Bestsellers
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10,679
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Performance9,396
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Story9,330
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait...
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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The Stranger
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,481
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Performance5,314
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Story5,304
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived, and is certainly one of the most important and influential books ever produced. Now, for the first time, this revered...
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Is amorality bad?
- By Rolando on 03-10-14
By: Albert Camus
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- By: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12,314
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Performance10,963
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Story10,935
Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led...
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My Choice for Frank Muller's Best
- By Alan on 10-13-12
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,902
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Performance8,734
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Story8,701
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,003
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Performance7,960
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Story7,919
An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....
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Classic in Historical Mysteries
- By K Cat reviews things on 09-05-19
By: Graham Hancock
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- By: Willie Lynch
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall732
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Performance608
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Story609
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making....
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Sancofa
- By colin on 10-25-15
By: Willie Lynch
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10,679
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Performance9,396
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Story9,330
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait...
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
By: Maggie O'Farrell
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The Stranger
- By: Albert Camus
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,481
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Performance5,314
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Story5,304
Albert Camus' The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world, with millions of copies sold. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived, and is certainly one of the most important and influential books ever produced. Now, for the first time, this revered...
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Is amorality bad?
- By Rolando on 03-10-14
By: Albert Camus
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All Quiet on the Western Front
- By: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12,314
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Performance10,963
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Story10,935
Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led...
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My Choice for Frank Muller's Best
- By Alan on 10-13-12
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,902
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Performance8,734
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Story8,701
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,003
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Performance7,960
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Story7,919
An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....
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Classic in Historical Mysteries
- By K Cat reviews things on 09-05-19
By: Graham Hancock
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
- By: Willie Lynch
- Narrated by: Ronald Eastwood
- Length: 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall732
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Performance608
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Story609
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making....
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Sancofa
- By colin on 10-25-15
By: Willie Lynch
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The Tao of Pooh
- By: Benjamin Hoff
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9,021
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Performance7,953
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Story7,932
Audie Award Winner, Personal Development, 2013 Author Benjamin Hoff shows that the philosophy of Winnie-the-Pooh is amazingly consistent with the principles of Taoism and demonstrates how you can use these principles in your daily life. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says...
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Wonderful
- By Robert on 01-09-14
By: Benjamin Hoff
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,352
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Performance2,908
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Story2,896
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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Reacher
- The Stories Behind the Stories
- By: Lee Child
- Narrated by: Lee Child, Jeff Harding
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance127
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Story127
After making his debut in The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular―and most enduring―fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator tells the stories behind the stories. These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written...
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Lee is the best
- By Brian Chambers on 09-17-25
By: Lee Child
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The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,078
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Performance927
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Story923
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...
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Should be required reading in US schools
- By Richard on 01-01-21
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,766
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Performance2,436
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Story2,428
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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Butchery of the language
- By Sigurdur J. on 03-26-19
By: Jackson Crawford
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The Crucible
- By: Arthur Miller
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall1,594
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Performance1,281
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Story1,278
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town....
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Abridged Version
- By Michael G. Stoffel on 05-07-12
By: Arthur Miller
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Notes of a Native Son
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,371
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Performance1,179
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Story1,175
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....
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Masterful Essayist
- By Andre on 09-30-16
By: James Baldwin
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Dark Renaissance
- The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
- By: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance91
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Story91
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Will in the World reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe―Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival. In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were...
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Marlowe’s gifts
- By TheoBabe on 09-15-25
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Talking Classics
- The Shock of the Old
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.
By: Mary Beard
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The Tower and the Ruin
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
- By: Michael D. C. Drout
- Narrated by: Michael D. C. Drout
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance36
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Story36
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.
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wow--A great gelp in understanding WHY we live Tolkien's work so much!
- By Ethel on 03-27-26
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The Outlandish Companion (Revised Edition)
- Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn
- By: Diana Gabaldon
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall691
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Performance630
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Story624
Number one New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of listeners with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series....
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Listen to it for the "Butt Cooties" - GREAT!
