29 Best Satire, Fiction Books
Satire, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Satire, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Satire, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Tempest-Tost
- By: Robertson Davies
- Narrator: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4.35(1671 ratings)
4.35(1671 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAn amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s play, falls in love with the beautiful heiress GriseldaAn amateur production of The Tempest provides a colorful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s play, falls in love with the beautiful heiress Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs on the play’s opening night.
Weaving a tapestry of wonderfully developed characters, smoldering rivalries, and witty satire, Robertson Davies introduces the first book in theSalterton trilogy–a modern classic.
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Droll Tales
- By: Iris Smyles
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.31(13 ratings)
4.31(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWitty and surreal tales that transcend rationality and illuminate our world, from America’s most original writer Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical,Witty and surreal tales that transcend rationality and illuminate our world, from America’s most original writer
Welcome to the world of Droll Tales, in which reality is a mutually agreed-upon illusion and life is painful, paradoxical, beautiful, and brief. With an oddball cast of characters who reappear in various guises throughout these interrelated stories, Smyles reveals an off-kilter world overlapping this one. And in giving us a tour of this enchanted, sometimes absurd place, with its own workings and ways of expression, she gives us a new way to understand our own.
A young suburban woman runs away to Europe to become a living statue; Mallarme is at long last translated into pig Latin; a house full of surrealists compete for love on a reality TV show; a list of fortune-cookie messages reveals the inner world of the young man employed to write them; and a story of love and betrayal is told through the sentence diagrams on a fifth grader’s grammar test.
Romantic, dark, and ironic, Droll Tales is a book like none you have read. It is a joyful interrogation of the paradoxes underpinning life, a cabinet of curiosities, a philosophical vaudeville, a puzzle in fourteen pieces, and a tragicomic riddle articulated in Smyles’s singular style, with the mystery of the human heart at its center.
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Pigs Have Wings
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator: Jeremy Sinden
- Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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4.25(3630 ratings)
4.25(3630 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDCan the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But aCan the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler, and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.
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The Past Is Red
- By: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrator: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 17, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(2906 ratings)
4.14(2906 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe future is blue–endless blue… except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown. Tetley Abednego is theThe future is blue–endless blue… except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those patches is a magical place called Garbagetown. Tetley Abednego is the most beloved girl in Garbagetown, but she’s the only one who knows it. She’s the only one who knows a lot of things: that Garbagetown is the most wonderful place in the world, that it’s full of hope, that you can love someone and 66% hate them all at the same time. But Earth is a terrible mess, hope is a fragile thing, and a lot of people are very angry with her. Then Tetley discovers a new friend, a terrible secret, and more to her world than she ever expected.
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Qualityland
- By: Marc-Uwe Kling
- Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.13(11628 ratings)
4.13(11628 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDIn the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn’t built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking systemIn the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn’t built for you?Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it.In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can’t quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become the unwitting leader of a band of robotic misfits hidden in his home and workplace. One day, Peter receives a product from TheShop that he absolutely, positively knows he does not want, and which he decides, at great personal cost, to return. The only problem: doing so means proving the perfect algorithm of TheShop wrong, calling into question the very foundations of QualityLand itself.Qualityland, Marc-Uwe Kling’s first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly clever, illuminating satire in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and George Orwell that offers a visionary, frightening, and all-too funny glimpse at a near future we may be hurtling toward faster than it’s at all comfortable to admit. So why delay any longer? TheShop already knows you’re going to love this book. You may as well head to the cash register, crack the covers, and see why that is for yourself.... Read more -
The Children’s Story
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Keith David
- Length: 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(34 ratings)
4.1(34 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.95 USD“What does ‘allegiance’ mean?” the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart. In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability“What does ‘allegiance’ mean?” the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart.
In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell’s extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.
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Puss in Boots
- By: Neil Fishman
- Narrator: Jim Dale
- Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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4.08(37 ratings)
4.08(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USD2020 Audie Awards(r) Finalist – Audio Drama 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award–Best Voiceover in Children’s Audiobook 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award–Outstanding Production in Audiobook Puss in Boots, a fractured fairytale musical, is a2020 Audie Awards(r) Finalist – Audio Drama
2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award–Best Voiceover in Children’s Audiobook
2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award–Outstanding Production in Audiobook
Puss in Boots, a fractured fairytale musical, is a tale of conquering fears, finding your truth, discovering your strengths, and standing for what you believe in, with lots of fun along the way.
