Bestsellers
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117,167
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Performance106,950
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Story106,727
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author...
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Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction
- By Sara on 08-21-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Frozen River
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ariel Lawhon
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16,688
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Performance15,587
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Story15,585
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GMA BOOK CLUB PICK AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied...
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Oh dear
- By Barbara on 12-08-23
By: Ariel Lawhon
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The Lion Women of Tehran
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,155
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Performance2,970
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Story2,970
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali, this perfect book club read is “evocative...and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran...
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Wonderful story Awful Narration
- By Sogol on 08-14-24
By: Marjan Kamali
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Lonesome Dove
- A Novel
- By: Larry McMurtry, Taylor Sheridan - introduction
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 35 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall675
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Performance600
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Story600
A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...
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The one western you need to read
- By Lolly on 11-01-25
By: Larry McMurtry, and others
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
- A Novel
- By: Marie Bostwick
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,730
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Performance2,625
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Story2,625
USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this...
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More Women Need to Read This
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-25
By: Marie Bostwick
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Lady Tremaine
- Reese’s Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Rachel Hochhauser
- Narrated by: Bessie Carter
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall802
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Performance791
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Story791
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK IndieNext Pick LibraryReads Pick This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton. “With excellent accents and a soothing yet engaging voice, Bessie Carter’s narration was enchanting...
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Phenomenal
- By Bitten and Seven Forever on 03-28-26
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall117,167
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Performance106,950
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Story106,727
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author...
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Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction
- By Sara on 08-21-15
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Frozen River
- A Novel
- By: Ariel Lawhon
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ariel Lawhon
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16,688
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Performance15,587
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Story15,585
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GMA BOOK CLUB PICK AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied...
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Oh dear
- By Barbara on 12-08-23
By: Ariel Lawhon
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The Lion Women of Tehran
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi, Nikki Massoud
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,155
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Performance2,970
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Story2,970
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali, this perfect book club read is “evocative...and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran...
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Wonderful story Awful Narration
- By Sogol on 08-14-24
By: Marjan Kamali
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Lonesome Dove
- A Novel
- By: Larry McMurtry, Taylor Sheridan - introduction
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 35 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall675
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Performance600
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Story600
A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...
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The one western you need to read
- By Lolly on 11-01-25
By: Larry McMurtry, and others
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
- A Novel
- By: Marie Bostwick
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,730
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Performance2,625
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Story2,625
USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this...
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More Women Need to Read This
- By Amazon Customer on 05-02-25
By: Marie Bostwick
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Lady Tremaine
- Reese’s Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Rachel Hochhauser
- Narrated by: Bessie Carter
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall802
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Performance791
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Story791
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK IndieNext Pick LibraryReads Pick This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton. “With excellent accents and a soothing yet engaging voice, Bessie Carter’s narration was enchanting...
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Phenomenal
- By Bitten and Seven Forever on 03-28-26
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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57,378
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Performance54,550
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Story54,552
A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator! "Kristin Hannah’s potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." —The Washington Post...
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WOW. Just Wow
- By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Other Bennet Sister
- A Novel
- By: Janice Hadlow
- Narrated by: Carla Mendonça
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,420
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Performance1,296
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Story1,296
"Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." —Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the...
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Exhausting
- By L on 07-10-20
By: Janice Hadlow
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The Mad Wife
- A Novel
- By: Meagan Church
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,240
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Performance1,201
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Story1,200
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live. They called it hysteria. She called it survival. Lulu Mayfield has spent the...
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A slow burn, but it gets there.
- By Angus McAvity on 11-16-25
By: Meagan Church
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Book 1
- By: Beth Brower
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall494
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Performance470
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Story470
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.
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Absolutely Smashing!
- By Lara on 08-15-25
By: Beth Brower
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Buckeye: A Read with Jenna Pick
- A Novel
- By: Patrick Ryan
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,425
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Performance2,309
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Story2,309
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. “Mesmerizing.”—People...
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characters were interesting
- By patti on 11-30-25
By: Patrick Ryan
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James
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18,948
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Performance17,780
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Story17,780
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE...
