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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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In this book, author Walter Isaacson draws heavily on Leonardo da Vinci’s journals. He describes the painter’s work as art built on a scaffold of s...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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This is a story about a teenage girl’s journey through the desert in search of the self she has left behind

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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This audiobook is from the author of the famous—and famously gay—series Tales of the City

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Taut, intricate, and urbane—this BBC/Scotland radio adaptation captures the sound and feel of the British-grey atmosphere and cold war imagery of J...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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This is the story of a “cursed” girl who approaches and escapes Eventide, the day she is to meet her doom

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 10:13
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In this audiobook, five generations of a clan of Ochires witches flee persecution in Brittany. They head for the unknown shores of the United Kingdom

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Two sisters, Carol and Violet, find romance in the idyllic wedding town of Happily, Inc., California

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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Based on a true murder trial in 1897, the legend of the Greenbriar Ghost offers rich territory for author Sharyn McCrumb

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
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Written by a psychoanalyst with a gift for teaching, this book avoids pejorative takes on procrastinators

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:58
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Police brutality against African-Americans is depressingly common, but the 2014 case of Eric Garner was in a class by itself

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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A prequel to PRACTICAL MAGIC, this audiobook is a charming story. The Owens siblings grow up with odd and inexplicable restrictions from their mother

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:10
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's book is pure Hillary—forceful, inspiring, yet humble. How does one recover from a defeat that, by all accounts, should hav...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:20
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This is the continuation of the blockbuster Millennium series that features the indomitable computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, the journalist Mikael...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:39
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The narrative voice of Henry James is heard once again in John Banville’s brilliant sequel to James’s Portrait of a Lady

  • Added: Jan 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:38
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Perhaps you haven’t encountered Dan Jones, the TV documentary guide for “Secrets of Britain’s Great Castles” and author of ‘The Hollow Crown

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:19
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In this era of hyper-partisanship, it is helpful to review the values that unite us. Veteran newscaster Dan Rather does just that in this audiobook...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
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When Gretchen Carlson walked away from her job as a news anchor for Fox News to fight — and win — her sexual harassment case, she discovered that h...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:28
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Ever since the night they spent together, Boston baseball hero Travis Kidd has been yearning to make Saylor Blackwell more than his publicist. When...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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Naipaul, whose body of writing earned him Nobel laureate status, first came to international attention with this engaging and accessible novel

  • Added: Jan 13, 2018
  • Length: 03:48
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sobel, a talented portrait painter, runs afoul of Rook, the Autumn Prince, and is drawn into the dangerous faerie lands where nothing is as it seem...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 03:30