100 percent Grade-A Extreme Awesomeness. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power. Until now.

This time, he might need a little help from a band of filthy monkeys.

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On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government.

Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he's learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.

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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission — and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery — and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he?

You can read a review of "Project Hail Mary" here.

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What are the most valuable things that everyone should know?

In this book, Jordan Peterson provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticizing others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead, we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defense against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence.

Drawing on vivid examples from the author's clinical practice and personal life, cutting-edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, "12 Rules for Life" offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.

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From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller — a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, determined to do whatever it takes to survive.

Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her.

Available on Amazon for $12.99

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up — to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? — he's not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother's situation, and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors are an eclectic bunch and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's Ben's future that's in question.

The socialite — the nice guy — the alcoholic — the girl on the verge — the concierge.

Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they're not telling.

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Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence — and her ghost — Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.

Yet Aaron is unprepared to discover Allison's dark secrets, the death and horror that make up the tapestry of her hidden life. And with each dark secret revealed, Aaron becomes more and more consumed by his obsession to learn the terrifying truth about the woman who had been his wife, even if it puts his own life at risk.

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• An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Written by: Simu Liu

• Narrated by: Simu Liu
• Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 1,004
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 853
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 846

Marvel’s newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, ranging from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battled everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggled to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.  

Simu, you were such a shit!

• By Glenn Funamoto on 2022-10-28

Ten Steps to Nanette

• A Memoir Situation

Written by: Hannah Gadsby

• Narrated by: Hannah Gadsby
• Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 270
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 241
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 240

Gadsby grew up as the youngest of five children in an isolated town in Tasmania, where homosexuality was illegal until 1997. They perceived their childhood as safe and “normal,” but as they gained an awareness of their burgeoning queerness, the outside world began to undermine the “vulnerably thin veneer” of their existence.

A thoughtful and affecting memoir

• By Notmyrealname on 2022-04-06

Run Towards the Danger

• Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Written by: Sarah Polley

• Narrated by: Sarah Polley
• Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 440
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 382
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 377

Sarah Polley’s work as an actor, screenwriter, and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity, and deep humanity. She brings all of those qualities along with her exquisite storytelling chops to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person you are now but were not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance.”

Amazing Book, Eye Opening

• By Frazer Bergman on 2022-04-13

Stories I Might Regret Telling You

Written by: Martha Wainwright

• Narrated by: Martha Wainwright
• Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 45
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 39
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 40

Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright, Martha grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends and struggled to find her voice in a milieu in which every drama was refracted through song. Martha digs into her life with the same emotional honesty that has come to define her music. Stories I Might Regret Telling You is a thoughtful, moving account of the extraordinary life of one of the most talented singer-songwriters in music today.

Very personal and touching.

• By Julie Nolet on 2022-09-04

If We Break

• A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing

Written by: Kathleen Buhle

• Narrated by: Kathleen Buhle
• Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 27
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 21
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 21

For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator in Oregon. Within months, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged. Determined to build her family on a foundation of love, Kathleen was convinced her and Hunter’s commitment to each other could overcome any obstacle. But when Hunter’s drinking evolved into dependency, she was forced to learn how irrevocably a marriage can fall apart under the merciless power of addiction.

Read this one

• By Gurj on 2023-02-17

Out of the Corner

Written by: Jennifer Grey

• Narrated by: Jennifer Grey
• Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 165
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 145
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 144

In this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes listeners on a vivid tour of the experiences that have shaped her, from her childhood as the daughter of Broadway and film legend Joel Grey, to the surprise hit with Patrick Swayze that made her America’s sweetheart, to her inspiring season eleven win on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars .

Give me more!

• By Ashley Villeneuve on 2022-05-14

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please

Written by: Tom Segura

• Narrated by: Tom Segura
• Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 873
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 742
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 740

Tom Segura is known for his twisted takes and irreverent comedic voice. But after a few years of crazy tours and churning out podcasts weekly, all while parenting two young children, he desperately needs a second to himself. It’s not that he hates his friends and family — he’s not a monster — he’s just beat, which is why his son’s (ruthless) first full sentence, “I’d like to play alone, please,” has since become his mantra.

I came up in May

• By garrett press on 2022-07-05

Left on Tenth

• A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

Written by: Delia Ephron

• Narrated by: Delia Ephron
• Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 10
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 8
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 8

Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life - she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.

What My Bones Know

• A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Written by: Stephanie Foo

• Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
• Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 332
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 289
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 288

By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.

• 1 out of 5 stars

This book should come with a trigger warning

• By Martie on 2023-02-01

• My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
• Written by: Paul Holes, Robin Gaby Fisher
• Narrated by: Paul Holes
• Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 272
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 250
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 246

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point . Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me to the point of obsession.

Incredible, as expected!

• By Chelsea Suik-Thomas on 2022-04-28

Written by: Paul Holes , and others

Happy-Go-Lucky

Written by: David Sedaris

• Narrated by: David Sedaris
• Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 245
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 216
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 215

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.

• 2 out of 5 stars

disappointed

• By Thought this would be a brilliant efficient time saver, but after a few uses found it more frustrating than helpful, and just went back to handwashing brushes on 2023-01-06

• The Autobiography of DMX

Written by: DMX

• Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
• Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 34
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 29
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 29

His real name was Earl Simmons. As a child, he placed higher on tests than his fellow students and liked to spend mornings with his mother and sisters playing games and making pancakes. But for young Earl - a boy growing up on the streets of Yonkers, New York - that kind of childhood didn’t last long. Beatings, abuse, and neglect very soon had him moving on to other things, like robbing, stealing, drugs, and, eventually, jail. Along the way, however, he found a talent and a passion for rhyme.

Quite boring

• By Neil Carnegie on 2023-01-07

Miss Me with That

• Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths

Written by: Rachel Lindsay

• Narrated by: Rachel Lindsay
• Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 47
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 39

Rachel Lindsay rose to prominence as The Bachelor ’s first Black Bachelorette and has since become one of the franchise’s most well-known figures—and outspoken critics. But there has always been more to Lindsay than meets the eye, and in this book, she finally tells her own story, in her own words.

The Tell All We All Needed!

• By Anonymous User on 2022-03-13

• The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement
• Written by: Toufah Jallow, Kim Pittaway
• Narrated by: Toufah Jallow
• Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 10
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 9
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 9

In 2015, Toufah Jallow was a 19-year-old dreaming of a scholarship. Encouraged by her mother, she entered a presidential competition designed to identify and support the country’s smart young women, and she won. Which brought her to the attention of Yahya Jammeh, the country’s dictator, who styled himself as a pious yet progressive protector of women.

• By Anonymous User on 2023-01-28

Written by: Toufah Jallow , and others

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Written by: Bob Odenkirk

• Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
• Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 199
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 169
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 168

Bob Odenkirk’s career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a “Homeric” decades-long “odyssey” from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations - with a side trip into the action-man world that is baffling to all who know him - it’s almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks! But there is just one and one is plenty. Featuring humorous tangents, wild characters, and Bob’s trademark unflinching drive, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic tale told by a determined idiot.

Perfect listen for any fan of alternative comedy

• By Adam on 2022-08-17

Forever Boy

• A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy

Written by: Kate Swenson

• Narrated by: Kate Swenson
• Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 52
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 49
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 49

When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability.

Absolutely phenomenal and courageous book

• By Anonymous User on 2022-04-08

Love That Story

• Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life

Written by: Jonathan Van Ness

• Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness
• Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 80
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 75
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 75

The Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times -bestselling memoir, Over The Top , with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, imposter syndrome, personal style, the HIV safety net, and of, course, how to make your hairdresser love you.

Not for Queer Christians

• By J. Messere on 2022-05-08

Playing with Myself

Written by: Randy Rainbow

• Narrated by: Randy Rainbow
• Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 39
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 35
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 35

Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the internet with a stylish pair of pink glasses, an inexhaustible knowledge of Broadway musicals, and the most gimlet-eyed view of American politics this side of Mark Twain finally tells all in Playing with Myself , a memoir sure to cause more than a few listeners to begin singing one of his greatest hits like “A Spoonful of Clorox” or “Cover Your Freakin’ Face”.

So much fun!!

• By Amazon Customer on 2024-01-03

Deaf Utopia

• A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
• Written by: Nyle DiMarco, Robert Siebert
• Narrated by: Dan Bittner
• Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 18
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 17
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 17

Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents.

A must-read autobiography

• By Anonymous User on 2023-05-11

Written by: Nyle DiMarco , and others

Kiss the Red Stairs

• The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir

Written by: Marsha Lederman

• Narrated by: Marsha Lederman
• Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 9
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 8

Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust. Decades later, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce, she craves her parents’ help.

Very Personal Yet So Relatable

• By S. on 2022-10-25

Some of My Best Friends

• And Other White Lies I’ve Been Told

Written by: Tajja Isen

• Narrated by: Tajja Isen
• Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 2
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 2
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 2

In this stunning debut collection, award-winning voice actor and cultural critic Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that has grown fluent in the language of social justice but doesn’t always follow through.

• By Anonymous User on 2023-03-17

Bedroom Rapper

• Cadence Weapon on Hip-Hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry

Written by: Rollie Pemberton

• Narrated by: Rollie Pemberton
• Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 12
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 10
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 10

Tracing his roots from recording beats in his mom's attic in Edmonton to performing with some of the most recognizable names in rap and electronic music—De La Soul, Public Enemy, Mos Def, Questlove, Diplo, and more—Polaris Prize winner Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a Cadence Weapon, captures the joy in finding yourself, and how a sense of place and purpose entwines inextricably with a music scene. 

• By Camille Brereton on 2023-03-11

Son of Elsewhere

• A Memoir in Pieces

Written by: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

• Narrated by: Elamin Abdelmahmoud
• Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 41
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 39

Professional wrestling super fandom, Ontario's endlessly unfurling 401 highway, late nights at the convenience store listening to heavy metal—for writer and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud, these are the building blocks of a life. Son of Elsewhere charts that life in wise, funny, and moving reflections on the many threads that weave together into an identity.

A very worthwhile listen

• By Stacey Sirois on 2024-01-10

The Office BFFs

• Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
• Written by: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
• Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
• Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 211
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 187
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 186

Receptionist Pam Beesly and accountant Angela Martin had very little in common when they toiled together at Scranton’s Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. But, in reality, the two bonded in their very first days on set and, over the nine seasons of the series’ run, built a friendship that transcended the show and continues to this day.

• 4 out of 5 stars

A lot of overlap with their podcast

• By Hanson on 2022-05-20

Written by: Jenna Fischer , and others

How to Be a Boss B*tch

• Stop Apologizing for Who You Are and Get the Life You Want
• Written by: Christine Quinn, Rachel Holtzman
• Narrated by: Christine Quinn
• Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 104
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 89
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 88

Christine Quinn, the breakout star of Netflix’s hit Selling Sunset , shows women how to unapologetically own their power in business and relationships to live the life they deserve. 

Great book !

