Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: At the Edge of the Haight

Author: Katherine Seligman

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 19, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver “What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see, even if we walk past it on sidewalks every day. At a time when more Americans than ever find themselves at the edge of homelessness, this book couldn’t be more timely.” —Barbara Kingsolver, author of Unsheltered and The Poisonwood Bible Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, lives with her dog and makeshift family in the hidden spaces of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She thinks she knows how to survive and whom to trust until she accidentally witnesses the murder of a young man. Her world is upended as she has to face not only the killer but also the police and then the victim’s parents, who desperately want Maddy to tell them about the life their son led after he left home. And in a desire to save her since they could not save their own son, they are determined to have Maddy reunite with her own lost family.   But what makes a family? Is it the people who raised you if they don’t have the skills to look after you? Is it the foster parents whose generosity only lasts until things become more difficult? Or is it the family that Maddy has met in the park, young people who also have nowhere else to go?   Told with sensitivity and tenderness and set against the backdrop of a radically changing city, At the Edge of the Haight is narrated by a young girl just beginning to understand herself. The result is a powerful debut that, much like previous Bellwether winners The Leavers, by Lisa Ko, or Heidi Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, grapples with one of the most urgent issues of our day.

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Title: Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Claire Storey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 18, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. Its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the Regency era in Great Britain. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

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Title: ENEMY AT THE GATE: Prequels Intertwined Souls Series Book 1

Author: Mary D. Brooks

Narrator: Arielle Strauss Brueland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Zoe Lambros has the heart of a lion in this gripping WW2 story, inspired by true events, in war ravaged Greece under Italian and German occupation. A gripping story of survival, stirring characters, thrilling surprises, and heartrending journeys. Zoe's battle for freedom has just begun. It's 1941 in Larissa, Greece. A devastating earthquake shatters Larissa and Zoe races to help her family who are trapped under the rubble. An Italian aerial bombardment brings unimaginable devastation to a shattered people compounds the misery and a loss so great that Zoe vows revenge. The Lambros family are no strangers to heartache; Zoe's brothers have died fighting against the Italians in the Albanian mountains and now their fears of a German invasion come true. Zoe is determined to join in the fight for freedom but first she has to find the Resistance and join them in order to achieve her goal.

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Title: The Fortunate Ones

Author: Ed Tarkington

Narrator: Macleod Andrews

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 5, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The perfect read for fans of The White Lotus or Succession “As a novelist, Tarkington is the real deal. I can’t wait to see this story reach a wide audience.” —Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is suddenly introduced to what the world can feel like to someone cushioned by money. That world, he discovers, is an almost irresistible place where one can bend—and break—rules and still end up untarnished. As he gets drawn into a friendship with a charismatic upperclassman, Archer Creigh, and an affluent family that treats him like an adopted son, Charlie quickly adapts to life in the upper echelons of Nashville society. Under their charming and alcohol-soaked spell, how can he not relax and enjoy it all—the lack of anxiety over money, the easy summers spent poolside at perfectly appointed mansions, the lavish parties, the freedom to make mistakes knowing that everything can be glossed over or fixed?   But over time, Charlie is increasingly pulled into covering for Archer’s constant deceits and his casual bigotry. At what point will the attraction of wealth and prestige wear off enough for Charlie to take a stand—and will he?   For readers of Wiley Cash, Ann Patchett, and Pat Conroy, The Fortunate Ones is an immersive, elegantly written story that conveys both the seductiveness of this world and the corruption of the people who see their ascent to the top as their birthright.

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Title: This Side of Paradise

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise, tells of a handsome young man, Amory Blaine whose romantic relationships with women are touched with a reflection of his own narcissism. First published in 1920, it covers Amory's life at Princeton and later as a soldier during World War I. The central character is loosely based on Fitzgerald himself, and the female characters are mostly based on actual women in his life as well. The book was a solid success and helped Fitzgerald persuade Jazz Age icon Zelda Sayres, fictionalized in the novel, to marry him.

