Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: Daddy-Long-Legs

Series: #1 of Daddy-Long-Legs

Author: Jean Webster

Narrator: Sara Young

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Release date: August 31, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Jerusha Judy Abbott's life is drastically changed one day when a mysterious and rich benefactor scoops her up from an orphanage—the only home she has ever known—and offers to pay her way through college. Her benefactor has many requests, the two most important being that she uses this opportunity to become a writer, and that she writes him monthly to update him on her studies. To maintain his air of mystery, he never responds, and requests that Judy only refer to him as Mr. John Smith. Unhappy about this indifferent title, Judy decides to refer to him as Daddy-Long-Legs due to her only knowing that he is quite tall. Chronicling her four years of college, many friendships, embarrassing stories, and quite-funny musings, Judy finds more than an education in her correspondence with Daddy-Long-Legs.

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Title: [German] - Verwandte Lügen

Author: Dawn Brower

Narrator: Désirée Singson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 28, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Eine junge Frau entdeckt Familiengeheimnisse, die ihr Leben auf eine Art beeinflussen, wie sie es sich nie hätte vorstellen können ...Amethyst Keane führt ein einsames Leben. Sie wuchs mit einer Mutter auf, die so oft umzog, dass sie es aufgab, ein normales Leben mit Freunden zu führen. Sie widmete sich intensiv ihren schulischen Leistungen und mit siebzehn fing sie an, eine Zeitschrift herauszugeben. Fast drei Jahre später ist sie völlig selbstständig und nach wie vor einsam. Im Zuge eines Auftrags für ihre Zeitschrift fährt sie in eine kleine Küstenstadt. Dort trifft sie einen jungen Mann und zum ersten Mal spürt sie, dass sie vielleicht doch kein Leben als Einzelgängerin führen muss. Als sie Nachforschungen zu dem legendären Stadt-Gespenst anstellt, deckt sie Geheimnisse und Lügen im Zusammenhang mit ihrer Familie auf. Unter Umständen hat sie mit dem Geist, der auf Ghost Peak Island spukt, mehr gemeinsam, als sie je geglaubt hätte. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

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Title: Checkout 19: ‘A book to shake the world anew’ Sebastian Barry

Author: Claire-Louise Bennett

Narrator: Claire-Louise Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Release date: August 19, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2021 ** A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, DAILY TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES CULTURE AND NEW STATESMAN 'We read in order to come to life.' With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature. Fusing fantasy with lived experience, Checkout 19 is a vivid and mesmerising journey through the small traumas and triumphs that define us - as readers, as writers, as human beings. © Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Title: Heaven

Author: Mieko Kawakami

Narrator: Scott Keiji Takeda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 12, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami's uncontainable talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most important young authors at work today. 'An expertly told, deeply unsettling tale of adolescent violence' - Vogue Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Sam Bett. Translation © 2021 by Mieko Kawakami

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Title: The Eternal Audience of One

Author: Rémy Ngamije

Narrator: Michael Boatman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 10, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Meet the future of African literature” (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of Nairobi Heat) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality. Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending. One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. More than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university. But a year is more than the sum of its parts, and en route to the future, the present must be lived through and even the past must be survived in this “hilarious and heartbreaking” (Adam Smyer, author of Knucklehead) intersection of pre- and post-1994 Rwanda, colonial and post-independence Windhoek, Paris and Brussels in the 70s, Nairobi public schools, and the racially charged streets of Cape Town. “Visually striking and beautiful told with youthful energy and hard-won wisdom” (Rabeah Ghaffari, author of To Keep the Sun Alive), The Eternal Audience of One is a lyrical and piquant tale of family, migration, friendship, war, identity, and race that will sweep you off your feet.

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Title: The Shimmering State: A Novel

Author: Meredith Westgate

Narrator: Ali Andre Ali, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Emily Tremaine, Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Release date: August 10, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Named a Book You Need to Read in 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar A “moving, astounding, and totally unsettling” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author) literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to Los Angeles to be with his grandmother as she undergoes an experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s using the new drug, Memoroxin. An emerging photographer, he’s also running from the sudden death of his mother, a well-known artist whose legacy haunts him. Sophie has just landed the lead in the upcoming performance of La Sylphide with the Los Angeles Ballet Company. She still waitresses at the Chateau Marmont during her off hours, witnessing the recreational use of Memoroxin—or Mem—among the Hollywood elite. When Lucien and Sophie meet at The Center, founded by an ambitious yet conflicted doctor to treat patients who’ve abused Mem, they have no memory of how they got there—or why they feel so inexplicably drawn to each other. Is it attraction, or something they cannot remember from “before”? “Contemplative and wonderfully evocative, finishing The Shimmering State is like waking from a dream, where you reenter the world with fresh eyes and wonder at the frailty of your own memories” (Jessica Chiarella, author of The Lost Girls).

