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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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Like its predecessor, AUTUMN, WINTER focuses on connected characters in a post-Brexit world

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:25
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The audio version of Denis Johnson's posthumous short story collection has an eye-popping cast of celebrity narrators who are all simply terrific

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:34
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In this second powerhouse audiobook from Jane Harper, five women go on a corporate retreat, and only four return

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:22
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This is the intense and tangled story of an affair between a married evangelical pastor and his independent-minded lover, a graduate student

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:32
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This is author Fiona Mozley’s kicker of a first novel, a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:11

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:22
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Joe King Oliver, an honest cop, experienced violence, fear, and frustration 10 years ago, when he was thrown in jail on fabricated charges

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
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In this guide to engaging the world with Christian urgency, the authors peel back layer upon layer to reveal a biblically sound worldview

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:14
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Here we have a story of a holy man whom long lines of pilgrims desperately want to meet but few come to understand

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:24
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This accessible audiobook is aimed at those who are working to fight the systemic oppression impacting people of color

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:25
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This is a sublime story, set in 1970s Australia. Seventy-five-year-old George Johnson is having difficulty coping with his beloved wife’s death

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
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This is the first book in a mystery series about a 1950s English country house. Lord James Harrington and his American wife, Beth, graciously open ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:09
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This audiobook is the fourth in the Riyria Chronicles adult fantasy featuring professional thieves Hadrian and Royce

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 03:36
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This audiobook memoir is an unlikely examination of life through brushes with death

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:22
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Everyone knows the opening of Kafka's great story, with Gregor Samsa awaking as a giant insect, but not so many have read it all the way through

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:11
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This audiobook is a complex story of survival and family set in a 1970s Alaskan homesteading community

  • Added: Apr 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:10
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This audiobook is a murder mystery set in Victorian London. Shortly after Kat Holloway is hired as a cook at a Mayfair mansion, her assistant is fo...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2018
  • Length: 03:34
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This is an engaging book about the lives of 15 gifted boys and girls. The prodigies that author Ann Hulbert profiles are both well known and obscur...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 06:46
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Tamora Pierce’s legions of fans will be not be disappointed with what could easily be mistaken for a full-cast performance of her long-awaited novel

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:43
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What is the audiobook equivalent of a page-turner? How about Two Girls Down, a story in which two young girls disappear from a strip mall parking lot

  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:54