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Title: The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrator: Sean Astin

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 22

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman who chose another man. He waits for her every night, using a green light at the end of his dock to call out to her from across the water. Daisy, stuck in a loveless marriage, dreams of what could have been—and gets a taste for it after she is re-acquainted with Gatsby through Nick. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest novels ever written, this 1925 masterpiece is a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that’s full of literary intrigue, resounding metaphors, and decadent glimpses into the glitz and glam of early twentieth-century America. As relevant today as ever, it offers a cautionary tale of the American Dream, warning against the temptation to believe that enough money paired with equal desire can achieve anything—even reverse the deepest regrets.

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Title: [German] - Drei Irre unterm Flachdach. Eine Familiengeschichte

Author: Bastienne Voss

Narrator: Bastienne Voss

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 22, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Eine etwas andere DDR-Geschichte: ironisch, rotzig, zärtlich. Mit tiefgründigem Humor erzählt Bastienne Voss von der Zeit mit ihrem Opa Gustav, dem 'Oberirren mit dem KZ-Koller', und ihrer Oma Wilma. 'Zuerst hatte ich einen Großvater, dann eine Großmutter und dann Eltern und alles andere, was so zum Leben gehört. Großvater hatte ein Ding zu laufen. Dass er sich das im KZ weggeholt hatte, wusste ich damals noch nicht. Jedenfalls ließ er an dem Ding, das er zu laufen hatte, alle teilhaben, und so hatte auch Großmutter bald ein Ding zu laufen. Bei mir wuchs das Ding von Jahr zu Jahr, bis es hier und da mein sogenanntes Normalverhalten überschattete. In unserer Familie hatten also mindestens drei Leute eine Macke: Opa, Oma und ich. 13 Jahre lang polterte Großvater durch mein Leben. 13 Jahre lang fürchtete ich mich vor dem Tyrannen und Wundertäter, den ich abgöttisch liebte.'-

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Title: [German] - Nur kurz leben

Author: Catherine Strefford

Narrator: Marvin Kopp

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Richie hat die Schnauze voll. Immer hat er sich an die Regeln gehalten, das Leben gab ihm trotzdem nichts. Er beschließt, es selbst in die Hand zu nehmen und seinem Leben ein bisschen auf die Sprünge zu helfen: er beklaut eine Tankstelle und flüchtet mit gut vier­zehntausend Euro sowie einem geklauten Auto Richtung Süden. Dumm nur, dass auf der Rückbank des Autos Leon schläft ... Eine Geschichte über Selbstliebe und Freundschaft und darüber, dass es manchmal auch okay ist, wenn es nicht so läuft, wie man immer dachte, dass es laufen würde.

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Title: Open Heart

Author: Gregory D. Williams

Narrator: Derek Neumann

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Release date: December 16, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Life is fleeting. Love is a gift. In this coming of age novel set in the 1970s, Gene Hull is whitewashing the trunks of Arizona citrus trees when he spots a beautiful girl and falls instantly in love. The girl is vulnerable and shy. Though Gene breaks through her reserve, a date at a wave park turns into a near disaster, and Gene must call on the one person he can always rely on-his doctor father. Although the girl survives and Gene wins her over, what will happen when they leave for college? Is she truly 'the one,' or will distance drive them apart? When a freak accident blows a hole in Gene's freshman year, his grades tank, and he bobbles the ball with the love of his life. She's gone forever. Not only that, but he'll never get into med school on grades alone. Hoping to improve his chances of admission, he spends the summer trailing a famous heart surgeon. But can Gene, determined to live up to his father's legacy, turn his summer in the 'Heart Room'-an operating theater of chilling cold, bone saws, and macabre humor-into an experience that would make his father proud? Will he ever love again? If you like novels where family life is complicated, and parents' expectations trickle down into their children's lives, then you'll love Gregory D. Williams' roman à clef about life, love, and finding one's own true path. Buy Open Heart today for an inside look at a team of surgeons healing broken hearts and a young man trying desperately to heal his own.

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Title: Jelly Jars

Author: S.J. Varengo

Narrator: Aven Shore

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Release date: November 30, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A girl in the one place she never wanted to be.   Meeting the one person she never expected.   But what Peggy Nieman doesn't realize is that her life is about to change, as two broken souls fatefully collide. The only question is: will they heal one another ... or destroy one another?   Because one thing is certain ... they can't quit one another.