Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: I Am the Light of This World

Author: Michael Parker

Narrator: Michael Crouch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Release date: November 15, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed author Michael Parker tells the searing  and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes  the course of a young man’s life. In  the  early  1970s,  in  Stovall,  Texas,  seventeen-year-old  Earl—a  loner,  dreamer,  lover of music and words—meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two  days  later,  Earl  is  being  questioned  by  the  police  about  Tina’s  disappearance  and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,  and  with  little  financial  support  from  his  working-class  family,  he  is  sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Forty  years  later,  Earl  is  released  into  a  world  he  can  barely  navigate.  Settling  in a small town on the Oregon coast, he attempts to establish a sense of freedom from both bars and razor wire and the emotional toll of incarceration. But just as Earl finds the rhythm he’s always sought, his past returns to endanger the new life he’s built. Steeped in the music and atmosphere of the 1970s, I Am the Light of This World is a gritty, gripping, and gorgeously written story of loss, redemption, and the power of the imagination, perfect for fans of Ron Rash, Rachel Kushner, and Laird Hunt.

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Title: Anon Pls.: A Novel

Author: Deuxmoi

Narrator: Callie Dalton, Graham Halstead, Brittany Pressley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Soon-to-be a Max Original series, written and co-produced by Diablo Coby and Ryan O'Connell! ''Dazzling, propulsive, and delightfully juicy, Anon Pls. is the digital age’s love letter to The Devil Wears Prada. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on the latest stories in Deuxmoi’s feed. What an incredible debut.'' — Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. It's just a way to blow off steam after a terrible, terrible day at work where her nightmarish boss screams at her and blames her for some 18-year-old influencer's screw-up. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders —juicy gossip—she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. She is now famous. Though no one knows that she is behind the account, its newfound success quickly wreaks havoc on her real life. Her boss wonders why she’s disappearing on the job, her friends are increasingly irritated by her dedication to the account, and she has celebrities, investors, and journalists approaching her nonstop. Plus, there's a steamy new love interest who she meets through her online persona—except she has no idea if she can truly trust his motives.  As the account grows and becomes more and more influential, she has to wonder: is it—the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life—really worth losing everything she has?

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Title: Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel

Author: Kevin Wilson

Narrator: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Wilson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.

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Title: Boyfriend for Hire

Series: #1 of Escorts, Inc.

Author: Kendall Ryan

Narrator: Jason Clarke, Erin Mallon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

I’m the guy you call when you need to impress your overbearing family, your boss, or your ex. Yeah, I’m a male escort, but not just any escort, I’m the escort. The one with a mile-long waiting list and a pristine reputation that’s very well-deserved. I’m the guy who’ll make you feel beautiful, desired, and worshipped...all for a steep price. I’m hired to make you shine, and I always deliver. I’ll be whatever you want me to be for one night - except my true self. This is just a job, a role I play to earn a paycheck. But I’m not the guy who falls for a client. Not once in six years. And then I meet Elle. Her friend has hired me to escort her to a wedding, but Elle doesn’t know we’re just pretending. There’s a fire between us I never expected. A connection I haven’t felt in so long. One kiss, and I’m losing all control. But what will happen when she finds out who I really am?

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Title: The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern

Author: Rita Zoey Chin

Narrator: Sarah Skaer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance. Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the 'The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World,' taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions. Her mother Jeannie Starr is a captivating magician, but not always an attentive mother, and when Leah is six, Jeannie upends their carnival life with an unexpected exit. With little fanfare and no explanation, she leaves her daughter at the home of Edward Murphy, a kindly older man with whom Leah shares one fierce wish: that Jeannie Starr will return to them. After fifteen years as a small-town outcast, Leah decides to end her life on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday. But the intricate death ritual she has devised is interrupted by a surprise knock on her door. Her mysterious neighbor, the curmudgeonly and reclusive art photographer Essie East, has died and left Leah a very strange inheritance. Through a series of letters, Essie will posthumously lead Leah on a journey to nine points on the map, spanning from an island in Wisconsin to an island in the Arctic Circle—a journey that, the first note promises, will reveal the story of Leah's mother.

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Title: [Spanish] - La Escuela Del Canto

Author: Nell Leyshon

Narrator: Brenda Vázquez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Release date: October 21, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial. Todo dará un vuelco inesperado el día en que Ellyn acude al mercado y, empujada por la curiosidad, entra en una iglesia vacía en la que oye un canto como jamás había oído antes, un canto que la estremece, que la hace flotar. Desde ese preciso instante comienza a crecer en su interior un poderoso deseo: ingresar en la escuela de canto, donde los jóvenes caballeros aprenden a cantar, pero también a leer y escribir, un lugar donde nunca se pasa hambre y al que sin embargo las niñas tienen vedado el acceso. La determinación por cumplir su sueño llevará a Ellyn a rebelarse y hacerse pasar por un chico, pero ¿cuánto tiempo podrá mantener el engaño? ¿Cuánto podrá soportar esos grilletes impuestos a la verdad de su cuerpo? Escrita con un formidable talento para reflejar el habla de una niña criada en un entorno rural y transmitir con ese lenguaje tan personal una energía, una libertad y una visión de las cosas de enorme aliento poético, La escuela de canto narra el camino sin vuelta atrás de una chica analfabeta que descubre que el mundo es mucho más vasto de lo que jamás hubiera sospechado, un mundo bello e injusto en el que un don puede llevarte muy lejos y los prejuicios te condenan de por vida; un mundo que es preciso cambiar, sea como sea, para legárselo a aquellos a quienes más amamos.

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Title: Demon Copperhead: A Novel

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Release date: October 18, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 654

Ratings of Narrator: 4.87 of Total 229

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times ''Ten Best Books of the Year'' ''Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick ''May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees and the recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

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Title: [Spanish] - El viaje de los colibríes

Author: Sue Zurita

Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Acércate a la nueva edición del fenómeno de la autopublicación de México. Una novela para todos aquellos que no saben vivir en cautiverio. El viaje de los colibríes ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publicó una edición independiente hace ocho años con la que logró llegar a más de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edición, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capítulo inédito: un nuevo final para Romina. ¿Qué fue de ella? ¿A dónde fue? ¿Qué experiencias vivió? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela. La vida de Romina representa la de todos aquellos que sueñan con irse lejos y abrazar un nuevo futuro, con la principal ex-pectativa del amor y del encuentro consigo mismos. El viaje de los colibríes es un vuelo sin final, en el que Romina decide hacerdiferentes escalas. En ellas conoce amigos, abre jaulas extrañas, descubre alas inesperadas y conquista el cielo que lleva dentro... Si una vez decidiste escapar..., ¡no dejes que nadie te atrape!

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Title: Random

Author: Penn Jillette

Narrator: Penn Jillette

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower’s façade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay Ruphart off and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power'—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a hilarious exploration into not so much what defines us as what divines us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes. Combining the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero, Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.

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Title: Beasts of the Earth: A Novel

Author: James Wade

Narrator: Roger Clark

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 2023 Spur Award James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana. Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice. Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael’s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require. Beasts of the Earth deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.