Oprah’s Book Club Selections At Audible
Published May 3rd, 2009 in audible, audiobook, palm, symbian, windows-mobileFor those who are fans of Oprah and audiobooks, here’s a current list of Oprah’s Book Club selections that are available at Audible.com. In my view, I think it’s especially great because you can easily relax and enjoy the book, allowing your imagination to take over. But that’s my opinion.
AUDIOBOOK
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
unabridged
By David Wroblewski
Narrated by Richard Poe
The Story of Edgar Sawtell [Audible.co.uk]
Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents and an unusual breed of dogs on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. But when tragedy strikes the Sawtelle family, Edgar flees to the surrounding wilderness. He comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him.
AUDIOBOOK
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
unabridged
By Eckhart Tolle
Narrated by Eckhart Tolle
Not available at Audible.co.uk
Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one. In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are and learn to live and breathe freely.
AUDIOBOOK
The Pillars of the Earth
unabridged
By Ken Follett
Narrated by John Lee
The Pillars of the Earth [Audible.co.uk]
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known…of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul…of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame…and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state, and brother against brother.
AUDIOBOOK
Middlesex
unabridged
By Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrated by Kristoffer Tabori
Not available at Audible.co.uk
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls’ school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie’s failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
AUDIOBOOK
The Road
unabridged
By Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by Tom Stechschulte
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.
AUDIOBOOK
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
unabridged
By Sidney Poitier
Narrated by Sidney Poitier
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography [Audible.co.uk]
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.
AUDIOBOOK
Night
unabridged
By Elie Wiesel
Narrated by George Guidall
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler’s horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel’s wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.
AUDIOBOOK
A Million Little Pieces
abridged
By James Frey
Narrated by Oliver Wyman
A Million Little Pieces [Audible.co.uk]
By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute. To James, their friendship and advice seem stronger and truer than the clinic’s droning dogma of How to Recover.
AUDIOBOOK
The Sound and the Fury
unabridged
By William Faulkner
Narrated by Grover Gardner
Not available at Audible.co.uk
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling”, the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
AUDIOBOOK
As I Lay Dying
unabridged
By William Faulkner
Narrated by Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel and Lorna Raver
As I Lay Dying [Audible.co.uk]
At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family’s bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie’s life.
AUDIOBOOK
The Good Earth
unabridged
By Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by Anthony Heald
La Buena Tierra (The Good Earth) [Audible.co.uk]
This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.
AUDIOBOOK
Anna Karenina
unabridged
By Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by Nadia May
Considered by some to be the world’s greatest novel, Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband; and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy’s reason for writing about him.
AUDIOBOOK
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
unabridged
By Carson McCullers
Narrated by Cherry Jones
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter [Audible.co.uk]
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her “the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.” The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.
AUDIOBOOK
Cry, the Beloved Country
unabridged
By Alan Paton
Narrated by Michael York
Cry, the Beloved Country [Audible.co.uk]
Beautifully wrought with high poetic compassion, Cry, the Beloved Country is more than just a story, it is a profound experience of the human spirit. And beyond the intense and insoluble personal tragedy, it is the story of the beautiful and tragic land of South Africa, its landscape, its people, its bitter racial ferment and unrest.
AUDIOBOOK
Sula
unabridged
By Toni Morrison
Two girls who grow up to become women…two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret.
AUDIOBOOK
Fall On Your Knees
abridged
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Narrated by Nikki James
Not available at Audible.co.uk
The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives, even destroy them.
abridged
AUDIOBOOK
The Corrections
abridged
By Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by Dylan Baker
The Corrections [Audible.co.uk]
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
AUDIOBOOK
Cane River
abridged
By Lalita Tademy
Narrated by Shari Belafonte, Jo Marie Payton and Edwina Moore
They were women whose lives began in slavery, who weathered the Civil War, and who grappled with the contradictions of emancipation through the turbulent early years of the 20th century. Through it all, they fought to unite their family and forge success on their own terms.
AUDIOBOOK
Icy Sparks
abridged
By Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Narrated by Kate Miller
Not available at Audible.co.uk
A funny, sad, and transcendent story of a young girl growing up in Appalachia. The New York Times Book Review called this Oprah Book Club selection “vivid and unforgettable.”
AUDIOBOOK
We Were the Mulvaneys
abridged
By Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by J. Todd Adams
Not available at Audible.co.uk
The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet: a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. But an incident occurs on Valentine’s Day, 1976 - hushed up in the rural town of Mt. Ephraim, New York and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home - that rends the fabric of their family life.
AUDIOBOOK
Drowning Ruth
unabridged
By Christina Schwarz
Narrated by Blair Brown
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.
AUDIOBOOK
Open House
unabridged
By Elizabeth Berg
Not available at Audible.co.uk
In this superb novel - an Oprah Book Club selection - a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.
AUDIOBOOK
The Poisonwood Bible
unabridged
By Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by Dean Robertson
The Poisonwood Bible [Audible.co.uk]
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.
AUDIOBOOK
While I Was Gone
abridged
By Sue Miller
Narrated by Blair Brown
While I Was Gone [Audible.co.uk]
In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped, for one beautiful, idyllic year, into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.