• By Anonymous User on 2022-09-07

Written by: Christine Quinn , and others

Half-Bads in White Regalia

Written by: Cody Caetano

• Narrated by: Cody Caetano
• Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 5
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 5
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 5

The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions. Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out.

• By Brolin J Devine on 2023-06-11

Written by: Javier Zamora

• Narrated by: Javier Zamora
• Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 27
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 23
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 22

Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.

Open your hearts to refugees!

• By annelore butler on 2023-11-09

Literature & Fiction

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Written by: Shelby Van Pelt

• Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Michael Urie
• Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 801
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 732
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 732

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.

Beautiful, tragic, uplifting… in my top 5 EVER

• By Patrice L. Gordon on 2022-10-07

Written by: Sara Novic

• Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Kaleo Griffith
• Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 58
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 50
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 49

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges listeners into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress.

• By Anonymous User on 2023-05-29

Counterfeit

Written by: Kirstin Chen

• Narrated by: Catherine Ho
• Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 143
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 129
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 127

Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home—she’s built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava’s world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn’t been used in years, and her toddler’s tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava’s enigmatic college roommate from Mainland China, who abruptly dropped out under mysterious circumstances.

Disappointing and Anticlimactic

• By Anonymous User on 2022-06-15

Lessons in Chemistry

Written by: Bonnie Garmus

• Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
• Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 952
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 841
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 836

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

Very boring

• By LW on 2023-04-05

Olga Dies Dreaming

Written by: Xochitl Gonzalez

• Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Inés del Castillo, Armando Riesco
• Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 37
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 31
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 30

It’s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo” are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one percent, but she can’t seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.

• By Vanny on 2023-02-14

Burning Questions

• Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2022

Written by: Margaret Atwood

• Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Naomi Alderman, and others
• Length: 19 hrs
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 32
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 25
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 25

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to burning questions. In over 50 pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic.

Witty, touching, thought provoking.

• By Jessica Sloan on 2022-04-04

Sea of Tranquility

• Written by: Emily St. John Mandel
• Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and others
• Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 286
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 249
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 249

In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording.

Emily St. Jean Mandel's best

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-05-28

The Candy House

Written by: Jennifer Egan

• Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Nicole Lewis, Thomas Sadoski, and others
• Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 3.5 out of 5 stars 42
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 37
• Story 3.5 out of 5 stars 37

The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes.

• 3 out of 5 stars

I have no clue what I just read

• By Karine Marcoux on 2023-03-13

Young Mungo

Written by: Douglas Stuart

• Narrated by: Chris Reilly
• Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 63
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 51
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 50

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the dovecote that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. 

Awestruck!!

• By Tre2020 on 2022-12-17

The Diamond Eye

Written by: Kate Quinn

• Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
• Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,097
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 976
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 971

In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.

Incredible story

• By Monk D on 2022-10-06

When We Lost Our Heads

Written by: Heather O'Neill

• Narrated by: Jeanna Phillips
• Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 82
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 72
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 71

Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At age twelve, with her pile of blond curls and unparalleled sense of whimsy, she’s the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, the affluent strip of nineteenth-century Montreal where powerful families live. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly and brilliant, moves to the neighbourhood.

Distractingly bad narration

• By Jan Little on 2022-11-06

To Paradise

Written by: Hanya Yanagihara

• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, and others
• Length: 28 hrs and 47 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 44
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 40

To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.

Ambitious, Riddled With Issues

• By Fraser Simons on 2022-01-15

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Written by: Hernan Diaz

• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
• Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 52
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 43
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 42

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds , a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.

Maneuvering in the stock market!

• By Sandra trafford on 2023-12-05

Written by: Vaishnavi Patel

• Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
• Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 53
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 43

So begins Kaikeyi’s story. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on legends of the gods: how they churned the vast ocean to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land of Bharat prospers, and how they offer powerful boons to the devout and the wise. Yet she watches as her father unceremoniously banishes her mother, listens as her own worth is reduced to how great a marriage alliance she can secure. And when she calls upon the gods for help, they never seem to hear.

excellent story to be swept up in.

• By Anonymous User on 2023-03-28

Probably Ruby

Written by: Lisa Bird-Wilson

• Narrated by: Dakota Ray Hebert
• Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 8

Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can't afford to complain too loudly about Ruby's Indigenous roots. But when her new parents' marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations that lead her to search, in the unlikeliest of places, for her Indigenous identity. Unabashedly self-destructing on alcohol, drugs, and bad relationships, Ruby grapples with the meaning of the legacy left to her.

Loved it! Well read!!

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-11-24

Four Treasures of the Sky

Written by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang

• Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Katharine Chin
• Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 8
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 8

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her.

A sad part of history beautifully written

• By Dawn on 2024-01-11

Time Is a Mother

Written by: Ocean Vuong

• Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
• Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 3

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous , Vuong contends with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the cost of being the product of an American war in America. At once vivid, brave, and propulsive, Vuong’s poems circle fragmented lives to find both restoration as well as the epicenter of the break.

One Italian Summer

Written by: Rebecca Serle

• Narrated by: Lauren Graham
• Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 168
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 145
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 142

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.

Not worth it.

• By Yalda on 2022-04-12

Written by: Charmaine Wilkerson

• Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman, Simone Mcintyre
• Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 112
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 93
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 92

In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.

Very enjoyable

• By Victoria on 2024-01-13

• Written by: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle
• Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
• Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 103
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 91
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 90

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.

Fantastic Book

• By Sue on 2022-02-04

Written by: Isabel Allende , and others

The Christie Affair

Written by: Nina de Gramont

• Narrated by: Lucy Scott
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 182
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 165
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 163

London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those 11 mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?

• By K L on 2023-01-29

The Unsinkable Greta James

Written by: Jennifer E. Smith

• Narrated by: Mae Whitman
• Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 15
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 13
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 13

Right after the sudden death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy—the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted; the kind he warned her about when he urged her to make more practical choices with her life.

Thoroughly enjoyed!

• By Laurel on 2022-12-10

The German Wife

Written by: Kelly Rimmer

• Narrated by: Nancy Peterson, Ann Marie Gideon
• Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 171
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 154
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 150

Berlin, 1930 —When a wave of change sweeps a radical political party to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes’s academic husband benefits from the ambitions of its newly elected chancellor. Although Sofie and Jürgen do not share the social views growing popular in Hitler’s Germany, Jürgen’s position with its burgeoning rocket program changes their diminishing fortunes for the better. But as Sofie watches helplessly, her beloved Berlin begins to transform, forcing her to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their young family’s security, and what the price for their neutrality will be.

Spellbinding story which incites Empathy

• By Kathleen S on 2022-10-28

Written by: Tara M. Stringfellow

• Narrated by: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo, Tara Stringfellow
• Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 10
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 10

Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.

The School for Good Mothers

Written by: Jessamine Chan

• Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 68
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 59
• Story 3.5 out of 5 stars 59

Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.

A bit doomsday, but interesting

• By Grant klassen on 2023-02-22

The Books of Jacob

• Written by: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator
• Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman, Gilli Messer
• Length: 35 hrs and 37 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 16
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 14
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 15

In the mid-18th century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

• By YNM Toronto on 2022-05-27

Written by: Olga Tokarczuk , and others

Moon Witch, Spider King

Written by: Marlon James

• Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
• Length: 30 hrs and 47 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 19
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 15
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 15

In Black Leopard, Red Wolf , Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King , Sogolon takes centre stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. It's also the story of a century-long feud—seen through the eyes of a 177-year-old witch—that Sogolon had with the Aesi, chancellor to the king.

Epic and Gripping

• By anonymous woman on 2022-04-28

Pure Colour

Written by: Sheila Heti

• Narrated by: Sheila Heti
• Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 11
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 9
• Story 3.5 out of 5 stars 9

Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.

Daughters of the Deer

Written by: Danielle Daniel

• Narrated by: Jani Lauzon, Tyrone Savage, Brefny Caribou
• Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 37

1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief begs her to accept the white man’s proposal, she cannot refuse him, and sheds her deerskin tunic for a borrowed blue wedding dress to become Pierre’s bride.

Stopped reading at chapter 2

• By Anonymous User on 2022-03-09

Animal Person

Written by: Alexander MacLeod

• Narrated by: Victoria Carr, Richard Clarkin, Frank Cox-O'Connell, and others
• Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 10
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 9
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 10

Startling, suspenseful, deeply humane yet alert to the undertow of our darker instincts, the eight stories in Animal Person illuminate what it means to exist in the perilous space between desire and action, and to have your faith in what you hold true buckle and give way.

The Best of the Plus Catalogue

Impact Winter

Written by: Travis Beacham

• Narrated by: full cast
• Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
• Original Recording
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,168
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,043
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,038

From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim , comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark.

This book gave me goosebumps.

• By Cécilia N'zian on 2022-02-17

Sidney Crosby

• The Rookie Year

Written by: Sidney Crosby

• Narrated by: Sidney Crosby, Joe Manganiello
• Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 2,342
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 2,011
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 2,006

Sidney Crosby is ready to tell his story in his own words. As one of the greatest NHL players of all time, he reflects on his 2005-06 rookie season with the Pittsburgh Penguins. From a Canadian phenom dubbed “the next Gretzky” to an 18-year-old carrying the burden of a struggling franchise, he talks candidly about the intense pressure he was under, the surreal experience of lacing up alongside his childhood idol Mario Lemieux and the truth about his rivalry with Alex Ovechkin. 

Excellent book.

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-12

Finding Tamika

• Written by: Erika Alexander, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, and others
• Narrated by: Erika Alexander
• Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Black girls and women disappear every day, but not without a trace. Join actress and activist Erika Alexander in a neo-noir, true crime drama as she searches for Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old Black woman from Spartanburg, SC who went missing in 2004. Her case became a rallying cry for other missing Black women in America and led to a growing demand to expose a system that ignores missing girls and women of color.  

Shed light on the missing black women

• By Jevenson Nesmon on 2023-09-28

Written by: Erika Alexander , and others

Summer In Argyle

• Written by: Nate Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk
• Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Brian Posehn, Andrew Friedman, and others
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 12
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 11
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 11

One town. One murder. One million hot dogs.

• By Kelly Brianna on 2022-09-09

Written by: Nate Odenkirk , and others

The Wrong One

Written by: Dervla McTiernan

• Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Michael Crouch
• Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 218
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 200
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 201

In this new novella from the number one internationally best-selling author of The Sisters and The Murder Rule , Dervla McTiernan, a mother and son fighting to prove her innocence are reunited with an estranged friend—a detective who may hold the key to her freedom—as they’re forced to put their differences aside to uncover the shocking truth behind the crime.

Disappointed

• By Cecile Dorken on 2023-10-02

Oracle 2: The Dreamland Murders

Written by: Andrew Pyper

• Narrated by: Joshua Jackson, Devon Bostick, Humberly Gonzalez, and others
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 617
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 574
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 574

Oracle 2: The Dreamland Murders is a gripping psychological thriller series follow-up to Andrew Pyper’s audiobook Oracle.

