Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

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Title: Brave Girl, Quiet Girl: A Novel

Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrator: Jess Nahikian, Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Release date: May 19, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a gripping and emotional novel about friendship, motherhood, and the journey toward finding a place to call home. Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her mother, and holding tight to the one thing that matters most: her two-year-old daughter, Etta. Then, in a matter of seconds, Brooke’s life is shattered when she’s carjacked. Helpless and terrified, all Brooke can do is watch as Etta, still strapped in her seat, disappears into the Los Angeles night. Miles away, Etta is found by Molly, a homeless teen who is all too used to darkness. Thrown away by her parents, and with a future as stable as the wooden crate she calls home, Molly survives day to day by her wits. As unpredictable as her life is, she’s stunned to find Etta, abandoned and alone. Shielding the little girl from more than the elements, Molly must put herself in harm’s way to protect a child as lost as she is. Out of one terrible moment, Brooke’s and Molly’s desperate paths converge and an unlikely friendship across generations and circumstances is formed. With it, Brooke and Molly will come to discover that what’s lost—and what’s found—can change in a heartbeat.

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Title: The Girl in the Tree

Author: ?ebnem ??igüzel

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Release date: April 16, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl’s coming of age amid violent unrest—and her unexpected escape. A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold. Then, unexpectedly, comes a soul mate with a shared destiny. A lonely boy working at a nearby hotel looks up and falls in love. The two share stories of the fates of their families, of a changing city, and of their political awakenings in the Gezi Park protests. Together, they navigate their histories of love and loss, set against a backdrop of societal tension leading up to the tragic bombing that marked a turn in Turkey’s democracy—and sent a young girl fleeing into the trees. Narrated by one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction—as full of audacious humor and irony as she is of rage and grief—this unsparing and poetic novel of political madness, precarious dreams, and the will to survive brilliantly captures a girl’s road to defiance in a world turned upside down, in which it is only from the treetops that she can find a grip on reality—and the promise of hope.

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Title: The Last Bathing Beauty

Author: Amy Sue Nathan

Narrator: Kathleen Mcinerney

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A former beauty queen faces the secrets of her past—for herself and the sake of her family’s future—in a heartfelt novel about fate, choices, and second chances. Everything seemed possible in the summer of 1951. Back then Betty Stern was an eighteen-year-old knockout working at her grandparents’ lakeside resort. The “Catskills of the Midwest” was the perfect place for Betty to prepare for bigger things. She’d head to college in New York City. Her career as a fashion editor would flourish. But first, she’d enjoy a wondrous last summer at the beach falling deeply in love with an irresistible college boy and competing in the annual Miss South Haven pageant. On the precipice of a well-planned life, Betty’s future was limitless. Decades later, the choices of that long-ago season still reverberate for Betty, now known as Boop. Especially when her granddaughter comes to her with a dilemma that echoes Boop’s memories of first love, broken hearts, and faraway dreams. It’s time to finally face the past—for the sake of her family and her own happiness. Maybe in reconciling the life she once imagined with the life she’s lived, Boop will discover it’s never too late for a second chance.

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Title: [Spanish] - Elogio de la Amistad

Series: #1 of 4x4

Author: Luciano Olivera

Narrator: Omar González Frau

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 57 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

El líder de un viejo grupo de amigos pierde súbitamente la memoria. Sus camaradas, desesperados, inventan un modo muy peculiar de reconstruírsela. Migue, Blanquito, Tordo, Croata, Chicho y Careca rondan los ochenta años. Han pasado casi sesenta juntos, compartieron todo tipo de peripecias. Un día Migue, el líder natural del grupo, sufre un ACV que le afecta la memoria de largo plazo. Sus viejos amigos ahora son, para él, perfectos desconocidos. Ellos, lejos de rendirse, deciden reconstruirle el vacío de un modo peculiar: se la narran en audios de WhatsApp. ¿Lograrán el cometido de despertar los recuerdo dormidos de su amigo? Mientras tanto Lili, la hija de Migue, observa emocionada el cariño de los amigos. No sospecha que va a descubrir, gracias a la casualidad, buena parte de su verdadera historia.

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Title: [German] - Ein Lied für die Vermissten

Author: Pierre Jarawan

Narrator: Pierre Jarawan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 2, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

'Schon ein Sandkorn genügt, um eine große Geschichte daraus zu machen. 'Als 2011 der Arabische Frühling voll entfacht ist, löst der Fund zweier Leichen auch in Beirut erste Unruhen aus. Während schon Häuser brennen, schreibt Amin seine Erinnerungen nieder: an das Jahr 1994, als er als Jugendlicher mit seiner Großmutter in den Libanon zurückkehrte – zwölf Jahre nach dem Tod seiner Eltern. An seine Freundschaft mit dem gleichaltrigen Jafar, mit dem er diese verschwiegene Nachkriegswelt durchstreifte. Und daran, wie er schmerzhaft lernen musste, dass es in diesem Land nie Gewissheit geben wird – weder über die Vergangenheit seines Freundes, noch über die Geschichte seiner Familie. – Ein neuer Jarawan wie wir ihn lieben: einfühlsam, spannend und virtuos verknüpft mit der bewegten Geschichte des Nahen Ostens.

