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