The Emperor of Gladness
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
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The Emperor of Gladness
- A Novel
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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An Audie Award finalist The instant New York Times bestseller Oprah’s Book Club Pick Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews A 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for...
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Wonderful story telling, like it could be true.
- By Al Bailey on 2026-01-04
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The Emperor of Gladness
- A Novel
- Narrated by: James Aaron Oh
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-13
- Language: English
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$34.40 or free with 30-day trial
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall189
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Performance165
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Story164
A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of...
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Enigmatic and perplexing, in a good way!
- By Anonymous on 2019-06-21
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-04
- Language: English
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$21.97 or free with 30-day trial
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Time Is a Mother
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second...
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Time Is a Mother
- Narrated by: Ocean Vuong
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-05
- Language: English
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$12.90 or free with 30-day trial
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph.
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- Narrated by: Keong Sim
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-27
- Language: English
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$10.84 or free with 30-day trial
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En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Un joven que se descubre a sí mismo en su doble condición de inmigrante y homosexual. Un libro valiente y conmovedor...
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Dulce dolor
- By Cliente de Kindle on 2023-06-30
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En la Tierra somos fugazmente grandiosos
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-12
- Language: Spanish
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$20.57 or free with 30-day trial
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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra
- Written by: Ocean Vuong
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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La guerra, l'amore per una madre e per la lingua d'adozione, l'emigrazione, la violenza, l'identità, la scoperta del corpo e della perdita, una vita intera a capire cosa significa diventare cittadini di un altro paese: il romanzo d'esordio del poeta Ocean Vuong (T.S. Eliot Prize 2017) è...
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Brevemente risplendiamo sulla terra
- Narrated by: Dario Sansalone
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-13
- Language: Italian
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$17.52 or free with 30-day trial
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Der Kaiser der Freude
- Written by: Ocean Vuong, Nikolaus Stingl - Übersetzer, Anne-Kristin Mittag - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Fabian Busch
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Ocean Vuongs neues, atemberaubendes Werk nach dem Welterfolg von Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios. Der queere Hai, Sohn einer vietnamesischen Mutter, ...
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Der Kaiser der Freude
- Narrated by: Fabian Busch
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-15
- Language: German
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$22.84 or free with 30-day trial
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Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios
- Written by: Ocean Vuong, Anne-Kristin Mittag - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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»Lass mich von vorn anfangen. Ma …« Der Brief eines Sohnes an die vietnamesische Mutter, die ihn nie lesen wird. Die Tochter eines amerikanischen Soldaten und eines vietnamesischen Bauernmädchens ist ...
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Auf Erden sind wir kurz grandios
- Narrated by: Julian Horeyseck
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2025-03-18
- Language: German
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$18.51 or free with 30-day trial
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