Award Winners
Critically acclaimed Audible Originals
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Geneva
- By: Richard Armitage
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Nicola Walker, Jane Perry
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,253
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Performance8,873
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Story8,860
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world’s press. As much as it hurts, it’s good to be able to see her father more too. He’s suffering from Alzheimer’s and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She’s been experiencing blackouts and memory loss. It’s early days but she must face the possibility that she won’t be there to see her daughter grow up.
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A Stunning Debut Novel
- By Sarah on 21-10-22
By: Richard Armitage
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A Visible Man
- By: Edward Enninful
- Narrated by: Edward Enninful
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance148
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Story149
Edward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life. Here, for the first time, he shares the remarkable, inspiring story of his journey from a childhood bedroom in Ghana overlooking firing squads, to 1990s London—becoming the youngest-ever fashion director of i-D magazine at just eighteen years old. Now the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, he has created game-changing images of everyone from Beyoncé to Meghan Markle, Kate Moss to Oprah Winfrey, Adele to Rihanna, and many more stars he now counts as friends.
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Loved it -
- By mr justin owusu on 02-06-23
By: Edward Enninful
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The Woman in Black
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Paapa Essiedu
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,003
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Performance1,862
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Story1,859
Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Mrs Alice Drablow lived here as a recluse. Now Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor with a London firm, is summoned to attend her funeral, unaware of the tragic and terrible secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows.
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Completely brilliant. So well done.
- By iain on 18-10-22
By: Susan Hill
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The Kurupt FM Podkast (Series 1)
- By: Beats, Chabuddy G, Grindah, and others
- Original Recording
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Overall1,004
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Performance885
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Story873
Please note: this podcast contains strong language (and dangerously high level lyrical content).
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Lyrical blow to the jaw
- By ellefinn2308 on 15-07-19
By: Beats, and others
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The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall15,670
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Performance13,895
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Story13,868
When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
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I don’t get this
- By John P. Allum on 21-07-20
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon
- By: Nicky Woolf
- Original Recording
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Overall610
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Performance570
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Story567
It started with an anonymous post in 2017. They called themselves 'Q' and left a trail of cryptic messages for an increasing number of followers to obsess over. Over the years, the conspiracy theory became a movement, crashing into mainstream politics and breaking countless families along the way. Over this investigation, journalist Nicky Woolf dives into the online and offline world of QAnon in his search to find the shadowy figure behind it all and the legacy they've created.
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Gripping
- By Richard Marshall on 05-08-21
By: Nicky Woolf
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Geneva
- By: Richard Armitage
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Nicola Walker, Jane Perry
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,253
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Performance8,873
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Story8,860
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world’s press. As much as it hurts, it’s good to be able to see her father more too. He’s suffering from Alzheimer’s and needs special care. Sarah has started to show tell-tale signs of the disease too. She’s been experiencing blackouts and memory loss. It’s early days but she must face the possibility that she won’t be there to see her daughter grow up.
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A Stunning Debut Novel
- By Sarah on 21-10-22
By: Richard Armitage
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A Visible Man
- By: Edward Enninful
- Narrated by: Edward Enninful
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance148
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Story149
Edward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life. Here, for the first time, he shares the remarkable, inspiring story of his journey from a childhood bedroom in Ghana overlooking firing squads, to 1990s London—becoming the youngest-ever fashion director of i-D magazine at just eighteen years old. Now the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, he has created game-changing images of everyone from Beyoncé to Meghan Markle, Kate Moss to Oprah Winfrey, Adele to Rihanna, and many more stars he now counts as friends.
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Loved it -
- By mr justin owusu on 02-06-23
By: Edward Enninful
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The Woman in Black
- By: Susan Hill
- Narrated by: Paapa Essiedu
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,003
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Performance1,862
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Story1,859
Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Mrs Alice Drablow lived here as a recluse. Now Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor with a London firm, is summoned to attend her funeral, unaware of the tragic and terrible secrets which lie behind the house's shuttered windows.
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Completely brilliant. So well done.
