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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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Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) is the real-life inspiration for this coming-of-age story. It details the harrowing experiences of Forug...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:24
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This is narrator and author Tess Sharpe's debut story of backwoods crime and the ongoing struggle to survive against powerful rivals

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:12
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This is the first installment of 23 mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, who teaches medicine at Cambridge University in the fourteenth century

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:26
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In the prologue of the second book in author Sandrone Dazieri's series, listener’s learn of three people who are imprisoned in a concrete silo, one...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
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This audiobook is based on the ancient Greek drama of Circe

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
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As adolescence rears its head, Mikey Callahan and his childhood group the Gunners — a name they take from the mailbox of an abandoned house where t...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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Michael Ondaatje's latest novel features a 14-year-old boy whose parents suddenly disappear from his life

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:19
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Zora Neale Hurston's previously unreleased work offers a rare glimpse of the experiences of the last surviving person to have been taken from Afric...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
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CNN anchor and novelist Jake Tapper narrates a great summer listen as he re-creates 1950s McCarthy-era Washington in this thriller

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
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Detective Ralph Anderson is a no-nonsense, meat-and-potatoes type who'd never consider a supernatural explanation for a baffling case. But Ralph's ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
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This book is the first of the Perveen Mistry mysteries. Perveen works at her father's law firm as the first female solicitor in Bombay

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:12
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If you feel like getting away for awhile, I suggest the ancient British-Roman spa town of Aquae Sulis, circa AD 125.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:09
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This selection of ten stories set in Los Angeles but outside the Hollywood glamour is simply excellent

  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:14
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This is a masterpiece of horror fiction, and there's a reason it endures

  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
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Learning-challenged Claudia has always been buoyed by her friend Monday, and only she seems to worry that her bff is missing

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:32
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Author Mike Pesca assembles a cadre of “what-if?” questions from the sports world.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:17
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Keep your finger near the rewind buttons as you listen to this stunning exploration of the physics and philosophies of time

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:36
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Narrator Chloe Cannon delivers an elegant and emotionally devastating performance of Abbott’s latest psychological thriller

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
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Sneha Mathan is an excellent choice to narrate the many subplots in Umrigar's unexpected sequel to THE SPACE BETWEEN US, about an unjustly fired lo...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:01
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This audiobook presents a compelling argument inspired by a cat — to adopt their view of life to learn how to let go and focus on our well-being an...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:15