AUDIOBOOK
The Bluest Eye
abridged
By Toni Morrison
Narrated by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
The Bluest Eye [Audible.co.uk]
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
AUDIOBOOK
Gap Creek
abridged
By Robert Morgan
Gap Creek is a powerful and touching story of a marriage at the turn of the century. For Julie and Hank, life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. From devastating floods to encounters with intoxicated grifters, they survive the disappointments and triumphs of their new life together. An Oprah Book Club Pick. Browse more Oprah selections.
AUDIOBOOK
Vinegar Hill
abridged
By A. Manette Ansay
Narrated by Debra Monk
Not available at Audible.co.uk
It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly’s Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen brings her two children to Vinegar Hill, the home of her in-laws. It’s a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine. Calculated cruelty is a way of life there, preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God.
AUDIOBOOK
Tara Road
unabridged
By Maeve Binchy
Narrated by Katherine Borowitz
When two unhappy women switch homes for the summer, there are extraordinary consequences, and each learns that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed. At the end of the summer, when the women at last meet face-to-face, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.
AUDIOBOOK
Mother of Pearl
unabridged
By Melinda Haynes
Narrated by Nana Visitor
The audiobook narrated by Nana Visitor is not available at Audible.co.uk but, there are other versions available.
Mother of Pearl narrated by Nerys Hughes [Audible.co.uk]
Mother of Pearl narrated by Jacqueline King [Audible.co.uk]
Mother of Pearl is populated by wonderfully rich and original characters. The paths of Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Komer, a white girl who is the daughter of the town whore, cross through Joody Two Sun, a seer, who becomes Even’s lover. Both Even and Valuable are seeking the family, love, and commitment they never had, and their search ultimately takes both of them to places they never dreamed they’d go.
AUDIOBOOK
White Oleander
abridged
By Janet Fitch
Narrated by Oprah Winfrey
There are two versions available at Audible.co.uk, both with Oprah Winfrey narrating.
6 hrs 32 mins published 3/8/2006 [Audible.co.uk]
6 hrs 35 mins Published 01/01/1999, [Audible.co.uk]
AUDIOBOOK
The Reader
unabridged
By Bernhard Schlink
Narrated by Campbell Scott
When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover–then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.
AUDIOBOOK
Midwives
abridged
By Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by Kate Burton
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for 15 years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby’s life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor.
AUDIOBOOK
I Know This Much Is True
abridged
By Wally Lamb
Narrated by Ken Howard
I Know This Much Is True [Audible.co.uk]
In the long awaited follow-up to the highly praised novel She’s Come Undone, Dominick Birdsey must come to terms with himself, as well as with the schizophrenic twin brother he has spent his life both protecting and resenting.
AUDIOBOOK
Black and Blue
unabridged
By Anna Quindlen
Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister
Not available at Audible.co.uk
When 19-year-old Fran married Bobby Benedetto, she never dreamed that she would find herself in an abusive relationship. Every time her New York City policeman husband hit her, she would think of convincing reasons to stay. Now, with her 10-year-old son in tow, she is running for her life.
AUDIOBOOK
Breath, Eyes, Memory
unabridged
By Edwidge Danticat
Not available at Audible.co.uk
Twelve-year-old Sophie Caco is removed from her impoverished Haitian village and sent to live in New York with her mother, a woman she barely knows. There she learns about a terrible truth that shadows her family. With the Oprah’s Book Club Selection Breath, Eyes, Memory, Danticat contemplates the paradoxical coexistence of sublime beauty and terrible suffering in her homeland.
AUDIOBOOK
A Virtuous Woman
abridged
By Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by Kaye Gibbons and Terry Beaver
A Virtuous Woman [Audible.co.uk]
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was a carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a mule. They didn’t fall in love so much as they simply found each other and held on for dear life.
AUDIOBOOK
Ellen Foster
abridged
By Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by Kaye Gibbons
“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy.” So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons’ award-winning first novel. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, “The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel.”
AUDIOBOOK
A Lesson Before Dying
abridged
By Ernest J. Gaines
Narrated by Lionel Mark Smith and Roger Guenveur Smith
A Lesson Before Dying [Audible.co.uk]
A Lesson Before Dying (Dramatized) [Audible.co.uk]
Jefferson is an innocent and unwitting party to a deadly liquor store shoot-out in the 1940s. As the only survivor, he is tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, a university-trained teacher at the plantation school, is persuaded to visit Jefferson in his cell. Wiggins is torn between staying in his native Cajun community or moving on. The 2 men gradually form a bond as they jointly discover the simple heroism of resisting - and denying - the expected.
AUDIOBOOK
Songs in Ordinary Time
unabridged
By Mary McGarry Morris
Narrated by Sandra Burr
Songs in Ordinary Time [Audible.co.uk]
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America’s innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall.
AUDIOBOOK
The Heart of a Woman
abridged
By Maya Angelou
Narrated by Maya Angelou
The Heart of a Woman [Audible.co.uk]
The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou’s eloquent prose and is filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous people, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X. Even more central is Maya Angelou’s chronicle of the joys and the burdens of being a black mother in America and how the son she has cherished so intensely and worked for so devotedly finally grows to be a man.
AUDIOBOOK
The Book of Ruth
unabridged
By Jane Hamilton
Narrated by Angela Jayne Rogers
Not available at Audible.co.uk
Growing up in a world of physical and emotional poverty, Ruth believes her shrewish mother’s assessment of her - that she is dimwitted and worthless. When she marries an emotionally unstable ne’er-do-well, her troubles only multiply. Her job at the dry cleaners can’t afford her little family the luxury of moving out of her mother’s house. As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.
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