Nothing like the first one. A solid disappointment

• By Katie Borek on 2022-05-22

The Miranda Obsession

Written by: Jen Silverman

• Narrated by: Rachel Brosnahan, Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, and others
• Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 156
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 137
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 137

Imagine a 1980s world of sumptuous hotel rooms, restaurants, New York City penthouses, and the powerful men who move easily between these pinnacles of luxury. They are music producers, rock stars, writers, and restaurateurs. They are household names like Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, and Sting. And yet, each man has an entire aspect to his life that he doesn’t talk about publicly—his depression, his rocky marriage, his feelings of shame and failure, his private loss of faith. And now: The phone rings. Imagine the woman who has each of these men at her beck and call.  

Short and sweet!

• By DLP on 2022-05-10

Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy

• Written by: Cate Blanchett, Danny Kennedy
• Narrated by: Danny Kennedy, Cate Blanchett
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 6

Actor and environmental campaigner Cate Blanchett and clean technology expert Danny Kennedy explore eco-anxiety, optimism and hope in the face of climate change. The two long-term friends take listeners around the world to hear from the most exciting green energy initiatives addressing the climate crisis. From a Navajo solar farm in the Arizona desert, to renewable technology in Indonesian fishing, and ideas that could transform the global fashion industry; Cate and Danny offer uplifting stories of ingenuity and resilience.

Written by: Cate Blanchett , and others

It Takes a Woman

Written by: DeVon Franklin

• Narrated by: DeVon Franklin, Aunt Nuna, Aunt Ida, and others
• Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 22
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 19
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 19

There’s an African proverb that says “It takes a village to raise a child”. Hollywood producer and best-selling author DeVon Franklin offers a personal twist: It Takes a Woman . In this riveting and soul-stirring Audible Original, Franklin introduces us to the women who raised him—a “village of love” that selflessly came together to shape him into the man he is today. 

• By Tasha Gaye Heslop on 2022-07-26

Radiant Minds

• The World of Oliver Sacks
• Written by: Greenlawn Drive Productions, Audiation, Oliver Sacks Foundation
• Narrated by: Indre Viskontas
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 16
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 16

Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks investigates consciousness, the brain, and the human experience, drawing inspiration from works by the neurologist and beloved author Oliver Sacks. Oliver cared for people with misunderstood neurological conditions at a time when many in the medical community had turned their backs on them.  

Fascinating!

• By Norma-Jean on 2022-04-19

Written by: Greenlawn Drive Productions , and others

Young Rich Widows

• Written by: Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, and others
• Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Helen Laser, and others
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 148
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 128

It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside New York City. Four very different women have just lost the loves of their lives: Justine, a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life; Camille, a beautiful, young second wife some suspect is a gold digger; Krystle, committed to leaving the firm to her sons after her husband worked his whole life to support them all; and Meredith, a stripper at the local club who was in a secret relationship.

One Great Audiobook!

• By LDanna on 2022-04-15

Written by: Kimberly Belle , and others

Coupledom with Idris and Sabrina Elba (Series 2)

• Written by: Idris Elba, Sabrina Elba
• Narrated by: Idris Elba, Sabrina Elba
• Overall 3.5 out of 5 stars 2
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1
• Story 3 out of 5 stars 1

Our relationships can challenge us. They evolve over time. Sometimes they’re fleeting. And when managed properly they can unlock our best selves. In Coupledom , Idris & Sabrina Elba sit down with some of the world’s most interesting duos for honest, unguarded conversations about all the complexities of living a shared life. Along the way, they unlock wisdom for those navigating their own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match.

Written by: Idris Elba , and others

Written by: Mike Batistick

• Narrated by: Ethan Hawke, Nicole Lewis, Adriana Ducassi, and others
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 16

Ethan Hawke ( Training Day ) stars in this dark, thrilling, character-driven crime drama. This cinematic Audible Original is presented in eight episodes with intense, wall-to-wall sound design and grim and gritty performances at a fever-pitch. 

this is Ethan Hawke's Training Day character

• By Wolfwalker on 2022-06-12

How To Be Gay with Josh Thomas

Written by: Josh Thomas

• Narrated by: Josh Thomas, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, and others
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 12
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 12

In this unflinchingly honest documentary and memoir, comedian Josh Thomas asks the big question: how do I be gay? Irreverent but informative, Josh Thomas speaks to a party of hilarious and experienced queer storytellers as they share true tales and advice on how to be gay. When I was a teenager trying to work out how to be gay I would ask google impossible questions. 'Am I gay?' 'How can I test if I’m gay?' 'If I’m gay do I have to do anal?' It didn’t work....

Worth the a listen!

• By Blove81 on 2022-06-02

Maejor Frequency

Written by: Maejor

• Narrated by: Maejor
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 1
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 1

A groundbreaking sound experience by a renowned music producer and performer.

Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis

• Written by: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons, Sam Graham-Felsen, and others
• Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 23
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 21
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 21

From the co-creators of Slow Burn , Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events.  

Brilliantly done

• By Heather M. on 2022-05-15

Written by: Leon Neyfakh , and others

Here's Exactly What To Do

• Simple Tools For A Happier You

Written by: Mel Robbins

• Narrated by: Mel Robbins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 76
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 69
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 69

Mel Robbins is back, just in time to help you reimagine the life you want.

Thank you for your direct approach!

• By Anonymous User on 2023-05-22

Songs That Shook the Planet

• Words + Music | Vol. 26

Written by: Chuck D

• Narrated by: Chuck D
• Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 135
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 111
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 110

Hip-hop pioneer Chuck D, the legendary lyricist and cofounder of Public Enemy, takes listeners on an extraordinary journey through politically and socially conscious music. Part history lesson and part memoir, Songs That Shook the Planet spans genres and decades to call out the brave artists who continue to inspire necessary change in the world.

Enjoyed this listening

• By Rob on 2023-06-06

The Big Lie

• Written by: John Mankiewicz, Jamie Napoli, Paul Jarrico
• Narrated by: Jon Hamm, Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, and others
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 25
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 24

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see.

Excellent !

• By MarieL on 2022-06-19

Written by: John Mankiewicz , and others

Quite the Contrary

• On Life, Work, and Loving Miles Davis

Written by: Yvonne Durant

• Narrated by: Allyson Johnson, Yvonne Durant
• Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 8

Yvonne Durant was one of the few Black women writing ads for major brands in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Ambitious and determined, she ultimately won a position at a global ad agency in Milan, Italy. While her career was exciting, it was a challenge to be self-defining in a Mad Men world that had little experience with or respect for Black experience.   

Fascinating story of Miles Davis, Advertising Jazz

• By Une Verre du Vin on 2022-02-16

• Written by: Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Camilo, and others
• Narrated by: Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Camilo, and others
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 4
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 4
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 4

Where are you from? That’s the question presented at the beginning of each episode of Origins , Audible’s new music storytelling series, featuring eight groundbreaking artists. This series works in showing the common denominator shared between them: a burning desire—truly, a need—to create and express oneself, and features Billie Eilish, Camilo, Doja Cat, Flying Lotus, King Princess, Koffee, Mickey Guyton, and Tobe Nwigwe.

• By Angie on 2022-12-10

Written by: Billie Eilish , and others

Living Legend

• Words + Music | Vol. 31

Written by: John Legend

• Narrated by: John Legend
• Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 71
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 67
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 67

This is the story of how a nerdy, homeschooled kid in the church choir named John Stephens became the Grammy-winning, platinum-selling, genre-pushing pop star we know as John Legend. For a long time, he led a double life—excelling as a star student while his home life was in shambles, working in corporate America as a financial consultant while moonlighting as a musician in nightclubs, always straddling a line between the person he was and the person he wanted to be. These are his Words + Music.

• By Sheena Henderson on 2023-10-23

Space: 1969

Written by: Bill Oakley

• Narrated by: Natasha Lyonne, full cast
• Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 193
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 170
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 170

Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black ) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up.  But when Nancy gets caught up in an outer-space conspiracy involving President Kennedy, former vice-president Richard Nixon, and an intergalactic object that could change the course of history, she gets way more adventure than she bargained for.  

• By Elizabeth Hoornweg on 2022-07-15

The Road to Redunktion

• Words + Music | Vol. 29

Written by: Tenacious D

• Narrated by: Tenacious D
• Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 108
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 97
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 97

Through hard work and, well, tenacity, Jack Black and Kyle Gass catapulted themselves into rock superstardom. But before they were the only two members of the best rock band on earth, they were just Jack and Kyle, two theater students finding their footing in Los Angeles. The D’s trajectory was a slow and steady rise from clubs to a guest spot on the hit show Mr. Show on HBO to albums to film to headlining festivals across the globe. But it wasn’t without its pains. This is their story. These are their Words + Music.    

• By Sarah Kyle on 2023-09-22

• Written by: Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 64
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 61
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 61

From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre defining fiction podcast Welcome to Night Vale , comes the new LA noire Unlicensed , starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and T.L Thompson.

Excellent. I really enjoyed it.

• By elizabeth doyle on 2022-11-25

Written by: Joseph Fink , and others

Summer of '85

• Written by: Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, and others
• Narrated by: Kevin Hart
• Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 33
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 33

Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rocked—in almost every sense of the word—by two unprecedented events: Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s May 13 decision to bomb the headquarters of MOVE, a controversial Philadelphia-based radical communal organization, and the July 13 Live Aid concert, where international rock royalty convened in Philly to raise money for victims of the Ethiopian famine. Separated by just two months and eight miles, these events would showcase both the best and the worst of the so-called City of Brotherly Love.

Moving and eye-opening

• By Anonymous User on 2022-10-28

Written by: Chris Morrow , and others

Mandela: The Lost Tapes

Written by: Richard Stengel

• Narrated by: Richard Stengel

In 1993, after 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela sat down with ghostwriter Richard Stengel to begin working on Long Walk to Freedom, a critically acclaimed memoir that would become a best seller around the globe.

Fun way to learn history

• By Anonymous User on 2023-02-03

Written by: Rob Fresco

• Narrated by: Taylor Kitsch, Kate Mara, Darrin Kozlowski, and others
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 68
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 64
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 63

The Sangres Motorcycle Club are outlaws, notorious for drug-running, illegal weapons sales, and possibly even murder. But what they don’t know is that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a man on the inside. Can Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski survive long enough to bring them down from within?

Was on the edge of my seat the entire time

• By John Walter on 2023-08-27

The Prophecy

Written by: Randy McKinnon

• Narrated by: Kerry Washington, Daniel Dae Kim, David Oyelowo, and others
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 163
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 155
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 156

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”  

Audible achieving new heights!

• By Daniel O. on 2022-07-27

• The Devil's Game

Written by: Charles Kindinger

• Narrated by: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Phil LaMarr, and others
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 226
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 219
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 218

Audible’s bold new addition to the Sherlock Holmes universe dares to ask: What if Holmes’ most villainous nemesis was actually an innocent man?

Sooooo good!

• By K L on 2023-04-26

Editors' Picks

The Woman in the Library

• Written by: Sulari Gentill
• Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
• Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 66
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 61
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 62

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation, and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.