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It's perfect
- By C. King on 03-27-24
By: Percival Everett
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Book 2
- By: Beth Brower
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall291
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Performance273
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Story273
THE YEAR IS 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.
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Beautiful reading of a beautiful story!
- By Lisa McKee on 08-19-25
By: Beth Brower
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The Road of Bones
- The Ashen Series, Book 1
- By: Demi Winters
- Narrated by: Islay Jacobs
- Length: 21 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,350
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Performance2,238
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Story2,238
Silla Nordvig is running for her life. The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest....
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How Many Ways Can Love Scene Be Described
- By Anthony S Reed on 07-15-24
By: Demi Winters
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Blood Meridian
- Or the Evening Redness in the West
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12,107
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Performance10,250
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Story10,232
Author of the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas...
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A beautiful nightmare
- By Ryan on 07-11-11
By: Cormac McCarthy
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The Four Winds
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38,372
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Performance33,440
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Story33,211
This program includes a bonus interview with the author. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 INDIE BESTSELLER "The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors...
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✫✫ 4.75 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 02-03-21
By: Kristin Hannah
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The Song of Achilles
- A Novel
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41,068
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Performance36,759
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Story36,657
“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline...
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Wasn't Expecting to Like It- BOY! was I wrong!!
- By susan on 06-11-14
By: Madeline Miller
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49,761
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Performance44,677
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Story44,491
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....
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The Best Thing? It Really Happened!
- By Chip Atkinson on 08-07-17
By: Mark Sullivan
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Winter Garden
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28,668
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Performance26,115
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Story26,029
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....
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I thought I made a mistake
- By AMB on 11-29-17
By: Kristin Hannah
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I, Medusa
- A Novel
- By: Ayana Gray
- Narrated by: Tyla Collier, A'rese Emokpae
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,839
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Performance1,817
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Story1,817
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “captivating villain origin story” (People Book of the Week) reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine “Ayana Gray brings her fresh, dynamic storytelling to one of the most monstered, maligned...
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Fantastic
- By Lou on 12-08-25
By: Ayana Gray
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Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
- A Novel
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,375
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Performance2,282
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Story2,281
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the best-selling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook.
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Loved it!
- By Cathy Essick on 08-08-25
By: Rhys Bowen
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Circe
- By: Madeline Miller
- Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57,807
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Performance52,129
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Story51,898
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...
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Refined writing with an intimate performance
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 04-11-18
By: Madeline Miller
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Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- By: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8,516
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Performance7,837
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Story7,813
A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge....
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Almost Peerless
- By Brad Simkulet on 02-04-18
By: Emily Brontë, and others
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Keeper of Lost Children
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Karen Chilton, Adam Lazarre-White, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall312
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Performance298
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Story298
*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in unexpected and soul-stirring ways. Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in...
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Wonderful storytelling!
- By Tonya M. on 03-06-26
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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Pride and Prejudice
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43,872
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Performance39,531
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Story39,361
One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....
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A perfect narration of a perfect book
- By Akela on 12-09-15
By: Jane Austen
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Book 3
- By: Beth Brower
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall285
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Performance266
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Story266
The year is 1883, and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.
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Pierce, Islington, & the Reprobates Ten
- By J. Angel on 09-02-25
By: Beth Brower
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Isola
- A Novel
- By: Allegra Goodman
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Allegra Goodman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,720
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Performance2,597
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Story2,597
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name “A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of...
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Stunning and flawless
- By cotswoldrose on 09-17-25
By: Allegra Goodman
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Seeking Persephone
- By: Sarah M. Eden
- Narrated by: Aubrey Warner
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall895
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Performance809
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Story811
When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses - and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering....
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A wonderful Read!
- By ChamberBook on 04-27-18
By: Sarah M. Eden
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Book 4
- By: Beth Brower
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall241
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Performance225
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Story225
The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.
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Absolutely charming and wonderful!
- By Terri Hodgen on 04-15-26
By: Beth Brower
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This Is Happiness
- By: Niall Williams
- Narrated by: Dermot Crowley
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,076
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Performance1,856
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Story1,848
Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a 1,000 years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are...
