Teens Contemporary
By: Gordon Korman / Narrated By: Sarah Beth Goer, Oliver Wyman, Josh Hurley, Tristan Morris, Chris Gebauer, Sean Welsh Brown, Pete Larkin, Fred Berman, Jennifer Nittoso
Length: 6 hrs
Perfect narration with a lovingly crafted story makes this one an absolute charmer. Bad Day? Listen to this…
By: Randy Ribay / Narrated By: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Kinda a surprise, but wholly delighted!
A Novel
By: Gaël Faye / Translated By: Sarah Ardizzone / Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Beautiful translation of stunning prose… just didn’t see the point… tho’ Big Sis has many thoughts on that…!
A Novel
By: Kevin Wilson / Narrated By: Ginnifer Goodwin / Afterword By: Kevin Wilson
Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
The Obligatory Wilson-esque Abrupt Ending… followed by WHAM! A slug to the gut Author’s Note/Afterword
A Novel
By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Fleur De Wit, Adam Fitzgerald
Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
Wonderful characters chucked into the Jess Kidd Magical Grinding Mill…
Series: Island Trilogy, Book 1
By: Tudor Robins: Narrated By: Cody Sterna
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
Sweet and has its charm… and thank GOSH—little Teen Angst to be found!
A Novel
By: Laurie Frankel / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 11 hrs
Beautiful, and I coooould pick at nits, but this is so heartfelt, I just don’t wanna!
A Graphic Memoir
By: Liz Prince / Narrated By: Full Cast
Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
Missing sooo much from the graphic book, yet somehow it works… such a delight!
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: Lois Lowry / Narrated By: Andi Arndt
Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
Soooo short I didn’t wind up crying—
By: Annabel Pitcher / Narrated By: David Tennant
Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
Okay, finished this, like, ages ago… When can I stop crying…?!
By: A.S. King / Narrated By: Karissa Vacker
Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
Wow—simply Wow. That said? This should come with a Trigger Warning…
The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
Written and Narrated By: Jeff Henigson
Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
Wonderful -BUT- Why on EARTH did his mom marry his dad?!
By: Carrie Anne Noble / Narrated By: Amanda S. Brown
Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
A mashup of old and new and all in between—just deLIGHTful!!!
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…
Written and Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
Even if all the bumps got smoothed over quickly, this was a fine Listen
By: Tiffany D. Jackson / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Not a Did She/Didn’t She—More like a young girl trying to survive, trying to live Hope in a brutal world…
By: Gloria Chao / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Well, wow… I was expecting light Chick-lit with a side o’ teen angst, and I got something with a bit of depth instead!
By: Terry Lynn Johnson / Narrated By: Dara Rosenberg
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
Nifty for little kids who like adventures; younger teens might take to it also. Animals, however? The Ice Dogs are baaaaarely in there…
By: Matt de la Peña / Narrated By: Henry Leyva
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Passionate without being all “Fraught-with-Angst”
By: Benjamin Alire Saenz / Narrated By: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
And they discover the secrets in El Paso, no less!
By: Ibi Zoboi / Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
Not the best P & P Variation but certainly memorable…
Series: The Louisiana Girls, Book 1
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes / Narrated By: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
Decent, but not the best, middle-grade fiction about Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
By: Ben Mikaelsen / Narrated By: Lee Tergesen
Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
Rage. Lies. Ultimately, though? Freedom.
By: Steffan Piper / Narrated By: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Cowards & Men. Nick Podehl makes this one of my favorites!
By: Emily X. R. Pan / Narrated By: Stephanie Hsu
Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
What suicide leaves behind
By: Hope Kim / Narrated By: Melissa Sternenberg
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
Holy crud, what a hot mess! Wait, is that too unkind?
Series: Pigman, Book 1
By: Paul Zindel / Narrated By: Eden Riegel, Charlie McWade
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
AHHHHHH!!! There’s a reason this wonderful book is a Classic!!!
A Novel
By: Cecelia Ahern / Narrated By: Ali Coffey
Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
7 hours foot-stomping snits; 1 hour and 10 minutes intrigue; 15 minutes resolution… I need a drink!