- By iain on 18-10-22
By: Susan Hill
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The Kurupt FM Podkast (Series 1)
- By: Beats, Chabuddy G, Grindah, and others
- Original Recording
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Overall1,004
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Performance885
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Story873
Please note: this podcast contains strong language (and dangerously high level lyrical content).
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Lyrical blow to the jaw
- By ellefinn2308 on 15-07-19
By: Beats, and others
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The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall15,670
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Performance13,895
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Story13,868
When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
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I don’t get this
- By John P. Allum on 21-07-20
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon
- By: Nicky Woolf
- Original Recording
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Overall610
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Performance570
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Story567
It started with an anonymous post in 2017. They called themselves 'Q' and left a trail of cryptic messages for an increasing number of followers to obsess over. Over the years, the conspiracy theory became a movement, crashing into mainstream politics and breaking countless families along the way. Over this investigation, journalist Nicky Woolf dives into the online and offline world of QAnon in his search to find the shadowy figure behind it all and the legacy they've created.
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Gripping
- By Richard Marshall on 05-08-21
By: Nicky Woolf
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From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)
- An Audible Original
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall6,104
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Performance5,358
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Story5,337
Alan returns to podcasting, offering his unique perspective on life’s big questions, the hot-button issues of the day, his professional successes and the most intimate details of his personal life in a series he is already calling ‘seminal’. The second series will come partly from the oasthouse—in order to satisfy people who'd rather he didn’t mess with the format—and partly from other locations—to appeal to those who found the original format a bit limiting.
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Series 1 great, series 2 recycled and weak
- By JeremyJustice on 24-09-22
By: Alan Partridge
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Algorithms
- By: Sadie Clark
- Narrated by: Sadie Clark, Alison Steadman, Joe Thomas, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall459
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Performance426
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Story426
Meet Brooke: a bisexual Bridget Jones, a millennial Meg Ryan, a girl standing in front of a boy asking him—wait, it doesn’t have to be a boy? For Brooke, ‘The One’ could be anyone. As long as it’s the type of (actually highly problematic) movie love she’s watched on repeat since she was a little girl. Brooke writes algorithms for a dating app, which is odd given what a hopeless romantic she is.
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self-indulgent - By and for millennials
- By Mike on 10-10-22
By: Sadie Clark
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The Nox
- By: Joe White, Catriona Ward
- Narrated by: Lashana Lynch, Michiel Huisman, Ralph Ineson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,020
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Performance947
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Story945
2045, the Arctic Circle. A crew of six aboard the research vessel, The Nox, embark upon a voyage through the melting ice and Arctic dark in search of the last of the polar bears. The mission represents a ray of hope in a world ravaged by climate change, but it quickly becomes clear that some on board are in search of more than bears. Isolation and the disorientation of 24/7 darkness soon have the group losing their grip on reality – accidents, nightmares, or hauntings – no one can be sure, but the voyage seems cursed.
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Excellent production and Story lines
- By Londonjm on 15-10-22
By: Joe White, and others
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Stories of the Stalked
- By: Lily Baldwin
- Narrated by: Lily Baldwin
- Original Recording
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Overall138
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Performance124
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Story124
One woman’s fiercely vivid account of being stalked, an 'invisible violence' that poisons her life. When X sees Lily on stage, he begins an imaginary affair of 13 years, and counting. He’s crossed oceans, posed as her colleague. He even bought a suit for their 'wedding'. But they’ve never met. Dancer and film-maker Lily Baldwin takes us into her world – the insidious fear, legal challenges, survival techniques. This series asks what’s at stake when we’re seen.
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Over-the-top Creative Writing Exercise
- By Kindle Customer on 26-03-22
By: Lily Baldwin
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The Sandman: Act II
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Emma Corrin, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5,278
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Performance4,643
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Story4,623
In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter.
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Obsessed!
- By Naqvi on 27-09-21
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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Jamali Maddix: Spooky Sh*t
- By: Jamali Maddix
- Original Recording
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Overall279
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Performance257
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Story257
Have you ever experienced something you just can’t explain – an uncanny encounter with things that go bump in the night? Did it leave you with an unshakable belief in the paranormal? Or feeling like an idiot when your flatmate pointed out it was just your cat treading on the squeaky floorboard? Either way - you’re not alone! Join comedian Jamali Maddix as he asks fellow comics and celebrities to reveal their spookiest real-life tales and most uncanny experiences.
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Mad
- By Jessica on 22-10-21
By: Jamali Maddix
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The Catch: The Real Freshwater Five Story
- By: Raphael Rowe
- Narrated by: Raphael Rowe
- Original Recording
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Overall223
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Performance203
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Story203
In 2011 a group of fishermen living on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, were convicted for one of the largest, most audacious drug-smuggling plots in British history. They were accused of scooping up £53mill ($69 mill) worth of pure cocaine in the dead of night from the middle of the English Channel.
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I usually prefer moving pictures but
- By Mrs Pearce on 26-02-22
By: Raphael Rowe
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The Bias Diagnosis
- By: Ivan Beckley, Emma Barnaby, Yero Timi-Biu, and others
- Original Recording
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Overall322
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Performance285
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Story285
Ivan Beckley is about to become a fully-qualified doctor in the UK. But he’s not convinced that healthcare works for everyone equally. In this series he uncovers one of the biggest and most insidious injustices in modern medicine. Fixing it could save thousands of lives every year. And yet it’s invisible, unless it directly affects you. Statistics show that black, indigenous and people of colour have worse health outcomes and die more often than white people, across many fields of medicine and diverse illnesses.
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Incredible...I couldn’t believe my ears
- By Lauren Wheeler on 12-02-21
By: Ivan Beckley, and others
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Let's Catch Up Soon
- How I Won Friends and Influenced People Against My Will
- By: Sarah Cooper
- Narrated by: Sarah Cooper, Filip Jeremic
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Do you dread small talk? Can’t seem to remember names? Does being told to smile more make you seethe? Yet do you long for deeper and more meaningful friendships? Sarah Cooper’s Let’s Catch Up Soon: How I Won Friends and Influenced People Against My Will shares how to survive our newest life challenge: connecting with people face-to-face again.
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ok book, just not for me
- By Dorothy Allan on 06-12-24
By: Sarah Cooper
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Mrs. Wickham
- By: Sarah Page
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall2,796
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Performance2,588
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Story2,574
Imagine if you made one little mistake when you were young and were punished for it for the rest of your life. Well, that’s what happened to Lydia (yes, that Lydia, the youngest Bennet sister from Pride and Prejudice), and she’s here to set the record straight. Hold on to your teacups and get ready for sophisticated (and a little bit naughty) hot takes and witty banter that’ll make you laugh—and think. We meet Lydia just as she is denounced by her family, exiled miles from home, and married to the rogue George Wickham, who seems to love all women...except his own wife.
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Wonderful short story
- By Sarah-Jayne Gall on 09-09-22
By: Sarah Page
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Summer of '85
- By: Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, Charlamagne Tha God, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
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.
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A story that I hadn’t heard about
- By Stephen Thomas on 02-08-22
By: Chris Morrow, and others
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall646
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Performance597
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Story595
War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.
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Classic
- By Dylan Keville on 06-11-21
By: Leo Tolstoy, and others
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Temper Me
- Romey University, Book 3
- By: Alexandria House
- Narrated by: Jakobi Diem, Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall64
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Performance57
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Story57
Brooklyn Dembélé is still piecing her life together after her divorce and the loss of a lifestyle she’d dreamed of since childhood. The single mother’s time is filled with work at the prestigious Historically Black University Romey U. But despite her focus on rebuilding her life, she can’t seem to forget the mistakes of her past.
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Growth and redemption
- By London Doran on 05-02-22
By: Alexandria House
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Seatmate
- Love Lines, Book 3
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Zachary Webber, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,459
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Performance1,361
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Story1,358
I have exactly 5 hours and 10 minutes to get from Boston to New York City or the professional opportunity of a lifetime disappears. My only travel option? The second to last seat on a discount bus. Across from the bathroom. Wearing last night’s clothes (don’t ask). All worth it if I can make it in time.
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Lovely feel good listen
- By Anne Elliot on 27-03-22
By: Cara Bastone
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No Kindness Too Soon
- By: Sylvain Neuvel
- Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King, Deepti Gupta, Neil Hellegers, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall173
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Performance156
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Story156
A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery.
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An incredible and unexpected listen
- By Rayven on 01-09-22
By: Sylvain Neuvel
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34,967
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Performance32,490
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Story32,432
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.
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A return to form
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-21
By: Andy Weir
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The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama
- By: James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, Ryan Silbert
- Narrated by: Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,648
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Performance1,507
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Story1,501
In The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama, homicide detective Billy Harney sends his new partner, Kate, deep undercover in a notorious Chicago drug ring. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. Kate’s informant inside the gang quickly disappears. As does the ring’s black book.... When Billy can’t find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover.
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Engrossing story and performance!
- By Lucia D on 26-10-21
By: James Patterson, and others
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Wild Swan
- A Story of Florence Nightingale
- By: Patti Callahan
- Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Story34
In this captivating historical novella narrated by Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo, New York Times best-selling author Patti Callahan Henry celebrates the life of the mother of modern nursing and one of history's greatest heroines: Florence Nightingale. In this poignant story, a young woman has just discovered her divine purpose to become a nurse, and struggles to make that dream a reality. While traveling abroad with her close friend, Selina Bracebridge - another strong woman living an unconventional life - a rare opportunity arises for Florence to practice medicine.
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Excellent
- By Lisa on 14-03-22
By: Patti Callahan
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The Didomenico Fragment
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: John Lithgow
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall672
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Performance629
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Story626
Like many well-to-do Upper East Siders over the age of 65, esteemed art appraiser Percival Skinner had planned to spend his retirement living off his savings. But a market correction has left him living below his prior means. One day he’s visited by a dapper fixer in search of a famous work by a Renaissance master. Skinner knows the work well: The original was owned by his ancestor, and was passed down through his family over the generations. If, as an intermediary, he can coordinate a sale, a small fortune awaits. Problem is, he might not be the only one on the make.
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Loved it
- By Rebecca Winrow on 04-07-23
By: Amor Towles
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Brackish Waters
- By: Matt Boren
- Narrated by: Christina Applegate
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall210
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Performance193
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Story192
When Kate wins an item at her children’s elementary school auction - an all-inclusive trip to SeaView at Sandpiper Bay - she thinks it’s just what her family needs after a decade of career disappointments and a marriage on its last legs. She has no reason to believe that said trip is a Fyre Festival-level fraud and, in fact, the catalyst to her unraveling. But it is. Oh, but it is.
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Not for me
- By Rebecca Winrow on 24-07-23
By: Matt Boren
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Pause
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall394
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Performance364
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Story363
When Anna wakes up from a coma after a car crash, she discovers life has gone on without her. Her husband has been unfaithful - with her best friend - and she’s been long since replaced at work. While her old life is a distant memory, her new life feels like an empty shell. Then she meets the stranger who saved her life during the crash, and he changes everything. Leif Larsen - tattooist, joker, and player - has his own scars thanks to the crash that put Anna in a coma. Helping her move on from her failed marriage, and create a new life, sounds like a perfect distraction.
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heart warmer
- By Caro Richard on 19-04-21
By: Kylie Scott
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How It Ends
- A Novella
- By: Rachel Howzell Hall
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall129
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Performance116
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Story116
Marti Greenwood has just moved into a brand-new home after a bitter divorce from her husband Emery, and while she’s still not quite done with him - of course, some of her most cherished possessions are nowhere to be found once she unpacks her things - a fresh start in a beautiful LA neighborhood is exactly what she needs. But days after her arrival, Marti is attacked in her home. She's found shaken and beaten, and her neighbors who immediately call the police. She never saw the face of her attacker, and so there is little to go on as detectives open an investigation.
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Great short story
- By IAMAkilah on 28-12-21
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French and Saunders: Titting About (Series 3)
- By: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
- Narrated by: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
- Original Recording
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Overall1,177
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Performance1,124
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Story1,114
French & Saunders are back for more Titting About! Time to settle down - with an enormous range of snacks, naturally – and listen as comedy goddesses Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders do what they do best (tit about) in their award-winning podcast series, exclusive to Audible.
