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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 audiobook, author Stephen Daisley’s characters include a pair of itinerant Australian sheep shearers, a pregnant dingo bitch, a Malayan-Chi...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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In his third narration of Louise Penny's popular Three Pines series, Robert Bathurst emphasizes the humanity and compassion of Chief Superintendent...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
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A man learns that the violent relationship between his gay brother and immigrant father was even more complicated than he thought, and a hitchhiker...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:59
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In Western Australia in the 1940s, Rob Coram is living a seemingly idyllic and carefree childhood

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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Jane of Austin is a contemporary retelling of the classic SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Jane and her two sisters, Ceila, recovering from heartbreak, and M...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:02
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Facing the utter collapse of Wales, which has fallen to the English, Eluned accepts an arranged marriage in order to avenge her late husband’s deat...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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Fiona Kidman’s audiobook is a fictional account of New Zealand’s intrepid aviator Jean Batten, who broke several aerial records in the 1930s

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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In Karin Slaughter's suspenseful mystery, listeners are introduced to defense attorney Charlie Quinn

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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This is the dramatic conclusion to the Broken Earth Trilogy, which leaps right back into the final moments of the previous title, THE OBELISK GATE

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Northhanger Abbey was the first novel written by Jane Austen (1798) and the last to be published after her death (1818).

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:43
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Listeners enter two worlds, human and elfin. Those worlds had been violently thrown together ever since the merging of Earth and Underhill a genera...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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In this cleverly plotted historical whodunit, A.J. MacKenzie creates the residents of St Mary in the Marsh, a small village in Kent, England

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
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Isabelle Lee experiences a loss of self-confidence when she’s fired from her job. She decides to go to China, where she reconnects with her sister ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Emmett is one of 10 poor teens, most of color, who are competing aboard a spaceship for a position with Babel. Babel mines nyxia, "the new black gold

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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Israeli stand-up comic Dov Greenstein’s schtick involves hurling insults at his audience in frenetic, hysterical tones

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:43
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How did the suggestive rhythm and blues phrase “good booty” morph into Little Richard’s 1956 smash teenage anthem “Tutti Frutti,” with its veiled a...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
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Hold onto your wallets—the League of Pensioners are up to their old tricks! The Swedish retirees connive to outsmart Vegas casinos in this caper, t...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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In this audio memoir, Mark Lukach shares what it is like to watch his beautiful wife, Giulia, suddenly experience a psychotic break and be hospital...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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This is G.J. Meyer’s fascinating and controversial history of U.S. involvement in WWI.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:40
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Jesmyn Ward's latest novel takes the heroic quest motif, adds ghost story elements, and then plunges into contemporary America's battle with povert...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:20