- By Elizabeth on 02-19-16
By: Diana Gabaldon
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Gilgamesh
- A New English Version
- By: Stephen Mitchell - translator
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,160
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Performance3,434
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Story3,425
This brilliant new treatment of the world's oldest epic is a literary event on par with Seamus Heaney's wildly popular Beowulf translation. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell energizes a heroic tale so old it predates Homer's Iliad by more than a millennium. In the...
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A defense of this "translation"
- By George on 07-16-08
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The Tempest
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Sir Ian McKellen, Emilia Fox, Scott Handy, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall760
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Performance655
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Story649
Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play....
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Gandalf is great
- By Justin on 11-10-15
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,206
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Performance1,014
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Story1,017
For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- By LarryNC on 02-06-11
By: Carlos Castaneda
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,458
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Performance2,958
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Story2,947
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant....
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- By Jefferson on 02-13-11
By: Walter Mosley
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The Conspiracy against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Story32
In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...
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An outstanding tour of philosophical pessimism
- By Bruce on 05-01-25
By: Thomas Ligotti
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Independent People
- By: Halldór Laxness
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall449
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Performance403
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Story403
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And...
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I am so confused about this introduction
- By George M on 09-10-18
By: Halldór Laxness
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The Outlandish Companion Volume Two
- The Companion to the Fiery Cross, a Breath of Snow and Ashes, an Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood
- By: Diana Gabaldon
- Narrated by: Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter
- Length: 21 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall423
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Performance390
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Story383
More than a decade ago, number one New York Times best-selling author Diana Gabaldon serves up The Outlandish Companion, Volume Two, an all-new guide to the latest books in the series....
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What is the point?
- By Barbara Parrish on 10-15-16
By: Diana Gabaldon
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The Anatomy of Genres
- How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
- By: John Truby
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story23
Legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story John Truby provides a guide to understanding the major genres of the story world.
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Audible is not the best medium for this book
- By Ken on 02-13-25
By: John Truby
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall251
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Performance216
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Story211
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are...
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Vital. Timely. Timeless.
- By David M. on 06-15-20
By: Wendell Berry
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The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- By: Maureen Murdock
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall135
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Performance122
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Story123
The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values....
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Required Reading
- By Anonymous on 08-25-22
By: Maureen Murdock
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The Good House
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5,270
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Performance4,303
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Story4,292
Tananarive Due, author of The Living Blood won the American Book Award and is praised as Stephen King's equal by Publishers Weekly. In The Good House, Due sets a story of ancient powers and modern retribution in a small Pacific Northwest town. When a young woman returns to her grandmother's...
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Deeply Satisfying
- By Lee on 05-08-08
By: Tananarive Due
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Leaves of Grass
- The Original 1855 Edition
- By: Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books
- Narrated by: Sam Torode
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall168
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Performance147
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Story143
When Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry....
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A brilliant classic
- By M.Biblioswine on 12-02-18
By: Walt Whitman, and others
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Father Mine: Zsadist and Bella's Story
- A Black Dagger Brotherhood Novella
- By: J.R. Ward
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall829
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Performance770
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Story766
Ever since the birth of his daughter, Nalla, Zsadist has been regressing further and further into the life he led before he met Bella, his beautiful shellan. He has been waking up in cold sweats due to nightmares from his past, hasn't made love to his wife, and won't hold his baby girl, for fear...
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SHORT YES, BUT PACKED FULL O’ FEELS
- By 🔺🔻🔺🔻CAROLYN🔻🔺🔻🔺 on 11-11-20
By: J.R. Ward
New releases
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Emma (Annotated)
- Critical Edition with Afterword, Historical Essay & Biography | Jane Austen | Erato Press
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Emma Woodhouse is the most dangerous kind of reader: one who is intelligent enough to construct a coherent story from insufficient evidence, and confident enough never to question it. Jane Austen's Emma (1816) is, on its surface, a novel of country house society, matchmaking, and romantic misunderstanding. Below that surface runs one of the most precise philosophical investigations in English literature: an anatomy of self-deception so exact that it anticipates by a century the problems that would preoccupy psychology and epistemology in the twentieth century. Emma does not lie. She ...