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Title: Attic

Author: Katherine Dunn

Narrator: Cj Bloom

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Release date: February 25, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad check, she lands in jail, and Dunn’s visceral prose gives us a vivid, stream-of-consciousness depiction of the space in which she’s held. As Kay comes to know the other inmates, alliances and rivalries are formed, memories are recounted, and lives are changed. Based on Katherine Dunn’s own formative coming-of-age experiences, Attic was critically lauded when it was first published in 1970. Now, it stands as an extraordinary, indelible work from one of our most celebrated writers.

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Title: The Crash Palace

Author: Andrew Wedderburn

Narrator: Cara Volchoff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

A joy ride set on a crash course with the past. Audrey Cole has always loved to drive. Anytime, anywhere, any car: a questionable rustbucket, a family sedan, the SUV she was paid to drive around the oil fields. From the second she learned to drive, she's always found a way to hit the road. Years ago, when she abandoned her oil field job, she found herself chauffeuring around the Lever Men, a B-list band relegated to playing empty dive bars in far-flung towns. That's how she found herself at the Crash Palace, an isolated lodge outside the big city where people pay to party in the wilderness. And now, one night, while her young daughter is asleep at home, Audrey is struck by that old urge and finds herself testing the doors of parked cars in her neighbourhood. Before she knows it, she's headed north in the dead of winter to the now abandoned Crash Palace in a stolen car, unable to stop herself from confronting her past The Crash Palace is a funny, moving, and surprising novel by the author of the Amazon First Novel Award-nominated The Milk Chicken Bomb. Audrey is unlike any character you've met before, and you'll love being along for the ride.

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Title: Goodbye Paris, Shalom Tel Aviv: A Novel

Author: Marco Koskas

Narrator: Josh Bloomberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Release date: February 4, 2020

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

The literary sensation that has stirred the French publishing world from award-winning author Marco Koskas. Juliette has come to Tel Aviv to be with the love of her life. But when she shows up at Elias’s apartment, he’s with another woman. With nowhere else to go, Juliette falls in with a tight-knit group of French expats living in this city by the sea. There’s Manu, the retired adult film star turned real estate agent; Diabolo, a former mobster and aspiring media mogul; and Olga, a head-turning beauty who becomes fast friends with Juliette. When Elias, a film school dropout, initiates a scheme intended to make him some fast cash so he can impress Olga with flashy jewelry, he unwittingly gets Juliette and Olga thrown in jail. As all the friends try their misguided best to help one another, they all must ask themselves: Can people take responsibility for something they didn’t do in order to be absolved for all the things they have done?

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Title: [German] - Little Women - Betty und ihre Schwestern

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Svenja Pages

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Release date: December 19, 2019

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Das Buch zum Film mit Emma Watson! Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wachsen die vier March-Schwestern in New England auf. Sie alle träumen vom großen Glück. Doch in einer Gesellschaft, die starr an traditionellen Geschlechterrollen festhält, ist der Weg dahin nicht einfach. Und auch die Liebe der Schwestern zueinander wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt. Louisa May Alcotts weltberühmte Familiensaga - berührend, spannend und humorvoll!

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Title: Stay

Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Release date: December 3, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the New York Times bestselling author of Pay It Forward. In the summer of 1969, fourteen-year-old Lucas Painter carries a huge weight on his shoulders. His brother is fighting in Vietnam. His embattled parents are locked in a never-ending war. And his best friend, Connor, is struggling with his own family issues. To find relief from the chaos, Lucas takes long, meandering walks, and one day he veers into the woods. There he discovers an isolated cabin and two huge dogs. Frightened, he runs. And the dogs run with him. Lucas finds unusual peace in running with the dogs, and eventually he meets their owner, Zoe Dinsmore. Closed off and haunted by a tragic past, Zoe has given up. She doesn’t want to be saved. She wants out. But Lucas doesn’t want her to go, and he sees an opportunity to bring more than one friend back into the light. It’s either the best or worst idea he’s ever had, but Lucas isn’t giving up on Zoe or Connor. Their unexpected connection might be the saving grace that Zoe thought she’d lost, that Connor needs, and that Lucas has been running toward.