Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age

The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph by Jonathan Coe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Nicholas Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 4, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358935 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/358935] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Women Series: Part of Puffin Classics Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: Anna Koval Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 16, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, read by Anna Koval. Come laugh and cry with the March family. Meg - the sweet-tempered one. Jo - the smart one. Beth - the shy one. Amy - the sassy one. Together they're the March sisters. Their father is away at war and times are difficult, but the bond between the sisters is strong. The family may not have much money, but that doesn't stop them from creating their own fun and forming a secret society. Through sisterly squabbles, happy times and sad, their four lives follow very different paths, and they discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do...

Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275301 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/275301] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Say Goodbye for Now Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt, Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 13, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.45 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a feel-good story of four outcasts who learn that some bonds are stronger than blood. On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested in a woman doctor. Nor are they welcoming Calvin and Justin Bell, a newly arrived African American father and son. When Pete Solomon, a neglected twelve-year-old boy, and Justin bring a wounded wolf-dog hybrid to Dr. Lucy, the outcasts soon find refuge in one another. Lucy never thought she’d make connections again, never mind fall in love. Pete never imagined he’d find friends as loyal as Justin and the dog. But these four people aren’t allowed to be friends, much less a family, when the whole town turns violently against them. With heavy hearts, Dr. Lucy and Pete say goodbye to Calvin and Justin. But through the years they keep hope alive…waiting for the world to catch up with them.

Barefoot Boy with Cheek by Max Shulman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269351 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/269351] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Barefoot Boy with Cheek Author: Max Shulman Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 15, 2016 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: On his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed-and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings. He learns that his dog has died, and his father, in an effort to soften the blow, tells an absurd story about a female bullfighter. Next, the freshman pays a visit to his high school sweetheart to say a heartfelt goodbye, but Lodestone La Toole is more interested in hamburgers than vows of devotion. And when Asa finally arrives at the University of Minnesota-wham!-he gets run over by a frat boy's convertible. Max Shulman's bestselling debut novel, written when he was almost as fresh-faced as his protagonist, delightfully skewers every sacred cow of collegiate life.

Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274913 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/274913] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucy Gayheart Author: Willa Cather Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In this haunting 1935 novel, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of My Ántonia performs crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction: the impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art. At the age of eighteen, Lucy Gayheart heads for Chicago to study music. She is beautiful and impressionable and ardent, and these qualities attract the attention of Clement Sebastian, an aging but charismatic singer who exercises all the tragic, sinister fascination of a man who has renounced life only to turn back to seize it one last time. Out of their doomed love affair—and Lucy's fatal estrangement from her origins—Willa Cather creates a novel that is as achingly lovely as a Schubert sonata.