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About this collection
The spirited (but friendly) debate over these titles could have gone on indefinitely. With years of listening, countless customer reviews, and a catalog of seemingly infinite great listens, 100 suddenly felt like a very small number. What we know for sure: Each of the titles that made it to this collection are elevated and made special in some way by audio, whether by a layered performance from a single narrator, a brilliantly cohesive full cast, original music, or immersive sound effects. They’re our go-to recommendations to new and old listeners alike, the highlights of our libraries. Many transcend their categories, appealing to listeners who may not have even considered dabbling in genres outside their usual favorites. Most have stood the test of time, while some are newer arrivals that have already signaled their enduring potential. Our listeners’ and editors’ favorites are ever-evolving as we discover exciting new productions, listen to previously under-heard voices, and explore new perspectives and methods of approaching those stories. What we can say right now: We stand by these 100 titles as potential cornerstones of anyone’s listening life.-
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Red, White & Royal Blue
- A Novel
- By: Casey McQuiston
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem....
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How dare this auther make me feel my own feels!!!
- By Amazon Customer
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Red, White & Royal Blue
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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And Then There Were None
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 mins
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Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret....
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Literally gave me chills
- By C
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And Then There Were None
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
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When Breath Becomes Air
- By: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live....
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Amazing
- By Narine Harrylall
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When Breath Becomes Air
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-12-16
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect....
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Douglas Adams is pure genius
- By E. Mesa
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-28-05
- Language: English
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Outlander
- Outlander, Book 1
- By: Diana Gabaldon
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 32 hrs and 38 mins
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This stunning blend of historical romance and time traveling adventure has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world....
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Trigger warning for those who suffer from PTSD
- By Lemon Dreaming
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Outlander
- Outlander, Book 1
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Series: Outlander, Book 1
- Length: 32 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-13-06
- Language: English
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.
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Wow... Superb Science Fiction
- By Striker
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Bobiverse, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Series: Bobiverse, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-20-16
- Language: English
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....
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One of my favorite books ever
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-16-21
- Language: English
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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This poetic, graceful love story celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....
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RIVETING!
- By Tracy P.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-26-04
- Language: English
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Her Royal Spyness
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932....
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Happy addition to a difficult genre
- By Living Right
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Her Royal Spyness
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Series: Royal Spyness, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-03-10
- Language: English
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The Mystwick School of Musicraft
- By: Jessica Khoury
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Amelia Jones has always dreamed of attending the Mystwick School of Musicraft, where the world’s most promising musicians learn to create magic. But then she botches her audition and her dream comes to an abrupt and humiliating end - until the school agrees to give her a trial period....
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really good story truthfully wasn't expecting it
- By Steven Strom
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The Mystwick School of Musicraft
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Series: The Mystwick School of Musicraft, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-05-19
- Language: English
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You
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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How far would you go for the perfect love? A young man’s dark obsession with an enigmatic, gorgeous writer leads to murderous consequences in this erotic psychological thriller....
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Loved it
- By cristina
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You
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Series: You, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-30-14
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits....
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Fantastic Novel
- By A. Smith
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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-02-16
- Language: English
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Direct Deposit
- What Happens When Black People Get Rich
- By: Chad Sanders
- Narrated by: Chad Sanders
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Chad Sanders is a writer on the brink of wealth, whose world is changing fast around him. He goes from sleeping on a mattress on the floor of his Brooklyn apartment to Hollywood pitch meetings with his mentor, Spike Lee, to riding around Los Angeles with Kanye West....
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We All Think it, Chad Did it
- By Toni M.
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Direct Deposit
- What Happens When Black People Get Rich
- Narrated by: Chad Sanders
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 08-30-22
- Language: English
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Angela's Ashes
- By: Frank McCourt, Jeannette Walls - introduction
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt, Jeannette Walls - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks....
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Thank you Frank McCourt!
- By Mark
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Angela's Ashes
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt, Jeannette Walls - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Illuminae
- The Illuminae Files, Book 1
- By: Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
- Narrated by: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Donnabella Mortel, Matthew Frow, Ryan Gesell, Sile Bermingham, Beata Pozniak, Jolene Kim, Emma Bering
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she'd have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded....
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Best book of the year for me
- By Emily
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Illuminae
- The Illuminae Files, Book 1
- Narrated by: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Donnabella Mortel, Matthew Frow, Ryan Gesell, Sile Bermingham, Beata Pozniak, Jolene Kim, Emma Bering
- Series: The Illuminae Files, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-20-15
- Language: English
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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A groundbreaking narrative that explores the ways in which biology and history have shaped our understanding of what it means to be “human”.
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A great listen!
- By ¯ystein
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Sapiens
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-15-17
- Language: English
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The Goldfinch
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins
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The author of the classic best-sellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel....
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All the Heart Eyes
- By Rachel
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The Goldfinch
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 32 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-22-13
- Language: English
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The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends
- Season 1
- By: Sesame Workshop
- Narrated by: Lindsey Briggs, Tyler Bunch, Ryan Dillon, a full cast
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Hello-ee-o-ee-o! Meet Sesame Street’s newest furry and friendly monster: Foley! She is the host of her very own podcast, The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends....
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Great for autism
- By Katie
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The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley and Friends
- Season 1
- Narrated by: Lindsey Briggs, Tyler Bunch, Ryan Dillon, a full cast
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-14-20
- Language: English
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Calypso
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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With Calypso, Sedaris sets his formidable powers of observation - and humor - toward middle age and mortality....
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<3
- By Evie M
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Calypso
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 05-29-18
- Language: English
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.
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Absolutely great
- By Seattle reader
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-15-16
- Language: English
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