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  • By: Lionel Shriver
  • Narrator: Coleen Marlo
  • Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: December 27, 2011
  • Language: English
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“Impossible to put down. . . . Who, in the end, needs to talk about Kevin? Maybe we all do.” — Boston Globe

Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver’s gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry

Shriver’s resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities.

Eva never really wanted to be a mother–and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.

Like Shriver’s charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin is a piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility.

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Narrator Coleen Marlo
Length 16 hours 9 minutes
Author Lionel Shriver
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date December 27, 2011
ISBN 9780062188076

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Nandakishore

January 26, 2016

I am a little apprehensive as to how I should begin this review: there are so many things to talk about.First of all, I consider this to be truly a great work of literature, not simply "fiction". As a great writer of my native language said: "The real story is on the unwritten pages"; that is, it is the gaps, the pauses and the undercurrents between the characters (which the reader is forced to complete or imagine) which is the mark of great literature. This is one hundred percent correct as far as We Need To Talk About Kevin is concerned. The novel makes us think, long after we finish it.It is not a fast read: even though Lionel Shriver writes beautiful prose, she writes about ugly things. Reading it is almost like self-torture under hypnotism; you don't want to do it, but once you are into it, there's no way to stop.The story is told in epistolary form, through the letters Eva Khatchadourian writes to her absent husband Franklin Plaskett. Eva is the mother of the infamous Kevin Khatchadourian, the architecht of the Gladstone High School massacre. Eva's letters are divided into two parts. One talks of the current time, her travails as the universally shunned mother of the infamous teen: the bereaved parents of Kevin's late classmates have slapped a civil suit on her, which she is fighting in her typically disinterested manner, and visiting her son regularly in the correctional facility where he is incarcerated. The other part of the letters traces Kevin from his conception up to the fateful Thursday.As the story unfolds, we get a picture of Eva and Franklin. She, spirited, independent, liberal, proud of her Armenian heritage and a little contemptuous of her adoptive country: he, more conventional and boringly American. Eva as the propreitor of the highly successful travel guidebook franchise A Wing and A Prayer never wanted a child. But she succumbs to Franklin's entreaties and conceives Kevin. And from the moment he sets foot on earth, Eva's life becomes a horror story.Kevin, through Eva's eyes, is portrayed as so evil that we shudder; as he grows up, his evil nature also expands. To Eva's frustration, Franklin remains oblivious to his son's true nature, trying to recreate some fictitious "American Dream" in his backyard. Eva and Kevin face off many times during the sixteen years leading to the apotheosis of his career on that Thursday afternoon, with Eva always the loser.Kevin is an odd child from the start. He shuns breast milk, does not talk (even though he has learnt how to) until he is three years old, and refuses to be toilet trained. He is apathetic to everything, seeming alive only when he manages to goad Eva into a rage. With Franklin, he plays the part of the All-American Child, but mockingly, as Eva suspects.Kevin's crimes are inferred rather than seen: apart from one incident during childhood when he sprays red ink all over Eva's darling maps tacked to the walls of her study, his mother does not see a single instance of his misbehaviour (if we leave aside that masturbation scene with an open bathroom door). But she is oddly sure that in almost all of the "incidents" he has been in (and they are many, including one in which his sister is maimed for life), he is implicated: but she is also convinced that her son is so clever as to hide his true nature from all except a perceptive few.So the novel slowly moves towards its destructive climax, picking up speed, and when it occurs, it is much more than we expect. It is a one-way ride into darkness.Lionel Shriver says in the afterword that people who read the novel fall into two camps: those who see Kevin as truly evil and Eva as victimised, and those who see him as a victim of circumstances, mainly an indifferent mother. It is easy to see why. Ms.Shriver has managed to frame the narrative from the POV of Eva Khatchadourian in such a way that the whole veracity of the tale depends on whether we trust her or not. The reader is forced to make a judgement of character and stick by it. In short, how we see Eva and Kevin will depend a lot on who we are.For such a dark novel, more frightening than any horror story, the novel ends on such a sweetly sentimental note that there was suddenly a lump in my throat. Suddenly I remembered that for all his monstrous faults, Kevin is still only a child.This book will stay with you for a long time after you walk away from it. More importantly, it will set you thinking, if you are a parent... which is not a bad thing.For you see, as parents, we do need to talk about Kevin. We have been silent too long.

Courtney

October 21, 2007

The pull-quote on the cover of the edition I read suggests that it's impossible to put this book down. That's almost entirely false. Out of the book's 400 pages, the first 300 were kind of like pulling teeth. Creepy, maternal teeth. The last 100 pages, however, were actually and physically impossible to look away from, and the brisk pace of the climax, after so. many. pages. of buildup, actually created a really wonderful, complete story that was very satisfying and which (god help me) made me cry out of a bizarre sense of *happiness* at the end.This book is a series of letters (irritating) written from a travel-writer wife (unsympathetic and irritating) to her separated husband (tiresome and, given 20 seconds and a familiarity with Western literature, leading up to an entirely transparent "twist"). These letters start out being about her day-to-day life and a mediation on their slowly decimated marriage (something I really can't relate to), but soon they become All About Kevin. Kevin being their oldest kid, their son, and who recently (in 2000) shot up a bunch of his fellow high-schoolers. It's a post-Columbine book set in pre-911 America, and it's freakishly refreshing to read an entire novel about a national tragedy that neither mentions nor cares about terrorists, threat levels, Iraq, or What's Wrong With America?Actually, it's vaguely framed around the Florida debacle in the 2000 presidential elections, but that event is used to throw into relief how little political issues matter when your family has been destroyed. For the most part, the narrator (Eva) talks about Kevin, why she decided to have him, what it was like to raise him, and examine the ways in which she failed as a mother and a wife.It's weirdly inspiring. I mean, she is a bad mom. Not beating-the-kids bad, but neglectful, cold, self-centered...she is, essentially, the kind of woman who could only love a child if that was all she had left. And so in a way, she ends up raising a child who, in a bid for her affection, will take everything else away from her. It's both sick and touching, and a fascinating examination of how we're supposed to move on from tragedy, how life continues no matter how much you wish it didn't.Kevin himself is perfectly written - both sympathetic and absolutely monstrous. By the time he's 14 and terrorizing his mother behind his father's back, I found myself completely unsurprised by everything as it unfolded. Of course he ended up killing 11 people. Of course he doesn't regret it. Of course. I'm not sure at what point, if any, decent parenting could have saved him, and I like that Lionel Shriver managed to write a lengthy book without answering, or even addressing, that question.What struck me as the most disturbing thing, in the long run - and what's stuck with me most - is that the only thing that seems to scare the kid, and the only thing that seems to at least begin to make him snap out of his narcissistic power trip, is his impending transfer from juvie to the gen pop of a federal prison. The book never gets into it, but I found it deeply upsetting that the prison system is so horrible, mass murderers are scared of it. I kind of felt as if we're supposed to be happy that Kevin's actually scared, but I mostly was just creeped out that the system itself had managed to create something even worse than Kevin.

Fabian

December 13, 2020

A novel that's elegant & overly articulate--yet VERY readable. So much dexterity is on display here ("Damn what an amazing writer!" is a perpetual thought while reading this), with a prose made by some wizard's alchemy, a talent-filled intuition, & a distinct view that's brutal & uncomfortably honest. Shriver outshines even Flaubert himself: THIS is the very core of feminism, of individualism (move over Madame Bovary... you cared more for the idea of love than anything else, anyway, & never really gave a hoot about child rearing). An epic book like "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is rare, yeah. I can see this as some rather strikingly beautiful monster composed of the few scary parts from Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" and the more ominous tones of "The Omen". It's a modern psychology (dissected with words so carefully chosen, both intellectual and to-the-core precise) that deconstructs a past for the sake of...something. I won't tell. This one has a DYNAMITE ENDING that will rattle you, and then some. It is, truly, pretty much everything you'd ever want in a book (Shriver's account is WAAAAAY more compelling than Philip Roth's Pulitzer darling "American Pastoral", & they share the theme of the American dream-gone-bad, as parents are betrayed by their own American flag-toting offspring).Recommended 100%. It's a Grade A+ brilliant, contemporary, & (even!) historically-relevant novel.(2015)

Jenny

September 28, 2014

Some readers really don't like this book and I'm not entirely sure why.Maybe it's because I'm not a mother and I did find it believable that Eva doesn't love her son completely. Maybe it's because I enjoy the big words that were used in the letters and found it believable that she would write this way.Maybe I'm a sucker for good endings and this one ended with a bang.I think the writing was superb and despite it being a hard book to read (the incident with the maps was particularly brutal), it was worth it. I think this dealt with the issue of school killings much more effectively than Jodi Picoult's Nineteen Minutes. The character of Kevin did come alive for me and he was believable. I didn't even think that counseling might be an option because Franklin 100% believed that his son was fine and probably would have opposed Eva if she had suggested it. Just like she never thinks about them divorcing, she also never considers giving her son help. Overall, I'm glad I was able to finish it and I'm going to read more of the author's works.