By: Jane Austen
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Persuasion (Annotated)
- Critical Edition with Afterword, Historical Context, and Biography | Jane Austen | Erato Press
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Austen's last novel — and her most radical. The one in which the heroine already knows everything the other heroines spend the book learning. Jane Austen completed Persuasion in 1816, less than a year before her death. It was published posthumously in 1818, alongside Northanger Abbey, and has been overshadowed by the louder novels ever since. It is quieter than Pride and Prejudice, less comic than Emma, less dramatic than Sense and Sensibility. It is also, by many measures, the most perfectly made thing Austen wrote. Anne Elliot is twenty-seven years old when the novel begins — old...
By: Jane Austen
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Space Crone
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin, So Mayer - editor, Sarah Shin - editor
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.
By: Ursula K. Le Guin, and others
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience...
By: Anne Carson
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Wuthering Heights in Modern English
- The Complete Novel with Original Dialect Notes | Emily Brontë | Erato Press
- By: Emily Brontë
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Every obsessive, destructive, unforgettable love interest in dark romance traces its DNA to Heathcliff. This is the edition that finally makes the source text fully readable. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) invented the dark romance hero before the category had a name. Heathcliff is not redeemable. He does not want to be. He returns from wherever he went transformed into something barely human, and spends the rest of his life methodically destroying everyone connected to the woman he loved — including her daughter, her memory, and himself. Modern dark romance has spent two ...
By: Emily Brontë
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Light and Thread
- By: Han Kang, Maya West - translator, e. yaewon - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Greta Jung
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s first work of nonfiction published in English—an intimate, inspiring collection of writings on the connections between her life and art. What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multifaceted book, Han Kang draws...
By: Han Kang, and others
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Emma (Annotated)
- Critical Edition with Afterword, Historical Essay & Biography | Jane Austen | Erato Press
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Emma Woodhouse is the most dangerous kind of reader: one who is intelligent enough to construct a coherent story from insufficient evidence, and confident enough never to question it. Jane Austen's Emma (1816) is, on its surface, a novel of country house society, matchmaking, and romantic misunderstanding. Below that surface runs one of the most precise philosophical investigations in English literature: an anatomy of self-deception so exact that it anticipates by a century the problems that would preoccupy psychology and epistemology in the twentieth century. Emma does not lie. She ...
By: Jane Austen
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Persuasion (Annotated)
- Critical Edition with Afterword, Historical Context, and Biography | Jane Austen | Erato Press
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Austen's last novel — and her most radical. The one in which the heroine already knows everything the other heroines spend the book learning. Jane Austen completed Persuasion in 1816, less than a year before her death. It was published posthumously in 1818, alongside Northanger Abbey, and has been overshadowed by the louder novels ever since. It is quieter than Pride and Prejudice, less comic than Emma, less dramatic than Sense and Sensibility. It is also, by many measures, the most perfectly made thing Austen wrote. Anne Elliot is twenty-seven years old when the novel begins — old...
By: Jane Austen
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Space Crone
- By: Ursula K. Le Guin, So Mayer - editor, Sarah Shin - editor
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space Crone brings together Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender for the first time, offering new insights into her imaginative, multispecies feminist consciousness: from its roots in deep ecology and philosophies of non-violence to her self-education about racism and her writing on motherhood and ageing.
By: Ursula K. Le Guin, and others
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Eros the Bittersweet
- An Essay
- By: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience...
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Wuthering Heights in Modern English
- The Complete Novel with Original Dialect Notes | Emily Brontë | Erato Press
- By: Emily Brontë
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Every obsessive, destructive, unforgettable love interest in dark romance traces its DNA to Heathcliff. This is the edition that finally makes the source text fully readable. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) invented the dark romance hero before the category had a name. Heathcliff is not redeemable. He does not want to be. He returns from wherever he went transformed into something barely human, and spends the rest of his life methodically destroying everyone connected to the woman he loved — including her daughter, her memory, and himself. Modern dark romance has spent two ...
