Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: [German] - So forsch, so furchtlos (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Author: Andrea Abreu

Narrator: Inka Löwendorf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Ein heißer Juni auf Teneriffa, hoch oben im Norden der Insel zwischen den Vulkanen, weit ab von den Touristen. Zwei junge Mädchen, beste Freundinnen, versuchen, die Langweile zu bekämpfen. Sie wollen dünn bleiben, indem sie Süßigkeiten erbrechen; sie träumen von glänzenden BMWs, die sie an den Strand bringen, wo sie endlich das Meer genießen könnten, genau wie die Touristen, deren Ferienhäuser ihre Mütter putzen. Aber als aus dem Juni der Juli wird und der Juli in den August übergeht, verwandelt sich die schwelende Liebe der Erzählerin zu ihrer Freundin Isora in ein schmerzhaftes sexuelles Erwachen. Sie versucht, mit Isora Schritt zu halten, muss aber einsehen, dass das Erwachsenwerden ein Weg ist, den man allein gehen muss. Eine sprachgewaltige Erzählung über eine innige Mädchenfreundschaft, die an den Wachstumsschmerzen der Pubertät, an zu viel Liebe und zu großer Lust zerschellt.

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Title: Jimmy Bluefeather

Author: Kim Heacox

Narrator: Kaipo Schwab

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb's senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue's gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.

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Title: The House Party: A Novel

Author: Rita Cameron

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Release date: September 13, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community—perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes. “The House Party will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”—PopSugar It’s the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same. Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered. Those teenagers, two months away from graduating high school, are the “good kids”—the ones on track to go to college and move on to the next stage of their privileged lives. They have grown up in a protected bubble and are accustomed to getting by with just a slap on the wrist. Did they think they could just destroy property without facing punishment? Or was there something deeper, darker, at play that night? As the police close in on a list of suspects, the tight-knit community begins to fray as families attempt to protect themselves. What should have been the party of the year will have repercussions that will put Maja’s marriage to the ultimate test, jeopardize the futures of those “good kids,” and divide the town over questions of privilege and responsibility. An absorbing novel told through shifting perspectives, The House Party explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and marriages can upend when differences in wealth and power are forced to the surface.

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Title: [Spanish] - Miramar

Author: Gloria Peirano

Narrator: Mariana De Iraola

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Release date: September 12, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Una nena de 10 años asiste a la enfermedad del padre y la asimila como hacen los niños: mediante el juego. Miramar es la nueva novela de Gloria Peirano, de quien Alfaguara publicó en 2019 la notable La ruta de los hospitales, que cosechó numerosos premios nacionales e internacionales. «Miré cantidad de veces una película que filmó mi padre en la playa de Miramar [...]. Yo sonreía a la cámara y jugaba con una pelota de goma. La mano de mi madre me acariciaba la espalda.» Engarzadas como pequeñas piedras preciosas, las escenas y los momentos de esta novela arman un delicado rompecabezas que va y viene en el tiempo; es 1972, es 1976, es el Mundial de Fútbol de 1978, es hoy. De fondo, la casa en Miramar, la casa en la playa de una familia que se desintegra. Los hijos, una nena de diez años y su hermano menor, asisten a los desencuentros y reconciliaciones de los padres, jóvenes, hermosos, llenos de furia y de amor. Pero también ocurre la tragedia. El padre enferma, y la niña asimila el dolor de la despedida a través de un juego privado entre ellos. Su libro favorito en ese momento, Mujercitas, se convierte en el escenario privilegiado donde juegan a cuidarse y a contenerse uno al otro. En Miramar, Gloria Peirano nos entrega una historia de amor filial y de duelo que no se olvida con el tiempo; al contrario, se agranda con el recuerdo. Una novela que emociona y nos vincula con las pérdidas inevitables de la vida. La crítica dijo... «Miramar es una excelente novela engañosa. Y es buena porque es engañosa [...]. También es una novela sobre la deuda. Sobrevivir -dicne el relato- es quedar en deuda; ser deuda incluso.» Juan Sasturain «En un año ordinario, salen pocos libros tan delicados como este -diez novelas a su altura serían consideradas cosecha récord-. La ruta de los hospitales, de Gloria Peirano, es una joyita del habla de los argentinos; seguramente contribuye que haya logrado crear un mundo propio.» Matilde Sánchez, Clarín «Peirano escribe como si inhalara poesía y exhalara versos que se configuran en frases pulidas con una notable perfección.» Silvina Friera, Página/12 «Para Peirano narrar la ausencia es uno de los modos de la supervivencia.» Daniel Gigena, La Nación «Es formidable cómo juega Peirano las idas y vueltas en el tiempo, la marcha de la pesquisa, las voces y los ritmos, la forma de su historia y la contrafigura como una sombra que crece para reformatear la novela.» Ángel Berlanga, Página/12, sobre Miramar

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Title: [Spanish] - La encomienda

