Well Known Authors, Poets & Journalists
A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By: Laurence Leamer / Narrated By: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
A mishmash of EVERYthing that adds up to…? Uhm… not much…
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
By: Margalit Fox / Narrated By: Peter Forbes
Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
WOW…! That was ONLY 7-hrs and 41-mins…?!
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
Written and Narrated By: Michael Ausiello
Length: 10 hrs
Oh gosh… reeeally wanted to LOVE this… can I settle for just LIKING it…?
By: Marilyn Yalom, Irvin D. Yalom / Narrated By: Jim Frangione, Pam Ward
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sooo going against the reviews but: This is what happens when an Existentialist faces death, and it ain’t pretty…
Seventeen Brushes with Death
By: Maggie O'Farrell / Narrated By: Daisy Donovan
Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
Beautifully written, hauntingly touching; just absolutely stunning…
How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918
By: Joseph Loconte / Narrated By: Dave Hoffman
Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
The occasional urge to throttle the narrator did NOT stop this from being a hard-hitting Listen. Filled with Strife; filled with Grace
A True Story of Love and Friendship
Written and Narrated By: Martha Teichner
Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
Jeez! Oh how I haaaate saying with this one: I Want My Hours Back…! Also, a tiiiiiiny bit of a Spoiler Alert within this, sooo…
Written and Narrated By: Dan Rather
Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
Charming and folksy, even when touching on the traumatic and the tragic…
By: Joan Didion / Narrated By: Vanessa Redgrave
Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
FanTAStic and, thankfully, not as devastating as the print version
A Biography
By: Lucy Worsley / Narrated by: Ruth Redman, Lucy Worsley
Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
Uhmm… the best JA bio, or… the ONLY JA bio I’ve listened to… YET
How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits
By: Les Standiford / Narrated By: Jonathan Davis
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
I wanted to love this, truly I did! But holy COW is it dry!
The Making of a Poet
By: Jimmy Santiago Baca / Narrated By: Jackson Gutierrez
Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
Brutal yet ultimately beautiful
By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Narrated By: Eileen Stevens
Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
12 hours and 1 minute is about 12 hours too long
A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son
Written and Narrated By: Buzz Bissinger
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Lovely sons, but BOY is Buzz a despicable father and human being, or what?!?
By: John Steinbeck / Narrated By: Gary Sinise
Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
Wonderful Charley, wonderful stories. But the heartstopper is The South
Written and Narrated By: Maya Angelou
Length: 4 hrs
A petite yet oh so feisty woman you just can’t help but love