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China Dream
- By: Ma Jian
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel.
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China Dream
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 16-01-20
- Language: English
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
- By: Rajeev Balasubramanyam
- Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev Balasubramanyam, read by Ramon Tikaram. There’s no problem Professor Chandra can’t solve. Except for one: the secret to happiness In the moments after the accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see...
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A book to make you feel good
- By Harriet Ellis on 21-03-19
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
- Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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Dreaditation
- By: Andersen Prunty
- Narrated by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Who will become enlightened and what will be left of them? Scott Champion knows the meaning of life. And his life is great. He has everything a guy like him could want: a beautiful wife, a precocious daughter, a nice house in the perfect location, a great paying job that's so easy he doesn't even know what he really does, and a trust fund to help with his long-term goals. If he has a problem, it's other people, not himself. He's as surprised as anyone when he downloads the world's most popular meditation app and actually starts using it.
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Dreaditation
- Narrated by: Geoff Sturtevant
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 04-05-26
- Language: English
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
- By: Anne de Marcken
- Narrated by: Jessica Preddy
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
- Narrated by: Jessica Preddy
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Il bar sotto il mare
- By: Stefano Benni
- Narrated by: Luca Dal Fabbro
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Tutto può accadere nel bar sotto il mare. Un bar in cui tutti vorremmo capitare, una notte, per ascoltare i racconti del barista, dell'uomo col cappello, dell'uomo con la gardenia, della sirena, del marinaio, dell'uomo invisibile, della vamp e degli altri misteriosi avventori. Sompazzo, il paese più bugiardo del mondo - Gaspard Ouralphe, il più grande cuoco di Francia - Il verme mangiaparole e l'incredibile storia del capitano Charlemont - La disfida di Salsiccia - Il dittatore pentito - Kraputnyk, il marziano innamorato - Priscilla Mapple e il delitto della II C.
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Lettore e scrittore
- By Francesco on 04-03-25
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Il bar sotto il mare
- Narrated by: Luca Dal Fabbro
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-04-21
- Language: Italian
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
- By: Miguel de Cervantes
- Narrated by: Eladio Ramos, Jesús Ramos
- Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Tras saber que el Turco baja por la costa con una peligrosa armada, Don Alonso Quijano, el caballero don Quijote de la Mancha, saldrá, una vez más, y con la oposición de su sobrina y de su ama, a una nueva batalla que empezará en la Mancha y terminará en.
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ídolo don Quijote.
- By ROSINY SHMUELY on 17-10-20
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
- Narrated by: Eladio Ramos, Jesús Ramos
- Length: 37 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: Spanish
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La broma infinita [Infinite Jest]
- By: David Foster Wallace, Marcelo Covian Fasce - translator
- Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
- Length: 67 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Una novela crítica, divertida y reflexiva sobre la adicción, el consumismo y la soledad de la sociedad norteamericana, desde una perspectiva de gran sabiduría y sentido del humor.
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La broma infinita [Infinite Jest]
- Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
- Length: 67 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: Spanish
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The Captain and the Glory
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: John Hodgman
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins. The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law - nor even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats - he solemnly swears to shake things up.
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The Captain and the Glory
- Narrated by: John Hodgman
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 16-01-20
- Language: English
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Show Them a Good Time
- By: Nicole Flattery
- Narrated by: Jill Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories, Show Them a Good Time explores types - men and women, their assigned roles and meanings - in modern society. A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless university students take to the stage in a bid to assert their autonomy; a school teacher makes her way through a series of dead-end dates, gamely searching for love or distraction as the world teeters towards ruin.
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Brilliantly bleak
- By MR SIMON DUDDY on 25-09-21
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Show Them a Good Time
- Narrated by: Jill Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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The Novices of Lerna
- By: Angel Bonomini, Jordan Landsman - translator
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Novices of Lerna introduces the enigmatic fictions of Ángel Bonomini to English listeners for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient. The collection's central novella follows Ramon Beltra, an unambitious scholar who receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland.
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The Novices of Lerna
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- By: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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Obsessed- well worth reading!
- By Caitlin on 31-01-24
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 20-04-21
- Language: English
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Lunatics
- A Novel
- By: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel
- Narrated by: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, Mark Thompson, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of . . . Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic...
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Lunatics
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, Mark Thompson, Sean Kenin, Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-01-12
- Language: English
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The Tenant
- A Novella
- By: Odella Howe
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Marvin Hoeff never thought he was a selfish bastard. Unfortunately for him, the universe begs to differ. After surveying the grim aftermath of tenant Colette Finch’s death, all petty, miserly landlord Marvin Hoeff wants is his evening takeout and a long, hot shower. The problem is, something has followed him home… something sopping wet, sharp-tongued, and absolutely furious with him. Before he can say “lease violation,” Marvin finds himself the newest guinea pig of a cosmic bureaucracy’s experimental reformation method.
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The Tenant
- A Novella
- Narrated by: Patrick Shannon
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-04-26
- Language: English
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- By: Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, and others
- Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. What happens when his idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting.
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-05-24
- Language: English
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Wetlands
- By: Charlotte Roche, Tim Mohr - translator
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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With her jaunty dissection of the sex life and the private grooming habits of the novel's 18-year-old narrator, Helen Memel, Charlotte Roche has turned the previously unspeakable into the national conversation in Germany. The book is a headlong dash through every crevice and byproduct, physical...
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Not Erotic!
- By JonR on 24-02-10
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Wetlands
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-06-09
- Language: English
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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
- A Novel
- By: Agnieszka Szpila, Scotia Gilroy - translator
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through history until she’s united with a centuries-old coven of ecstatically revolutionary women...
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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- Language: English
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A Universe Less Traveled
- Intersecting Worlds, Book 1
- By: Eric von Schrader
- Narrated by: Andy Coco, Jean Ponzi
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Billy Boustany uncovers a mystery that transforms his sleepy midwestern city into a vibrant metropolis of iridescent skyscrapers, wild parties, and eccentric characters. He has the adventure of a lifetime, but it comes with a perilous secret. When Billy shares his discovery with his college student daughter, they explore together until they reach a magnificent city of Native Americans at an ancient site. However, they also encounter a formidable foe—the Knights, a secret society bent on keeping outsiders away.
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A Universe Less Traveled
- Intersecting Worlds, Book 1
- Narrated by: Andy Coco, Jean Ponzi
- Series: Intersecting Worlds, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-04-22
- Language: English
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In the Penal Colony
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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"In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence.
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In the Penal Colony
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 05-02-25
- Language: English
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Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]
- By: Luigi Pirandello
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Il più celebre romanzo di Pirandello, scritto nel 1904, narra la storia del bibliotecario Mattia Pascal, il quale, da ricco proprietario terriero, dopo una vita di sprechi e scioperataggine, si ritrova ridotto in miseria, a causa delle ruberie perpetrate dall'amministratore dei suoi terreni.Un vortice di disgraziate vicissitudini travolge la sua vita, quando infine, alla morte delle due figliolette, in preda alla disperazione, fugge da Miragno e, per puro caso si ritrova nel Casino di Montecarlo, dove vince una considerevole somma alla roulette.
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the narrator was good
- By Eugenia Oranekwulu on 05-11-25
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Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]
- Narrated by: Claudio Carini
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-02-11
- Language: Italian
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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
- By: Diane Williams, Ben Marcus - introduction
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over 300 new and previously published short fictions - distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of the American short story.
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The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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