Contemporary Literature
A Novel
By: Kevin Wilson / Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
Really really liked this -BUT- dude! where’s the Quirk…?!?
By: Italo Calvino / Narrated By: Jefferson Mays
Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
Hmmm… Will this be a delightful Second Listen…?!
By: Jacob M. Appel / Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
Builds then kinda builds then sorta builds then comes to absolutely nothing
By: Michael Chabon / Narrated By: Chris Andrew Ciulla
Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
Yeh yeh yeh—obviously a first novel, but I liked it quite a bit… so sue me!
A Novel
By: Richard Flanagan / Narrated By: Essie Davis
Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
Oh gosh! Juuust read the Publisher’s Summary! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If this is “dazzling”? I’m shootin’ m’ foot off!
By: Monica Wood / Narrated By: Chris Ciulla
Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
Well done! Quite simply oh so well done!
A Novel
By: Amulya Malladi / Narrated By: Deepa Samuel
Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
Nothing says Asian American Heritage like: AY, CARAMBA!!!
By: Nick Alexander / Narrated By: Imogen Church
Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
InCREDibly well-crafted story but beYONd Trigger Warning!!!
A Novel
By: Louise Nealon / Narrated By: Louisa Harland
Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
Paaaaaaaainful Listen, so how the HECK did this wind up being a goshdanged FAVE, for cripes sake?!?
A Novel
By: Daniel Woodrell / Narrated By: Emma Galvin
Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
Savagery, Poetry, in stark, stark, STARK motion. Just TRY to breathe during this one…!
By: Hannah Lynn / Narrated By: Rafe Beckley
Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
Saw: Rafe Beckley and snatched it up… like, imMEDiately!
By: Paul Pen / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Scott Merriman
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Good translation, but OY The Words!!!
By: Cormac McCarthy / Narrated By: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sucker punched? Not quite. Shattered, cripes yes…
A Novel
By: Ann Patchett / Narrated By: Hope Davis
Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
Suspend Disbelief All Ye Who Enter Here
By: Kevin Wilson / Narrated By: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
Yeh yeh yeh—ya see the ending a mile off… oh but that final TWIST! Yessss!!!
By: Cathleen Schine / Narrated By: Hillary Huber
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
A story of girls growing up… and then becoming real jerks… But the parents were AWEsome!
By: William Kuhn / Narrated By: Simon Prebble
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Feels like eons before it really gets going, but then? Oh, quite nice indeed… sorta
By: Steffan Piper / Narrated By: Nick Podehl
Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
Only The Walkman Remains the Same—a stellar sequel…
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 Novel
By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Aidan Kelly
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Intense, beautifully written, oh so ugly but lovely lovely lovely
A Novel
By: Colum McCann / Narrated By: Geraldine Hughes
Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
Yes, McCann can write, but it’s still Literary Fiction, and we all know I’m a pretty dismal person when it comes to all that…
A Novel
Series: Harold Fry, Book 1
By: Rachel Joyce / Narrated By: Jim Broadbent
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Uhm…?
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: Ocean Vuong
Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
Stunning, gorgeously written, but a poem that just goes on and on and beautifully on
By: Muriel Barbery / Narrated By: Barbara Rosenblat, Cassandra Morris
Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
Okay, time to fess up: I am enTIREly lacking in sophistication and prefer my novels to have a plot…
By: Carmel Harrington / Narrated By: Jill Crawford, Frank Grimes
Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
Hated it, wondered about it, considered it, was moved by it, wound up loving it!
A Novel
By: Cynthia Keller / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
Huzzah! Yet ANOTHER Listen that had me all warm and fuzzy. Well, after I wanted to throttle some characters
A Novel
By: Tommy Orange / Narrated By: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia
Length: 8 hrs
Astonishing, just absolutely astonishing
By: Monique Gray Smith / Narrated By: Michelle Thrush
Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
What a surprise! What a real pleasure!
A Novella
By: Kelly Harms / Narrated By: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
I stuck this one out, so Huzzah for Meeeeeeee!!!