With 11 original songs, this classic fairytale is transformed into a hilarious adventure that will have the listener feeling like they’re front row center at a Broadway show. Narrated by Jim Dale and a full cast, and written and created by the award-winning team behind Spin: The Rumpelstiltskin Musical, this audiobook is a treat for the whole family.
Narrated by Jim Dale, Mark Aldrich, Nick Sullivan, Brian Holden, Al Fallick, Lisa Livesay, Lynn Norris, John E. Brady, Johnny Heller, Barrett Leddy, and Meredith Inglesby
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My Days of Dark Green Euphoria
- By: A. E. Copenhaver
- Narrator: Erica Sullivan
- Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4(31 ratings)
4(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDLove, lies, and eco-anxiety–an irresistible satire about finding balance in a chaotic world Thirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious–perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters–not because she wants toLove, lies, and eco-anxiety–an irresistible satire about finding balance in a chaotic world
Thirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious–perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters–not because she wants to but because it’s the right thing to do, does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider instead of saving a life.
Cara has never met her six nephews and nieces–soon to be seven–because she doesn’t fly domestic, unless it’s an emergency, or international ever. She longs for a carbon footprint so light you’d hardly know she exists.
Then, during a mimosa-soaked Sunday brunch, she meets her boyfriend’s alluring mother, Millie, and Cara finds herself mesmerized. Millie represents everything Cara is against: She eats meat, has cowhide rugs, drives a car the size of a small yacht, and blithely travels the world by boat, plane, and train–without any guilt whatsoever. In fact, Cara soon admits this may be why she finds herself so drawn to Millie.
As they begin spending time together, getting pedicures and drinking sixteen-olive martinis, Cara becomes hooked on Millie and this new freedom from the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century.
Yet before long, Cara risks losing everything to be close to the mundane extravagance of Millie’s world. Her career, her best friend, and her identity all hang in the balance as she struggles to disentangle from this intoxicating muse.
Irreverent, witty, and provocative, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, is a satirical novel of how a life on the edge of eco-anxiety can spiral wildly out of control, as well as how promising and inspiring a commitment to saving our planet can be.
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Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrator: Rupert Degas
- Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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3.98(1104355 ratings)
3.98(1104355 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDIn this 1945 novella, barnyard animals rise up against the oppressive rule of human farmers and set about to create a better world for themselves. When two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, emerge as leaders of the new collective, a schism is createdIn this 1945 novella, barnyard animals rise up against the oppressive rule of human farmers and set about to create a better world for themselves. When two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, emerge as leaders of the new collective, a schism is created with dire implications for the erstwhile utopia. George Orwell’s satirical story of Revolutionary Russia and Stalinism is a classic of anti-authoritarianism protest literature.
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Fool
- By: Christopher Moore
- Narrator: Euan Morton
- Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 10, 2009
- Language: English
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3.97(50464 ratings)
3.97(50464 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool–the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning NewsFool–the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore–is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”
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Dinosaurs
- By: Lydia Millet
- Narrator: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 11, 2022
- Language: English
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3.95(3032 ratings)
3.95(3032 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A“Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible, tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humor and benevolence, Dinosaurs asks big questions: Can a person be good? Can a man be good? Compellingly told, emotionally moving, and intellectually rich, Dinosaurs may be Millet’s finest novel yet.”
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Severance
- By: Ling Ma
- Narrator: Nancy Wu
- Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 14, 2018
- Language: English
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3.92(61230 ratings)
3.92(61230 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel…Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine.” —“Narrator Nancy Wu delivers an outstanding performance of this cheeky satirical novel…Listeners will be entertained by the world building; cast of amusing, eccentric characters; and bizarre charm of the aloof heroine.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner
Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.
So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.
Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?
A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
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Only Begotten Daughter
- By: James Morrow
- Narrator: Christine Helen Lakin
- Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.89(1538 ratings)
3.89(1538 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDRejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divineRejoice! A new messiah has come, and her name is Julie. Born to Murray Katz, the solitary (and celibate) keeper of an abandoned lighthouse on the Jersey shore, our protagonist arrives on Earth boasting supernatural abilities evocative of her divine half-brother, Jesus. As a child, she revels in her talent for walking on water, resurrecting dead crabs, and treating fireflies as luminous alphabet blocks. But after she reaches adolescence, her life becomes as challenging and ambiguous as any mortal’s. Not only is Julie Katz obliged to deal with a silver-tongued devil and self-righteous neo-Christian zealots, she must also figure out what sort of mission her mother–the female Supreme Being–has in mind for her.
At once outrageous and affirming, this Nebula Award finalist is a magnificent work of contemporary satire that holds a mirror up to human nature, astutely reflecting our species’ failings, foibles, and often misguided affections.
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Fake Like Me
- By: Barbara Bourland
- Narrator: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 18, 2019
- Language: English
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3.89(1120 ratings)
3.89(1120 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFrom critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an “impressively intelligent thriller,” nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncoveringFrom critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an “impressively intelligent thriller,” nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29).
After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught — or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.
Taking up residence in Carey’s former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey’s mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
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White Noise
- By: Don Delillo
- Narrator: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.87(27634 ratings)
3.87(27634 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDNow a Netflix film!Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-nameNow a Netflix film!
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Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an “airborne toxic event,” a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladneys–radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings–pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous. -
Yoga
- By: Emmanuel Carrere
- Narrator: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 02, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(4338 ratings)
3.85(4338 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEmmanuel Carrere is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully–he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state ofEmmanuel Carrere is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully–he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he’s also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga.
Four days later, there’s a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work-in-progress falters. His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites–between self-destruction and self-control, sanity and madness, elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live.
This is a book about one man’s desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. Loving, humorous, harrowing and profound, Yoga hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are.
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The Great Man Theory
- By: Teddy Wayne
- Narrator: Adam Barr
- Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 12, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(312 ratings)
3.85(312 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDPaul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-described “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The LudditePaul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-described “curmudgeonly crank” cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. Shockingly, others aren’t very receptive to Paul’s scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father’s terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul’s disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world’s wrongs and gives himself a more significant place in it.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
- By: Jonas Jonasson
- Narrator: Steven Crossley
- Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.82(52795 ratings)
3.82(52795 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDA larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel — perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove. After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home,A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel — perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health–and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn’t interested, and he’d like a bit more control over his vodka consumption. So he decides to escape.
He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant.
Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared has charmed millions of people around the world.
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A Farewell to Legs
- By: Scott Fivelson
- Narrator: Mariel Hemingway
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.8(6 ratings)
3.8(6 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.99 USDIn this Hemingway fiction in our time, author Scott Fivelson takes listeners on a literary journey from Paris to Pamplona as a marathoner on his last legs reflects on the sport as it might have been written about if Hemingway had been a runner. AIn this Hemingway fiction in our time, author Scott Fivelson takes listeners on a literary journey from Paris to Pamplona as a marathoner on his last legs reflects on the sport as it might have been written about if Hemingway had been a runner. A Farewell to Legs is both a satire of a classic and a classic satire.
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Tom Jones
- By: Henry Fielding
- Narrator: Anton Lesser
- Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.75(29168 ratings)
3.75(29168 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDFielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephewFielding’s rollicking comic masterpiece sparkles with life in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. Abandoned child Tom is raised by the rich and benevolent squire Mr. Allworthy, much to the chagrin of Allworthy’s mean-natured nephew Blifil, and develops into a good-natured rake. But Tom’s inability to resist a pretty face lands him in hot water when he impregnates Blifil’s betrothed. When the lovely Sophia runs away to London, Tom pursues, embarking upon a series of riotous and amorous adventures. However, further trouble and the revelation of his true identity await him in London.
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A Children’s Bible
- By: Lydia Millet
- Narrator: Xe Sands
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 12, 2020
- Language: English
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3.73(13644 ratings)
3.73(13644 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDPulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel–her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven–follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at aPulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel–her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven–follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.
Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, the group’s ringleaders–including Eve, who narrates the story–decide to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.
As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.
A Children’s Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide–and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.
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Campusland
- By: Scott Johnston
- Narrator: Casey Turner
- Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 13, 2019
- Language: English
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3.71(681 ratings)
3.71(681 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read… Smart and hilarious.”— Kirkus Reviews Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston’s Campusland is a satiric howl at today’s elite educational“This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read… Smart and hilarious.”
— Kirkus ReviewsJoyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston’s Campusland is a satiric howl at today’s elite educational institutions–from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony. A wickedly delightful audiobook that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge.
Her room sucks. Her closet isn’t big enough for two weeks’-worth of outfits, much less her new Rag & Bone for fall. And there’s nothing worth posting. Cruel. To Lulu Harris–It Girl-in-the-Making–her first year at the ultra-competitive Ivy-like Devon University is a dreary impediment. If she’s fabulous and no one sees it, what’s the point?
To Eph Russell, who looks and sounds like an avatar of privilege (shh!-he’s anything but) Devon is heaven. All day to think and read and linger over a Welsh rarebit at The Faculty Club, not to mention teach English 240 where he gets to discuss all his 19th Century favorites, like Mark Twain. If Eph could just get tenure, he could stay forever, but there are landmines everywhere.
In his seventh year at Devon, Red Wheeler is the alpha dog on top of Devon’s progressive hierarchy, the most woke guy on campus. But when his position is challenged, Red is forced to take measures.
Before first term is halfway finished, Lulu bungles her social cache with her clubbable upperclass peers, and is forced to reinvent herself. Shedding her designer clothes, she puts on flannel and a brand-new persona: campus victim. For Lulu to claw her way back to the top, she’ll build a pyre and roast anyone in her way.
Presiding over this ferment is Milton Strauss, Devon’s feckless president, who spends his days managing perpetually aggrieved students, scheming administrators, jealous professors, billionaire donors, and bumptious frat boys. He just can’t say yes fast enough. And what to do with Martika Malik-Adams? Isn’t her giant salary as vice-president of Diversity & Inclusion enough?
All paths converge as privileged, marginalized, and radical students form identity alliances, sacrifice education for outrage, and push varied agendas of political correctness that drags every free thought of higher learning into the lower depths of an entitled underclass.
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The Blazing World
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrator: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.7(6004 ratings)
3.7(6004 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly‘s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly‘s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe‘s Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph‘s Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. Louis Post Dispatch‘s Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeed‘s Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicle‘s Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** PopMatters.com’s Best of 2014 Fiction
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Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize
Hailed by The Washington Post as “Siri Hustvedt’s best novel yet, an electrifying work,” The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen.
In a new novel called “searingly fresh… A Nabokovian cat’s cradle” on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York’s art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. Many critics side with him, and Burden and Rune find themselves in a charged and dangerous game, one that ends in his bizarre death.
An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle presented as a collection of texts, including Harriet’s journals, assembled after her death, this “glorious mashup of storytelling and scholarship” (San Francisco Chronicle) unfolds from multiple perspectives as Harriet’s critics, fans, family, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of where the truth lies. Writing in Slate, Katie Roiphe declared it “a spectacularly good read…feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.”
“Astonishing, harrowing, and utterly, completely engrossing” (NPR), Hustvedt’s new novel is “Blazing indeed:…with agonizing compassion for all of wounded humanity”(Kirkus Reviews, starred review). It is a masterpiece that will be remembered for years to come. -
Make Russia Great Again
- By: Christopher Buckley
- Narrator: Gibson Frazier
- Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.69(1624 ratings)
3.69(1624 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman–Donald Trump’s seventhIn “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman–Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff–who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
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Herb Nutterman never intended to become Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff. Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks “his favorite Jew” to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty agrees.
But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert. Soon, Herb finds himself deeply involved in Russian intrigue, deflecting rumors about Mike Pence’s high school involvement in a Satanic cult, and leading President Trump’s reelection campaign.
What Nutterman experiences is outrageous, outlandish, and otherwise unbelievable–therefore making it a deadly accurate account of being the chief of staff during the Trump administration. With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe). -
Mao II
- By: Don Delillo
- Narrator: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.68(9898 ratings)
3.68(9898 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award“One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America” (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists andWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
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“One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America” (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill’s dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott’s lover–and Bill’s -
The Portrait of a Mirror
- By: A. Natasha Joukovsky
- Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.67(1739 ratings)
3.67(1739 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction Wes and Diana are the kind of privileged,A stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction
Wes and Diana are the kind of privileged, well-educated, self-involved New Yorkers you may not want to like but can’t help wanting to like you. With his boyish good looks, blue-blood pedigree, and the recent tidy valuation of his tech startup, Wes would have made any woman weak in the knees–any woman, that is, except perhaps his wife. Brilliant to the point of cunning, Diana possesses her own arsenal of charms, handily deployed against Wes in their constant wars of will and rhetorical sparring.
Vivien and Dale live in Philadelphia, but with ties to the same prep schools and management consulting firms as Wes and Diana, they’re of the same ilk. With a wedding date on the horizon and carefully curated life of coupledom, Vivien and Dale make a picture-perfect pair on Instagram. But when Vivien becomes a visiting curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art just as Diana is starting a new consulting project in Philadelphia, the two couples’ lives cross and tangle. It’s the summer of 2015, and they’re all enraptured by one another and too engulfed in desire to know what they want–despite knowing just how to act.