Florence (Lefty)

August 03, 2016

This book should be sold at the pharmaceutical counter right next to birth control pills, I can’t think of a better deterrent for unwanted pregnancy. It did a great job of confirming a few truisms, maternal instincts are not a given, some children are just born bad, and the worst mistake a couple can make is to allow a child to divide them. It’s the story of Kevin, a lethal mix of nature and poor nurturing resulting in the child from hell. Yet it’s the character of his mother Eva that I found the most disturbing. Totally self-absorbed, high-octane critical; full of discontent, no wonder she’s completely unable to form healthy relationships with anyone including the husband she purports to adore. Ergo a neurotic son. It’s not as sensationalist as I expected, this is a terrific book. Would I recommend it? Oh yeah, but with disclaimers; it could easily offend and it’s horrific, so read at your own risk. It will make you think and it will stay with you, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ for the 21st century only way scarier because it’s based on reality. The writing style is unusual, at times painfully raw, often elegant and always intelligent. Be forewarned, she tends too overkill in the adjective department - like me:) Memorable Quote: "You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever. Impenetrable passions have never made Kevin laugh. From early childhood they have enraged him. They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him, because broken machines can be fixed. It was easier to minister to passive incapacity than to tackle the more frightening matter of fierce, crackling disinterest."

Ahmad

May 13, 2022

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel ShriverWe Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband. In the wake of a school massacre by Kevin, the 15-year-old son of Franklin Plaskett and Eva Khatchadourian, Eva writes letters to Franklin. In these letters, she relates the history of her relationship with her husband, and the events of Kevin's life up to the killings, and her thoughts concerning their relationship. She also reveals events that she tried to keep secret, such as when she lashed out and broke Kevin's arm in a sudden fit of rage. She is also shown visiting Kevin in prison, where they appear to have an adversarial relationship. ...تاریخ نخستین خوانش نسخه اصلی روز بیست و هفتم ماه اکتبر سال2019میلادیعنوان: باید در مورد کوین صحبت کنیم؛ نویسنده: لیونل شرویر (شریور)؛ مترجم: سیدحسن رضوی؛ تهران: انتشارات میلکان‏‫، سال1398؛ در470ص؛ شابک9786226573580؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده21م‬باید درباره کوین صحبت کنیم؛ رمانی از «لیونل شریور» روزنامه نگار و نویسنده ی «ایالات متحده آمریکا» است؛ داستانی درباره ی تیراندازی در مدارس، و اختلال شخصیتی، دلهره آور، و روانشناختی است، که به دوران افسوس، و احساس گناه مادرش «اوا» میپردازد، که پسر نوجوان او، در دبیرستان کشتار به راه انداخته است؛ کتاب در سال2005میلادی، برنده ی «جایزه ی ادبیات داستانی زنان» شد، و در سال2011میلادی نیز، کارگردان آمریکایی «لین رمزی»، با اقتباس از همین داستان، فیلمی با همین عنوان ساختندتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 02/05/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 23/02/1401هجری خوشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Gabriel