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Poetry disguised as Prose
- By bobgreenberger on 09-26-20
By: Niall Williams
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In the Great Quiet
- A Novel
- By: Laura Vogt
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Performance23
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Story23
A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893. Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and fiercely independent, she is determined to endure the brutal frontier and create a life of her own. Guarding her solitude, she distances herself from bordering homesteaders and finds peace under the starry nights of the vast frontier. But this is outlaw country, and Minnie soon has the blood of two gunfighters on her hands.
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Interesting - didn’t care for the voices/visions
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The cast of a smash TV show arrives at a quilter’s retreat for a week of camaraderie and creativity that takes some surprising twists in this heartwarming new installment of Jennifer Chiaverini’s much-beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. Acclaimed TV actress Julia Merchaud almost can’t believe...
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Bad Seeds
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The daughter of a hard-working restaurant owner, Louise Brooks always sees the best in people—and in helping them no matter how difficult her own life gets. She's lived through tragic loss and running the family business on her own, even in the face of a failed marriage. So, she's delighted when she finds a best friend in Della Thornton, a woman struggling with bad breaks and unlucky romances. When Louise's father and her prosperous second husband suddenly pass away, Louise takes Della in and makes her the restaurant’s right-hand woman as it grows more successful than ever . . .
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Love the Lexington series
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Wolf Worm
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Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher "Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a...
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Very creepy
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The Lumber Baron's Wife
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Overall45
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After a devastating loss, Hannah Wagner never imagined she’d leave her comfortable home for the harsh, unfamiliar wilderness near Lake Michigan. But when Henry Abernathy, a friend of her husband John, offers them a fresh start in a booming lumber town—where John’s skills as a doctor are sorely needed—Hannah reluctantly agrees. There, she meets Kate Abernathy, Henry’s spirited, much younger wife. Kate’s sharp tongue and outsider status have made her unwelcome among the town’s elite.
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great story
- By Judith Sprague on 04-17-26
By: Lynn Austin
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The News from Dublin
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From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...
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Story13
The cast of a smash TV show arrives at a quilter’s retreat for a week of camaraderie and creativity that takes some surprising twists in this heartwarming new installment of Jennifer Chiaverini’s much-beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. Acclaimed TV actress Julia Merchaud almost can’t believe...
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Too recappy
- By Misty Littlejohn on 04-14-26
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Bad Seeds
- A Lexington, Alabama Novel, Book 6
- By: Mary Monroe
- Narrated by: Shari Peele, Lynnette R. Freeman, Ruffin Prentiss
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance205
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Story205
The daughter of a hard-working restaurant owner, Louise Brooks always sees the best in people—and in helping them no matter how difficult her own life gets. She's lived through tragic loss and running the family business on her own, even in the face of a failed marriage. So, she's delighted when she finds a best friend in Della Thornton, a woman struggling with bad breaks and unlucky romances. When Louise's father and her prosperous second husband suddenly pass away, Louise takes Della in and makes her the restaurant’s right-hand woman as it grows more successful than ever . . .
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Love the Lexington series
- By Shoni on 04-08-26
By: Mary Monroe
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Wolf Worm
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance101
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Story101
Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher "Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a...
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Very creepy
- By Maenad on 03-28-26
By: T. Kingfisher
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The Lumber Baron's Wife
- By: Lynn Austin
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance45
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After a devastating loss, Hannah Wagner never imagined she’d leave her comfortable home for the harsh, unfamiliar wilderness near Lake Michigan. But when Henry Abernathy, a friend of her husband John, offers them a fresh start in a booming lumber town—where John’s skills as a doctor are sorely needed—Hannah reluctantly agrees. There, she meets Kate Abernathy, Henry’s spirited, much younger wife. Kate’s sharp tongue and outsider status have made her unwelcome among the town’s elite.
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great story
- By Judith Sprague on 04-17-26
By: Lynn Austin
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The News from Dublin
- Stories
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...
