By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Christine Williams
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Lovely, tho’ quite bittersweet
The Elephant’s Journey
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Written and Afterword By: Dean Koontz / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
I wanted to love this, really I did—but the tangents! oh the tangents!
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Series: Zamonia, Book 1
By: Walter Moers / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
I can see where this might be tedious in print—but in audio? Pinchot knocks this outta the park!
The Legend of Griffin
The Tale of Despereaux
Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
By: Kate DiCamillo / Narrated By: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
What can be more charming than a mouse with a sword… er… a needle…?!?
Happily Ever Esther
Stickeen
Rough Magic
Holy Cow
Molly
Running with Sherman
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
A Dog’s Luck
Finding Gobi
The Penguin Lessons
Strays
A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
By: Britt Collins / Foreward By: Jeffrey Moussaleff-Masson / Narrated By: George Newbern
Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
How caring for the less fortunate can open the heart
Winterdance
The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
By: Gary Paulsen / Narrated By: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
An old wonder of a book, now in audio!
A Cat Abroad
Saving Lucy
A Zoo in My Luggage
By: Gerald Durrell / Narrated By: Rupert Degas
Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
Charming account with funny animal stories—if you can get past animals being ripped from their homes/habitats