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Best podcast ever
- By Miss J M Bowen on 25-08-22
By: Dawn French, and others
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Oliver Twist
- By: Charles Dickens, Marty Ross - adaptation, Sam Mendes
- Narrated by: Brian Cox, Daniel Kaluuya, Nicola Coughlan, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,215
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Performance1,154
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Story1,147
Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.
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Lets see if Amazon are open about things again?
- By Alan. Hardman on 30-11-22
By: Charles Dickens, and others
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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These Days
- By: Lucy Caldwell
- Narrated by: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Story16
April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, These Days is an unforgettable novel about lives lived under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves
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Her description of the Belfast Blitz
- By Hilary Coupar on 28-08-25
By: Lucy Caldwell
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Act of Oblivion
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,138
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Performance1,932
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Story1,921
Brought to you by Penguin. 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and...
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Challenging Our Views
- By Kindle Customer on 07-09-22
By: Robert Harris
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The Chosen
- who pays the price of a writer's fame?
- By: Elizabeth Lowry
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Story16
One Wednesday morning, Thomas Hardy, an old man in ragged trousers, entombed by paper and increasingly estranged from his wife, Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone. The day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words, leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives ended up as enemies to each other. He, his family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he had been in a relationship, all assumed that he would be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss.
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Just wonderful
- By KH on 10-10-22
By: Elizabeth Lowry
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The Sun Walks Down
- By: Fiona McFarlane
- Narrated by: Emma Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly—newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—confront their relationships, both with one another and with the ancient, impervious landscape they inhabit.
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Atmospheric book
- By Cha Cha on 12-06-25
By: Fiona McFarlane
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Ancestry
- By: Simon Mawer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance40
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Story40
Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known—the unbreakable bond of family.
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how the classes worked in UK..
- By Barbara H on 12-04-25
By: Simon Mawer
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News of the Dead
- By: James Robertson
- Narrated by: Sheila Reid, David Monteath, David Rintoul
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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Story42
Brought to you by Penguin. 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece...
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Good till the final section - the dumb lass
- By Gerard on 10-08-21
By: James Robertson
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These Days
- By: Lucy Caldwell
- Narrated by: Lisa Dwyer Hogg
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Story16
April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey - one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship with another woman - as they try to survive the horrors of the Belfast Blitz, These Days is an unforgettable novel about lives lived under duress, about family, and about how we try to stay true to ourselves
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Her description of the Belfast Blitz
- By Hilary Coupar on 28-08-25
By: Lucy Caldwell
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Act of Oblivion
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Tim McInnerny
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,138
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Performance1,932
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Story1,921
Brought to you by Penguin. 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and...
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Challenging Our Views
- By Kindle Customer on 07-09-22
By: Robert Harris
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The Chosen
- who pays the price of a writer's fame?
- By: Elizabeth Lowry
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Story16
One Wednesday morning, Thomas Hardy, an old man in ragged trousers, entombed by paper and increasingly estranged from his wife, Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone. The day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words, leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives ended up as enemies to each other. He, his family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he had been in a relationship, all assumed that he would be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss.
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Just wonderful
- By KH on 10-10-22
By: Elizabeth Lowry
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The Sun Walks Down
- By: Fiona McFarlane
- Narrated by: Emma Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly—newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen—confront their relationships, both with one another and with the ancient, impervious landscape they inhabit.
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Atmospheric book
- By Cha Cha on 12-06-25
By: Fiona McFarlane
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Ancestry
- By: Simon Mawer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance40
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Story40
Simon Mawer's compelling and original novel puts flesh on our ancestors' bones to bring them to life and give them voice. He has created stories that are gripping and heart-breaking, from the squalor and vitality of Dickensian London to the excitement of seafaring in the last days of sail and the horror of the trenches of the Crimea. There is birth and death; there is love, both open and legal but also hidden and illicit. Yet the thread that connects these disparate figures is something that they cannot have known—the unbreakable bond of family.