Author: Margarita García Robayo

Narrator: Carolina Gutiérrez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Release date: September 7, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Una inquietante novela sobre la incertidumbre, los recuerdos, los miedos, la soledad, las relaciones familiares y los anhelos de futuro. La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agencia de publicidad, quiere tramitar una beca para irse a escribir a Holanda y mantiene periódicas videoconferencias con su hermana. Esta le manda encomiendas, paquetes que incluyen comida, dibujos de sus sobrinos y de vez en cuando alguna sorpresa, como una vieja fotografía. A menudo la comida llega podrida. Una serie de figuras y acontecimientos irán dejando entrever las fisuras que se abren en la cotidianeidad de la protagonista: la recepción de una enorme caja difícil de abrir, una gata que se pasea por el edificio en el que vive, los vecinos que se ausentan y los que llaman a su puerta, el hijo de una vecina, las idas y venidas de su novio, un vagabundo... Y es que, como ella misma dice: «Con qué rapidez se hace pedazos la cáscara de una rutina. Cualquier rutina, por sólida que sea, es arrasada por lo imprevisto.» Con mano maestra y notable economía de medios, Margarita García Robayo conduce al lector por el laberinto de su protagonista y narradora en esta inquietante novela que habla de incertidumbre, recuerdos, miedos, soledad, relaciones familiares, perspectivas de maternidad y anhelos de futuro. Un libro de contenida intensidad, repleto de atisbos más que de certezas, que confirma a la autora como una de las voces de la actual narrativa latinoamericana. «García Robayo arremete con brillantez contra los mitos fundacionales de la persona, se llamen padre, madre, pareja, hogar o sexo» (Carlos Pardo, El País). «Narra lo excepcional desde lo pequeño y en un tono único, como si para mirar de frente a esas catástrofes hubiera que usar un aparato de baja definición» (Betina González, Revista Ñ). «Deslumbra con una prosa minuciosa que escribe premiosa y concienzudamente» (Vis Molina, El Mundo). «En sus historias las pequeñas pasiones estallan entre las letras, palabras y verbos y se quedan rondando por ahí, como si fueran reales, como si lo ordinario y cotidiano alcanzara el rango de arte» (Óscar Contardo, El Mercurio). «Una autora a la que le sobran recursos y astucias... Ha venido construyendo una de las obras más sólidas e interesantes de la literatura latinoamericana» (Juan Cárdenas). «Margarita García Robayo es un sofisticado sistema de capas... Tiene elegancia, tiene perfidia narrativa. Tiene un mundo dentro de la cabeza, y es un mundo complejo, lleno de aristas, de contrastes» (Leila Guerriero). «La voz de Margarita García Robayo es un escalpelo entrando con cortes finos y precisos en la carne de nuestra historia personal» (Gabriela Wiener). «Creo que es la escritora que mejor escribe sobre la intimidad» (Mariana Enriquez).

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Title: Come Down Somewhere

Author: Jennifer L. Wright

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship―until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch. Already angry about her new reality, Olive pushes Jo away. But as she struggles to make sense of her grandmother’s lapses into the past and increasingly unsettling hints about what’s happening at the ranch, she slowly warms to Jo’s winsome faith and steady attempts at friendship . . . until one devastating day when the sky explodes around them and their lives are torn apart. Seven years later, Jo returns to Alamogordo, still angry and wounded by the betrayals of that fateful day. Determined to put the past behind her once and for all, Jo hunts for answers and begins to realize the truth may be far more complicated than she believed, leading her on a desperate search to find her friend before it’s too late.

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Title: Hunter School

Author: Sakinu Ahronglong

Narrator: Pun Bandhu

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Release date: September 6, 2022

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories of an aboriginal Taiwanese man aiming to reconnect with his tribal Paiwan identity, lost in the name of development. It is impossible to be unaware of the effect of development, invariably at the hands of outsiders, upon the lands, inhabitants, and very nature of faraway climes. Hunter School shows us first-hand the immediate and long-reaching effects of such changes upon an indigenous people. The fabric of the community is changed, its balance and its self-sufficiency undermined, and confusion reigns. A common theme running throughout this charming but important audiobook is that of a young man learning about himself and his heritage from the past, elders, ancestors, and nature itself. This award-winning audiobook is a highly readable and touching work, and an insight into a unique and endangered society. It serves also as a clarion call for action and awareness.

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Title: Not Without Laughter

Author: Langston Hughes

Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author's own recollections of youth and early manhood. This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience.

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Title: The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Release date: August 30, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 24

Ratings of Narrator: 3.92 of Total 12

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

In this powerful novel of survival and resilience, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman takes readers on a gripping, emotional journey as one brave young woman’s search for the truth about her sister leads her to an infamous institution called Willowbrook …Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world.Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living as near strangers in their Staten Island apartment, Sage is stunned to discover that Alan has kept a shocking secret: Rosemary didn’t die. She was committed to Willowbrook State School and has lingered there until just a few days ago, when she went missing.Sage knows little about Willowbrook. It’s always been a place shrouded by rumor and mystery. A place local parents threaten to send misbehaving kids. With no idea what to expect, Sage secretly sets out for Willowbrook, determined to find Rosemary. What she learns, once she steps through its doors and is mistakenly believed to be her sister, will change her life in ways she never could imagined …

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Title: A Thousand Boy Kisses: The unforgettable love story and TikTok sensation

Author: Tillie Cole

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Katie Schorr

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Release date: August 25, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 3.17 of Total 6

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers. What happened to turn her sweet, thoughtful Rune into this brooding stranger? And will the secret Poppy is carrying bring them closer together or separate them forever? Discover the story that will break your heart and make you believe true love really does last for eternity . . . 'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW 'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW 'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW 'I have read books that have had me ugly crying in the past but I honestly don't think I've read a book before this one where tears flowed in every single chapter' 5***** READER REVIEW 'The most heartbreaking, soul-shattering yet beautiful book I have ever read . . . I sobbed. I mean ugly crying' 5***** READER REVIEW 'One of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking books I have ever read' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Rune couldn't have been more perfect, nor Poppy more perfect for him' 5***** READER REVIEW © Tillie Cole 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022