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A Novel
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Miranda July
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Miranda July
About this listen
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024
ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
THE NEW YORKER ● VOGUE ● FINANCIAL TIMES ● OPRAH DAILY ● VULTURE ● VOX
The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life
“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect . . . nothing short of riveting.” —Vogue
“All Fours has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom. . . . It’s the talk of every group text."—The New York Times
“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.” —The Cut
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.
Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
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- By francine steelman on 03-02-24
By: Álvaro Enrigue, and others
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The Persians
- By: Sanam Mahloudji
- Narrated by: Donia Bijan, Lanna Joffrey, Nikki Massoud, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife.
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Beautifully written. A balance of humor and depth.
- By Varsha on 03-28-25
By: Sanam Mahloudji
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James
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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Can we ever be free
- By J. Stirling on 04-04-24
By: Percival Everett
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Colored Television
- A Novel
- By: Danzy Senna
- Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
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Frustrating
- By Carolyn White on 12-12-24
By: Danzy Senna
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
- One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
- By: Glynnis MacNicol
- Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered its streets. After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend’s apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it.
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Sentence structure; descriptions
- By Marlette Hoxmeier on 07-02-24
By: Glynnis MacNicol
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Kushner
- Narrated by: Rachel Kushner
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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Author should not have been the reader
- By Raj A. on 09-11-24
By: Rachel Kushner
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Good Girl
- A Novel
- By: Aria Aber
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of freedom.
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Rebel, Rebel
- By Suzanna on 02-17-25
By: Aria Aber
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My Name Is Lucy Barton
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself.
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Because we all love imperfectly.
- By Bonny on 01-15-16
By: Elizabeth Strout
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Masquerade
- By: O.O. Sangoyomi
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Òdòdó's hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Òdòdó and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yorùbá rule.Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all.
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From the forge to the throne!
- By Rose Carmel Gaspard on 09-29-24
By: O.O. Sangoyomi
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Crooked Seeds
- A Novel
- By: Karen Jennings
- Narrated by: Fiona Ramsay
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer. In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground.
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Sad, disgusting and not an intelligible metaphor
- By april on 04-23-24
By: Karen Jennings
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Long Island Compromise
- A Novel
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.
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We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
- By Ximena Enriquez on 08-31-24
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-05-24
So good
God - July has this power and voice that rattles you to the core. I loved it. So weird and funny and oddly relatable and beautiful. Go in with an open mind and leave a little shaken up and a little wiser. 10/10 for me!
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- Jezebel
- 12-29-24
I forced myself to finish
The author’s monotone voice was difficult to tolerate. I didn’t particularly like the main character or story, but it was provocative and thought provoking. At times forced me to sit with my own discomfort or question my own stigmas, a sign of good art,
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- aviva
- 06-28-24
A great ride! Highly engaging and, at times, hilarious.
I couldn’t wait to get back to it every time I had the chance to listen.
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- Matches don’t light!
- 06-09-24
Terrific read w current social issues, willfully told
I loved the character development, the main character had just enough wit, intellect, honesty and neurosis to want her to be your dear friend. I loved the rawness and accurate portrayal of being a women in her early 40’s. The marital challenges, child rearing, and friendships were so tender. I highly recommend this book and will look for more from the author.
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- Courtney T
- 06-12-24
Gushing and beautiful
What a delicious listen I didn’t want it to end. But it did and it was all beautiful.
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- Joy Severenice
- 06-27-24
Brash honesty
Her calm voice as she unfolded so many real deep situations and her clinical narrative of extremely emotional moments was very unique.
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- harold maness
- 05-23-24
One sentence on each page really stood out
I liked how important characters were so complicit in the honesty of situations, relationships, and dealings, coming up in their lives Much of the time I was enthralled by the verbal bravery employed. People stepped up to the truth including the weird parts. I am so glad to have found this point of view. Wish I never finished this book….
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- maggie miley
- 06-11-24
Love her reading this!
In the first chapter, I was laughing so hard I had to stop and call my best friend to tell her she needs to get to listening! We both love Miranda July - she is simply amazing, brilliant and hilarious!
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- Christine Gahn
- 06-12-24
July was a wonderful treat as both writer and narrator
I look forward to everything I can get my hands or ears on in the future
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- M. Michaud
- 09-17-24
I loved this!
Very gripping, very intimate story. I loved the language used by the author for the internal monologue. As a woman "of a particular age" I could relate to a lot of it. very engaging listen.
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