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  • Foreign Soil

  • By: Maxine Beneba Clarke
  • Narrated by: Maxine Beneba Clarke
  • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 12

In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated....

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Beautifully written

  • By M. O'Brien on 02-05-2018
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  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • By: Gail Honeyman
  • Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
  • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 3,514
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    5 out of 5 stars 3,235
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 3,224

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend....

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • So much better than completely fine

  • By Bec on 29-10-2017
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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

  • By: George Orwell
  • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
  • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 739
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 679

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Brilliant read

  • By Johnny on 14-03-2016
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  • The Binding

  • By: Bridget Collins
  • Narrated by: Carl Prekopp
  • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship.... 

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • One of the best love stories, ever.

  • By Susan on 22-01-2019

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  • The Female Persuasion

  • By: Meg Wolitzer
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
  • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 16
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    4 out of 5 stars 15
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    3.5 out of 5 stars 15

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, read by Rebecca Lowman. ‘Greer didn’t really know why Faith took an interest. But what she knew for sure, eventually, was that meeting Faith Frank was the thrilling beginning of everything. It would be a very long time before the unspeakable end.’ Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the woman who will shape her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant, has been a pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others....

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Phenomenal

  • By Lola-Mae on 10-07-2018
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  • An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)

  • A Novel
  • By: Tayari Jones
  • Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
  • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 100
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 92

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Powerful and wonderful

  • By Melinda - YarnderWoman on 24-08-2018
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  • The Pisces

  • By: Melissa Broder
  • Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 21
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 20
  • Story
    3.5 out of 5 stars 20

Lucy, staying in a beautiful home overlooking Venice Beach, can find no peace from her misery - not in therapy, not in Tinder hookups, not in her sister's dog's unquestioning devotion, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks....

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Best performance of the year

  • By JHA on 11-03-2019
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  • Everything Here Is Beautiful

  • By: Mira T Lee
  • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller, Ozzie Rodriguez, and others
  • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 3
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 3

Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted older man only to leave him suddenly to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant.

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  • The Ensemble

  • A Novel
  • By: Aja Gabel
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 2

Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; the viola is Henry, a prodigy who's always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest, the angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness String Quartet. In The Ensemble, each character takes the spotlight and picks up the melody, from the group's youthful rocky start through to middle age, through both devastating failures and wild success.

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  • Welcome to Lagos

  • By: Chibundu Onuzo
  • Narrated by: Weruche Opia
  • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
  • Unabridged
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When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life. Their arrival in the city coincides with the eruption of a political scandal. The education minister, Chief Sandayo, has disappeared and is suspected of stealing millions of dollars from government funds.

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  • Red Clocks

  • By: Leni Zumas
  • Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Erin Bennett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8

Five women. One question: what is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in vitro fertilisation is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers. This is a story of resilience, transformation and hope in tumultuous - even frightening - times.

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  • The Merry Spinster

  • Tales of Everyday Horror
  • By: Mallory Ortberg
  • Narrated by: Christina Traister
  • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
  • Unabridged
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From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, The Merry Spinster takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to fans of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts from Jane Eyre. The feature has become among the most popular on the site. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.

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  • The Immortalists

  • By: Chloe Benjamin
  • Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman
  • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 93
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 86
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 86

It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. Four siblings, too young for what they are about to hear, sneak out to hear their fortunes. We then follow the intertwined paths the siblings take over the course of five decades and, in particular, how they choose to live with the supposed knowledge the fortune-teller gave them that day. This is a story about life, mortality and the choices we make.

  • 1 out of 5 stars

  • Avoid

  • By Chloe Starick on 13-04-2018

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  • Memories of the Future

  • By: Siri Hustvedt
  • Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
  • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
  • Unabridged
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A provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S. H. transcribes her neighbour's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one night when Lucy bursts into her apartment to rescue S. H. from a frightening situation.

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  • Waiting for Bojangles

  • By: Olivier Bourdeaut, Regan Kramer - translator
  • Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
  • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
  • Unabridged
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A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door, the bird acts like a member of the family, and his parents dance to Nina Simone’s mellifluous classic “Mister Bojangles”. As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into mental illness, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens.

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  • Red Mountain Rising

  • Red Mountain Chronicles, Book 2
  • By: Boo Walker
  • Narrated by: Armen Taylor
  • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
  • Unabridged
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Boo Walker has returned to wine country for the sequel to his powerful, best-selling novel Red Mountain. Join four colorful characters as they search for life, love, and meaning in a tiny wine-growing region in the desert of Washington State. Otis Till, the grapefather of Red Mountain, has regained his senses of smell and sight, but his vision of what Red Mountain should be is now threatened by a greedy landowner. Margot Pierce has finally opened her French inn, but as her son leaves for college and her boyfriend says good-bye, she realizes how lonely her world could become.

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  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation

  • By: Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • Unabridged
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It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life: young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend.

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  • The Conversations at Curlow Creek

  • By: David Malouf
  • Narrated by: Maeliosa Stafford
  • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
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The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other, Adair, also Irish, is an officer of the police who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two discover unexpected connections between their lives and learn new truths.... 

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  • Life

  • By: Lu Yao, Chloe Estep - translator, Ming Ming Lu - contributor, and others
  • Narrated by: Robert Wu
  • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
  • Unabridged
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In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance.