Before I Let Go
The marriage ended. The family, the restaurant, and the chemistry did not get the memo.
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Kennedy Ryan | Narrated by Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
The marriage ended. The family, the restaurant, and the chemistry did not get the memo.
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David Goggins | Narrated by David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
The memoir is only part of the recording. Between chapters, the author opens the story back up and adds the context a printed page cannot.
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Matt Dinniman | Narrated by Jeff Hays
A man, a cat, a dungeon, and total apocalypse absurdity — this is fantasy with a live wire under it.
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Amy Tintera | Narrated by January LaVoy, Will Damron
Everyone thinks Lucy murdered her best friend. A true-crime podcast comes home to prove it—or make the whole town lie better.
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Lisa Jewell | Narrated by Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick
A podcaster meets her birthday twin. Then the subject starts editing herself into the host's life.
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Kevin Wilson | Narrated by Marin Ireland
The new nanny has one job: keep the twins calm, because the twins catch fire when they get upset.
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Lucy Foley | Narrated by Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble
The wedding is flawless. The guest list is not. And the body has not even been identified yet.
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Freida McFadden | Narrated by Lauryn Allman
The live-in job comes with marble floors, impossible rules, and an attic door that locks from the outside.
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Alex Michaelides | Narrated by Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey
She was found beside her murdered husband. Then she stopped speaking, and one therapist made her silence his obsession.
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Max Brooks | Narrated by Max Brooks, F. Murray Abraham, Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg
The zombie war is over. What survives is testimony—dozens of voices explaining how the world failed, adapted, and fought back.
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