Fun double plot line book

• By Anonymous User on 2022-12-20

More red herrings than a school of fish

A murder mystery with so many layers! Sulari Gentill has written a twisting and ingenious book within a book with plot devices so clever and characters so vivid that I had to keep reminding myself that it's fiction. Beginning with a woman’s scream at the Boston Public Library, Gentill crafts an intricate thriller that left me guessing until the killer is revealed (and as an avid mystery & thriller listener, I deeply appreciated a twist that I didn't even begin to suspect!). It's the kind of audiobook I'll be listening to again, to marvel at how all the ''clues'' provided throughout the story pointed me in an entirely different direction from the truth.

If you loved Station Eleven...

Fans of Station Eleven , a rich and nuanced saga about a fictional pandemic, will enjoy the newest novel from Emily St. John Mandel, which includes elements of the real-life 2020 pandemic woven between historic and other-worldly storylines. Sea of Tranquility stands on its own, but takes various elements from Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel , so this is best listened to as part of a trilogy. This is a short, compelling story, packed with multiple twisting time travel threads--a kind of subtle science fiction that has a very broad, literary appeal. As the protagonist of Sea of Tranquility says, ''...fiction can bleed into the world and leave a mark on someone’s skin'', and I certainly felt this way after finishing this unique, deeply layered listen.

Part of Your World

Written by: Abby Jimenez

• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Zachary Webber
• Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 408
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 369
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 368

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable.

Screaming crying throwing up

• By Anonymous User on 2023-05-19

The narration is pure perfection

I first fell in love with Abby Jimenez’s work when I listened to Friend Zone . Her latest romance, Part of Your World , kept that love alive. Her ability to shape characters that are likable but real is a cut above the rest. This book made me both laugh and cry, and I related to the conflict Alexis faced in choosing between living a life she wants and not wanting to disappoint her family. Zachary Webber and Julia Whelan’s narration was pure perfection, and I ended the book with that warm, swept-away feeling that comes with the best romances. I’m already looking forward to her next listen.

My Other Husband

• Written by: Dorothy Koomson
• Narrated by: Amanda Shodeko, Sara Novak
• Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
• Overall 3 out of 5 stars 1
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 1

Cleo Forsum is a best-selling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series The Baking Detective is a huge success. Writing is all she's ever wanted to do, and baking and murder stories have proved a winning combination. But now she has decided to walk away from it all—including divorcing her husband, Wallace—before her past secrets catch up with her. As Cleo drafts the final ever episodes of the series, people she knows start getting hurt. And it's soon clear that someone is trying to frame her for murder.

A husband that no one knows about

This story centers around a best-selling author, Cleo Forsum, who comes to a crossroads in her life, deciding to leave her husband and live a life away from the spotlight, but for a reason no one can know. When she makes this life changing shift, people around her are soon being targeted, with violence, even leading to attempted murder. As a prime suspect, Cleo can easily clear her name of everything, if she were to simply tell the investigators, and world, that she has a valid alibi during these incidents – she was usually with her ''other'' husband. A husband that no one knows about. The intrigue, twists and turns that capture this story, led me to really question how far someone will go to keep a secret that could ruin their life, yet risk hurting loved ones. You have to wonder, are some secrets best left as they are? Or could revealing that secret help save a life? This was a great listen, with Dorothy Koomson weaving a story of suspense, some comedy, and a fast-paced timeline of events I could not stop listening to. If you are into Mysteries & Thrillers, this is a great title to keep you guessing until the last chapter.

• Mysteries & Thrillers

The Golden Couple

• Written by: Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
• Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Marin Ireland
• Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 415
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 363
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 360

If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal—she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault—and almost absorbs the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple—until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their eight-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist.

• By Tracy on 2023-02-10

Written by: Greer Hendricks , and others

Written by: Nita Prose

• Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose
• Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,226
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,953
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,944

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job.

• By Kevin Heidt on 2022-02-28

The Paris Apartment

Written by: Lucy Foley

• Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, and others
• Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 1,144
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 966
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 961

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.

Absolutely Fabulous

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-03-06

A Rip Through Time

Written by: Kelley Armstrong

• Narrated by: Kate Handford
• Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 857
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 776
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 773

May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Thomson had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to the reality.

6/5 highly recommend

• By Bailey on 2022-06-06

A Flicker in the Dark

Written by: Stacy Willingham

• Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
• Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 412
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 368
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 368

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.

This narrator is not for me.

• By Anonymous User on 2022-01-17

The Book of Cold Cases

Written by: Simone St. James

• Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kirsten Potter, Robert Petkoff
• Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 106
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 94
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 94

In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect - a rich, eccentric 23-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Excellent!!!

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-28

Reckless Girls

Written by: Rachel Hawkins

• Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 83
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 71

When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She’s also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape.

Great summer read

• By Ash on 2022-08-09

The Night Shift

Written by: Alex Finlay

• Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Cady McClain, Devon Hales, and others
• Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 59
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 55
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 55

It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. 

Beginning is good..then drags

• By Anita on 2023-12-27

Portrait of a Thief

Written by: Grace D. Li

• Narrated by: Eunice Wong, Austin Ku
• Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 21
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 18
• Story 3.5 out of 5 stars 18

A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son who has always been his parents' American Dream. But when a mysterious Chinese benefactor reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.

Notes on an Execution

Written by: Danya Kukafka

• Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Jim Meskimen
• Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 61
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 54
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 54

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life.

Too much for me

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-07-05

The Overnight Guest

Written by: Heather Gudenkauf

• Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
• Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 278
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 254
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 252

True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very house, two people were murdered in cold blood and a girl disappeared without a trace.

• By Erin DeLong on 2023-03-17

What Happened to the Bennetts

Written by: Lisa Scottoline

• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
• Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 76
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 69
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 68

Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever.

Starts as one type, changes to another

• By Ashley Janzen on 2022-04-10

Something to Hide

• A Lynley Novel

Written by: Elizabeth George

• Narrated by: Simon Vance
• Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 137
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 127
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 127

When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is assigned to the case, which has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it. 

Best in the series!

• By Nicole on 2022-01-17

The Violin Conspiracy

• A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)

Written by: Brendan Slocumb

• Narrated by: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
• Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 49
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 42
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 42

Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.

Loved this!

• By Leslie Windsor on 2024-01-03

• An Orphan X Novel (Orphan X, Book 7)

Written by: Gregg Hurwitz

• Narrated by: Scott Brick
• Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 117
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 107
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 106

Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission—The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble.

• By Susan G on 2022-02-24

• Gray Man, Book 11

Written by: Mark Greaney

• Narrated by: Jay Snyder
• Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 264
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 236
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 234

Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of a CIA action team. In their first mission, they took out a terrorist leader, at a terrible price. Years have passed. The Gray Man is on a simple mission when he sees a ghost: the long-dead terrorist, but he's remarkably energetic for a dead man. A decade of time hasn't changed the Gray Man. He isn't one to leave a job unfinished or a blood debt unpaid.

Worst Greaney book

• By Bubba on 2022-05-03

The Patient's Secret

Written by: Loreth Anne White

• Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 79
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 74
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 74

Lily Bradley is a respected psychotherapist married to a distinguished professor. They live in a dream house with their two children in close-knit Story Cove. Lily lives a well-ordered life. Or so it seems. As a therapist, she knows everyone keeps things hidden. Even her. Then sensual and free-spirited Arwen Harper rolls into town in her hand-painted VW van, her sixteen-year-old son riding shotgun. Overnight, Story Cove’s secrets are no longer safe. Because Arwen might know her new neighbors better than they know themselves.

• By Haiku_Queen on 2023-05-27

The Lightning Rod

• A Zig & Nola Novel

Written by: Brad Meltzer

• Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 23

Archie Mint has a secret. He’s led a charmed life—he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered—and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint’s been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined.

Difficult to get through

• By Lynn on 2023-09-03

• Wilde, Book 2

Written by: Harlan Coben

• Narrated by: Steven Weber
• Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 239
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 213

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father.

Great story

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-11-18

Written by: Sarah Pinborough

• Narrated by: Sarah Durham
• Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 95
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 95

Emma can’t sleep. It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer. Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth birthday. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it. Is that what’s happening to Emma?

Very well done!

• By PE anonymous on 2023-12-27

The Investigator

Written by: John Sandford

• Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
• Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 111
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 92
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 93

By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty’s ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.

not bad - great gap filler

• By Dean Collver on 2022-05-23

City on Fire

Written by: Don Winslow

• Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
• Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself.

Compelling story

• By D on 2023-12-05

I'll Be You

Written by: Janelle Brown

• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kate Rudd
• Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 91
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 82
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 82

As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn’t even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other’s breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults, their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect homemaker: married to a real estate lawyer, living in a house just blocks from the beach.

enjoyed the story

• By Albert valdes on 2023-07-13

Written by: Kirsten Miller

• Narrated by: January LaVoy
• Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 77
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 70
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 70

Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick— a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.

Strong feminist theme

• By Jana on 2022-12-13

The Murder Rule

• Narrated by: Kate Orsini, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch
• Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story—one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it—that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally bestselling author of The Scholar and The Ruin .

Very good book !

• By Patrick Berard on 2023-07-20

Tom Clancy Zero Hour

• A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel, Book 9

Written by: Don Bentley

• Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 113
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 103
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 103

When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a “dead-man’s switch”, activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea’s capital. A mysterious voice from North Korea offers Jack a way to stop the peninsula’s rush to war, but her price may be more than he can afford to pay.

Great Listen

• By Derek on 2023-07-23

Written by: Christopher Moore

• Narrated by: Johnny Heller
• Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 44
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 43
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 42

San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir —are on the hustle: they’re trying to open a driving school; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad.

Delicious sequel, did not want it to end!

• By Kathryn Thurber on 2023-11-06

In the Blood

• A Thriller (Terminal List, Book 5)

Written by: Jack Carr

• Narrated by: Ray Porter
• Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 585
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 525
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 522

The #1 New York Times bestselling Terminal List series continues as James Reece embarks on a global journey of vengeance. A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso having just completed a targeted assassination for the state of Israel. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky.

Worth the wait

• By RoadRunner39 on 2022-06-02

The Lioness

Written by: Chris Bohjalian

• Narrated by: January LaVoy, Grace Experience, Gabrielle De Cuir
• Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 9

Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness —will spend their days taking photos.

The Lioness Falls Short

• By Lefty Northern Woman on 2022-09-21

The Rising Tide

Written by: Sam Lloyd

• Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
• Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 14
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 12
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 12

Life can change in a heartbeat. Lucy has everything she could wish for: a beautiful home high on the clifftops above the Devonshire coast, her own thriving business, a devoted husband and two beloved children. Then one morning, time stops.

One of the best books ever

• By RVing in Canada on 2022-08-30

Pandora's Jar

• Women in the Greek Myths

Written by: Natalie Haynes

• Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
• Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 77
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 66
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 66

The tellers of Greek myths—historically men—have routinely sidelined the female characters. When they do take a larger role, women are often portrayed as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil—like Pandora, the woman of eternal scorn and damnation whose curiosity is tasked with causing all the world’s suffering and wickedness when she opened that forbidden box. But, as Natalie Haynes reveals, in ancient Greek myths there was no box. It was a jar . . . which is far more likely to tip over.

