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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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Zora Neale Hurston's previously unreleased work offers a rare glimpse of the experiences of the last surviving person to have been taken from Afric...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
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Michael Ondaatje's latest novel features a 14-year-old boy whose parents suddenly disappear from his life

  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:19
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As adolescence rears its head, Mikey Callahan and his childhood group the Gunners — a name they take from the mailbox of an abandoned house where t...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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This audiobook is based on the ancient Greek drama of Circe

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:31
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In the prologue of the second book in author Sandrone Dazieri's series, listener’s learn of three people who are imprisoned in a concrete silo, one...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
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This is the first installment of 23 mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, who teaches medicine at Cambridge University in the fourteenth century

  • Added: Jul 01, 2018
  • Length: 03:26
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This is narrator and author Tess Sharpe's debut story of backwoods crime and the ongoing struggle to survive against powerful rivals

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:12
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Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) is the real-life inspiration for this coming-of-age story. It details the harrowing experiences of Forug...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:24

  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:19
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This is the story of a woman's struggle to find herself after her divorce

  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:05
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In this audiobook listeners will imagine they're traveling through the galaxy with Paige and Rose Tico, thwarting the First Order at every turn whi...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
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When an alert sounds in Zach's school, he's shepherded into a closet by his teacher. Amid the chorus of "POP, POP, POP," Zach's limited viewpoint g...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:20
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Listeners will be glad to discover kindhearted vinyl devotee Frank, who has his own music shop in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
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Eleven-year-old Frances calls herself Figgrotten — she just likes how that sounds. Left to her own devices, she prefers to sit alone outside in the...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
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This riveting memoir recounts the author's childhood in a fundamentalist and isolationist family and how she broke out of those narrow confines to ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:23
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This audiobook presents unsparing parallel portrayals of a mother and her daughter, Elsie, whose rocky relationship with an Albanian immigrant lead...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
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Secrets layered in deeper secrets unfold slowly and surprisingly in Laura Lippman's latest psychological chiller

  • Added: Jun 02, 2018
  • Length: 03:02
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This is a heartbreaking narrative of an 11-year old girl who is surviving the test of a separation from her family

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:12
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Author Ben Austen and narrator Ron Butler create something special in this outstanding examination of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing projects

  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 03:23
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This is author Lisa Kleyoas’ depiction of late-1800s London and the romance between Dr. Garrett Gibson, England's only female physician, and Ethan ...

  • Added: May 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:52