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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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Based on a true murder trial in 1897, the legend of the Greenbriar Ghost offers rich territory for author Sharyn McCrumb

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
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Two sisters, Carol and Violet, find romance in the idyllic wedding town of Happily, Inc., California

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
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In this audiobook, five generations of a clan of Ochires witches flee persecution in Brittany. They head for the unknown shores of the United Kingdom

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:25
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This is the story of a “cursed” girl who approaches and escapes Eventide, the day she is to meet her doom

  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 10:13
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Taut, intricate, and urbane—this BBC/Scotland radio adaptation captures the sound and feel of the British-grey atmosphere and cold war imagery of J...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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This audiobook is from the author of the famous—and famously gay—series Tales of the City

  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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This is a story about a teenage girl’s journey through the desert in search of the self she has left behind

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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In this book, author Walter Isaacson draws heavily on Leonardo da Vinci’s journals. He describes the painter’s work as art built on a scaffold of s...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
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This story is told from the authoritative viewpoint of Red, an oak tree who knows the habits of the many animals she shelters

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:13
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In the 1950s, in benighted Fetherhoughton on the edge of the moors, a Catholic priest has lost his faith, a fact he conceals because the priesthood...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:00
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This is the breathtaking story of Anna Kerrigan; her father, Eddie; and the gangster Dexter Styles

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:41
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An African-American honor student’s life is changed when he is the victim of racial profiling, police brutality, and wrongful arrest

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
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Liliana has been fired from her accounting firm, falsely accused of crimes

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
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This is an ambitious, unsettling collaboration between Stephen King and his son, Owen. Women all over the world are going to sleep and not waking up

  • Added: Dec 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Beautifully written by New Zealand’s Janet Frame, this comedy of manners pokes fun at literary wannabe Harry Gill, who seek to enshrine the life an...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
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These are the first eight episodes of BBC Radio’s 2004-2005 audio-theater adaptations, written by McCall Smith himself

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
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New Jersey Detective Napoleon "Nap" Dumas is in search for the truth about his twin brother's death and the disappearance of his high school girlfr...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:28
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This is a continuation of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series

  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
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Sofia Khan is a 20-something British-Pakistani woman who is unsuccessful in her search for love

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
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Levity is mixed with earnestness as author and narrator Manoush Zomorodi sets forth the “Bored and Brilliant challenge,” which encourages listeners...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:18