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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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To many people, the women’s suffrage movement in America begins and ends with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But the effort was far d...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
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This is a superb audiobook about a terrible period in the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Narrator JD Jackson takes great care to articulate the story of Muhammed Ali and his refusal to serve in the military during the Vietnam War

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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This is the story about author Sally Mott Freeman’s father and uncles’ experiences in WWII and how they impacted her family

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Anyone who has ever seen Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz on television (which is most of the free world) will be fascinated by this impressive review o...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:15
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Mia, who was adopted from Korea, discovers forbidden photos while visiting North Korea with her father and brother

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
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In this mystery, set in the English countryside in 1909, two forward thinking, spirited, capable women have become known for their sleuthing skills

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Kindhearted, funny Ben Carter is an aspiring screenwriter who is currently employed as a dog walker for Windy City Waggers

  • Added: Oct 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
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The melancholy tone of Ken Burns’s voice exactly suits the mood of this history of the Vietnam War. Burns’ newest documentary of the same name aire...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:05
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Jancy Wilson, a young woman becomes stranded in the small town of Pick, Texas, when her car catches fire right in front of the Strawberry Hearts Diner

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
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This audiobook is Laurel Snyder’s wondrous story about "nine on an island, orphans all

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
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In this audiobook's bleak future, words shape the existence of objects. When items aren’t labeled or their identity isn't confirmed aloud, they beg...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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In this first installment, we meet Joe Sandilands as the WWI veteran turned Scotland Yard detective who, minutes from returning to England from ass...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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This book traces the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere

  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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Completed the day before he committed suicide in 1942, Stefan Zweig’s narrative is a bittersweet medley of nostalgia and despair

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:05
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This novel-in-verse, sings with the despair, hope, and love that wash over 17-year-old Blade, a budding musician

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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Jule, a detached 18-year-old, is poised for fight, flight, and inventing lies about her past

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
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Many listeners know the tragic story of Jane Grey, who was queen for nine days before she was executed. But fewer know of her sisters, Catherine an...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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This audiobook is a biography of Claude Shannon, the father of the Information Age

  • Added: Oct 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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T. Jefferson Parker’s latest novel focuses on private investigator Roland Ford’s search for Clay Hickman, an escapee from a mental institution oper...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:09