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Narrator: Trevor Noah
  • Born a Crime
  • By: Trevor Noah
  • 5821 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
  • 5890 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: Bruce Springsteen
  • Born to Run
  • By: Bruce Springsteen
  • 355 ratings
  • Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Duration: 18 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
Narrator: Ari Fliakos
  • The Nix
  • By: Nathan Hill
  • 2203 ratings
  • Narrator: Ari Fliakos
  • Duration: 21 hrs and 50 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson - college professor, stalled writer - has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn't seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart.
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • The Undoing Project
  • By: Michael Lewis
  • 411 ratings
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made Michael Lewis' work possible.
Narrator: Richard Armitage
  • Romeo and Juliet: A Novel
  • By: David Hewson
  • 75 ratings
  • Narrator: Richard Armitage
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • It's a story you think you know: the age-old tale of "star-cross'd lovers"; two families at war; a romance, so pure and absolute, fated for a tragic end. It's a story so thoroughly embedded in our culture, and so frequently retold. Yet, nothing captures the spark, the possibility, and the surprise of Shakespeare's work quite like this....
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • The Whistler
  • By: John Grisham
  • 4854 ratings
  • Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 10 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined.
Narrator: Ray Porter
  • We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
  • By: Dennis E. Taylor
  • 7583 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: Clare Corbett
  • The Girl on the Train
  • By: Paula Hawkins
  • 110506 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: Jim Dale
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1
  • By: J.K. Rowling
  • 28621 ratings
  • Narrator: Jim Dale
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 33 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
Narrator: Georgia Maguire
  • Behind Closed Doors
  • By: B. A. Paris
  • 18838 ratings
  • Narrator: Georgia Maguire
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He's a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You're hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
Narrator: George Newbern
  • A Man Called Ove
  • By: Fredrik Backman
  • 27643 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: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Beautiful Ruins
  • By: Jess Walter
  • 9508 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
  • 9195 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
  • 32889 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
  • 13066 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
  • 17759 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
  • 32818 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
  • 17865 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
  • 26621 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
  • 17882 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
  • 29554 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
  • 40874 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
  • 3746 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: Bruce Springsteen
  • Born to Run
  • By: Bruce Springsteen
  • 355 ratings
  • Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Duration: 18 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • The Undoing Project
  • By: Michael Lewis
  • 411 ratings
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made Michael Lewis' work possible.
Narrator: Richard Armitage
  • Romeo and Juliet: A Novel
  • By: David Hewson
  • 75 ratings
  • Narrator: Richard Armitage
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • It's a story you think you know: the age-old tale of "star-cross'd lovers"; two families at war; a romance, so pure and absolute, fated for a tragic end. It's a story so thoroughly embedded in our culture, and so frequently retold. Yet, nothing captures the spark, the possibility, and the surprise of Shakespeare's work quite like this....
Narrator: Jim Frangione
  • Blood Vow
  • By: J. R. Ward
  • 457 ratings
  • Narrator: Jim Frangione
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 6 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The Black Dagger Brotherhood continues to train the best of the best to join them in the deadly battle against the Lessening Society. Among the new recruits, Axe proves to be a cunning and vicious fighter - and also a loner isolated because of personal tragedy. When an aristocratic female needs a bodyguard, Axe takes the job, though he's unprepared for the animal attraction that flares between him and the one he is sworn to protect.
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • The Glass Universe
  • By: Dava Sobel
  • 1 rating
  • Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 42 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Number-one New York Times best-selling author Dava Sobel returns with the captivating, little-known true story of a group of women whose remarkable contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.
Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
  • Island of Glass
  • By: Nora Roberts
  • 359 ratings
  • Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 15 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley - and the wolf within her....
Narrator: Scott Brick
  • Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance
  • By: Mark Greaney
  • 514 ratings
  • Narrator: Scott Brick
  • Duration: 19 hrs and 44 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, US Navy commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an armed man in a crowded restaurant. Hagan is shot, but he manages to fight off the attacker. Though severely wounded, the gunman reveals he is a Russian whose brother was killed when his submarine was destroyed by Commander Hagan's ship. Hagan demands to know how the would-be assassin knew his exact location, but the man dies before he says more.
  • Mad Love
  • By: Nick Spalding
  • 22 ratings
  • Narrator: Nico Evers-Swindell, Amy Landon
  • Duration: 9 hrs and 36 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it. What better way to show that your 'love algorithms' work than to put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity stunt? But, as livewire Jess and lazybones Adam quickly discover, just because a computer says you're the perfect match, it doesn't make it so!
  • Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
  • By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz
  • 2 ratings
  • Narrator: Jeffrey M. Schwartz
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 44 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • An estimated five million Americans suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and live diminished lives in which they are compelled to obsess about something or to repeat a similar task over and over. Traditionally OCD has been treated with Prozac or similar drugs. The problem with medication, aside from its cost, is that 30 percent of people treated don't respond to it, and when the pills stop, the symptoms invariably return.
Narrator: Kevin T. Collins
  • Shadow of Victory
  • By: David Weber
  • 96 ratings
  • Narrator: Kevin T. Collins
  • Duration: 37 hrs and 23 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race - its way. Until recently things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history.
Narrator: Ronnie Marmo
  • How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
  • By: Lenny Bruce, Lewis Black - preface, Howard Reich - foreword
  • 1 rating
  • Narrator: Ronnie Marmo
  • Duration: 9 hrs and 9 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • During the course of a career that began in the 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted, and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed the world of comedy."
Narrator: Lauren Graham
  • Talking as Fast as I Can
  • By: Lauren Graham
  • 1517 ratings
  • Narrator: Lauren Graham
  • Duration: 4 hrs and 38 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In her first work of nonfiction, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood recounts her experiences on Gilmore Girls - the first and second times - and shares stories about life, love, and working in Hollywood. This collection of essays is written in the intimate, hilarious, and down-to-earth voice that made her novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, a New York Times best seller.
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