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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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he setting is late-nineteenth-century England, and the story involves a young widow, a vicar, and a serpent

  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
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Detective Inspector Minto, of Scotland Yard, happens to be attending Carey’s Circus when Anton is found dead inside the tigers’ cage

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:12
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This is the story of Sherman Alexie's grief after the death of his mother and is rooted in the brutal experiences of Native Americans in the United...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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This audiobook straddles modern-day and fourteenth-century Siena

  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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Victor Lodato's unique novel features a cast of vividly drawn characters who are dealing with love and loss

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
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This story mixes history and invention in the last days of Stalin's Russia

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:22
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You never know when a 25-cent cup of coffee will forever change your life. That was the case for Jim Bradford when he met young H.K. Derryberry, a ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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Nevada Baylor, a private investigator teams up with the dangerously magical Connor “Mad” Rogan to put a stop to the evil being perpetrated by a mur...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
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It’s enlightening to hear Eric Dezenhall’s takedown of myths and clichés about managing negative information

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
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Sian, a demon and lord of hell, was betrayed by a fey princess more than a millennium ago. Princess Lila is that fey princess reborn, and now she b...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's reactions to the unexpected death of her husband in 2015 constitute the core narrative of this audiobook

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
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When Arturo's family is threatened by a land developer, they must band together to protect their neighborhood. The book weaves a story of courage, ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:27