Fan freaking tasting

• By loralou on 2023-05-19

Bittersweet

• How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Written by: Susan Cain

• Narrated by: Susan Cain
• Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 166
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 138
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 139

With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an un­tapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she em­ploys the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection, and transcendence.

Compartmentalize Longing and Heal Depression

• By Torri on 2022-07-22

• A Personal and Scientific Journey

Written by: Florence Williams

• Narrated by: Florence Williams
• Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 20

For fans of Wild and Lab Girl , Heartbreak is a uniquely immersive audiobook, merging science and self-discovery to change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love. Narrated by the author and accompanied by in-the-moment diary recordings and interviews, Heartbreak is an immersive audiobook that taps into one of the most shared experiences in the animal kingdom: heartbreak.    

• By L. Cornish on 2023-05-02

The Nineties

Written by: Chuck Klosterman

• Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman, Dion Graham
• Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 148
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 126
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 124

It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone’s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn’t know who it was.

This Explains Me

• By Karen W. Lam on 2023-01-16

Stolen Focus

• Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

Written by: Johann Hari

• Narrated by: Johann Hari
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 369
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 320
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 317

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

Sleep Data, Sleep.

• By David Lakhan on 2022-02-14

The Betrayal of Anne Frank

• A Cold Case Investigation

Written by: Rosemary Sullivan

• Narrated by: Julia Whelan
• Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 125
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 110

Over thirty million people have read  The Diary of a Young Girl,  the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent Anne to her death in a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how the Franks and four other people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.

Stunning, humbling, must-read

• By Erin M. Naef on 2022-02-07

The Power of Regret

• How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Written by: Daniel H. Pink

• Narrated by: Daniel H. Pink, Gisela Chipe, Edward Hong, and others
• Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 88
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 68

Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret . They’re a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives. Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. 

A great storyteller outlines a flawed argument

• By Drew Thompson on 2022-08-24

Tell Me Everything

• The Story of a Private Investigation

Written by: Erika Krouse

• Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
• Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 7
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 6
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 6

Erika Krouse has one of those faces. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this,” people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she’s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down.

Absolutely Riveting

• By Karen W. Lam on 2022-06-13

• My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Written by: Laurie Zaleski

• Narrated by: Erin Moon
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 7
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 7
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 7

Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues - horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs - when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother’s dream her own.

Making Numbers Count

• The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
• Written by: Chip Heath, Karla Starr
• Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
• Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 24
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 20
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 20

A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data - from best-selling business author Chip Heath.

Great book, but get a physical copy instead

• By Ryan James on 2023-06-10

Written by: Chip Heath , and others

• The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

Written by: David Heath

• Narrated by: David Heath, Eric Jason Martin
• Length: 8 hrs
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 3
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 3

In Longshot , investigative journalist David Heath takes listeners inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the importance of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine in medical history. With never-before-reported details, Heath reveals how these scientists overcame countless obstacles to give the world an unprecedented head start when we needed a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Founders

• The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

Written by: Jimmy Soni

• Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
• Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins

Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven twenty-first-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they’re as controversial as they are admired.

• By Ono Northey on 2023-06-08

The Worth of Water

• Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge
• Written by: Gary White, Matt Damon
• Narrated by: Gary White, Matt Damon
• Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 6

On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with water - and think nothing of it. But around the world, more than three-quarters of a billion people can’t do any of that - because they have no clean water source near their homes. This crisis affects a third of the people on the planet. It keeps kids out of school and women out of work. It traps people in extreme poverty. It spreads disease. It’s also solvable. That conviction is what brought together movie actor Matt Damon and water expert and engineer Gary White.

Written by: Gary White , and others

• Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova Scotia

Written by: Paul Palango

• Narrated by: Matthew Hawkins
• Length: 20 hrs
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 228
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 199
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 201

As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter.

Way too long

• By Jacqueline on 2022-06-12

The Trayvon Generation

• Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Written by: Elizabeth Alexander

• Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander
• Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 5
• Performance 3.5 out of 5 stars 4
• Story 3.5 out of 5 stars 4

In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander—one of the great literary voices of our time—turned a mother's eye to her sons’ and students’ generation and wrote a celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America.

A must listen

• By KT on 2022-06-16

Fresh Banana Leaves

• Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

Written by: Jessica Hernandez Ph.D.

• Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 15

Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as "soft"--the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization.

Eye opening

• By Amanda Goddard on 2023-10-21

• True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe

• Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
• Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 85
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 69

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing —and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue.

Great voice and interesting stories

• By Lana Hergott on 2023-03-31

The Invisible Kingdom

• Reimagining Chronic Illness

Written by: Meghan O'Rourke

• Narrated by: Meghan O'Rourke
• Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 7

A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: These are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier.

So enlightening!!

• By Anonymous User on 2022-06-09

His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

• One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
• Written by: Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
• Narrated by: Dion Graham, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
• Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 6

The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by White officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off the largest protest movement in the history of the United States, awakening millions to the pervasiveness of racial injustice.

Beautiful story

• By Ryan on 2022-12-29

Written by: Robert Samuels , and others

• The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Written by: Nathalia Holt

• Narrated by: Erin Bennett
• Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins

In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels.  

More stories of heroic women obliterated from history

• By Lisa Gemino on 2024-02-24

South to America

• A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Written by: Imani Perry

• Narrated by: Imani Perry
• Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 3

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind , the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America , Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.

Does not disappoint

• By Gender Inclusivity Awareness on 2023-03-04

The Palace Papers

• Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

Written by: Tina Brown

• Narrated by: Tina Brown
• Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 209
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 180
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 176

Tina Brown has been observing and chronicling the British monarchy for three decades, and her sweeping account is full of powerful revelations, newly reported details, and searing insight gleaned from remarkable access to royal insiders. Stylish, witty, and erudite, The Palace Papers will irrevoca­bly change how the world perceives and under­stands the royal family.

Palace Papers

• By Trish on 2022-06-04

The Need to Be Whole

Written by: Wendell Berry

• Narrated by: Nick Offerman
• Length: 19 hrs and 54 mins
• Overall 2 out of 5 stars 1
• Story 1 out of 5 stars 1

Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.

Inside Voice

• My Obsession with How We Sound

Written by: Lake Bell

• Narrated by: Lake Bell, Malcolm Gladwell -Contributor, Drew Barrymore -Contributor, and others
• Length: 6 hrs
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 24
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 23

Raise your hand if you cringe at the sound of your own voice, worry that you actually do sound like your mother, or have spent a sleepless night wondering if your inner and outer voices are in sync. Now, hands down, headphones on. Lake Bell is going to tell you why you’re not alone and why your voice matters in the most deeply personal ways. Inside Voice unpacks the writer-director-producer-actor’s obsession with voice and all its permutations.

an informative and fun listen!

• By Anonymous User on 2023-04-23

Rest Is Resistance

• A Manifesto

Written by: Tricia Hersey

• Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
• Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 58
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 53
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 52

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging, and machine‑level pace—feeding into the same engine that enslaved millions into brutal labor for its own relentless benefit. In Rest Is Resistance , Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted.

Beautiful, powerful, loving and transformative!

• By Onye N on 2022-12-30

• A Backstory

Written by: Heather Radke

• Narrated by: Heather Radke, Emily Tremaine
• Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 5
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 5

Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion—and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.

Bootylicious!

• By Chelsea Patterson on 2022-12-08

• How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

Written by: Marisa G. Franco PhD

• Narrated by: Marisa G. Franco PhD
• Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 29
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 26
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 26

How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other relationships? In Platonic , Dr. Marisa G. Franco unpacks the latest, often counterintuitive findings about the bonds between us—for example, why your friends aren’t texting you back (it’s not because they hate you!), and the myth of “friendships happening organically” (making friends, like cultivating any relationship, requires effort!).

This just felt so true!

• By Melian on 2023-11-01

An Immense World

• How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Written by: Ed Yong

• Narrated by: Ed Yong
• Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 70
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 56
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 56

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.

Passionate care demonstrated by the author as well as the vastness of the information

• By NA on 2024-03-01

The Song of the Cell

• An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Written by: Siddhartha Mukherjee

• Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
• Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 30
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 26
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 26

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies , winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene , a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human.

Another success

• By afsaneh on 2023-06-16

Raising Lazarus

• Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

Written by: Beth Macy

• Narrated by: Beth Macy
• Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 4

In her gripping, necessary, and deeply humane follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Dopesick , journalist Beth Macy brings us to the next frontier of the opioid crisis, telling the story of the everyday heroes fighting to stem the tide of drug overdose in communities that are too often left to fend for themselves, and of the activists and relatives of the dead who are still struggling for accountability in America’s courts. Like the treatment innovators she profiles, Beth Macy meets the opioid crisis where it is—not where we think it should be or wish it was.

Best of 2022 Collection

Science fiction & fantasy.

How High We Go in the Dark

Written by: Sequoia Nagamatsu

• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, and others
• Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 147
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 133
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 132

In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus. Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy.

• By Anonymous User on 2022-01-31

The Atlas Six

Written by: Olivie Blake

• Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, and others
• Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 163
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 137
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 137

The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality.

Multiple narrators confusing

• By Paul Van Alstyne on 2022-04-04

House of Sky and Breath

• Crescent City, Book 2

Written by: Sarah J. Maas

• Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
• Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 969
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 967

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal - they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.

So, did we just skip the editor on this one?

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-05-12

Book of Night

Written by: Holly Black

• Narrated by: Sara Amini
• Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 89
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 76
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 76

Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.

Interesting story, but annoying narrator

• By A on 2022-05-13

Daughter of the Moon Goddess

Written by: Sue Lynn Tan

• Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
• Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 144
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 124

Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.

• By Marceline on 2022-12-17

The War of Two Queens

• Blood and Ash, Book 4

Written by: Jennifer L. Armentrout

• Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Tim Campbell
• Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 633
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 557
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 559

Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable.

Pls read this review before spending $ or credit

• By Gigi on 2022-03-22

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Written by: John Scalzi

• Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
• Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 469
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 427
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 425

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.

Strong Sunday School energy.

• By Andrew on 2022-05-16

Nettle & Bone

Written by: T. Kingfisher

• Narrated by: Amara Jasper
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 122
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 109
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 109

Marra never wanted to be a hero. As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. But her sister wasn’t so fortunate—and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks:  

Okay story, fantastic narrator.

• By Tasia on 2022-10-11

Written by: Tochi Onyebuchi

• Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Juliana Vélez, and others
• Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 1
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 1

In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.

wow. excellent writing.

• By Aimee on 2023-04-30

Tell Me an Ending

Written by: Jo Harkin

• Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
• Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 6
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 4
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 4

Across the world, thousands of people are shocked by a notification that they once chose to have a memory removed. Now they are being given an opportunity to get that memory back. Four individuals are filled with new doubts, grappling with the unexpected question of whether to remember unknown events, or to leave them buried forever.

Dead Silence

Written by: S.A. Barnes

• Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
• Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 86
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 80
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 80

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

Delightfully terrifying

• By Devin on 2023-02-22

The Paradox Hotel

Written by: Rob Hart

• Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
• Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 9

Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backward on occasion—and, rumor has it, allows ghosts to stroll the halls.