In this wickedly fun debut, A. Natasha Joukovsky crafts an absorbing portrait of modern romance, rousing real sympathy for these flawed characters even as she skewers them. Shrewdly observed, whip-smart, and shot through with wit and good humor, The Portrait of a Mirror is a piercing exploration of narcissism, desire, self-delusion, and the great mythology of love.
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The Average American Marriage
- By: Chad Kultgen
- Narrator: Chad Kultgen
- Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 04, 2013
- Language: English
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3.66(1520 ratings)
3.66(1520 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDIn the beginning, there was The Average American Male. Maxim called it “pure filth.” Even Penthouse called it “appalling.” The New York Times called it “the literary love child of Neil LaBute, Judy Blume, andIn the beginning, there was The Average American Male.
Maxim called it “pure filth.”
Even Penthouse called it “appalling.”
The New York Times called it “the literary love child of Neil LaBute, Judy Blume, and Eminem.”
Now, Chad Kultgen’s unforgettable antihero is back–this time as a married man.
I can feel something hot twisting and burning in the pit of my stomach. For a fleeting moment I think back to a time when I was with Casey, my girlfriend before Alyna….I tried to initiate something by grabbing her tit and kissing her when we walked through her front door. She turned to me and said something about how our relationship didn’t always have to be about sex. I remember how much I wanted to smash something when she said that, how much I wanted to scream in her face that our relationship was only about sex….Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental.
Welcome back.
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Shriver
- By: Chris Belden
- Narrator: Grover Gardner
- Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.66(238 ratings)
3.66(238 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDMistaken for a famous but reclusive author of the same name, lonely Shriver attends a writers’ conference at a small midwestern liberal arts college. Completely unfamiliar with the novel he supposedly wrote and utterly unprepared for theMistaken for a famous but reclusive author of the same name, lonely Shriver attends a writers’ conference at a small midwestern liberal arts college. Completely unfamiliar with the novel he supposedly wrote and utterly unprepared for the magnitude of the reputation that precedes him, Shriver is feted, fawned over, featured at stuffy literary panels, and barely manages to play it cool. Things quickly go awry when one of the other guest authors suddenly disappears and Shriver becomes a prime suspect in the investigation. Amid eager fans, Shriver must contend with a persistent police detective, a pesky journalist determined to unearth his past, and a mysterious and possibly dangerous stalker who seems to know his secret. But most vexing of all, Shriver has fallen in love with the conference organizer, who believes he’s someone else.
When the “real” Shriver (or is he?) arrives to claim his place among the literati, the conference–and Shriver’s world–threaten to unravel.
Filled with witty dialogue, hilarious antics, and a cast of bizarre and endearing characters, Shriver is at once a touching love story, a surreal examination of identity, and an affectionate tribute to the power of writing.
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The Jesus Cow
- By: Michael Perry
- Narrator: Michael Perry
- Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 19, 2015
- Language: English
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3.6(1695 ratings)
3.6(1695 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNew York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends the barbed charm of Garrison Keillor, theNew York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends the barbed charm of Garrison Keillor, the irreverent humor of Christopher Moore, and the audacious insight of Chuck Klosterman.
Life is suddenly full of drama for low-key Harley Jackson: A woman in a big red pickup has stolen his bachelor’s heart, a Hummer-driving predatory developer is threatening to pave the last vestiges of his family farm, and inside his barn is a calf bearing the image of Jesus Christ. His best friend, Billy, a giant of a man who shares his trailer house with a herd of cats and tries to pass off country music lyrics as philosophy, urges him to avoid the woman, fight the developer, and get rich off the calf. But Harley takes the opposite tack, hoping to avoid what his devout, dearly departed mother would have called “a scene.”
Then the secret gets out–right through the barn door, and Harley’s “miracle” goes viral. Within hours pilgrims, grifters, and the media have descended on his quiet patch of Swivel, Wisconsin, looking for a glimpse (and a percentage) of the calf. Does Harley hide the famous, possibly holy calf and risk a riot, or give the people what they want–and raise enough money to keep his land–and, just possibly, win the woman and her big red pickup truck?
Harley goes all in, cutting a deal with a major Hollywood agent that transforms his little farm into an international spiritual theme park–think Lourdes, only with cheese curds and t-shirts. Soon, Harley has lots of money . . . and more trouble than he ever dreamed.
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Cliff Weitzman
Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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