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A Certain Hunger
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's summary
Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho in a seductive and sinister debut literary thriller.
Food critic Dorothy Daniels indulges in her homicidal urges by murdering her lovers and devouring their organs in this intense, visceral, and lushly told tale of food, sex, power, and the pursuit of a very particular taste set between New York and Italy.
Please Note: A Certain Hunger contains adult language and depictions of violence. Discretion is advised.
Chelsea G. Summers Answers the Audible Questionnaire
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Editor's Pick
A man-eating journey of self-discovery
"Based on the promotional pitch for this new Audible Original—"Eat Pray Love meets American Psycho"—A Certain Hunger could have been written just for me. But so loud was the collective gasp in the room when the project was announced, it’s clear a lot of us were hungry for the story of a female cannibal on a self-actualizing voyage of homicidal hedonism. Chelsea G. Summers’s debut novel follows food writer Dorothy Daniels—the epicurean lovechild of Elizabeth Báthory and the vampire Lestat, if they were fluent in New York media and wrote Nabokovian prose—on a lascivious romp from the cocktail bars of Manhattan to the truffle-hiding hills of Italy. Somewhere along the way, she’s landed herself in prison; perhaps it has to do with her (literal) taste in men? Provocative and very funny, A Certain Hunger is narrated by veteran performer Hillary Huber—just the right icing for this bloody, decadent cake."
—Kat J., Audible Editor
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Might have been an ok read...
- By mfseegs on 04-24-19
By: Halle Butler
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Nightbitch
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Yoder
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
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If you don’t get it just say so
- By Stephanie Rzonca on 02-19-22
By: Rachel Yoder
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
By: Sayaka Murata
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Animal
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Taddeo
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child - that has haunted her every waking moment - while forging the power to finally strike back.
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Should come with a lot of trigger warnings
- By Harry on 07-13-21
By: Lisa Taddeo
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A Touch of Jen
- By: Beth Morgan
- Narrated by: Casey Turner
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former coworker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons.
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Speechless
- By Schabel on 07-16-21
By: Beth Morgan
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Paradise Rot
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrated by: Brie Jackman
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
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Wrong Voice
- By Laura on 08-18-24
By: Jenny Hval, and others
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Motherthing
- By: Ainslie Hogarth
- Narrated by: Adina Verson
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.
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Mixed feelings on this book.
- By April Ames-Harrison on 01-01-23
By: Ainslie Hogarth
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Ripe
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Rose Etter
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley start-up, Cassie finds herself trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses, and unethical projects, she also struggles to reconcile the glittering promise of a city where obscene wealth lives alongside abject poverty and suffering. Ivy League grads complain about the snack selection from a conference room with a view of unhoused people bathing in the bay. Start-up burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains, and men literally set themselves on fire in the streets.
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EG, Sorry to say it doesn't get any better
- By Alexis_Vandew on 08-18-23
By: Sarah Rose Etter
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Woman, Eating
- A Literary Vampire Novel
- By: Claire Kohda
- Narrated by: Jane Lui
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people.
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Really wanted to like it.
- By Emily Nigh on 07-21-22
By: Claire Kohda
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Maeve Fly
- By: CJ Leede
- Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green—her best friend’s brother—moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona.
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maybe I didn't get the point
- By shawn bickford on 08-10-24
By: CJ Leede
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Our Wives Under the Sea
- By: Julia Armfield
- Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.
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Entertainingly Weird Fiction
- By Maryanne T. on 10-05-22
By: Julia Armfield
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All's Well
- By: Mona Awad
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now, she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised and cost her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
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Mixed bag but excellent performance
- By stuffbuyer on 09-22-21
By: Mona Awad
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Zip Ono, Buddhist Detective
- By: John Christian Plummer
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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At first glance, the death of media mogul “Big Bill” Argosy appears to be suicide. But his widow, Laila, thinks otherwise. Because Big Bill made enemies - lots of them. And he’d rather fight to the death than take his own life. When the authorities refuse to investigate, Laila turns to the one person who can see connections in the universe where others can’t: Zip Ono, a young private investigator - and practicing Buddhist. Zip quickly learns that there’s no shortage of suspects who might very well want Argosy dead.
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Peacefully exquisite and uplifting ...
