Author Picks
Margaret Atwood
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Three Day Road
- Written by: Joseph Boyden
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall288
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Performance259
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Story259
Author Joseph Boyden makes his literary debut with this profound and moving Today’s Book Club pick that contemplates the lasting traumas of war....
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A must read. Captivating from start to end.
- By Travelmug on 2018-04-23
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Three Day Road
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Series: Bird Family Chronicles
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2010-06-02
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- A First World War book with a difference, chronicling the role of the Indigenous hunters who became sure-shot snipers, and the many wounds inflicted by and upon them.
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And Then There Were None
- Written by: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall728
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Performance622
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Story619
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie. ""Ten . . ."" Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen."" ""Nine . . ."" At...
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Narrator and story are awesome
- By Anonymous on 2018-05-17
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And Then There Were None
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2013-09-10
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- When my mother was over 90 and blind, her family read to her — as she read to us when we were small. We discovered that Agatha Christie was very well-suited to being read aloud: succinct sentences, finger-biting plot. Ten corpses on an island, with no way on or off.
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Treasure Island
- An Audible Original Drama
- Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson, Marty Ross - adaptation
- Narrated by: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall482
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Performance415
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Story415
Audible Originals takes to the high seas to bring to life this timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps and mutiny....
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Not the real book
- By Hannah Dudney on 2019-02-11
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Treasure Island
- An Audible Original Drama
- Narrated by: Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate, Owen Teale
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-17
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- Stevenson’s excellent prose and story-telling skill are perfectly suited to oral presentation. There’s a reason why this pirate-adventure book is a classic. ("Pieces of eight!")
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A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1
- Written by: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance215
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Story213
When Sparrowhawk casts a spell that saves his village from destruction, Ogion, the Mage of Re Albi, encourages the boy to apprentice himself in the art of wizardry....
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Wish there had been more
- By girorv on 2019-04-06
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A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Series: The Earthsea Quartet, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2009-04-10
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- Ursula K. LeGuin’s other-world story about a school for wizards and the lures and dangers of misusing power: a precursor to Harry Potter, and an enchanting set of tales in its own right.
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Fifth Business
- The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- Written by: Robertson Davies
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall205
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Performance172
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Story170
This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide....
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Brilliant!!!
- By Raven Mad on 2018-05-09
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Fifth Business
- The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Series: Deptford Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2011-12-02
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- The first book of the Deptford Triology: introducing the curmudgeonly Southern Ontario narrator, his eccentric views, and his connections with the world of magic. Davies was trained as an actor, and was well aware of the dramatic uses to which the human voice could be put.
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The King Must Die
- Written by: Mary Renault
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
The epic of Thesus, the boy king of Eleusis, ritually preordained to die after one year of marriage to the sacred queen but who defies God's decree and claims his inheritance....
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Characterization and story
- By Cam Oates on 2024-01-28
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The King Must Die
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Series: Theseus, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-12
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- If you like historical fiction, it’s hard to beat this one: the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, as it might have happened in reality: well-reasoned, with a grounding in archeology
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Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Written by: Toni Morrison, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - introduction
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance134
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Story134
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “A masterwork...
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A literary must read.
- By Travelmug on 2019-01-03
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Beloved
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2006-05-22
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- I reviewed this tragic ghost story set in the time of American slavery when it first came out, and continue to find it haunting, dramatic, and expertly told.
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The Lost World
- Written by: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Catherine O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America....
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The Lost World
- Narrated by: Catherine O'Brien
- Series: Professor Challenger, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-09
- Language: English
- Margaret says:
- I was obsessed with this book when I was 9 or 10. A motley group of adventurers (including two bickering scientists) sets out in search of a plateau in South America where dinosaurs are rumoured to still be alive. Guess what? They are!
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More From the Author
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The Blind Assassin
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall229
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Performance204
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Story204
With The Blind Assassin, Atwood proves once again that she is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of the time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, this Book Prize winner is destined to become a classic.
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Horrible performance. like a translator on news
- By Team Awesomeness on 2019-10-28
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Oryx and Crake
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall773
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Performance671
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Story671
As the story opens, Snowman is sleeping in a tree, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
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Great book, so-so narrator
- By Jordyn on 2018-12-06
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The Robber Bride
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance85
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Story85
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends.
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Boring
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-21
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The Heart Goes Last
- A Novel
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Story74
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job...
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Interesting
- By Sandy on 2019-08-15
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The Blind Assassin
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall229
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Performance204
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Story204
With The Blind Assassin, Atwood proves once again that she is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of the time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, this Book Prize winner is destined to become a classic.
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Horrible performance. like a translator on news
- By Team Awesomeness on 2019-10-28
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Oryx and Crake
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall773
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Performance671
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Story671
As the story opens, Snowman is sleeping in a tree, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief.
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Great book, so-so narrator
- By Jordyn on 2018-12-06
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The Robber Bride
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance85
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Story85
Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom", a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends.
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Boring
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-21
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The Heart Goes Last
- A Novel
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Story74
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job...
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Interesting
- By Sandy on 2019-08-15
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The Year of the Flood
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne, Katie MacNichol, Mark Bramhall
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall361
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Performance324
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Story324
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of...
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Awesome Book
- By Rebecca Schutte on 2018-09-14
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The Edible Woman
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance113
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Story112
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach.... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed.
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The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
- By Anonymous on 2018-12-18
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Dancing Girls
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
In this splendid collection of short stories, Margaret Atwood maps the human motivation we scarcely know we have in a startlingly original voice, full of a rare intensity and exceptional intelligence. With brilliant flashes of fantasy, humor, and unexpected violence, these stories reveal the complexities of human relationships and bring to life characters that evoke laughter, compassion, terror, and recognition.
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Lady Oracle
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall129
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Performance113
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Story113
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.
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depressing
- By B on 2019-04-05