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how the classes worked in UK..
- By Barbara H on 12-04-25
By: Simon Mawer
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News of the Dead
- By: James Robertson
- Narrated by: Sheila Reid, David Monteath, David Rintoul
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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Story42
Brought to you by Penguin. 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach - may actually be harder to piece...
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Good till the final section - the dumb lass
- By Gerard on 10-08-21
By: James Robertson
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Rose Nicolson
- Memoir of William Fowler of Edinburgh: Student, Trader, Makar, Conduit, Would-Be Lover in Early Days of Our Reform
- By: Andrew Greig
- Narrated by: Mr Angus King
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance23
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Story23
Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie, is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student Will Fowler, short of stature, low of birth but mightily ambitious, to make his name.
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A brilliant, evocative and profoundly moving book.
- By Devon Girl on 06-04-22
By: Andrew Greig
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The Magician
- Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall268
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Performance238
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Story238
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician...
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I’m finding it difficult to stick with this ….
- By Gerard on 07-10-21
By: Colm Tóibín
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The Mirror and the Light
- The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 38 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,724
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Performance3,347
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Story3,329
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army.
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The narrator is fine
- By Ellen Coleman on 07-03-20
By: Hilary Mantel
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The Tolstoy Estate
- By: Steven Conte
- Narrated by: Ross Dwyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Epic in scope, ambitious and astonishingly good, The Tolstoy Estate proclaims Steven Conte as one of Australia's finest writers. From the winner of the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award, Steven Conte, comes a powerful, densely rich and deeply affecting novel of love, war and literature...
By: Steven Conte
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A Room Made of Leaves
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Valerie Bader
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance90
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Story90
It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go.
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new Kate Grenville fan
- By book_ish on 19-09-20
By: Kate Grenville
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
- By: Pip Williams
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall828
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Performance753
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Story750
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid flutter to the floor unclaimed. Esme seizes the word and hides it in an old wooden trunk that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house.
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Beautifully crafted story. Loved it.
- By bookylady on 19-04-21
By: Pip Williams
We are the champions
Winner, Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Winner, British Podcast Awards 2022
Winner, Hugo Award 2022
Winner, Audies 2023
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Excellence in Non-Fiction
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall184
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Performance156
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Story156
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.
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A super-excellent biography
- By Rachel Redford on 18-05-22
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Legacy of Violence
- A History of the British Empire
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance112
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Story112
Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...
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Slow burner but ultimately devastating
- By Arkhidamos on 26-10-22
By: Caroline Elkins
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,089
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Performance982
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Story982
In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.
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Astonishing achievement
- By Seagull on 25-08-22
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
- By: Sally Hayden
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance52
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Story52
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In...
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incredible
- By Michael on 31-01-23
By: Sally Hayden
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The Restless Republic
- Britain without a Crown
- By: Anna Keay
- Narrated by: Lucy Tregear
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall298
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Performance254
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Story253
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was...
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Brilliant Historical Story Telling
- By Mr. C. B. McManus on 22-10-22
By: Anna Keay
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- By: Polly Morland, Richard Baker
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance35
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Story35
'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor...
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The sort of GP you wish you had
- By Victoria on 04-10-22
By: Polly Morland, and others
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall184
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Performance156
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Story156
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.
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A super-excellent biography
- By Rachel Redford on 18-05-22
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Legacy of Violence
- A History of the British Empire
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall125
-
Performance112
-
Story112
Brought to you by Penguin. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe...
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Slow burner but ultimately devastating
- By Arkhidamos on 26-10-22
By: Caroline Elkins
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1,089
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Performance982
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Story982
In April 1944, a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution.
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Astonishing achievement
- By Seagull on 25-08-22
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
- Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
- By: Sally Hayden
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall60
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Performance52
-
Story52
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In...
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incredible
- By Michael on 31-01-23
By: Sally Hayden
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The Restless Republic
- Britain without a Crown
- By: Anna Keay
- Narrated by: Lucy Tregear
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall298
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Performance254
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Story253
THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was...