January 12, 2022

Que sí, que sí, que esto es un completo librazo y obviamente ya está encabezando el año como la mejor lectura. Tenemos que hablar de Kevin es conocer a Eva, una madre arrepentida, presionada y castigada por la sociedad ante un hijo por el que dió todo lo bueno que pudo y aún así no sirvió de nada porque Kevin le quitó absolutamente todo. Eva narra su historia a partir de cartas, escritas y dirigidas a su marido luego del terrible suceso que da lugar en la escuela donde estudia su hijo. Al estar narrada de forma epistolar, la trama transcurre de manera lenta ya que se toma su tiempo para contar su vida antes de tener al niño y luego el posterior proceso que conllevó tenerlo y criarlo durante tantos años hasta el terrible desenlace al que ha llegado. Todo esto lo hace de manera introspectiva, intimista y profunda para conocer mucho sobre lo que pasa por su cabeza. No está de más decir que estas cartas son la terapia personal de la protagonista. Una catarsis que le sirve para tratar de sobrepasar lo que ha vivido, logrando sacar todo lo que lleva dentro haciendo una especie de purga para por fin sanar; superando todo aquello que guardó por tanto tiempo entorno a la relación con su marido y el hijo no deseado.La novela me ha gustado tantísimo por atreverse, por ser frentera y tocar sin tapujos la otra cara de la maternidad, ese lado del que mucha gente prefiere no hablar o ignorar. En el mundo hay mujeres que saben que quieren ser madres, otras que no y hay algunas que tienen dudas y deciden probar a ver qué tal (como Eva) para luego todo terminar en un desastre al darse cuenta que nada es color de rosa, como te lo pintan varias personas. Eva vive un bluce sin fin de poca aceptación hacia el niño que carga en el vientre e incluso, en el parto pasa un momento traumático que la lleva a replantearse muchas cosas. Cuando su hijo nace espera ver su vida transformada y amarlo profundamente, sin embargo nada de eso pasa; no lo ama, es más, finge para su marido y para la sociedad que lo hace. Vive constantemente tratando de crear un vínculo con el pequeño por una compleja obligación moral y social que no le satisface absolutamente nada. Es tan fuerte su situación, que busca aferrarse hasta lo más mínimo para quererlo como su esposo lo hace pero al final siente que Kevin le ha despojado de tantas cosas que verdaderamente la hacían feliz: su libertad, el poder viajar y trabajar constantemente. Lo cual ha sido sustituidos por pañales, juegos y llantos cada dos por tres. Porque al final, no todas las mujeres están preparadas para asumir tanta responsabilidad y dedicación que consume tiempo en un sociedad dónde algunos son paternalistas, machistas y/o misóginos.Y luego está el tema de Kevin, lo vemos crecer y hacer cosas a través de los ojos de Eva. Comenzamos a sentir escalofríos por cómo poco a poco las cosas toman un cariz tremendamente siniestro. Y asistimos a la constante incógnita del ¿Por qué lo hizo?; una pregunta que pesa sobre los hombros de ella, sintiéndose una mala madre y la responsable detrás de los actos psicópatas de su hijo. El padre, podría hablar de lo mucho que lo detesté, encarna muchas de las cosas que odio en una persona pero no me voy a detener en esto ya que su papel se resume en ignorar, idealizar y fingir que nada pasa. Que son la familia perfecta y feliz, viviendo en su casita igual de impecable. Lo cual es un completo engaño.Lo único que sé que es una novela escalofriante, dura, certera, realista y muy compleja. Que me ha encantado que más allá de centrar solamente la mirada sobre el mal encarnado que es Kevin, pone el foco sobre un proceso tan duro y complicado como lo es la maternidad, que aquí no está romantizada, mucho menos idealizada y por si fuera poco, retrata la bajada a los infiernos en el sentido de como un matrimonio puede irse destruyendo pedazo a pedazo mientras hace una crítica al sistema de los estados unidos sobre la posesión de armas.Es que lo hace todo de maravilla, la historia está perfectamente hilvanada y contada para comprender en su complejidad a Eva, la protagonista de esta historia y con la que pude empatizar demasiado. Y quizás también para hacerse una vaga idea de lo que piensa alguien como Kevin o Franklin. Porque sí, el libro deja algunas cosas al aire entorno a ellos pero tú como lector te haces idea y decides confiar en lo que te cuenta Eva, aunque solo sea un lado de la historia. Y sí, la trama es lenta. Así que sí, eso significa que no es una lectura para todo el mundo y que debes ir a tu rollo para poder llegar hasta el escalofriante final, el cual creo que jamás voy a olvidar. Me resulta imposible incluso no pensar en el.

Nilufer

May 14, 2022

Some books stay with us forever! After reading them we cannot stop thinking about them. We keep contemplating each chapter on our minds and thinking of different scenarios about what we would do if we were in the characters’ shoes! When you’re not ready to be a mother but you gotta raise a child, how to manage to do it? Especially it could be so compelling when you are forced to raise a child who is suffering mental illness keep pushing your buttons till you lose your control! Eva and Franklin never think to raise a kid who will be responsible of killing his seven classmates and one cafeteria worker at his age of 15! Now Eva writes letters to her husband confessing how she loses her control to break her son’s arm and surprisingly Kevin never gives anything away even though he turned her life into hell and Eva visits her son in the prison as well. What has she done wrong when she was raising him? Does her reluctance to bring a child to this world is the main reason how her life turned into hell? Could she do something different to prevent the harm her child created? So many question mark balloons are flying above my head with no concrete answer! What an amazing book that truly haunts your soul and don’t miss the fantastic movie adaptation ( Tilda Swinton as Eva Khatchadourian and Ezra Miller as Kevin were the definition of pure perfection! )

