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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 the English town of Noon Sun, jeweler Benedict Stone is lamenting the demise of his marriage

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:15
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his is the story of a boy who learns to fight South Africa’s apartheid system in 1976. Janice Warman's novel shows the complex relationships that e...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
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Jo Nesbø’s specialty is gore-filled serial-killer puzzles. If that’s your cup of tea, you’re in it for the bizarre imagination and plot twists

  • Added: Aug 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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This is a collection of short stories and novellas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo

  • Added: Aug 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
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The author, political satirist and comedian W. Kamau Bell takes a look at race, gender, and sexuality in contemporary America

  • Added: Aug 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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This is the story of a young Bonnie and Clyde which takes place before the couple’s notorious rampage

  • Added: Aug 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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In 1945, as Germany prepared to surrender, Berlin was overrun by Russian soldiers. These "Ivans" controlled the city, and life for the residents wa...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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Who does that?" This central question running throughout Luvvie Ajayi's comic memoir is asked again and again in her signature tone of mock horror

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:18
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This is the story of six main characters, their present worlds, and the flashbacks to the day in 1980 on which they experienced a life-altering tra...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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This is the fascinating history of the chemicals and the personalities that helped create contemporary medical culture

  • Added: Aug 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
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Historian Alison Weir offers a unique view of the infamous Anne Boleyn. Weir’s Anne is presented as an intelligent woman who was manipulated by the...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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This is the story of Alan Brennan, a man on a quest to find answers about his father’s suspicious death while climbing Denali

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
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Through a series of calamities, Jamie Brewster finds himself on Africa's Gelatin Coast (where ships go to die)

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:06
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Young Tommin Kelly is cursed by Lorcan Reilly, a leprechaun whose ambition is to become king of the leprechauns

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
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Grover Gardner, once again gives voice to David Rosenfelt’s best-selling amateur sleuth and dog lover, Andy Carpenter

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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As a girl, Niloo sought refuge in America, leaving her father, Bahman, behind in Iran. This story captures a father-daughter relationship built on ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:40
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This languid, innovative mystery begins with a carefully planned heist of rare manuscripts from Princeton University's library by a group of experi...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
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n a culture that embraces rampant consumerism, the authors, who call themselves the Minimalists, are on a quest to convince others that less is tru...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:02
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Rachel Sweetie’s inconsolable grief over her younger brother’s death opens a story that unfolds in multiple layers

  • Added: Sep 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
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As this audiobook opens, young Alice has a terrifying encounter with a stranger when she runs away from home. When she doesn’t return, her family b...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:20