Very Disappointing

• By Maggie Reid on 2022-03-23

The Starless Crown

• Moon Fall, Book 1

Written by: James Rollins

• Narrated by: James Rollins, Nicola Barber
• Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 30

A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown, she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact—one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe

Excellent Narrator - a master

• By Jenaya on 2024-02-23

The Memory Librarian

• And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Written by: Janelle Monáe

• Narrated by: Janelle Monáe, Bahni Turpin
• Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins

Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts—as a means of self-conception—could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.

Excellent, well worth your time

• By Fraser Simons on 2022-07-03

Star Wars: Brotherhood

Written by: Mike Chen

• Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
• Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 172
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 154

The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers.

• By J & D Campbell on 2022-06-09

Written by: Edward Ashton

• Narrated by: John Pirhalla, Katharine Chin
• Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 75
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 65
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 65

Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.

It’s a trap

• By Peter J. Roy on 2023-01-08

Star Wars: The Fallen Star (The High Republic)

Written by: Claudia Gray

• Narrated by: Marc Thompson
• Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 206
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 188
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 188

Time and again, the vicious raiders known as the Nihil have sought to bring the golden age of the High Republic to a fiery end. Time and again, the High Republic has emerged battered and weary but victorious thanks to its Jedi protectors—and there is no monument to their cause grander than the Starlight Beacon.

Potentially my least favourite star-wars book

• By Murphy Hound on 2022-01-23

He Who Fights with Monsters 5

• A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 5)
• Written by: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
• Narrated by: Heath Miller
• Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 964
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 814
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 813

Jason has discovered that his homeworld is not what he thought. What’s more, the rest of the planet is on the precipice of sharing his revelation. With magic on the rise and forces pulling him in multiple directions, Jason is faced with challenges greater than ever before. Even as his power reaches new and incredible heights, he is faced with the realization that going beyond his best is still not enough.

Good story going the way of Airwolf

• By Spectrum Photography on 2022-05-13

Written by: Shirtaloon , and others

Fevered Star

• Between Earth and Sky, Book 2

Written by: Rebecca Roanhorse

• Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, and others
• Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 43
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 38
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 38

The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded?

A Solid Sequel

• By Anonymous User on 2023-08-29

• Expeditionary Force, Book 14

Written by: Craig Alanson

• Narrated by: R.C. Bray
• Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 595
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 528
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 527

For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent Grade-A extreme awesomeness. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power. Until now. This time, he might need a little help from a band of filthy monkeys.

It's magnificent.

• By Locke Steinbach on 2022-06-07

Ordinary Monsters

• The Talents, Book 1

Written by: J. M. Miro

• Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
• Length: 25 hrs and 20 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 46
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 46

Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When Alice Quicke, a jaded detective with her own troubled past, is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.

• By Esther S. on 2022-08-13

All the Seas of the World

Written by: Guy Gavriel Kay

• Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 56

On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small.

A story of home

• By mavo on 2022-06-09

Sands of Dune

• Novellas from the Worlds of Dune
• Written by: Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 5

The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imperial homeworld of Kaitain, readers and listeners have lived in a universe of treachery and wonder. Now, these stories expand on the Dune universe, telling of the lost years of Gurney Halleck as he works with smugglers on Arrakis in a deadly gambit for revenge; inside the ranks of the Sardaukar as the child of a betrayed nobleman becomes one of the Emperor’s most ruthless fighters.

Written by: Brian Herbert , and others

The Sandman: Act III

• Written by: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
• Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, K.J. Apa, and others
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 623
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 557
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 555

In Act III , we follow Morpheus on a grand journey to take care of family business. He visits with his son Orpheus (Regé-Jean Page), an act that brings with it profound consequences. Accompanied by Delirium (Kristen Schaal), he tracks down their estranged brother, Destruction (David Harewood), the only member of the Endless ever to abandon their post. And at an inn at the intersection of all worlds, a group of travelers are forced together by a storm that threatens to destroy reality itself, with grave repercussions for Morpheus and the rest of the Endless.

not as good as the first 2

• By Daniel on 2023-01-13

Written by: Neil Gaiman , and others

• Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Written by: R. F. Kuang

• Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Billie Fulford-Brown
• Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 301
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 263
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 260

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.

This Was Alright

• By Jamie @ Books and Ladders on 2022-09-29

Spells for Forgetting

Written by: Adrienne Young

• Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Dan Bittner, Mark Deakins, and others
• Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 49
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 40

Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming.

Enchanted from the beginning

• By Ashley Wolsey on 2024-03-14

Legends & Lattes

• A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

Written by: Travis Baldree

• Narrated by: Travis Baldree
• Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 303
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 261
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 260

Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior’s life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune’s shady underbelly may just upset her plans. To build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve.

• By Kindle Customer on 2023-10-14

The World We Make

Written by: N. K. Jemisin

• Narrated by: Robin Miles
• Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 26
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 23

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside.

• By Jesse Cooney on 2023-05-12

Deadbeat Druid

• The Adam Binder Novels, Book 3

Written by: David R. Slayton

• Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
• Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 35
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 30

Adam Binder has lost what matters most to him. Having finally learned the true identity of the warlock preying on his family, what was supposed to be a final confrontation with the fiend instead became a trap that sent Adam’s beloved Vicente into the realm of the dead, where none living are meant to be. Bound by debt, oath, and love, Adam blazes his own trail into the underworld to get Vicente back, and to end the threat of the warlock once and for all. But the road to hell is paved with far more than good intentions.

Read the series

• By Macy GF on 2024-04-03

Cold as Hell

• Black Badge Series, Book 1
• Written by: Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle
• Narrated by: Roger Clark
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 51
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 46

Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good. He didn’t choose this life. No. He didn’t choose life at all. Shot dead in a gunfight many years ago, now he’s stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his penance and fade away.

it wasn't lame, like a lot of the audio books that are provided in the Plus Catalog.

• By Matthew MacInnis on 2023-11-27

Written by: Rhett C. Bruno , and others

Personal Development

Atlas of the Heart

• Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Written by: Brené Brown

• Narrated by: Brené Brown
• Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 1,849
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,517
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 1,509

In Atlas of the Heart , Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances - a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Finding it Ironic

How Are You, Really?

• Living Your Truth One Answer at a Time

Written by: Jenna Kutcher

• Narrated by: Jenna Kutcher
• Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 107
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 94
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 95

Forget hustle harder. Forget a mandatory 5 a.m. wake-up. Forget outlining your life plan in six-month, one-year, and five-year spans. We're living in a cultural shift as we reframe our perspectives around the purpose of work, what work/life balance really means, and how we want to spend our time on this planet. In her first book, Jenna Kutcher—entrepreneur, photographer, influencer, teacher, mom, and host of the wildly popular Goal Digger podcast—shares her philosophy on how to live a life that exists outside the tired cliché of “having it all.”

Loved her real raw story

• By Jennifer Maslow on 2023-03-06

How to Keep House While Drowning

• A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing

Written by: KC Davis LPC

• Narrated by: KC Davis LPC, Dr. Raquel Martin
• Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 427
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 357
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 355

If you’re struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. For therapist KC Davis, the birth of her second child triggered a stress-mess cycle. The more behind she felt, the less motivated she was to start. She didn’t fold a single piece of laundry for seven months. One life-changing realization restored her sanity—and the functionality of her home: You don’t work for your home; your home works for you.

• By Jen on 2022-04-26

How to Be Perfect

• The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Written by: Michael Schur

• Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, and others
• Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 165
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 162

Most people think of themselves as “good", but it’s not always easy to determine what’s “good” or “bad” - especially in a world filled with complicated choices and pitfalls and booby traps and bad advice. Fortunately, many smart philosophers have been pondering this conundrum for millennia, and they have guidance for us. With bright wit and deep insight, How to Be Perfect explains concepts like deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, ubuntu, and more, so we can sound cool at parties and become better people. 

• By Squonk99 on 2022-02-04

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Written by: Julie Smith

• Narrated by: Julie Smith
• Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 135
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 135

Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith’s expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself.

• By ednapple on 2022-04-19

Organizing for the Rest of Us

• 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control

Written by: Dana K. White

• Narrated by: Dana K. White
• Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 64
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 53

Traditional organizing advice never worked for decluttering expert and self-proclaimed recovering slob Dana K. White. Is it possible, she wondered, to get organized without color coding my sock drawer? As Dana let go of the need for perfection, she discovered the joy of having an organized house in the midst of everyday life. You can too!

• By Danielle on 2022-01-13

Love Unfu*ked

• Getting Your Relationship Sh!t Together

Written by: Gary John Bishop

• Narrated by: Gary John Bishop
• Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 146
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 123
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 122

No matter how much advice we get or how much work we do on our “stuff,” nothing ever seems to make the difference. The truth of it is, you’re woefully ill-equipped for one of the most life-defining things you will ever take on—being in a committed relationship. Whether you’re currently in one, want to be in one, half in–half out, getting over one, married, single, separated, divorced, or just overwhelmed with the whole thing, let’s cut through the morass of relationship schtick and put you back in charge.

• By Crystal Bailey on 2022-10-21

Written by: Gabrielle Bernstein

• Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
• Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 203
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 164
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 164

What if you could wake up every day without anxiety? View your past with purpose, not regret? Live happy, peaceful, and free from fear? You can - and Gabrielle Bernstein will show you the way. Gabby has long been loved by her listeners as a spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and catalyst for profound inner change. Her new book presents her most powerful teaching yet: a plan for transforming the pain of your past, whatever that may be, into newfound strength and freedom.

Not a weekend read.

• By Swankmom on 2022-04-06

• The Inner Path to Wealth

Written by: Deepak Chopra

• Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
• Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 47
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 33

Many of us live and operate from a mind-set of lack, scarcity, and limitation. We focus on what we don’t have - financial security, confidence, an intimate relationship - which keeps us feeling insecure and inadequate. We think “if only I could have those things, I could be happy”. But measuring wealth by money or material possessions leaves us feeling drained and spiritually empty. Constantly striving for more often means our ego is driving our thoughts, actions, and reactions, which prevents us from reaching something greater.

Focus on your ego

• By Vitor Rabbit on 2023-04-30

• On Life and Creativity

Written by: Quincy Jones

• Narrated by: JD Jackson, Quincy Jones
• Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 32
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 32

Wisdom and musings on creativity and life from one of the world’s most beloved musicians, producers, and mentors, Quincy Jones. 12 Notes is a self-development guide that will affirm that creativity is a calling that can and should be answered, no matter your age or experience.

Q opens up, so you must listen

• By Anonymous User on 2023-03-02

Things That Matter

• Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life

Written by: Joshua Becker

• Narrated by: Joshua Becker
• Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 45
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 44

Everywhere around you are distractions: That text you respond to quickly, just to get it out of the way. The newest money-making side hustle to cross your mind. The evening spent organizing your overflowing kitchen cupboards. Disruptions are the enemies of a life well lived—both the new distractions of our generation and timeless ones that have existed for centuries. They all add up to make you feel restless, tired, and unfulfilled. They’re keeping you from living with joy, from accomplishing the good that only you can do.

