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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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Now in his 80s, the bestselling author and talk-radio pioneer looks ahead to the inevitability of death—and spits in its face.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
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This is a lively presentation that depicts the complexities of love and marriage

  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
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The heroine of this story, Ada, has survived living with a clubfoot and her Mam’s cruelty

  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
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Jim Benton, author of the Franny K. Stein and Dear Dumb Diary series, brings more outrageous fun with his new child protagonist, the imaginative an...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:04
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In this new George Smiley espionage novel the protagonist is Peter Guillam. Forty years on and under interrogation, he must revisit the disastrous ...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
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Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, feels sorrow for both his race and his home state. He’s dedicated to helping both yet unable to do much for e...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:23
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This is a collection of previously unpublished short stories by the award-winning author of THE COLOR OF WATER

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:49
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In this wry and witty exposé, Rebecca Solnit outlines 80 books no women should read. This is her somewhat tongue-in-cheek response to a famous ESQU...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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The book is Gogol's flawed masterpiece, and Nicholas Boulton gives it the presentation that it deserves

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
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This audiobook, the second in the Lady Sherlock series, features Charlotte Holmes, an unusual young woman who created the fictional Sherlock Holmes...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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Former London debutante Sarah Gilchrist was raped, confined to a sanatorium for “promiscuity,” and banished in disgrace

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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In this audiobook the action begins immediately as the dragon, Falcyn, and Medea, the granddaughter of the Greek god Apollo, are swept into another...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
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This is a collection of Paul Yoon's contemplative short stories, which are linked by characters who are trying to find their place in the world in ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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Listeners with even a passing interest in children’s literature will enjoy this audiobook. Bruce Handy, author and narrator, has a style that is co...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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Set right before WWI, this domestic tragedy is told in the shadow of the looming destruction of a world

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Jen Hatmaker’s twelfth book is an honest and heartfelt guide to how women can approach their messy lives with moxie

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:01
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This audio experience is truly horrifying, it's the story itself, which describes the atrocities of Georgia Tann who ran the notorious Tennessee Ch...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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This audiobook begins as though it will be a comedy, but gets darker and darker as it goes along

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:20
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This is James Atlas's history/memoir on the art of writing biographies

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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While some aspects of our personality are affected by biological and social influences, author and narrator Brian R. Little explains that we can al...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 03:07