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Audiobook Reviews

Sound Reviews: Your source for finding the best Audiobooks to listen to. We give a short review and sample from the book so you can hear the sound and get an overview of the book.


348 Pieces

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Cyril Avery’s story begins in the womb of his teen mother as he narrates her exile from her Irish village, his birth, and his adoption

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Alice, a lawyer, and Jake, a marriage counselor, sign on to The Pact, a secret society of couples who are committed to ensuring that their marriage...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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This is a timely, well-written, police procedural and courtroom thriller about racism and perceptions of racism by civilians and in police departments

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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This is a Scottish romance set in the 1430s. Sir Adham MacFinlagh and Lady Fiona Ormiston cross paths in the lowlands at the court of King James an...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:09
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The true story of 14-year-old Ricky begins with the tenderness of his warm family. Soon, there’s a horrific reversal

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
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A tone of menace characterizes hero Adam Costello when a group of aliens, called “vuvv,” land on Earth

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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Wiley Cash’s latest book is historical fiction at its best. It tells the story of the 1929 Loray Textile Mill strike in North Carolina through the ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Author Robert Wright is captivated by Buddhism’s focus on meditation, disengagement from attachments, and honesty about pain and disappointment

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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While some aspects of our personality are affected by biological and social influences, author and narrator Brian R. Little explains that we can al...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:07
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This is James Atlas's history/memoir on the art of writing biographies

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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This audiobook begins as though it will be a comedy, but gets darker and darker as it goes along

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
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This audio experience is truly horrifying, it's the story itself, which describes the atrocities of Georgia Tann who ran the notorious Tennessee Ch...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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Jen Hatmaker’s twelfth book is an honest and heartfelt guide to how women can approach their messy lives with moxie

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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Set right before WWI, this domestic tragedy is told in the shadow of the looming destruction of a world

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Listeners with even a passing interest in children’s literature will enjoy this audiobook. Bruce Handy, author and narrator, has a style that is co...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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This is a collection of Paul Yoon's contemplative short stories, which are linked by characters who are trying to find their place in the world in ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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In this audiobook the action begins immediately as the dragon, Falcyn, and Medea, the granddaughter of the Greek god Apollo, are swept into another...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
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Former London debutante Sarah Gilchrist was raped, confined to a sanatorium for “promiscuity,” and banished in disgrace

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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This audiobook, the second in the Lady Sherlock series, features Charlotte Holmes, an unusual young woman who created the fictional Sherlock Holmes...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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The book is Gogol's flawed masterpiece, and Nicholas Boulton gives it the presentation that it deserves

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:11