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Light and Thread
- By: Han Kang, Maya West - translator, e. yaewon - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Greta Jung
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s first work of nonfiction published in English—an intimate, inspiring collection of writings on the connections between her life and art. What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multifaceted book, Han Kang draws...
By: Han Kang, and others
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The Complete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (Annotated)
- Four Novels with Two Critical Essays and Author Biography | Mark Twain
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The four novels that gave American literature its voice — and two essays that explain why one of them changed everything. Mark Twain invented American literature twice. The first time was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 — a boy's world of summer, caves, and the Mississippi River, told with the warmth of a man who remembered childhood as a country you could never return to. The second time was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, where the same river becomes a moving argument about freedom, race, and the cost of conscience. Hemingway said all modern American literature comes from...
By: Mark Twain
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Elements of Fiction
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award- winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing—part writing guide, part study of the mechanics of the genre. In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel...
By: Walter Mosley
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Moby Dick (Annotated)
- Or, The Whale — Critical Edition with Essay and Author Biography | Herman Melville
- By: Herman Melville
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 22 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The greatest American novel ever written about obsession, the sea, and the thing that cannot be caught. This annotated edition includes an original critical essay and a full biography of Herman Melville. Herman Melville published Moby Dick in 1851 to near-total indifference. The reviews were mixed, the sales were poor, and Melville — who had poured everything he knew about whaling, philosophy, the Bible, and the darkness of the human will into 600 pages — spent the rest of his life in obscurity. He died in 1891 almost completely forgotten. Thirty years later, scholars rediscovered the ...
By: Herman Melville
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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Annotated)
- Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan — With Critical Afterwords
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 70 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Seven novels. One writer. The most perfect intelligence in English fiction. Edited with afterwords by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Published by Erato Press. This volume brings together every novel Jane Austen completed — the full measure of a writer who saw more clearly into the human heart than anyone before or since, and who did it in drawing rooms, with teacups, while the world pretended nothing serious was happening: ✦ Sense and Sensibility (1811) — Two sisters, two ways of navigating a world that offers women nothing but the ...
By: Jane Austen
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Ulysses (Annotated)
- Critical Edition with Literary Analysis & Author Biography | James Joyce | Erato Press
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 33 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Most readers have heard of Ulysses. Few have actually read it. This edition is for both. Published in Paris in 1922, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin — June 16, 1904 — and in doing so dismantles every assumption about what a novel can be and do. Stream of consciousness, interior monologue, parody, myth, obscenity, tenderness, comedy: Joyce deploys them all simultaneously, not as technique but as necessity. He was not being difficult. He was being honest about the way a mind actually works. Ulysses — One day. One city. One man buying a kidney for breakfast, ...
By: James Joyce
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君が面会に来たあとで
- (幻冬舎)
- By: Z李
- Narrated by: 蒼木 智大
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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どこからが虚構で、どこからが真実?言葉の売人、Z李が紡ぐ30のショートショート 立ちんぼから裏スロ店員、ホームレスにキャバ嬢ホスト、公務員からヤクザ、客引きのナイジェリア人にゴミ置き場から飛び出したネズミまで。繁華街で蠢く人々の日常を多彩なタッチで描く、東京拘置所差し入れ本ランキング上位確定の暇つぶし短編集!
By: Z李
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Western Star
- The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
- By: David Streitfeld
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West. Before Larry McMurtry became one of the...
By: David Streitfeld
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Annotated)
- The Classic Biography by Elizabeth Gaskell | Critical Edition with Contextual Essays | Erato Press
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The most important literary biography in the English language — written by a novelist about a novelist, by a friend about a friend, and published four months after Charlotte Brontë's death. When Elizabeth Gaskell sat down in 1855 to write the life of Charlotte Brontë, she faced a problem no biographer had faced before: her subject was both a woman and a genius, in an age that was uncertain whether those two things could coexist. The woman who had written Jane Eyre — who had scandalized reviewers, been accused of coarseness and immorality, been suspected of being a man — needed to be...