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Brilliant Historical Story Telling
- By Mr. C. B. McManus on 22-10-22
By: Anna Keay
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- By: Polly Morland, Richard Baker
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance35
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Story35
'Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure.' Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor...
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The sort of GP you wish you had
- By Victoria on 04-10-22
By: Polly Morland, and others
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,251
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Performance2,028
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Story2,023
The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium, OxyContin and the opioid crisis. The inspiration behind the Netflix series Painkiller, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick. Read by the author, Patrick Radden Keefe. Winner...
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An angry, populist, gossipy book that doesn’t engage seriously with the issues
- By Megan on 01-07-21
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Islands of Abandonment
- Life in the Post-Human Landscape
- By: Cal Flyn
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall173
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Performance151
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Story151
THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE...
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A Must Read
- By Tony on 29-01-21
By: Cal Flyn
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Aftermath
- Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
- By: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall136
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Performance121
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Story120
Brought to you by Penguin. ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021*** Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?...
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Appalling delivery
- By Jess on 08-07-22
By: Harald Jähner, and others
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Things I Have Withheld
- By: Kei Miller
- Narrated by: Kei Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance16
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Story16
In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to risk truths. And he considers the histories our bodies inherit - the crimes that haunt them and how meaning can shift as we move throughout the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood.
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One of the best books audible has to offer
- By Nadine on 09-06-21
By: Kei Miller
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Fall
- Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021
- By: John Preston
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall959
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Performance855
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Story848
Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021 A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the...
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Utterly fascinating!!
- By L. BETTLES on 08-02-21
By: John Preston
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Free
- Coming of Age at the End of History
- By: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Lea Ypi
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall350
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Performance312
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Story311
Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford prize and the 2021 Costa Biography Award. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost...
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My favourite kind of book
- By Zofia Jaworek on 07-01-22
By: Lea Ypi
Hugo Award for the Best Science-Fiction or Fantasy
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- A Lush, Dazzling Novel Of Intrigue, Betrayal And Monstrosity from the Visionary Author of MEXICAN GOTHIC
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance60
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Story60
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. 'The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events' Time, 100...
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Difficult topic.
- By Frieda on 18-11-25
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall928
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Performance844
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Story840
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.
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Great story. Utterly dire narration.
- By She_Who_Sleeps_With_Cats on 23-04-22
By: John Scalzi
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Legends & Lattes
- Legends & Lattes, Book 1
- By: Travis Baldree
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,611
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Performance1,426
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Story1,425
The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! Read by the Hugo Award-winning author, Travis Baldree. A cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts. Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher. ‘This is a warm hug of a...
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A cozy, slice of life fantasy
- By Arlena_reads on 25-02-22
By: Travis Baldree
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Nona the Ninth
- Locked Tomb, Book 3
- By: Tamsyn Muir
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall558
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Performance487
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Story487
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses.
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I have no idea what was going on
- By S. Strong on 25-09-24
By: Tamsyn Muir
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Nettle & Bone
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Amara Jasper
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,011
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Performance947
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Story947
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon.
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I haven't read anything quite like this before
- By Monika on 23-10-22
By: T. Kingfisher
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The Spare Man
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance47
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Story47
Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.
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Cosy murder mystery in space
- By karohemd on 26-08-24
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- A Lush, Dazzling Novel Of Intrigue, Betrayal And Monstrosity from the Visionary Author of MEXICAN GOTHIC
- By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Narrated by: Gisela Chípe
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance60
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Story60
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. 'The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events' Time, 100...
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Difficult topic.
- By Frieda on 18-11-25
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall928
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Performance844
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Story840
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.
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Great story. Utterly dire narration.
- By She_Who_Sleeps_With_Cats on 23-04-22
By: John Scalzi
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Legends & Lattes
- Legends & Lattes, Book 1
- By: Travis Baldree
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,611
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Performance1,426
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Story1,425
The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! Read by the Hugo Award-winning author, Travis Baldree. A cosy, heartwarming slice-of-life fantasy about found families and fresh starts. Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher. ‘This is a warm hug of a...
