The Human Soul
One of the most beautiful books I have ever consumed is An Orchestra of Minorities. I bought the physical copy so that I could look at some of the words (by Nigerian author, Chigozie Obiama). I listen to it over and over again, because it's not that often that a work of fiction is a balm and a blessing, both contextually and poetically. I have a short list of books like these and I recommend them to anybody who can stand to talk to me over 5 minutes.
Matterhorn
A Novel of the Vietnam War
By Karl Marlantes
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 21 hours 11 minutes
An incredible publishing story—written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times bestseller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next, and a USA Today bestseller—Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war" (New York Times Book Review).
Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of...
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Shadow Country
By Peter Matthiessen
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 40 hours 20 minutes
Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen’s reimagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugarcane planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly...
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The Goldfinch
A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
By Donna Tartt
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 32 hours 24 minutes
The Goldfinch
“The Goldfinch was always one of those books I was intimidated to start. It's so long! And sprawling! Was I really going to commit to thirty hours of a book about a painting? The answer is: I waited much too long to get to this truly incredible story, and if you--like me--are daunted by this book's length and scope, the audiobook is for you. Read by veteran stage actor David Pittu (and award winning audiobook narrator), I was rapt from the opening scene to the very last. The story follows Theo Decker from the day he loses his mother in a terrorist attack inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art through the rest of his youth. Theo is bounced through households, adrift without his mother, from the Upper East Side apartment of a wealthy schoolmate to his father's Las Vegas subdivision, always accompanied by the small, precious painting he took from the museum on the fateful day his mother died. It's an incredible coming of age tale, read by Pittu with humor and perfect dramatic timing. Despite the many hours I spent with this audiobook, I was sad when it was over. It is just that good.”
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Brideshead Revisited
By Evelyn Waugh
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel. The wellsprings of desire and the... Read more »