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Title: All My Mothers

Author: Joanna Glen

Narrator: Polly Edsell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Release date: August 5, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

‘One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn’t bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears’ STACEY HALLS ‘Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven’ MIRANDA HART ‘A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow’ DINAH JEFFERIES ‘Had me absolutely sobbing – a beautiful, beautiful book’ JO BROWNING WROE, bestselling author of A TERRIBLE KINDNESS ‘Worth every tear’ WOMAN & HOME ‘Exquisitely tender, powerfully compelling’ SARAH HAYWOOD ‘One of my new all-time favourite books – an absolute joy’ JULIETTA HENDERSON ‘Thoughtful, warm and engaging’ CHRISTINA SWEENEY-BAIRD ‘Honest, heartfelt and hopeful’ MARIANNE CRONIN ‘A joy to read’ ANNE YOUNGSON ‘A love song to women everywhere’ ERICKA WALLER MEET EVA MARTÍNEZ-GREEN, AN ONLY CHILD FULL OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS. Between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. Eva is convinced that all is not as it seems. Why are there no baby pictures of her? Why do her parents avoid all questions about her early years? When her parents’ relationship crumbles, Eva begins a journey to find these answers for herself. Her desire to discover where she belongs leads Eva on a journey spanning decades and continents – and, along the way, she meets women who challenge her idea of what a mother should be, and who will change her life forever… ‘A glorious journey into loving & longing’ ANSTEY HARRIS ‘Heartrending and heartwarming’ CELIA ANDERSON ‘Exquisite’ JESSICA RYN ‘A deep delight of a book that vibrates with love and longing’ HELEN PARIS Praise for Joanna Glen’s debut novel, The Other Half of Augusta Hope: ‘A therapeutic dose of high-strength emotion’ GUARDIAN ‘Entertains and moves in equal measure’ DAILY MAIL ‘Keep the tissues close’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘An irresistible message of redemption and belonging’RED magazine ‘Heartening and hopeful’ JESS KIDD ‘Mesmerizingly beautiful’ SARAH HAYWOOD ‘An extraordinary masterpiece’ ANSTEY HARRIS

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Title: The Echo Chamber

Author: John Boyne

Narrator: Richard E. Grant

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Release date: August 5, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national treasure' (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. Powered by John Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone. © John Boyne 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Title: [Spanish] - Madona con abrigo de piel

Author: Sabahattin Ali

Narrator: álvaro Ramos Toajas, Nacho Béjar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Release date: July 22, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Una historia de amor y transgresión entre un joven turco y una pintora alemana en el Berlín de los años veinte. Con ventas de más de un millón de ejemplares, es la novela más vendida en Turquía de los últimos años. Raif Efendi llega a Berlín en los años veinte, enviado por su padre para aprender los secretos del negocio familiar, la fabricación de jabones de tocador. Sin embargo, su espíritu soñador lo empuja hacia el arte y la literatura. Además de estudiar alemán y leer novelas rusas, se dedica a recorrer la ciudad, visitando museos y exposiciones, en pos de algo que lo apasione verdaderamente. Una tarde, tras quedarse absorto ante la contemplación del retrato de una mujer envuelta en un abrigo de piel, sabe que por fin ha encontrado lo que buscaba. Así, poco después, Raif conocerá a la autora del lienzo, Maria Puder, y su vida dará un vuelco para siempre. Rescatada del olvido a finales de los noventa, esta tercera novela de escritor turco Sabahattin Ali -fallecido de forma prematura en 1948- es uno de los acontecimientos editoriales más llamativos de los últimos tiempos. Traducida a una decena de idiomas y con ventas de más de un millón de ejemplares, esta historia de amor desdichado entre un joven turco y una pintora alemana se ha convertido en un auténtico fenómeno de culto en su país, sobre todo entre la juventud, que con su lectura manifiesta la resistencia a la creciente erosión de los derechos civiles y reivindica una mayor apertura hacia Europa. La crítica ha dicho... «Una novela mágica [...], que recrea una era desaparecida y dramatiza una relación destinada al fracaso con vigor, hondura e intensidad. El resultado es una obra maestra en miniatura». The National «Los paralelismos entre lo que Sabahattin Ali tuvo que soportar en tanto que escritor disidente y lo que afrontan los escritores turcos encarcelados por criticar el actual gobierno islamista ayudan a explicar la renovada popularidad de este autor entre los lectores turcos». The New York Times «Concisa, emocionante y memorable; llena de añoranza y melancolía». The Times «Una historia de amor delicada, conmovedora y difícil de olvidar». Irish Times

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Title: Learning To Swim

Author: Clare Chambers

Narrator: Antonia Beamish

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Release date: July 22, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. The Radley's were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. Abigail thought she'd banished the ghost of her life with them and the catastrophe that ended it, but thirteen years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken... Praise for Clare Chambers: 'Modern, intelligently observed and highly original' Daily Mail 'This delicious novel is a joy from beginning to end - a perfect novel' Lisa Jewell 'Charming - A funny and moving story with a great deal of style' Sunday Telegraph 'A spirited account of growing up and falling in love' Good Housekeeping 'An intelligent and escapist read - well written, and very funny' Daily Express © Clare Chambers 1998 (P) Penguin Audio 2021