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Narrator: Simon Prebble
  • 1984
  • By: George Orwell
  • 9825 ratings
  • Narrator: Simon Prebble
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 26 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.
Narrator: Trevor Noah
  • Born a Crime
  • By: Trevor Noah
  • 19188 ratings
  • Narrator: Trevor Noah
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 50 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Noah provides something deeper than traditional memoirists: powerfully funny observations about how farcical political and social systems play out in our lives.
Narrator: Roger Wayne
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
  • By: Mark Manson
  • 13287 ratings
  • Narrator: Roger Wayne
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 30 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • For decades we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f*cked, and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn't sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let's-all-feel-good mind-set that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Narrator: Ray Porter
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
  • By: Dennis E. Taylor
  • 14692 ratings
  • Narrator: Ray Porter
  • Duration: 9 hrs and 30 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.
Narrator: Eddie Redmayne
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  • By: J.K. Rowling, Newt Scamander
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Eddie Redmayne
  • Duration: 2 hrs
  • Format: Unabridged
  • A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance.
Narrator: Robin Miles
  • Hidden Figures
  • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
  • 958 ratings
  • Narrator: Robin Miles
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 47 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets and astronauts into space. Among these problem solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation.
Narrator: Ellen Archer
  • The Chemist
  • By: Stephenie Meyer
  • 7511 ratings
  • Narrator: Ellen Archer
  • Duration: 17 hrs and 1 min
  • Format: Unabridged
  • She used to work for the US government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon.
Narrator: Clare Corbett
  • The Girl on the Train
  • By: Paula Hawkins
  • 115692 ratings
  • Narrator: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Audie Award, Audiobook of the Year, 2016. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
Narrator: George Newbern
  • A Man Called Ove
  • By: Fredrik Backman
  • 32798 ratings
  • Narrator: George Newbern
  • Duration: 9 hrs and 9 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.
Narrator: Claire Danes
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • By: Margaret Atwood
  • 10921 ratings
  • Narrator: Claire Danes
  • Duration: 11 hrs
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name....
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
  • By: Marie Kondo
  • 14346 ratings
  • Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller
  • Duration: 4 hrs and 50 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
Narrator: J. D. Vance
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • By: J. D. Vance
  • 9154 ratings
  • Narrator: J. D. Vance
  • Duration: 6 hrs and 49 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Beautiful Ruins
  • By: Jess Walter
  • 9615 ratings
  • Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 53 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
Narrator: Kathe Mazur
  • Quiet
  • By: Susan Cain
  • 9533 ratings
  • Narrator: Kathe Mazur
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 39 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Unbroken
  • By: Laura Hillenbrand
  • 33396 ratings
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Duration: 14 hrs
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why we think it’s a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.....
Narrator: Jim Dale
  • The Night Circus
  • By: Erin Morgenstern
  • 13502 ratings
  • Narrator: Jim Dale
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 39 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • The Boys in the Boat
  • By: Daniel James Brown
  • 18517 ratings
  • Narrator: Edward Herrmann
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 30 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
Narrator: Jenna Lamia
  • The Help
  • By: Kathryn Stockett
  • 33149 ratings
  • Narrator: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
  • Duration: 18 hrs and 19 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.
Narrator: David LeDoux
  • Water for Elephants
  • By: Sara Gruen
  • 18076 ratings
  • Narrator: David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 26 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
Narrator: Susan Lyons
  • Me Before You
  • By: Jojo Moyes
  • 27240 ratings
  • Narrator: Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, Alex Tregear, Andrew Wincott, Owen Lindsay
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 40 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.
Narrator: John Lee
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • By: Ken Follett
  • 18181 ratings
  • Narrator: John Lee
  • Duration: 40 hrs and 54 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why we think it’s a great listen: Got 40 hours to kill? You’ll find the time when you start listening to Lee’s take on Follett’s epic – and widely celebrated – novel of 12th-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame....
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Ender's Game
  • By: Orson Scott Card
  • 29976 ratings
  • Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 57 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.
Narrator: Julia Whelan
  • Gone Girl
  • By: Gillian Flynn
  • 41524 ratings
  • Narrator: Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne
  • Duration: 19 hrs and 11 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
Narrator: Rebecca Lowman
  • Eleanor & Park
  • By: Rainbow Rowell
  • 3870 ratings
  • Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 56 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Set over the course of one school year, in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love - and just how hard it pulled you under.
Narrator: Neil Gaiman
  • Norse Mythology
  • By: Neil Gaiman
  • 121 ratings
  • Narrator: Neil Gaiman
  • Duration: 6 hrs and 29 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people.
Narrator: Susan Ericksen
  • Echoes in Death
  • By: J. D. Robb
  • 112 ratings
  • Narrator: Susan Ericksen
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 43 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband - and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide....
Narrator: Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • The Refugees
  • By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 5 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will.
Narrator: Fiona Hardingham
  • My Not So Perfect Life
  • By: Sophie Kinsella
  • 4 ratings
  • Narrator: Fiona Hardingham
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 58 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Everywhere Katie Brenner looks, someone else is living the life she longs for, particularly her boss, Demeter Farlowe. Demeter is brilliant and creative, lives with her perfect family in a posh townhouse, and wears the coolest clothes. Katie's life, meanwhile, is a daily struggle - from her dismal rental to her oddball flatmates to the tense office politics she's trying to negotiate. No wonder Katie takes refuge in not-quite-true Instagram posts, especially as she's desperate to make her dad proud.
Narrator: John Darnielle
  • Universal Harvester
  • By: John Darnielle
  • 5 ratings
  • Narrator: John Darnielle
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 48 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It's a small town in the center of the state - the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It's good enough for Jeremy: It's a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck.
Narrator: Abigail Revasch
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • By: Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
  • 1 rating
  • Narrator: Abigail Revasch, Tara Sands
  • Duration: 7 hrs and 53 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • A middle-grade audiobook novel telling an original "tail" of Marvel's cute, quirky, and downright furry super heroine - Squirrel Girl!
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • You Are the Universe
  • By: Deepak Chopra, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD
  • 3 ratings
  • Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 9 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • New York Times best-selling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world.
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
  • Modern Death
  • By: Haider Warraich M.D.
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 1 min
  • Format: Unabridged
  • There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today's modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself.
Narrator: Will Collyer
  • Truffle Boy
  • By: Ian Purkayastha, Kevin West
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Will Collyer
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Ian Purkayastha is New York City's leading truffle importer and boasts a devoted clientele of top chefs nationwide, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Sean Brock, and David Bouley. But before he was purveying the world's most expensive fungus to the country's most esteemed chefs, Ian was just a food-obsessed teenager in rural Arkansas - a misfit with a peculiar fascination with rare and exotic ingredients.
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • The Perpetual Now
  • By: Michael Lemonick
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 37 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now" where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered.
Narrator: Eric Braeden
  • I'll Be Damned
  • By: Eric Braeden
  • 2 ratings
  • Narrator: Eric Braeden
  • Duration: 7 hrs and 21 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and the Restless, America's number-one soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past 35 years.
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • The Book Thieves
  • By: Anders Rydell
  • 0 rating
  • Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 44 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves, Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the books they stole were not burned. Instead, the Nazis began to compile a library of their own.

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