I know you,
and I know you opened this email expecting a hot take on Thanksgiving from me, your favorite comedy editor from a New Jersey-based audio entertainment company. But that’s not what you’re gonna get. Why? Because I’m rock 'n’ roll and I do what I want.So what do I have for you today? Well, I guess I just want you to know something that I’m just starting to figure out myself. This time of year can get very busy, and it’s okay to take a beat and do what you have to do to keep your balance. Nothing you’re laboring over for work is more important than your own well-being—unless your job is super important and massively affects the greater human population. In which case, get it together ASAP! But for the rest of you, take it easy. Take a day, find some laughs where you can, and do whatever keeps your head on straight. We need you at your best out here.
See you in December!
- Aaron, Audible editor
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Passable in Pink
- By: Mike Sacks
- Narrated by: Gillian Jacobs, Adam Scott, Bobby Moynihan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 404
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 405
When love reigns supreme in Northridge High just outside Chicago, by the lake, it happens beneath the soft, pink-infused spotlights hovering over that most special night of the year - prom night. Passable in Pink is an Audible Original from New York Times best-selling author Mike Sacks (Stinker Lets Loose!). Sacks has teamed up once again with director Eric Jason Martin (Stinker Lets Loose!, Heads Will Roll) to adapt a forgotten John Hughes-type 1983 movie into a fully immersive cinematic audio experience, with an epic all-star cast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A classic parody, f**ing funny as hell.
- By S.Hull on 11-28-19
The '80s in audio
My parents spent all of the '80s living barefoot in a desert in the Middle East picking dates from palm trees and milking cows, so their stories from that decade have more scorpions and camels than big hair and Springsteen. Ipso facto, all I know about the '80s comes directly from old sitcoms and John Hughes movies, so Passable in Pink really fits the image I have of that era. This totally radical ‘80s Prom-Com
is a 2019 audio take on the kinds of high school movies we all know and love from that era with a cast that really couldn’t get any better: Gillian Jacobs, Adam Scott, Bobby Moynihan, Bob Odenkirk, Laraine Newman, and so many more. Oh, and the story also has a special 11-song soundtrack!
Prom Time
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Latin History for Morons
- By: John Leguizamo
- Narrated by: John Leguizamo
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,323
When his son gets a school assignment on heroes, John seizes the chance to teach him all about the great figures of the Latino world. But once he sets out on his irreverent crash course across three continents and 3,000 years of history - from conquistadores to cumbia, Montezuma to Menudo, and taking on the characters in all of it - he uncovers provocative truths that shock even him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well
- By Amy Cueto on 11-25-19
Get educated
I could try and put into words how good Latin History for Morons is, but I think my fellow editor Edwin did it better than I probably could in his Editors Select review: In 80 hilarious minutes, Leguizamo covers 3,000 years of history, starting with the Aztec and Incan empires all the way to Columbus’s discovery of the New World, and beyond...Funny, heartwarming, and blunt, Leguizamo makes his case by referencing facts culled from some major history books that prove that Latinos have shed blood in every war fought on American soil. Leguizamo himself deserves a medal of honor for taking on this topical subject.
School is in Session
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Little Weirds
- By: Jenny Slate
- Narrated by: Jenny Slate
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 956
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 949
You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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softness is earned and it is wonderful
- By Van on 12-09-19
Let's get weird
Look, I’ll say it: I love Jenny Slate. You can go ahead and tell her, I don’t care! If someone knows her, show her this email. (Just kidding, please don’t.) But even if you’re not on the Slate train just yet, it’s time to give this a listen and hop on board. Little Weirds is, frankly, a little weird, but in the best possible way. With the comedian and actress narrating it herself, it listens like a window right into her mind. It’s beautiful, funny, heartwarming, and George Saunders said It made me remember I was alive.
If you can make one of the greatest living American authors say something like that, you’ve done something right.
Honeysuckle & Heartbreak
Coming Soon
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Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze
- By: Ana Gasteyer, Mona Mansour
- Narrated by: Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Patti LuPone, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,091
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,538
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4,532
Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze is a music-filled holiday comedy starring Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, with a jolly cast including Patti LuPone, Rachel Dratch, and Richard Kind. In this heartwarming story of love and friendship, we follow the journey of “Sugar” and “Booze” as they go from inseparable college buddies to busy working moms who mostly keep in touch with each other, and their close friends and family, through annual holiday letters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and easy listen
- By MARIE on 12-07-19
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Wow, No Thank You.
- Essays
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,117
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and best-selling Samantha Irby. Irby is 40, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state....
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen to this book. and then repeat. twice.
- By hattie walls on 04-08-20
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F*ck Your Diet
- And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me
- By: Chloé Hilliard
- Narrated by: Chloé Hilliard
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12 - both shoe and dress - and stood over six feet tall. Fitting in was never an option. That didn’t stop her from trying. Cursed with a “slow metabolism”, “baby weight”, and “big bones” - the fat trilogy - Chloe turned to fad diets, starvation, pills, and workouts, all of which failed. Realizing that everything - from government policies to corporate capitalism - directly impacts our relationship with food and our waistlines, Chloé changed her outlook on herself and hopes others will do the same for themselves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wish I saved my credit.
- By S. Cherry on 02-28-20
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Adequate Yearly Progress
- A Novel
- By: Roxanna Elden
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
Roxanna Elden’s “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes) is a brilliantly entertaining and moving look at our education system. Each new school year brings familiar challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. But the teachers also face plenty of personal challenges and this year, they may finally spill over into the classroom. Recording it all is idealistic second-year history teacher Kaytee Mahoney, whose anonymous blog gains new readers by the day as it drifts ever further from her in-class reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate Yearly Progress
- By Courtney G. on 03-11-20
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Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze
- By: Ana Gasteyer, Mona Mansour
- Narrated by: Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph, Patti LuPone, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,091
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,538
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 4,532
Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze is a music-filled holiday comedy starring Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, with a jolly cast including Patti LuPone, Rachel Dratch, and Richard Kind. In this heartwarming story of love and friendship, we follow the journey of “Sugar” and “Booze” as they go from inseparable college buddies to busy working moms who mostly keep in touch with each other, and their close friends and family, through annual holiday letters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and easy listen
- By MARIE on 12-07-19
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Wow, No Thank You.
- Essays
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,345
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,117
A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and best-selling Samantha Irby. Irby is 40, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state....
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5 out of 5 stars
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listen to this book. and then repeat. twice.
- By hattie walls on 04-08-20
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F*ck Your Diet
- And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me
- By: Chloé Hilliard
- Narrated by: Chloé Hilliard
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12 - both shoe and dress - and stood over six feet tall. Fitting in was never an option. That didn’t stop her from trying. Cursed with a “slow metabolism”, “baby weight”, and “big bones” - the fat trilogy - Chloe turned to fad diets, starvation, pills, and workouts, all of which failed. Realizing that everything - from government policies to corporate capitalism - directly impacts our relationship with food and our waistlines, Chloé changed her outlook on herself and hopes others will do the same for themselves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wish I saved my credit.
- By S. Cherry on 02-28-20
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Adequate Yearly Progress
- A Novel
- By: Roxanna Elden
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
Roxanna Elden’s “laugh-out-loud funny satire” (Forbes) is a brilliantly entertaining and moving look at our education system. Each new school year brings familiar challenges to Brae Hill Valley, a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. But the teachers also face plenty of personal challenges and this year, they may finally spill over into the classroom. Recording it all is idealistic second-year history teacher Kaytee Mahoney, whose anonymous blog gains new readers by the day as it drifts ever further from her in-class reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate Yearly Progress
- By Courtney G. on 03-11-20