Audiobooks for Life’s Winter
Each and every day, we’re all getting just a little bit older. And hopefully we’re a little bit wiser too.
Or not...
Here we bring audiobooks of those doing it well, those struggling, and hey! Even some guiding words to get us through these years where we are challenged by growing older, cuddling close to memories.
Have you found any great audiobooks about this Season we’re all moving towards?
Drop me a line at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com, and we’ll see about adding it to our Life’s Winter offerings!
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By: Dan Mooney / Narrated By: Aidan Kelly
Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
An old trope? Yeh, but oh my good golly gosh: The laughter! The tears! The drop-dead GORGEOUS storytelling!!!
Series: Buck Schatz, Book 1
By: Daniel Friedman / Narrated By: Nick Sullivan
Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
Fairly enjoyable Listen, but WHOOPSIE! did I miss the mark on this one, or what?!?
By: Italo Calvino / Narrated By: Jefferson Mays
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Hmmm… Will this be a delightful Second Listen…?!
By: Alastair Reynolds / Narrated By: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
Beautiful; simply lovely…
Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
By: Sue Halpern / Narrated By: Karen White
Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
Oh gosh! Loved this!
By: Monica Wood / Narrated By: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
Well done! Quite simply oh so well done!
By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…
Our Journey of Love and Loss
By: Susan Ducharme Hoben / Narrated By: Marie Hoffman
Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
Come to this—No judgment (okay, sooome judgment…) and with an open mind and heart
By: Hazel Prior / Narrated By: Helen Lloyd, Andrew Fallaize, Mandy Williams
Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
A sweet and light Listen, a really light Listen, oh SUCH a light Listen; have I mentioned that this is the epitome of Light Listening???
A Memoir
By: Betsy Lerner / Narrated By: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
S’posed to be about the mother/daughter bond, but, uhm…
By: Zoe Fishman / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
Was enchanted by the Publisher’s Summary (Shoot me now!) but the actual book…? Hmm…
A True Story of Love and Friendship
Written and Narrated By: Martha Teichner
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Jeez! Oh how I haaaate saying with this one: I Want My Hours Back…! Also, a tiiiiiiny bit of a Spoiler Alert within this, sooo…
Written and Narrated By: Kerry Egan
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
A StoryHolder tells tales of love
A Novel
By: Gill Hornby / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
Aaaaahhhh! Music to my ears! Such a lot of wit; such a lot of heart!
By: Andrea Bennett / Narrated By: Saul Reichlin
Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
Chosen cuz of Saul Reichlin, loved cuz of Andrea Bennett’s creation
By: Joanna Nell / Narrated By: Deidre Rubenstein
Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
Yeh, yeh, yeh. There’s no plot to speak of. But that doesn’t mean it’s not delightful!
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: David Duchovny
Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
What a great book! Laughter, tears, you name it…!
Conversations on Loving and Dying
By: Mirabai Bush, Ram Dass / Narrated By: Mirabai Bush
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Good primer on Dass, plus some good work on grieving, some great work with practices
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
By: Rainer Maria Rilke / Translated By: Ulrich Baer / Narrated By: Rosanne Cash, Ulrich Baer
Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
Exquisite translation of words so beautiful they make you sing even as you hold sorrow ever closer before letting it go
A Novel
By: Carlos Fuentes/ Translated By: Alfred MacAdam / Narrated By: Tony Chiroldes
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Amazing events in Mexico’s history… as told by a total jerk!
By: Rudolfo Anaya / Narrated By: Robert Ramirez
Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
Narration adds much-needed levity to what could be a heavy book
A Memoir of Life in Death
By: Jean-Dominique Bauby / Narrated By: René Auberjonois
Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
A truly cinematic audiobook, a treat for the senses—
A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Written and Narrated By: Richard Rohr
Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
Somewhat startling, but very uplifting, view of the second half of Life…
By: Oscar Wilde / Narrated By: Michael Page
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
So here I am, 30 some odd years outta High School, finally getting around to this book…
83 1/4 Years Old
By: Hendrik Goren / Translated By: Hester Velmans / Narrated By: Derek Jacobi
Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
A humorous look at how aging sucks
Written and Narrated By: Terry Kay
Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
Iffy narration but a pleasant enough story
By: R. William Bennett / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
The book that got me hooked
Planning Your Retirement Renaissance
By: Forrest J. Wright / Narrated By: Peter Lerman
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
Not about retirement but Philosophy…?!?
Lessons from World Cultures: The Great Courses
Series: The Great Courses
Lecturer: Mark Berkson
Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
Distressing here, hopeful there; this is a journey you don’t want to miss