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Talking Classics
- The Shock of the Old
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces the idea of thauma, or wonder, that kick-started a lifetime engaging with classics.
By: Mary Beard
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Czeslaw Milosz Explained
- Exile, Moral Witness, Poetry of History, Totalitarianism, Faith and Doubt, Memory, Identity, and the Search for Meaning in a Fractured World
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Czeslaw Milosz Explained: Exile, Moral Witness, Poetry of History, Totalitarianism, Faith and Doubt, Memory, Identity, and the Search for Meaning in a Fractured World is a powerful and deeply engaging exploration of one of the twentieth century’s most important literary and philosophical voices. This book brings Milosz's complex ideas to life, guiding readers through his experiences of war, exile, and intellectual resistance while revealing how his poetry and essays continue to speak to modern readers searching for truth and meaning. Spanning themes such as totalitarianism, moral ...
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Hermann Hesse Explained
- Spiritual Awakening, Individuation, Eastern Philosophy, Inner Conflict, Self-Discovery, and the Search for Meaning in a Fragmented World
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Hermann Hesse Explained: Spiritual Awakening, Individuation, Eastern Philosophy, Inner Conflict, Self-Discovery, and the Search for Meaning in a Fragmented World Step into the profound world of Hermann Hesse, one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century, whose work continues to inspire readers searching for meaning, identity, and inner peace. This book explores Hesse’s major ideas in a clear, engaging, and accessible way, revealing how his novels speak directly to modern struggles with purpose, authenticity, and self-understanding. From the spiritual journey of ...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Explained
- Gulag Archipelago, Soviet Repression, Moral Courage, Spiritual Resistance, Russian Identity, Totalitarianism, and the Fight for Truth and Human Dignity
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Explained: Gulag Archipelago, Soviet Repression, Moral Courage, Spiritual Resistance, Russian Identity, Totalitarianism, and the Fight for Truth and Human Dignity is a powerful and deeply engaging exploration of one of the most important voices of the twentieth century. This book brings together the life, experiences, and major ideas of Solzhenitsyn into a clear and compelling narrative, revealing how his writings exposed the hidden realities of Soviet oppression while offering timeless insights into truth, conscience, and human resilience. From his early years under ...
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Thomas Mann Explained
- Modernism, Moral Conflict, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, German Identity, Intellectual Crisis, and the Human Struggle Between Spirit and Life
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Mann Explained: Modernism, Moral Conflict, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, German Identity, Intellectual Crisis, and the Human Struggle Between Spirit and Life Step into the profound and intellectually rich world of Thomas Mann, one of the most influential literary voices of the twentieth century. This book offers a deep exploration of Mann’s life, major works, and enduring ideas, revealing how his writing captures the tension between tradition and modernity, reason and passion, individuality and society. From the decline of bourgeois culture to the psychological complexities ...
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Octavio Paz Explained
- Identity, Solitude, Mexican Culture, Surrealism, Language, Time, Love, Politics, and the Search for Meaning in Modern Life
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Octavio Paz Explained: Identity, Solitude, Mexican Culture, Surrealism, Language, Time, Love, Politics, and the Search for Meaning in Modern Life is a powerful and accessible deep dive into one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers and Nobel Prize winning writers. Blending philosophy, cultural analysis, and poetic insight, this book explores how Paz confronted the biggest questions of human existence: Who are we? Why do we feel alone? And how can we find meaning in a fragmented modern world? Through clear and engaging chapters, you will explore Paz’s groundbreaking ideas ...
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Seamus Heaney Explained
- Poetry of Place, Irish Identity, Memory, Language, Violence, Nature, History, and the Search for Meaning in a Changing World
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Seamus Heaney Explained: Poetry of Place, Irish Identity, Memory, Language, Violence, Nature, History, and the Search for Meaning in a Changing World Discover the life, work, and enduring legacy of one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Seamus Heaney Explained offers a deeply engaging exploration of Heaney’s major ideas, tracing how his poetry transforms the everyday world of land, labor, and memory into something profound and universal. From his rural upbringing in Northern Ireland to his global influence as a Nobel Prize winning writer, this book reveals how ...
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Rabindranath Tagore Explained
- Poetry, Spiritual Humanism, Bengali Renaissance, Education Reform, National Identity, and the Universal Vision of Freedom and Creativity
- By: The Practical Atlas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Rabindranath Tagore Explained: Poetry, Spiritual Humanism, Bengali Renaissance, Education Reform, National Identity, and the Universal Vision of Freedom and Creativity offers a powerful and accessible exploration of one of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and a central figure in global intellectual history, Tagore’s work spans poetry, philosophy, education, music, and social thought. This book presents a clear and engaging guide to his major ideas, revealing how his vision continues to shape conversations about culture, identity, ...
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My America
- Langston Hughes on Democracy
- By: Randal Maurice Jelks
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American...
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The Raven: The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Annotated)
- All 61 Poems with a Critical Essay and Biography
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Every poem Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote — in one volume, with a critical essay and biography Edited by Henry Bugalho — philosopher, writer, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Before horror had a name, before the gothic became a genre, there was a man in a dark room writing poems about loss, madness, beauty, and the dead women he could not stop mourning. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent melancholy — but he gave it a music that no one has surpassed. This edition brings together all 61 poems — from the famous to the forgotten, from the early Byronic experiments to the final, ...
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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The King James Bible: Critical Edition (Annotated)
- With Historical Introduction, Translation History, and Critical Apparatus for Every Book | Complete Old and New Testaments | Erato Press
- By: King James Translators
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 107 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The most influential book in the English language — presented here with the critical apparatus its original translators deliberately withheld. The King James Bible of 1611 is the foundation of English prose style, the sourcebook of Western literature, the text that shaped four centuries of law, politics, art, and moral imagination. It is also, as its own translators knew, a translation made from imperfect sources, containing passages of disputed authenticity, interpolations introduced centuries after the original texts were written, and theological choices encoded as translation decisions...
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William Shakespeare
- Seven Things You Should Know
- By: JIM STOVALL
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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William Shakespeare is the most celebrated writer in the history of the English language. He is also one of the least understood. We know almost nothing reliable about his actual life. The biographical record is so thin that the man who wrote Hamlet and King Lear left behind almost no letters, no diaries, no personal documents of any kind — only legal records about property transactions, a will that doesn't mention his plays, and a handful of signatures. Everything else is inference, imagination, and myth. William Shakespeare cuts through four centuries of mythology to examine seven ...
By: JIM STOVALL
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The American Open Road
- Narrative and Popular Imagination
- By: Jeffrey Alan Melton
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The American Open Road offers a rich exploration of how the mythos of the open road has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture. Beginning with the post–World War II boom that solidified car culture as central to American life...
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Be Bak in a Whale
- By: Coral Russell
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Be Bak in a Whale: Reading Miss MacIntosh, My Darling from the Inside Marguerite Young spent eighteen years writing Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. Coral Russell has spent years reading it. This book is the record of five readings and everything they built. Be Bak in a Whale is not a reading guide and not a philosophical treatise. Those exist: A Guide to Reading Miss MacIntosh, My Darling holds readers hand through all eighty-two chapters; AND: The Philosophy of Marguerite Young names and argues for the five-pillar system Young built. This book goes inside the construction. It takes each of the...
By: Coral Russell
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Otherworld
- Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland
- By: Lisa M. Bitel
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of...
By: Lisa M. Bitel
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Appendix N
- The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons
- By: Jeffro Johnson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F's past that will fascinate any serious role-playing gamer or fan of classic science fiction and fantasy. Author Jeffro Johnson, an expert role-playing gamer, accomplished Dungeon Master and three-time Hugo Award Finalist, critically reviews all 43 works and ...
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Disappointed
- By Jim on 03-17-26
By: Jeffro Johnson