Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/544598 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine: A Novel

Author: Klara Hveberg

Narrator: Karen Gundersen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 2, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of Asymmetry, that combines fractal mathematics and classical music to explore the infinitely complex patterns of love and the thin border between great passion and great loneliness. Rakel has always been more comfortable with numbers than with people. A gifted woman with a rare talent for math, she has never mastered the art of making friends. At nineteen, she moves to Oslo to attend university. There she meets Jakob, a brilliant older teacher who becomes fascinated by Rakel’s quick mind.  Jakob is struck by the similarities between Rakel and Sofja Kovalevskaja, the first woman to become a professor of mathematics, and the subject of the novel he is writing. Just as Kovalevskaja was close to her much older advisor, Rakel and Jakob are drawn to each other and eventually become lovers, although he is already married. In the years to come, Rakel's academic career soars, but her health declines, and from her bedside she spends hours imagining Sofja’s life while trying to understand her own. With a gaze both naive and mercilessly sharp, she examines what may be her life's only love story, looking for patterns and answers in numbers, music, and literature.  Extraordinarily wise and penetrating, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine explores the intricacies of the human heart, the complicated equation that is love, and the search to find meaning and connections when you need them most. Translated from the Norwegian by Alison McCullough

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498510 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Treacle Walker

Author: Alan Garner

Narrator: Robert Powell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Release date: October 28, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

‘Playful, moving and wholly remarkable’ Guardian ‘A small miracle’ New Statesman ‘Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page’ Telegraph An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them. A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers. ‘All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner’s] best work’ Observer ‘Spare and allusive… luminous and understated’ Rowan Williams, New Statesman ‘Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple’ Carolyne Larrington, TLS A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/545813 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Goldilocks

Author: Jay Crownover

Narrator: Connor Brown, Elizabeth Hart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Release date: October 26, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

For Olivia Adams, the world has always been too big or too small. Ollie has always felt confined and trapped. It was hard for her to imagine a future beyond the crushing control of those who wanted to make sure she paid the price for her role in a tragic accident that ruined several young lives. However, having no hope and living in a constant state of fear never stopped Ollie from dreaming of different ways to break free. Huck is the only one who ever made her feel like there was a place in his world, right by his side, that would fit her just right. The world has always forced Huck Snyder to be a guy who runs either too hot or too cold. Unwanted and barely tolerated, his temper burned hot and bright, often leading him into trouble. Huck quickly realized the only way he would make it was to freeze out every single memory and moment from his past. Especially those surrounding Ollie. He was in no way prepared for the only girl who could ever control his inner fire to show back up. Fire and ice no longer define Huck because when he's with Ollie, it's easy to remember that the temperature between the two of them has always been just right.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535237 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Fan Club

Author: Erin Mayer

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Release date: October 26, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

“Mayer lays bare the terrible destiny of a society obsessed with social media stalking and celebrity relationships.” —Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of We Are All the Same in the Dark In this raucous psychological thriller, a disillusioned millennial joins a cliquey fan club, only to discover that the group is bound together by something darker than devotion Day after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website—entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by international pop star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's every move. When a colleague notices her obsession, she’s invited to join an enigmatic group of adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy candlelit listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group, she gets closer to uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together—while simultaneously losing her grip on reality. With caustic wit and hypnotic writing, this unsparingly critical thrill ride through millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age, and how easy it is to lose yourself in it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547045 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: School Drama: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama

Author: Andy Mulligan

Narrator: Sian Gibson, Tony Gardner, Tom Hollander, Full Cast

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Release date: October 21, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Tom Hollander stars as a washed-up TV actor brought in to turn around a failing academy by staging a school play Newly rebranded Deer Park Academy is struggling to turn itself around after being placed in special measures. Hoping to inspire the students (and tick the 'creative learning' box for the next Ofsted inspection), the headmaster decides to put on a production of Romeo and Juliet. But inspiration can be dangerous, and when has-been ex-TV star Geoff Cathcart is brought in to direct, he opens a Pandora's box of problems. Geoff is a maverick with little time for rules and regulations, a laissez-faire attitude to health and safety and his own, somewhat unorthodox, ideas about education and creativity. The management doesn't realise what a fire it's lighting and the flames are soon out of control. Then, with opening night looming, a background check reveals that he isn't quite who he appears to be. However, the show must go on, and as the curtain finally rises, the students take to the stage... Written by Andy Mulligan, whose novel Trash has been translated into 35 languages, this funny, moving 4-part drama stars Tom Hollander (Rev, The Night Manager) and Sian Gibson (Peter Kay's Car Share), performing alongside the staff and students of Portsmouth Grammar School. The final episode comprises an actual, hour-long production of Shakespeare's tragedy of star-crossed lovers, as performed by the pupils of Deer Park Academy with a little help from Tom Hollander as the Friar, Rob Jarvis (Hustle) as Capulet and Suzie Baxter (Suffragette) as the Nurse. Production credits Written by Andy Mulligan Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and adapted by Andy Mulligan Produced by Emma Hearn Directed by John Dryden Music by Jon Ouin Sound by Steve Bond A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Geoff/Friar Lawrence - Tom Hollander Michelle - Sian Gibson Headmaster - Tony Gardner Gail - Heather Craney Festival Administrator - Vincent Ebrahim Tom/Capulet - Rob Jarvis Charlie/Romeo - Divian Ladwa Naia/Juliet - Rebecca Emerton Louie/Mercutio - Rory Greenwood Ben/Paris - Rob Merriam Ryan/Benvolio - Finn Elliot School Secretary/Nurse - Susie Baxter Zoe - Floss Willcocks Vehicle Manager - Angus Kennedy Radio Presenter - Jason King Tybalt - Stevie Basaula Lady Capulet - Lily-Fleur Bradbury Friar John - Caolan McCarthy Lady Montague - Abby Moss Chorus - Poppy Goad Prince - Joe McCue All other parts played by students and teachers at Portsmouth Grammar School: Abby Moss, Poppy Goad, Thomas Locke, Joe McAuley, Freddie Fenton, Douglas James, Joe Haylock, Jay Pasricha, JM Hopkinson, Caleb Barron, Joe McCue, Floss Willcocks, JM Hopkinson First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18-21 May 2016 © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495542 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller

Author: Amor Towles

Narrator: Marin Ireland, Edoardo Ballerini, Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Release date: October 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 22

Ratings of Narrator: 4.89 of Total 9

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. Bursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller. 'Finely observed and beautifully written. Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller.' JEFFREY ARCHER © Amor Towles 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551555 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [Spanish] - No encuentro mi cara en el espejo

Author: Fulgencio Arguelles

Narrator: Edith Oropeza

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

María Casta y su hijo adolescente Edipio se defienden del azote de una tormenta inclemente que se produce el mismo día en que muere el anciano cura Lubencio. Varios acontecimientos, como la llegada del nuevo cura, la aparición del primer armario con luna o el anuncio del comienzo de la Guerra Civil, determinan la vida del pequeño pueblo minero de Peñafonte, aislado del mundo y ahogado por la humedad de una lluvia incesante. Una extraordinaria novela en la que se entreveran la amistad, la desesperanza, el tedio, las preguntas que nos inquietan y los espejos que nos mienten.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534822 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack

Author: Heidi Von Palleske

Narrator: Heidi Von Palleske

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 0 minutes

Release date: October 19, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Fate, circumstance, and the symbolism of sight collide in this modern gothic novel. On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident sets off a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack's help, the twins are able to reclaim their lives and leave their nightmarish past behind them. From the shores of Lake Ontario to the hustle of Berlin, from the art of oculary to punk opera, this is a story of dark secrets, suppressed desires, forgiveness, and love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549998 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: All the Quiet Places: A Novel

Author: Brian Thomas Isaac

Narrator: Lincoln Mcgowan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Release date: October 15, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022 Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads 2022 An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 An Indigo Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Book of 2021 ”What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma’s passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or perhaps a compensation, by his remarkable awareness of its beauty. This is a writer who understands youth, and how to tell a story.” —Gil Adamson, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Ridgerunner Brian Isaac’s powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, an Indigenous (Syilx) boy, told through the young narrator's wide-eyed observations of the world around him. It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. The boys learn from Ray's funny and dark stories. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. Grace is determined to have him learn the ways of the white world by sending him to school in the small community of Falkland. On Eddie’s first day of school, as he crosses the reserve boundary at the Salmon River bridge, he leaves behind his world. Grace challenges the Indian Agent and writes futile letters to Ottawa to protest the sparse resources in their community. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure—he finds a job, and his long-time crush on his white neighbour Eva is finally reciprocated. But every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him. The cumulative effects of guilt, grief, and despair threaten everything Eddie has ever known or loved. All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power relies on the unguarded, unsentimental witness provided by Eddie.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547950 to listen full audiobooks.

Title: [Spanish] - La vida de las mujeres

Author: Alice Munro

Narrator: Sol De La Barreda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Release date: October 14, 2021

Genres: Coming of Age

Publisher's Summary:

Esta deliciosa novela, autobiográfica en la forma pero no en los contenidos, muestra toda la maestría y el peculiar modo de ver la realidad de esta gran figura de las letras contemporáneas. «¿Cómo lo hará Alice Munro? Lo que consigue parece magia.» Sara Mesa «Alice Munro tiene una mente prodigiosa. Es precisa, natural y cuenta como nadie la interioridad y el fluir de vidas enteras en unas pocas páginas.» Rodrigo Muñoz Avia La vida de la gente, en Jubilee como en todas partes, era aburrida, simple, asombrosa e insondable... cuevas profundas cubiertas de linóleo de cocina. Bastan estas pocas palabras para reconocer el talento de una espléndida narradora y colarse en la vida de Del Jordan, una chiquilla que vive con sus padres en el pueblo de Jubilee. Del empieza contando su día a día, su relación con la familia, los vecinos y los amigos, y pronto descubrimos que esa niña sabe observar el mundo y sacar buen provecho de lo que ve: compadece la poquedad del padre, admira el arrojo de la madre, que deja la granja para dedicarse a vender enciclopedias por los alrededores, y comprende que tarde o temprano llega el momento en que hay que elegir entre una risueña mediocridad -hogar, iglesia, matrimonio, hijos- y otras opciones más interesantes y arriesgadas. Ese descubrimiento es también el de la vocación literaria, una suerte de llamada, de deber para con el mundo. Reseñas: «Una escritora en la que mirarse.» Dolores Redondo, Mujer Hoy «Me habría gustado escribir cualquier cuento de Alice Munro. Me parece una maestra. Me ha ayudado a escribir sobre la maternidad, la amistad entre mujeres, las relaciones entre madres e hijas.» Elvira Lindo, La 2 de TVE «Lo asombroso es ver que hace cuarenta años Munro estaba ya en posesión y pleno dominio de su hermoso instrumento verbal, por encima de todo eficaz, que ahora me parece único. Y envidiable.» Robert Saladrigas, Cultura/s, La Vanguardia