Discover Top Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Anton: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love. It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded—physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt. She must disappear without telling anyone where she’s going—even Anton. If keeping Edith safe means letting her go, Anton will say goodbye forever. Or so he believes. What would happen, though, if one day their paths should cross again?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frenzy of Sparks: A Novel Author: Kristin Fields Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Lily in the Light comes a poignant story of innocence lost and what it means to grow up too fast. It’s 1965, and thirteen-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighborhood where nothing ever happens. The only thing Gia would miss is the surrounding marsh, where she feels at home among sea birds and salt water. But when one of Gia’s cousins brings drugs into their neighborhood, it sets off a chain of events that quickly turn dangerous. Everyone will be caught in the ripples, and some may be swept away entirely. Gia is determined to keep herself and her family afloat while the world is turned upside down around her. Can she find a way to hold on to the life she was so eager to leave behind, or will she have to watch it all disappear beneath the marsh forever? At turns heart-wrenching and hopeful, A Frenzy of Sparks explores a world where survival is the attempt to move forward while leaving pieces of your heart behind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kaltenburg Author: Marcel Beyer Narrator: Bernd Geiling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Der Wandel der Zeit zwischen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und DDR-Zeit, betrachtet anhand zweier Charaktere: Der 1903 geborene Ludwig Kaltenburg ist Biologe in Posen. In den 1930ern begegnet er dem Ich-Erzähler zum ersten Mal, der zu der Zeit noch ein Kind ist. Später, nach dem Zusammenbruch des 'Dritten Reiches', treffen sich beide wieder in Dresden. Der Ich-Erzähler hat seine Eltern während der Bombardierung Dresdens verloren und studiert inzwischen Ornithologie. Die beiden Forscher verbindet schon bald internationale Anerkennung. -

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Queenie Author: Candice Carty-Williams Narrator: Patricia Coridun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Britisch, zeitgeistig und bittersüß.Queenie Jenkins, 25, lebt in London und fühlt sich weder Großbritannien noch der Heimat ihrer Familie, Jamaika, so richtig zugehörig. Sie arbeitet in einer Zeitungsredaktion, wo der Konkurrenzkampf die Hölle ist. Dann endet die Langzeitbeziehung mit ihrem braven Freund auf katastrophale Weise - und Queenie sucht Trost in all den düsteren Ecken, die die Datinghölle des dritten Jahrtausends zu bieten hat.Nach circa eintausend falschen Entscheidungen, stellt sie sich endlich den Fragen, denen sich jede Frau in einer Welt stellen muss, die ganz genau glaubt, die Antworten darauf ohnehin besser zu kennen als sie selbst: Was tust du hier eigentlich? Warum tust du es? Und: wer will ich eigentlich sein?Ausgezeichnet als Buch des Jahres und Debüt des Jahres - British Book Awards 2020

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fell Author: Robert Jenkins Narrator: Toby Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 1, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man. The arrest of his sister Lilly later that summer brings the halcyon days to an abrupt end, however, and his family is torn apart, with Lilly sent to jail and the boy set to a boarding house for dysfunctional boys: The Fell. He is young and afraid, but he and his new friends band together against their enemies – until anger spills over when he hears the girl he loves referred to as a twenty-dollar whore, and his actions lead him to run from The Fell. And keep running…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Author: Ariel Schrag Narrator: Ariel Schrag Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. A sweet and subversive coming-of-age novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag. When Adam Freedman—a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California—goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does. It is the summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans—a boy who was born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around? Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams—but she couldn’t possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor . . . Ariel Schrag’s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin. “An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story.”—Aimee Mann ''[An] audacious coming-of-age novel.”—Miami Herald ''Compulsively readable.''—Bookforum ''Hilarious...Schrag's riotous, poignant debut novel will leave you reeling.''—SF Weekly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl Small Author: Kim Liggett, Rachel DeWoskin Narrator: Tai Sammons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 11, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Katy Did Author: Susan Coolidge Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Twelve-year-old Katy Carr was always dreaming of the time when something would happen to make her famous. But when it does happen, it’s not at all what she wants. This is the moving story of how Katy Carr overcomes her tragic accident and learns to be as loving and as patient as the beautiful invalid, Helen. Susan Coolidge’s famous story, set in the small nineteenth-century American town of Burnet, has charmed generations of children all around the world.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow-Line: A Confession Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. The qualities needed to confront the ship's crisis symbolize the very qualities needed by humanity, not only to face evil and destruction, but also to come to terms with life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Women Series: #1 of The Little Women Series Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: C. M. Hébert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly, unconventional, and enterprising, with an ambition to be an author. Meg, a year older, is pretty and wishes to be a lady. Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music. Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family’s small income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.