• By Tia on 2022-10-13

Living Untethered

• Beyond the Human Predicament

Written by: Michael A. Singer

• Narrated by: Michael A. Singer
• Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 337
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 293
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 290

When our sense of wholeness depends on things or people outside ourselves—whether it's a coveted job, a new house, a lavish vacation, or even a new relationship—sooner or later we're bound to feel unsatisfied. But how do we embark on this inner journey? Living Untethered is the book to reach for. It provides clear guidance for moving beyond the thoughts, feelings, and habits that keep you stuck—so you can heal the pain of the past and let your spirit soar. It's time to stop struggling and start experiencing.

Brilliant and So Clear

• By Daughter of the Prairie on 2022-06-06

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: 25th Anniversary

• Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Written by: John C. Maxwell

• Narrated by: John C. Maxwell, Henry O. Arnold
• Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 34
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 34

HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s bestselling The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary edition. Included are insights from Maxwell on each law and how they have impacted his life as a leader and mentor. There will also be stories from some of today’s most impactful leaders, like IT Cosmetics' Jamie Kern Lima, Maxwell Leadership CEO Mark Cole, and author and marketing expert Jeff Henderson, on how they have applied these laws to their own success journeys.

Must read!!

• By Andre-Robert Marsan on 2023-01-31

How to Win Friends and Influence People

• Updated for the Next Generation of Leaders

Written by: Dale Carnegie

• Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Donna Dale Carnegie
• Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 21

One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated into almost every known language, and has helped countless people succeed.

A book for everyone

• By Emma David on 2024-03-02

How to Raise an Antiracist

Written by: Ibram X. Kendi

• Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
• Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 16
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 13
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 13

The tragedies and reckonings around racism that are rocking the country have created a specific crisis for parents, educators, and other caregivers: How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better? These are the questions Ibram X. Kendi found himself avoiding as he anticipated the birth of his first child.

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-07-10

Good Inside

• A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Written by: Becky Kennedy

• Narrated by: Becky Kennedy
• Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 86
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 77
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 76

Over the past several years, Dr. Becky Kennedy—known to her followers as “Dr. Becky”—has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents, tired of following advice that either doesn’t work or simply doesn’t feel good, have embraced Dr. Becky’s empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritizes connecting with our kids over correcting them. Parents have long been sold a model of childrearing that simply doesn’t work. From reward charts to time outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behavior, not raising humans.

Read this book

• By Jenn on 2023-05-17

• The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Written by: Melissa Febos

• Narrated by: Melissa Febos
• Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the questions which run through it.

Monsters and How to Tame Them

Written by: Kevin Hart

• Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 151
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 132
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 131

Monsters and How to Tame Them is Kevin’s most recent guide on how to live your best life, wrapped in his signature honesty, hilarious voice, and adept storytelling. You’ve heard stories about vampires, zombies, and ghosts. Now it’s time to meet some of the monsters that haunt your mind.

Positive and motivational

• By Chad on 2024-01-18

The Myth of Normal

• Written by: Gabor Maté MD, Daniel Maté
• Narrated by: Daniel Maté
• Length: 18 hrs and 12 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 654
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 536
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 531

Gabor Maté’s internationally bestselling books have changed the way we look at addiction and have been integral in shifting the conversations around ADHD, stress, disease, embodied trauma, and parenting. Now, in this revolutionary book, he eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their health care systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?

Rethink the listen; go for the read

• By Erin on 2022-12-05

Written by: Gabor Maté MD , and others

Discipline Is Destiny

• The Power of Self-Control

Written by: Ryan Holiday

• Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
• Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 381
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 326
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 324

To master anything, one must first master themselves–one’s emotions, one’s thoughts, one’s actions. Eisenhower famously said that freedom is really the opportunity to practice self-discipline. Cicero called the virtue of temperance the polish of life. Without boundaries and restraint, we risk not only failing to meet our full potential and jeopardizing what we have achieved, but we ensure misery and shame. In a world of temptation and excess, this ancient idea is more urgent than ever.

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-17

Unreasonable Hospitality

• The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect

Written by: Will Guidara

• Narrated by: Will Guidara
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 116
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 95
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 95

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality.

Inspiring and motivating

• By Anonymous User on 2024-04-10

Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home

• How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

Written by: Marie Kondo

• Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
• Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or “way of life,” Kurashi at Home invites you to visualize your best life from the moment you wake up until the end of each day. By applying Marie Kondo's time-tested query —“ Does it spark joy?”—to your mindset and behaviors, you are invited to take an even more holistic and personal approach to curating your environment by imagining what your life could look like full of connection and free from any limitations.

• By Anonymous User on 2023-10-01

Never Finished

• Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

Written by: David Goggins

• Narrated by: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 2,117
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 1,816
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 1,811

Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins’ smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn that what he thought was his limit was only his beginning and that the quest for greatness is unending.

This is my #1 Listen

• By Anonymous User on 2022-12-16

Sleep Sound with Noah Reid

Written by: Audible Inc.

• Narrated by: Noah Reid

Do you struggle to Sleep Sound? In this new sleep aid podcast, actor Noah Reid will lead you to new wintry worlds through immersive soundscapes, helping you travel on your journey to a deep sleep.

I'll sleep well tonight!

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-11-25

Book Lovers

Written by: Emily Henry

• Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 790
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 691
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 689

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away.

Good book, but uncomfortable narration

• By Cesan Martin-Asmus on 2022-08-01

Reminders of Him

Written by: Colleen Hoover

• Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Ryan West
• Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter.

OMGoodness so good!

• By Andrea Meuse on 2022-01-21

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Written by: Tessa Bailey

• Narrated by: Lauren Sweet
• Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 207
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 208

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time—in bed and out—and that’s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends ? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends .

sick of this trope

• By Nicole Hogan on 2024-01-05

Things We Never Got Over

Written by: Lucy Score

• Narrated by: Lila Winters, Sebastian York
• Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 479
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 412
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 411

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her twin. Too bad for Naomi, her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with a niece she didn’t know she had. Now, she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no home - and an 11-year-old to take care of. Since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least Knox can do is help her out. And just as soon as she's out of trouble, he can get back to his peaceful, solitary life. That’s the plan, until the trouble turns to real danger.

• By Alpine44can on 2022-11-28

Dating Dr. Dil

Written by: Nisha Sharma

• Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Sunil Malhotra, Vikas Adam
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 33
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 28

Kareena dreams of having a perfect love story like her parents did. That’s why on the morning of her thirtieth birthday, she’s decided to suit up and enter the dating arena. When her widowed father announces he’s retiring and selling their home after her sister’s engagement party, Kareena makes a deal with him. If she can find her soulmate by the date of the party, he’ll gift her the house, and she’ll be able to keep her mother’s legacy alive.

Surprisingly good

• By Fran on 2023-11-01

Something Wilder

Written by: Christina Lauren

• Narrated by: Patti Murin, Jon Root, Christina Lauren
• Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 67
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 57
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 57

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession…or much money in the bank. But Lily is resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails.

I enjoyed this!

• By DianaD on 2023-10-03

Weather Girl

Written by: Rachel Lynn Solomon

• Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
• Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 20
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 17
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 16

Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station’s news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits’ end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer.

not enjoyable

One Night on the Island

Written by: Josie Silver

• Narrated by: Eleonor Tomlinson, Davis Brooks
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 71

Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is not what dating columnist Cleo Wilder wanted, but she plans a solo retreat―at the insistence of her boss―in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. The remote Irish island she’s booked is a far cry from London, but at least it’s a chance to hunker down in a luxury cabin and indulge in some self-care while she figures out the next steps in her love life and her career.

A Romance Novel of a Different Kind

• By Carol Anne Shaw on 2023-11-05

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Written by: Ashley Herring Blake

• Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 132
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 112
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 112

Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.

• By Jade Parent on 2023-06-28

The No-Show

Written by: Beth O'Leary

• Narrated by: Evanna Lynch, Heather Long, Kathryn Drysdale, and others
• Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 87
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 73
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 72

Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth. These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They’ve all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up—Valentine’s Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they’ve all been stood up by the same man.

Did not see that coming

• By TheVirus on 2022-04-15

The Wedding Crasher

Written by: Mia Sosa

• Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo, Alastair Haynesbridge
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 48
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 46

Just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, Solange Pereira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple’s big day. It’s an easy gig... until Solange stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn’t meant to be. What’s a true-blue romantic to do? Crash the wedding, of course. And ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn’t make the biggest mistake of his life.

• By Brad Noble on 2022-12-09

Under One Roof

Written by: Ali Hazelwood

• Narrated by: Emma Wilder
• Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 95
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 75

Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: When it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….

• By Sarah on 2024-01-08

• The Never After Series

Written by: Emily McIntire

• Narrated by: Paul Woodson, Ella Lynch
• Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 54

Once upon a time, there was a king who passed. He left behind two sons, one beloved and one outcast. The older of the two was set to take the throne, but before he could, he had to find a queen to call his own. The younger one was known to be unruly and unhinged. The chosen queen was warned to keep far away from him. Beautiful and cunning, in the light is where she stayed. But late at night, it was the shadowed lands in which she played. Mistakes were made and secrets forged; forgetting duty and her sense. And while the new king had her hand, her heart belonged to the scarred prince.

some parts were boring

• By Ana on 2024-03-21

It Starts with Us

• Narrated by: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
• Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 858
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 860

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-24

Thank You for Listening

Written by: Julia Whelan

• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 161
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 144
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 143

For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger.

it wasn't for me - but it's my own fault

• By Danielle D. on 2023-07-14

Before I Let Go

Written by: Kennedy Ryan

• Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
• Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 67
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 66
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 66

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage. Yasmen wasn’t prepared for how her life fell apart, but she’s finally starting to find joy again. She and Josiah have found a new rhythm, co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together. Yet like magnets, they’re always drawn back to each other, and now they’re beginning to wonder if they’re truly ready to let go of everything they once had.

• By Amazon Customer on 2024-03-14

The Bodyguard

Written by: Katherine Center

• Narrated by: Patti Murin
• Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 132
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 132

Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker.

• By Shawna Lynn on 2022-09-26

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Written by: Casey McQuiston

• Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 32
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 20

Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed.

• By Sarah Young on 2023-05-26

All My Rage

Written by: Sabaa Tahir

• Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Kamran R. Khan, Kausar Mohammed
• Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 34
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 32

Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. 

• By Dee on 2023-11-14

Omar Rising

Written by: Aisha Saeed

• Narrated by: Vikas Adam
• Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
• Performance 3 out of 5 stars 1

Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him - the son of a servant - with an opportunity to improve his station in life. He can't wait to experience all the school has to offer, especially science club and hopefully the soccer team; but when he arrives, his hopes are dashed. First-year scholarship students aren't allowed to join clubs or teams - and not only that, they have to earn their keep doing menial chores. 

• By Ruby on 2023-12-22

Written by: V.E. Schwab

• Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
• Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 78
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 78

Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home; it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile, or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways.

