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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 Karin Slaughter's suspenseful mystery, listeners are introduced to defense attorney Charlie Quinn

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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 book traces the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere

  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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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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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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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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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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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