- By Sharon on 11-08-20
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Girls Against God
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows, and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo, a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-traveling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death-metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.
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Not great but has redeeming qualities
- By Anonymous User on 03-31-24
By: Jenny Hval, and others
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- Caroline Couture
- 01-24-20
Revenge is best served....
interesting story which I enjoyed. Got a bit gory in places. I liked the narrator after getting used to her.
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- steven
- 03-10-20
Different is good...
Very bold concept for a book. A female urban professional who also just happens to be a murderous psychopath.
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- cherelle
- 06-25-20
Delicious and Sexy
I have listened to this book at least 4 times. I love it more every time. The story and characters are compelling, the humor is dark, and the content is grisly. I also learned a lot about tortufo bianco and kosher butchering, which was a nice bonus. Highly recommend. This book is perfection. Can’t wait to see what Summers’ next book will bring! (She’s also written some amazing articles. I am indeed a fan).
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- natti vogel
- 10-28-20
Inimitable, genius and groundbreaking.
I have never had as much fun with a novel in my lifetime of reading and listening to them.
This psychotically original classic makes the beat use of the audiobook format possible and delivers a viscerally satisfying 11-hour psychopathic monologue you’ll never want to end.
I can’t wait for the print version to drop December 1st so I can properly savor every bon mot, double entendre and hidden literary truffle, but I’ll never be able to replace the kinesthetic delight of traveling throughout my city, bathing in the frank, hilarious, horrifying, sexy, erudite narration of Dorothy Daniels, an emotionally unreliable narratrix stuffed with factually unerring eviscerations on everything from the corrupt USDA to millennial ADHD.
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- Ashley O'Neal Starnes
- 06-20-22
Fun and flirty
I'd always wanted a girl Hannibal Lecter. Now we have one. I thought this story was fun, maybe a little campy, and the purple prose were spot on. So fun.
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- LisaR
- 09-07-22
Skipped a few meals reading this
I feel an explanation why I read this is necessary. In July 2022 I read an article in the New York Times about a rise of interest in books, TV shows and films that include scenes of cannibalism, and that article included this book, among others. As a fan of dark and disturbing fiction and nonfiction, I was intrigued.
As I said in a mid-book comment, I wasn't sure if I was loving it or hating it, but maybe both. Now finished, I stand by that conclusion: I loved and hated it. Psychopathy is at work here, and that comes to the readers at a slow boil, like lobsters in a cool pot of salted water.
But I had difficulty relating to Dorothy Daniels, although I believe we are close in age and shared in some 1990s cultural experiences. But she cared way too much about things like status and fitting in, things I didn't about at all. So as smart and sharp-witted as she was, I also found her vapid. She chose to make her life more traumatic than it really was.
I couldn't put the story down, even as I dreaded where it would go next. I probably won't forget this one, and I thought the narrator Hillary Huber did an excellent job. I just don't know who I'd ever recommend this book to.
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- Dinah Elise Moore
- 05-10-23
Loved
Five stars for story + performance. Lit fic done just the way I like it. Won’t be for everyone.
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- Jordan Saragosa
- 02-16-24
Tantalizing imagery
The main character is well written and the words used to describe the plot supporting characters, erotic scenes and most of all the food is exquisite.
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- Haley
- 04-30-24
Punchy, erotic, and full of teeth
The story isn’t quite what I was expecting, but I loved it just as much as Dorothy Daniels loves food.
More of a commentary on exotic foods, the female condition, and capitalism, this book was drizzled in murder and soaked through with smart and lurid prose, and so much sex you could smell it.
I loved every inch of this book. Dorothy even made me think I might like the taste of tongue… (not human, of course).
As for the narrator. I thought she sounded a bit like Julia Roberts. She was amazing, and read the story with such obvious relish that it brought it to life.
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- KellyP
- 05-13-24
Keep Listening!
The author used far, far too many metaphors and similes. So many, in fact, that I almost did not make it through the first chapter. The figurative language was simply overwhelming, I wish the editor had cut a lot of it out. But, keep listening because the story itself, was quite intriguing. I loved how the author cleverly interwove the telling of the story between present time and the past. You were given a glimpse into the mind of a psychopath. Thanks to the gifted narrator, the story was fascinating, horrifying, and believable!
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