Wonderful audiobook

• By (Bookarina) Karina-Valérie Fortin on 2023-01-03

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

Written by: Natalia Sylvester

• Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
• Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
• Overall 0 out of 5 stars 0
• Performance 0 out of 5 stars 0
• Story 0 out of 5 stars 0

Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Written by: Axie Oh

• Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
• Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 49

Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.

Excellent across the board!

• By Anonymous User on 2022-04-18

• A Love Story

Written by: Dana Schwartz

• Narrated by: Mhairi Morrison, Tim Campbell
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 72
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 64
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 64

Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought.

Captivating

• By M Farrell on 2022-01-30

I Must Betray You

Written by: Ruta Sepetys

• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys
• Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 20
• Story 5 out of 5 stars 20

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.

• By Alex on 2024-03-24

This Woven Kingdom

Written by: Tahereh Mafi

• Narrated by: Kate Reading
• Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 48

To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can’t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom—and the world.

It good but not great

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-08-19

Only a Monster

• Only a Monster, Book 1

Written by: Vanessa Len

• Narrated by: Vera Chok
• Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 13

The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin.

Hotel Magnifique

Written by: Emily J. Taylor

• Narrated by: Suzy Jackson, Simon Hedger
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 20
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 17

All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town.

Loved this story so very much

• By Kailey Mireault on 2023-07-14

She Gets the Girl

• Written by: Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick
• Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Valentina Ortiz
• Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 44

Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand…not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mom. She knows she’s in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers. She just…hasn’t actually talked to her yet.

• By michelle walsh on 2023-09-24

Written by: Rachael Lippincott , and others

Family of Liars

• The Prequel to We Were Liars

Written by: E. Lockhart

• Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
• Overall 4 out of 5 stars 22
• Performance 4 out of 5 stars 20

A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.

great storytelling

• By Sarah B on 2022-11-11

Blade Breaker

• Realm Breaker, Book 2

Written by: Victoria Aveyard

• Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 17

The fate of the world rests on a blade’s edge. With her Companions at her side, Corayne has mastered the ancient magic in her blood, closing one spindle and pushing back the evil that threatens their world. But the fight is far from over. Queen Erida and her consort, Taristan, continue their march through Allward, crumbling castles and conquering kingdoms with an unstoppable army and unthinkable forces of darkness.

Exciting and gripping story.

• By Caron on 2022-07-23

The Golden Enclaves

• The Scholomance, Book 3

Written by: Naomi Novik

• Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
• Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 179
• Performance 5 out of 5 stars 157

The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out. We saved everyone. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong.

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-10-13

The Ballad of Never After

Written by: Stephanie Garber

• Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 57

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she'll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away. But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of. In fact, he might be the only one she can trust, despite her desire to despise him.

Magical story

• By Anonymous User on 2024-02-02

Kingdom of the Feared

Written by: Kerri Maniscalco

• Narrated by: Marisa Calin
• Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 129
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 115
• Story 4 out of 5 stars 115

Emilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul—but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer, and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles.

Ultimate Gothic Fantasy

• By Anonymous User on 2024-03-11

The Final Gambit

Written by: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

• Narrated by: Christie Moreau
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 92

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything.

Clear Delivery

• By Terry Russell on 2024-03-18

Nothing More to Tell

Written by: Karen M. McManus

• Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Andrew Eiden
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 39
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 34

Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher—a story that made headlines after the teacher’s body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she’s determined to find out what really happened. 

What a wonderfully written book!

• By Ourcrazywonderfullife on 2023-09-14

Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade

Written by: Nancy Springer

• Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
• Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins

Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola's friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet.

I LOVE THIS SERIES

• By Amazon Customer on 2023-01-29

The First to Die at the End

Written by: Adam Silvera

• Narrated by: Jason Genao, Anthony Keyvan, Kyla Garcia
• Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 38
• Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 36

It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident.

Phenomenal Story Telling

• By Victor on 2023-01-25

If You Could See the Sun

Written by: Ann Liang

• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 3

Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s the only scholarship student among China’s most rich and influential teens. But then she starts uncontrollably turning invisible— actually invisible. When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power—she’ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price.

Written by: Marissa Meyer

• Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
• Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 32

Adalheid Castle is in chaos. Following a shocking turn of events, Serilda finds herself ensnared in a deadly game of make-believe with the Erlking, who is determined to propel her deeper into the castle’s lies. Meanwhile, Serilda is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery of his forgotten name and past. But soon it becomes clear that the Erlking doesn’t only want to use Serilda to bring back his one true love.

Excellent reimagining.

• By Melissa on 2023-04-22

Scattered Showers

Written by: Rainbow Rowell

• Narrated by: Euan Morton, Rebecca Lowman
• Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
• Overall 5 out of 5 stars 8

Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first collection, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A prince romances a troll. A girl romances an imaginary boy. And Simon Snow himself returns for a holiday adventure.

Warm and comforting

• By Amazon Customer on 2022-12-03

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The Best Audiobooks: the 2022 Audie Awards

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The Audie Awards

The movie industry has the Oscars to celebrate its achievements, but if you love audiobooks, you'll be more interested in the Audies. Here Michele Cobb , Executive Director of the Audio Publishers Association, talks us through the 2022 shortlist for 'audiobook of the year,' as well as one of her favourite books from the fiction category.

Interview by Sophie Roell , Editor

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir & Ray Porter (narrator)

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris & William DeMeritt (narrator)

All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle & Ben Onwukwe (narrator)

1 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir & Ray Porter (narrator)

2 a promised land by barack obama, 3 the storyteller: tales of life and music by dave grohl, 4 the sweetness of water by nathan harris & william demeritt (narrator), 5 all the lonely people by mike gayle & ben onwukwe (narrator).

H ow has the past year been for audiobooks and can you tell me how the books we’re talking about today were chosen?

What’s the process for getting on the shortlist for audiobook of the year at the Audies? Are you trying to choose a mix of fiction and nonfiction , memoir etc.?

Let’s turn to the first book on the shortlist, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which is a work of science fiction . Tell me more about the book, and why it’s such a great listen.

With Andy Weir, you’re always going to get a great story, and then a little bit of science. The reason I like his books is because they’ve also got a great sense of humor. It starts with someone who is a survivor in a spacecraft who doesn’t remember anything—what a great setup! Then you’ve got lots of characters involved in the tale. So Ray Porter, who narrates the book, gets to play and have fun with a great text with a sense of humor, and then do a lot of different characters.

I don’t know if you’re a reader of sci-fi in general, but do you think people who aren’t necessarily into science fiction will enjoy Project Hail Mary ?

I do. I’m more of a thriller person, but that’s one of the reasons I really love audiobooks. I’m much more willing to be experimental with audio. I tend to read thrillers and some literary fiction with my eyes, but not much nonfiction or science fiction. I listen to a lot of things that I don’t read with my eyes (which doesn’t mean I don’t listen to a lot of thrillers too). With audio, I’m more willing to give myself over to what the narrator’s doing, especially with science fiction where, oftentimes, there are made up words. With my eyes, I’ll just skip over those. I like listening to science fiction because the narrator does some of the work for me.

It’s quite a long book, isn’t it, 16 hours or so?

Yes, you’re not just going to sit down for five minutes and listen to it. It’s a commitment, although not as long as one of the others we’re going to be talking about today.

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Let’s go on to that one next: A Promised Land, which is Barack Obama ‘s presidential memoir. This audiobook is more than 29 hours long.

Yes, and it is book one—so he hasn’t made it through everything yet. Luckily, he’s a fantastic narrator. It is wonderful to hear his words about his life: as a young person with Michelle, all the things that he’s dealing with as president. But it is 29 hours, so you have to be aware that there’s going to be a lot of listening, and that there’s more to come in the future.

It is fairly easy listening, though, isn’t it? He has a nice style of writing and speaking.

Yes, absolutely. One of the fun things that I get to do as someone who interacts with a lot of the publishers, is one day I was on a meeting for the Audio Publishers Association, and the producer of this audiobook was there. We had a meeting that was allotted an hour. We had about 15 minutes of material, and then he spent the other 45 minutes talking about what it was like to record Obama out on Martha’s Vineyard. It was really fun to hear about that experience.

And did you say nine people will have listened to this, if it wins?

Let’s go on to The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl. This is another memoir , again narrated by the author himself.

Dave Grohl is part of the band Foo Fighters. People really expected a lot of stuff about his life now, but he doesn’t really deal with that in the book. He’s really talking about his career and the whole space. It’s less intimate than some autobiographies are, but he does a great job. He is very jovial, is the word that I would use. He seems like a warm human being, as you listen to this book. Again, it’s not super short, it’s 10 hours.

I was talking to a literary scholar about some of the new celebrity memoirs earlier this year, and she says they often have elements of self-help, life tips about how to succeed etc. Maybe it’s self-help for people who don’t want to be seen buying a self-help book . Does this one fall into that category?

The fourth and final book that’s on the audiobook of the year shortlist is The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris. It’s a historical novel that was longlisted for the Booker Prize , but I haven’t read it. Tell me a bit about it.

It was a big hit, because it was also an Oprah’s Book Club pick. It’s about late Civil War-era Georgia, so you’re dealing with a lot of different themes here. There is a lot of heavy stuff in this book. William DeMeritt is just so fantastic as a narrator. This is a great example—much like with Hail Mary and Ray Porter—of how, when you have a strong text and a fantastic narrator, it elevates the work even more.

What’s your final choice?

My fifth choice I think works really well when we’re talking about the world of the pandemic. It’s called All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle and read by Ben Onwukwe. I love the setup of this. It’s about an older man, he’s a widower. He’s kind of making up his life when he talks to his daughter—so that she doesn’t think that he is lonely. Of course, it turns out he is. But he starts to get to know his neighbors and becomes involved in a community. It’s just a really warm story. It was kind of hopeful in the pandemic, when I wasn’t seeing very many people, to listen to this particular book.

And Ben Onwukwe’s narration is particularly well done?

It really is. I very much enjoyed the narrator; I had not listened to anything from him before. That made it really a fun experience. It’s always great when you discover someone who you didn’t know, doing a fantastic job. I see a lot more new voices coming into the space as well.

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All the Lonely People is on the best fiction shortlist at the 2022 Audies. Which other genres do you cover?

There are 25 categories: fiction, nonfiction, young adult, children’s…If you go to AudioFile Magazine, you’ll see all the categories and a review of shortlisted books that AudioFile has put together , as well as a sound clip. It’s a great place to get some ideas for listening. Because these aren’t brand new, it’s a great place to go and ask, ‘Ooh, what have I missed?. There’s some definite fun standouts in there.

I just like having a guarantee that an audiobook is going to be of a reasonable quality and, presumably, if it’s made an Audies shortlist, I can be fairly confident that it’s going to be well done.

That’s exactly right. Most categories have five finalists, so you’ve got a lot to choose from, but it’s also very targeted. If you go to https://www.audiopub.org/ you can actually watch the Audies online on Friday, March 4th, 2022 at 9pm Eastern time, 6pm Pacific time. I hope people will watch either live, or if you don’t want to stay up late, it’ll still be there after.

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