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A cozy, slice of life fantasy
- By Arlena_reads on 25-02-22
By: Travis Baldree
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Nona the Ninth
- Locked Tomb, Book 3
- By: Tamsyn Muir
- Narrated by: Moira Quirk
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall558
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Performance487
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Story487
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back. The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses.
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I have no idea what was going on
- By S. Strong on 25-09-24
By: Tamsyn Muir
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Nettle & Bone
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Amara Jasper
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,011
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Performance947
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Story947
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning. On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon.
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I haven't read anything quite like this before
- By Monika on 23-10-22
By: T. Kingfisher
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The Spare Man
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance47
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Story47
Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.
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Cosy murder mystery in space
- By karohemd on 26-08-24
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Bloodmarked
- The Legendborn Cycle, Book 2
- By: Tracy Deonn
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall184
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Performance173
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Story172
All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother’s death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur’s knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new: A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion. But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped. When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves.
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Excellent story, frustrating protagonist, whiny performance
- By Mary Williams on 31-01-25
By: Tracy Deonn
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The Golden Enclaves
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall391
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Performance348
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Story346
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 that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Just kidding.
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brilliant conclusion
- By mattie on 28-09-22
By: Naomi Novik
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In the Serpent's Wake
- By: Rachel Hartman
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Seraphina comes a piercing new fantasy adventure that champions our resilience and humility. MIND OF THE WORLD, OPEN YOUR EYES. At the bottom of the world lies a Serpent, the last of its kind. Finding the Serpent will change lives. ...
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Honesty of the mind.
- By Eve on 15-11-25
By: Rachel Hartman
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A Desolation Called Peace
- By: Arkady Martine
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance229
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Story228
A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. An alien terror could spell our end An alien threat lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can...
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Another excellent novel by Arkady Martine
- By Brice Fernandes on 30-11-24
By: Arkady Martine
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
- Wayfarers, Book 4
- By: Becky Chambers
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall437
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Performance383
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Story385
With no water, no air and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships travelling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. One of the many establishments present is the Five-Hop One-Stop. When a freak technological failure halts traffic to and from Gora, three strangers are thrown together at the Five-Hop.
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A Wonderful Finale
- By Anonymous on 19-02-21
By: Becky Chambers
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Light From Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance134
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Story134
"Cindy Kay masterfully narrates this unique audiobook, which combines a variety of genres to tell a moving story of self-acceptance and finding safety even in the bleakest of times." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award review Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka...
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Narration annoying whispering and sibilance
- By Bob on 16-08-23
By: Ryka Aoki
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A Master of Djinn
- By: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall163
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Performance146
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Story145
Cairo, 1912: though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, Al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case.
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Fabulous!
- By R. Maines on 25-09-21
By: P. Djèlí Clark
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34,967
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Performance32,490
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Story32,432
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.
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A return to form
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-21
By: Andy Weir
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She Who Became the Sun
- The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Shelley Parker-Chan
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall362
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Performance317
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Story318
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. ‘This audacious, brilliant debut is a vivid, original reimagining . . . immersive storytelling at its...
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Mixed feelings on this audiobook
- By Sarah on 21-03-22
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The Last Graduate
- By: Naomi Novik
- Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall478
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Performance422
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Story420
There are no teachers, no holidays; friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate, or you die. El, Orion and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming spectre of graduation. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realises that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules....
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Narrator annoying
- By Sal on 12-10-21
By: Naomi Novik
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Chaos on CatNet
- CatNet, Book 2
- By: Naomi Kritzer
- Narrated by: Casey Turner, Corey Gagne
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
When a mysterious entity starts hacking into social networks and chat rooms to instigate paranoia and violence in the real world, it’s up to Steph and her new friend, Nell, to find a way to stop it - with the help of their benevolent AI friend, CheshireCat....
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Great story but wish author's note was included.
- By Mirshad on 28-04-21
By: Naomi Kritzer
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Iron Widow
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall322
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Performance289
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Story288
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death.
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A Great Start!
- By Internal Screaming on 08-11-21
By: Xiran Jay Zhao