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Featured Article: The Best Fairy Tale Retelling Audiobooks
Fairy tales, mythology, and folklore have provided an endless fount of inspiration and imagination for writers for centuries. So, it’s no surprise that as sensibilities shift and these tales are revisited with a modern lens, creators feel the pull to reinvent, reimagine, and refocus. Here, we’ve gathered the best fairy and folk tale retellings of all time, from both new and best-selling writers alike. What magic will you discover within?
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Carol Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. Usually....
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- By James A. Dittes on 08-13-16
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Carol Boyd
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-26-11
- Language: English
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student....
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clever
- By jared rogerson on 03-15-18
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-08-16
- Language: English
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- By: Tommy Orange - contributor, Ali Smith - contributor, Naomi Alderman - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves, Jessica Hayles, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers.
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves, Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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Peaces
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Intae Kim, Jade Wheeler, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment—and to get them out of her house. Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive....
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Classic Oyeyemi
- By Erin M on 04-25-21
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Peaces
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Intae Kim, Jade Wheeler, Deana Taheri, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-06-21
- Language: English
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The Icarus Girl: A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Jessamy "Jess" Harrison is an eight year old caught between two worlds....
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Performer is excellent
- By AnonUser10 on 11-30-11
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The Icarus Girl: A Novel
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-28-11
- Language: English
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Furies
- Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
- By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, and others
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up the words that tell a story and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago....
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NOT Atwood's best. Multiple writers bad idea.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-23
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Furies
- Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, Katie Leung, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty - the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York....
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For Literary Lovers
- By M. Shipe on 04-25-14
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Carra Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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Parasol Against the Axe
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competitive friendship, the elastic boundaries of storytelling, and the meddling influence of a city called Prague. In Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing.
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Narrator’s Czech accent sounds like a low budget Dracula
- By Nina S on 04-23-24
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Parasol Against the Axe
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
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Gingerbread
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites listeners into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe....
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Beautiful, Evocative Experience
- By purplebrain on 04-07-19
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Gingerbread
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- By: Ali Smith, Tommy Orange, Naomi Alderman, and others
- Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. Inspired by Kafka - to commemorate one hundred years since his death- these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting....
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
- Ten Kafkaesque Stories
- Narrated by: Jessica Hayles, Minhee Yeo, Penelope Rawlins, Matt Reeves
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-30-24
- Language: English
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One for the Trouble
- Book Slam, Volume One
- By: Irvine Welsh, Jon Ronson, Hari Kunzru, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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One for the Trouble: Book Slam, Volume One is the first release from the UK’s premier literary event....
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Interestingly bizarre
- By Bella Insch on 01-22-15
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One for the Trouble
- Book Slam, Volume One
- Narrated by: Richard Milward, Hari Kunzru, Simon Armitage, Andrew Scott, Bernardine Evaristo, Kate Tempest, Joe Dunthorne, Olivia Coleman, Chris O'Dowd, Roger Robinson
- Series: Book Slam, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-24-11
- Language: English
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Parasol against the Axe
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost in the story like you would an unfamiliar city and let it reward you with moments of philosophical clarity, wheelbarrow rides, raw emotion and raw onions....
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Parasol against the Axe
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-08-24
- Language: English
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BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (5 Shortlisted Titles)
- By: David Constantine, Aminatta Forna, Sarah Hall, and others
- Narrated by: Emma Rydal, Ron Cook, Sirine Saba, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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The 5 shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2010 administered in partnership with Booktrust....
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BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (5 Shortlisted Titles)
- Narrated by: Emma Rydal, Ron Cook, Sirine Saba, Hugh Quarshie, Sian Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-08-10
- Language: English
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Gingerbread
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are....
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Gingerbread
- Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-05-19
- Language: English
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Boy: Novak turns 20 and takes a bus from New York to the end of the line, Flax Hill, Massachusetts. Here she finds Snow....
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Boy, Snow, Bird
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-04-14
- Language: English
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Peaces
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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The prize-winning, best-selling author of Gingerbread and Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new story about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage....
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Peaces
- Narrated by: Ben Allen, Rosa Escoda, Deepti Gupta, Intae Kim, Deana Taheri, Jade Wheeler
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
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Boy, Snow, Bird (Spanish Edition)
- Fábula de tres mujeres [Fable of Three Women]
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Raquel Romero
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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En el invierno de 1953 la joven Boy Novak, huyendo de su cruel padre, llega por azar a una pequeña población de Massachusetts, donde conoce a Arturo Whitman, un joven viudo y padre de una niña de seis años, Snow, cuya belleza causa en los adultos un embeleso inquietante.
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Boy, Snow, Bird (Spanish Edition)
- Fábula de tres mujeres [Fable of Three Women]
- Narrated by: Raquel Romero
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-04-24
- Language: Spanish
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Parasol Against the Axe
- A Novel
- By: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In Helen Oyeyemi’s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing—one that can let you in or spit you out.
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Parasol Against the Axe
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-05-24
- Language: English
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