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Night Watch
- A Novel
- By: Jayne Anne Phillips
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Theo Stockman, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 521
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Story4 out of 5 stars 468
From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written historical novel
- By shastamax on 01-14-24
- Night Watch
- A Novel
- By: Jayne Anne Phillips
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Theo Stockman, Maggi-Meg Reed
Extraordinary, deserving of its Pulitzer Prize
Reviewed: 07-11-24
Wow. Often contemporary literary fiction asks you to be patient and ease into the story, but not this one. The first minutes gripped me and held me captive until I'd finished. The characters were alive in my mind. The Audible version with multiple narrators is superb.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 30,274
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27,392
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27,326
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Superb!
Reviewed: 01-18-23
Extraordinary novel with a fast moving plot and unforgettable characters. The narrator is excellent. I was captivated start to finish.
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The Prophets
- By: Robert Jones Jr.
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 674
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 606
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 604
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man - a fellow slave - seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVED IT
- By Des on 04-18-21
- The Prophets
- By: Robert Jones Jr.
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Extraordinary novel
Reviewed: 10-24-21
My favorite book of the year. Unforgettable characters, a plot that made me hold my breath, and a powerful, lyrical style. The narrator is as stunning as the novel itself.
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The Best American Short Stories 2019
- The Best American Series ®
- By: Anthony Doerr - editor, Heidi Pitlor - editor
- Narrated by: Scott Shepherd, Gabra Zackman, Ali Ahn, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 23
Number-one New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Review
- By Anonymous User on 11-03-19
- The Best American Short Stories 2019
- The Best American Series ®
- By: Anthony Doerr - editor, Heidi Pitlor - editor
- Narrated by: Scott Shepherd, Gabra Zackman, Ali Ahn, Full Cast
Terrific anthology
Reviewed: 05-18-20
I read this series every year, and it's wonderful to be able to listen to the stories now. The multiple narrators are great. The stories are a stellar representation of the diversity of authors, themes, story structures. One weirdness with the audiobook, though -- some of the stories are not in the same order as in the e-book (and I assume the print book). That shouldn't be a problem, but I'm in a book club that is discussing the stories in order, one a week, and listeners have to be careful to read the same story!
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,974
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,726
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,711
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Best book of the year
Reviewed: 12-12-18
This is simply the best novel I read or listened to in 2018. I was swept into it, both because the plot and characters (both humans and trees) captivated me and because Suzanne Toren's narration is superb. It's long, but so engrossing that I didn't want it to end. I'm stunned by the power of this audiobook. You don't have to be in love with trees already to appreciate this novel, but I'll bet that by the time you're a few chapters in, you'll be looking trees in a whole new way.
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,589
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,009
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,982
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined", Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dark, thought provoking, sometimes frustrating
- By River Holmes-miller on 06-21-17
- Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Really important book
Reviewed: 01-30-18
Roxane Gay talks about her "hunger" -- physical and emotional -- in a searing, powerful, vulnerable way. She is one of the major voices in literature today. You can't help but be moved and informed by this book.
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The Power
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,385
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,370
In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power: They can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A necessary read
- By Grace on 11-22-17
- The Power
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Powerful novel
Reviewed: 12-15-17
I found The Power gripping and surprising. Knowing the premise, I thought I could predict the outcome. Yes, but no. However, I was irritated by the narrator's exaggerated accents. The American accents were not believable -- either nasal and strident or Southern -- and this pulled me away from the story. I wish the narrator had had a dialect coach. I still recommend the audiobook, and the novel was listed by the New York Times as one of the 5 best novels of 2017.
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,811
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,640
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,635
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine - growing up dirt poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Painful Gift
- By MC on 08-01-17
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
Extraordinary memoir and performance
Reviewed: 10-14-17
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is one of the best memoirs I've every read or listened to. I've purposely portioned it out, an hour at a time, because I don't want it to end. The story is compelling and unexpected. The writing style -- prose + poetry -- is so stunning that I sometimes have to stop the book and replay a section that I want to ponder or commit to memory. Alexie is the perfect narrator. I'd give it a hundred-star rating if I could. One of my favorite books ever.
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The Nix
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Hill
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,172
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,316
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,296
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Is There An Editor In The House??
- By Sara on 11-03-16
- The Nix
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Hill
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Deserves the rave reviews
Reviewed: 05-26-17
What made the experience of listening to The Nix the most enjoyable?
The novel is just the kind I love -- complex, well written, with unique characters and a startling plot. The narration is superb.
Any additional comments?
I heartily recommend this novel, especially for boomer-aged readers who lived through the protests of the sixties.
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Behind Her Eyes
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Bea Holland, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,018
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18,297
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18,282
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar, and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar...who says the kiss was a terrible mistake but who still can't keep his eyes off Louise. And then Louise bumps into Adele, who’s new to town and in need of a friend. But she also just happens to be married to David.
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3 out of 5 stars
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HATED the ending
- By Katherine Olson on 02-20-17
- Behind Her Eyes
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Pinborough
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Josie Dunn, Bea Holland, Huw Parmenter
Oh my, the twists!
Reviewed: 02-05-17
Where does Behind Her Eyes rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I usually read complex, literary fiction, but I also love a good psychological thriller. This one was so involving that I kept wanting to listen instead of work. I found myself relishing commutes, errands, and long walks so that I had an excuse to keep listening. Highly recommended!
What was one of the most memorable moments of Behind Her Eyes?
The twists at the end. Please people, don't give anything away!
What about the narrators’s performance did you like?
Excellent narration, capturing the tone, cadence, and personality of the different characters.
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