Bionic Jean

December 16, 2022

This is an unsettling book, although I would not say (as one critic did) that it is harrowing. It lacks the immediacy that this would need, as it is exclusively told in flashback, and furthermore the structure is epistolary - in fact it could almost qualify as a series of soliloquies.The main character (Eva) is trying to search through her memories to establish whether she could be responsible in any way for her 15 year old son's killing of several of his schoolmates and two adults. This is not a promising premise for a interesting lengthy novel, but I did find it absorbing. Although Eva has been found unlikeable by some, I found her to be a many-layered believable character. However there are a few minor quibbles.Eva, I worked out, was born in 1945. Part of the time therefore when she would have been considering having a child would have been in the late 1960s, when Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb was hugely influential. With the plethora of reasons for and against having a child that Eva muses on, it is hard to credit that she would have completely missed out on agonising about the problem of over-population. In fact her eventual reason for having her son seems to have been an impromptu masochistic one, which I found barely credible. (view spoiler)[ Similarly, when she chose to have a second child, I cannot believe she would have ignored the warning bells about Kevin, especially when she would not even have a pet dog for fear of what he might do to it. (hide spoiler)]The structure of the novel too is rather contrived. It has been said that "nobody writes in this way to someone they've lived with for 30 years", and that it is "self-consciously literary". Whereas I rather enjoyed the sardonic wit of the narrator, it did begin to dawn on me that (view spoiler)[there was a reason why these letters were not answered. They were clearly partly cathartic and partly an attempted analysis of where (if anywhere) to apportion blame. Eva was an intelligent and educated woman, familiar with the Nature v. Nurture controversy and many psychological disorders, especially of children. But it was also a cry for help, so why was it unanswered?Personally I guessed the reason for this about a third of the way through the book, and expect others would too, though I doubt whether this was intentional on the part of the author. It had already been mentioned that teenage killers such as Kevin tended to kill close family members or themselves too. But when the "shock" came very near the end of the book I realised just how deliberately this fact had been hidden. For the patricide not to have been mentioned in Eva's retelling of her many encounters and musings was just unrealistic. Ultimately this was irritating; the reader feels manipulated. From reading what apparently is a serious and believable portrayal of a nightmarish situation, this obscuring of a hugely important fact just seems like a cheap trick. I also find it hard to credit that the couple did not even seem to consider alternative methods of child-care. Eva loved her work; her husband adored Kevin, never believing in his malevolence. They were both in their own private hell when Eva stayed at home with the child. Wouldn't any sane person living in the society they did, at the time they did, at least have considered swapping roles? And would Eva really have slotted quite so happily into the nurturing/cooking/cleaning/50's housewife model? (hide spoiler)]But it is always possible to nit-pick. Ultimately this is a novel, and not a case-study. As such it is a very good read, and deserving of its Orange prizewinner status.

Norma

June 15, 2017

I don't think a book has ever made me teary-eyed before! I have been known to sob while watching a movie but haven't actually while absorbed in a book. We Need to Talk About Kevin was it "Impossible to put down" as suggested on the front cover? No, out of the 400 pages of this book, I thought that the first 200 or so pages were extremely hard to get through because this was not an easy read for me. I did not particularly like the authors writing style, choice of words used, and all the details crammed together in a sentence. It was quite exhausting at times. The last 100 pages were actually hard to put down. After so many pages of build-up the climax was fast-paced and I felt that it was a complete, satisfying read in the end.The book was told in a series of letters by Kevin's mom, Eva to her husband, Franklin. Most of the letters Eva talks about Kevin, why she decided to have him, what it was like raising him, ways that she might of failed at being a mother, and confessions of her own about Kevin.So was Kevin born that way or was he made that way because he didn't have a mother that wanted, loved or nurtured him?That is the question you will be asking yourself throughout the novel as you read. It was a thought-provoking, slow-paced, disturbing, emotional, and difficult read but I think it was well worth it. I was completely satisfied with the very emotional ending. That yup actually made me cry.

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