By: Colm Toibin
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Son of Nobody
- By: Yann Martel
- Narrated by: Robin Wilcock, Aaron Willis
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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From the author of the phenomenon Life of Pi, this fabulous novel connects the lives of a foot soldier in the Trojan War with a scholar struggling to make sense of his life in modern-day Oxford The past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the...
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Couldn't get past the dads lack of attention to his daughter
- By Dorothea Jenkins on 04-13-26
By: Yann Martel
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The Beheading Game
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Lehmann
- Narrated by: Florence Howard
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...
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Good idea for a story, but…
- By Karen A on 03-24-26
By: Rebecca Lehmann
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Only One Choice
- A Pride and Prejudice Variation (The Gentleman Mr Darcy)
- By: Julie Cooper
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Grace
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story43
For the sake of a most beloved sister, and for their father’s dying wish, Elizabeth would make herself submit... When her dying father demands one daughter marry the heir to Longbourn and the other wed a wealthy elderly widower, Elizabeth makes the hardest choice of her life. She becomes the wife of sixty-year-old Mr. Ashwood—a marriage in name only that leaves her more a daughter than a bride. Four years later, Elizabeth is a widow at twenty, impoverished and estranged from the sister she once adored.
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The romance is the highlight.
- By Marie on 03-26-26
By: Julie Cooper
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The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer N. Brown
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery―she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a...
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Assassin's Creed: Underworld
- Assassin's Creed, Book 8
- By: Oliver Bowden
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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1862: With London in the grip of the Industrial Revolution, the world's first underground railway is under construction. When a body is discovered at the dig, it sparks the beginning of the latest deadly chapter in the centuries-old battle between the Assassins and Templars.
By: Oliver Bowden
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Duke with a Duchess
- By: Scarlett Scott
- Narrated by: Hannah Martin, Harry Frost
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a scorching, angsty second chance romance between a scorned duchess and the duke who won't let her go . . . Everett Saunders, Duke of Riverdale, found the perfect duchess. One who would grant him an heir and a spare and rusticate quietly at...
By: Scarlett Scott
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The Crownless Queen
- From the bestselling author comes a BRAND NEW historical fiction novel of secrets, sacrifice and survival against the odds
- By: Elizabeth Chadwick
- Narrated by: Amy Noble
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on duty overseas. Though broken, Jeanette readies herself once more to fight to protect what is...
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The Last Baby in Auschwitz
- Women of War
- By: Anna Stuart
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Auschwitz, 1945: My baby’s thin cry pierces the cold, frosty night. I rock him gently in my arms, willing him to be quiet. Because if anyone hears my newborn, he could be snatched from me–or worse. We’re so close to freedom now and I pray that soon I will walk out of the iron gates with my precious son…
By: Anna Stuart
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One Knight
- A Historical Romance Novella
- By: Meghan March
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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In 1067, William the Conqueror was changing the course of England’s history forever. As the sister of a Saxon baron, Lady Elisande knew life would never again be the same, but she wasn’t prepared for this one knight. Sir Henry de Vere was under orders to conquer and secure Rosewyn Manor by any means necessary—including marrying the baron’s daughter, who was rumored to be a rare beauty. Prepared to do his duty, the last thing he expected was to find a white flag of surrender, ordered by the courageous Saxon lady left behind.
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I miss the old MM.
- By Mamabird Los Angeles on 04-18-26
By: Meghan March
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Never After
- By: Alexis Hall
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain. When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man’s plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield.
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Realistically Ever After
- By Bookfriend83 on 04-08-26
By: Alexis Hall
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Almost Life
- A Novel
- By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Narrated by: Patricia Allison
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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People “Best Sapphic Historical Romances” Harper’s Bazaar “Most Anticipated Books Coming Out This Spring” Autostraddle “Most Anticipated Queer Books for March 2026” Time “New Books You Should Read in March” “Hargrave has a great eye and ear for close-focus...
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Absolutely recommend
- By Anonymous on 04-06-26
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Chess Story
- By: Stefan Zweig, Peter Gay (Introduction By) - introduction, Joel Rotenberg - Translator - translator
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic...
