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Narrated by:
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Ari Fliakos
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Tessa Albertson
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André Santana
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Kristen Sieh
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By:
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Daria Lavelle
About this listen
“A haunting evocation of pain and pleasure, and the power of food.”—Nigella Lawson
What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of Under the Whispering Door with the high-stakes culinary world of Sweetbitter, Aftertaste is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.
A food story to binge.
A ghost story to devour.
A love story to savor.
Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can’t exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he’s never eaten will flood his mouth, a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these aftertastes a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he’s tasting. And everything changes.
Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones—at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he’s prepared. He thinks his life’s purpose might be to offer closure to grieving strangers, and sets out to learn all he can by entering a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But as his kitchen skills catch up with his ambitions, Kostya is too blind to see the catastrophe looming in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him.
Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, Aftertaste is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss, and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger—and how far we’d go to find satisfaction.
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By: David Lambert
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The Phoenix Pencil Company
- A Novel
- By: Allison King
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang, Jodi Long, Sura Siu, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly—especially her grandmother, Yun, who survived two wars in China before coming to the States, and whose memory has begun to fade.
By: Allison King
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Immaculate Conception
- A Novel
- By: Ling Ling Huang
- Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka—trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive world—pours everything into their friendship. But when Mathilde’s fame and success cause her to begin drifting away, Enka becomes desperate to keep her close.
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Art World Jennifer’s Body Toxic Friendship Sci Fi Thriller
- By Stephanie on 05-22-25
By: Ling Ling Huang
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The Starving Saints
- A Novel
- By: Caitlin Starling
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration. Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin.
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Different
- By Momma on 06-16-25
By: Caitlin Starling
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Our Last Wild Days
- A Novel
- By: Anna Bailey
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Labasques aren’t like other families. Living in a shack out in the swamps, they made do by hunting down alligators and other animals. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are troublemakers and outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn’t want in your community. So, when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter’s childhood friend, Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her mother.
By: Anna Bailey
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The Last Ferry Out
- A Novel
- By: Andrea Bartz
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck, Imani Jade Powers, Natasha Soudek
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When Abby steps foot on Isla Colel, she isn’t sure what—if anything—she’ll find. She only knows that she needs to see the place where her fiancée, Eszter, died to try and make sense of the tragic accident. The island is nothing like Abby expected: Though it was once a bustling tourist hub, a hurricane has left it a shell of its former self, with only a handful of residents remaining. Even the once-daily ferry to the mainland now runs every week or so. There, Abby befriends an alluring group of expats, but her sense of unease surges.
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Captivating!
- By Charles H Gordon III on 06-16-25
By: Andrea Bartz
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The Memory Collectors
- A Novel
- By: Dete Meserve
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Erin Bennett, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth aches for one more precious hour with her son who died in a senseless accident. Andy is desperate to find his first love who vanished after a whirlwind romance. Logan craves the rush of surfing and mountain climbing, yearning to reclaim the freedom he lost after a misstep landed him in a wheelchair. Brooke is looking for an hour of relief from the guilt of an unforgivable mistake.
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A novel that became a part of my soul.
- By Jess Palomino on 06-17-25
By: Dete Meserve
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The Pretender
- A Novel
- By: Jo Harkin
- Narrated by: John Hollingworth
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors' ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings as a peasant boy, Lambert's life takes an astonishing turn when, at just ten years old, he becomes a claimant to the English throne as one of the last of the Plantagenet line. As Lambert navigates the treacherous waters of royal intrigue and court life, complex themes of identity, power, and destiny unfold, weaving a tapestry of ambition and survival in a world where the stakes couldn't be higher.
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Brilliant Simply Brilliant
- By C. Sanders on 05-10-25
By: Jo Harkin
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The Ghostwriter
- A Novel
- By: Julie Clark
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Katie Schorr, Josh Hurley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of Vincent Taylor. Now on the brink of financial ruin, she's offered a job to ghostwrite her father's last book. What she doesn't know is that this project is another one of his lies.
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Twisty
- By marianne on 06-11-25
By: Julie Clark
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Too Old for This
- By: Samantha Downing
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 11 hrs
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Lottie Jones thought her crimes were behind her. Decades earlier, she changed her identity and tucked herself away in a small town. Her most exciting nights are the weekly bingo games at the local church and gossiping with her friends. When investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up on her doorstep asking questions about Lottie’s past and specifically her involvement with numerous unsolved cases, well, Lottie just can’t have that. But getting away with murder is hard enough when you’re young.
By: Samantha Downing
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The Manor of Dreams
- By: Christina Li
- Narrated by: Catherine Ho
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian’s grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead—one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement.
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Eerily Well-Written!
- By KC on 05-21-25
By: Christina Li
bizarrely beautiful
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Devoured It!
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The plot is a masterful blend of classic New York City themes: love, loyalty, and friendship; immigration and the melting pot; perseverance and the struggle to overcome grief; ghosts, crime, and culinary brilliance; even the inner workings of all-star professional kitchens. Yes, all of that—and more.
And then there's the secret sauce: the language. Page after page, the writing is so rich and satisfying, you simply can't put it down.
My only regret? That it ended too soon. So I read it again—and it was even better the second time.
A Fusion of Literary genres in a great story
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Heart Wrenching
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Fun, fresh, feast!
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A bittersweet and heartbreaking story about food, love and loss
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One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. The food descriptions alone make it worth it.
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More, please!
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The taste of love and death
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Did not like the story or characters.
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