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Great classic chess story
- By AudioMonster on 04-15-26
By: Stefan Zweig, and others
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The Time of Cherries
- A Novel
- By: Montserrat Roig, Colm Toibin - introduction, Julia Sanches - translator
- Narrated by: Rebecca June, John Keating
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by...
By: Montserrat Roig, and others
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August 1914
- A Novel
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts - Translator - translator
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 43 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and others
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After Hours at Dooryard Books
- By: Cat Sebastian
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie, JJ Hawkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at night—news in general might be keeping Patrick up at night—but he's doing fine. He's sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way...
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Probably Cat Sebastian never imagined how topical this story would be, it's not in the "past" anymore
- By Placeholder on 04-11-26
By: Cat Sebastian
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The House of Dreams
- By: Kate Lord Brown
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman, Stephane Cornicard, Sam Stafford
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A beautifully written tale based on the true-life story of Varian Fry, called "the artists' Schindler," who rescued thousands of Europe's finest creative minds from certain death in WWII. In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated...
By: Kate Lord Brown
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Sarafina
- By: Philip Fracassi
- Narrated by: Eric Fox, Ellie Gossage
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
Choosing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war, three brothers desert their posts and begin a long, arduous journey back home. After weeks of dealing with rough terrain while evading bandits and home guard soldiers—starving, injured, and exhausted—the brothers find a miracle deep in the dark woods. A home. Living in a remote cabin is a beautiful woman, Sarafina, and her young son, Titus. Sarafina takes the soldiers in, cares for them, feeds them, offers them a place to rest.
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Really good horror
- By Amazon Customer on 04-19-26
By: Philip Fracassi
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A Private Man
- By: Stephanie Sy-Quia
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A debut novel inspired by the true story of the author’s grandparents, tracing the slow-burn love story between a Catholic priest and a progressive theology teacher across Rome and England during the twentieth century It’s the 1960s, and David is handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy...
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The Hired Man
- A Novel
- By: Sandra Dallas
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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The Dust Bowl sweeps a handsome stranger into a small Colorado town to dangerous effect "...exhilarating and hard to resist." —The Washington Post on Westering Women 1937. It’s been seven years since the dust storms started in Colorado. Folks can barely remember a time when the clouds were...
By: Sandra Dallas
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The Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Annotated)
- Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun | With Critical Afterwords
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 49 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Nathaniel Hawthorne spent his entire career writing about one thing: the weight of what his ancestors had done, and what America refused to remember about itself. His great-great-grandfather was a judge at the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne added the "w" to his name in part to distance himself from that inheritance. It didn't work. The past — Puritan severity, inherited guilt, the violence concealed beneath respectability — runs through every page he wrote. He is the American novelist of conscience, the writer who understood before anyone else that the national mythology of innocence and...
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The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru
- By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery… Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where...
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Rival to Resist
- A Regency Romance (A Chronicle of Misadventures, Book 4)
- By: Martha Keyes
- Narrated by: Janna Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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When Frederick Yorke arrives in the Cornish fishing village of Trelowen, he knows exactly what he a seat in Parliament and the recognition that has always eluded him. Unfortunately, that ambition runs straight through Lady Caroline Radcliffe—a young and intelligent widow who controls the votes he needs and has no patience for charming men with hidden agendas.
By: Martha Keyes
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Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed, Book 6
- By: Oliver Bowden
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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It is the golden age of piracy and the New World beckons. Edward Kenway—the brash young son of a wool merchant—dreams of gold and cannot resist the lure of a life of glory on the high seas. When his family homestead is attacked, there seems like no better time to escape, and Kenway soon establishes himself as one of the deadliest privateers of his day.
By: Oliver Bowden
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Stolen Magic
- By: Ava Marie Salinger
- Narrated by: Alex Kydd
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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In a Victorian London where magical privilege divides society, Duke Evander Ravenwood and Viggo Stonewall have forged more than just an alliance—they've fallen in love. But their happiness is short-lived when a new threat emerges. A renowned professor from the Royal Institute for the Arcane...
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More of a set up book
- By Rico on 04-19-26