Books About Hopes and Dreams

Books About Hopes and Dreams

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

By Gail Honeyman, narrated by Cathleen McCarron
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.

Anxious People book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Anxious People

By Fredrik Backman, narrated by Marin Ireland
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage.

Man's Search for Meaning book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning

By Viktor E. Frankl, narrated by Theo Solomon
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Viktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in 1942 when he became a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. In 1946, he published a book about his camp experiences and a method of psychotherapy he developed. Forty-five years later, it was still named one of the most influential books in the United States.

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

By Sandra Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta, narrated by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just 10 years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head.

Rules for Being a Girl book cover
Genre: Young Adult

Rules for Being a Girl

By Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno, narrated by Julia Whelan
Tags: Young Adult

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It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl.... Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin’s future seems bright - and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1)

By Becky Chambers, narrated by Rachel Dulude
Tags: Science Fiction

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Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer.

The Humans book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Humans

By Matt Haig, narrated by Mark Meadows
Tags: Science Fiction

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When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and go back home, to the planet he comes from, and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.

Before We Were Strangers book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Before We Were Strangers

By Renée Carlino, narrated by Kevin T. Collins and Samantha Summers
Tags: Clean Romance

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To the Green-Eyed Lovebird: We met 15 years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.

The Road Trip book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

The Road Trip

By Beth O'Leary, narrated by Josh Dylan and Eleanor Tomlinson
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry’s enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven’t spoken since.

A Beautiful Child: A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC, she earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University to study aerospace engineering. She was the ultimate girl next door, sweet, generous, and well-adjusted.

The Searcher book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Searcher

By Tana French, narrated by Roger Clark
Tags: Mystery

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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.

I Am Watching You book cover
Genre: Thriller & Suspense

I Am Watching You

By Teresa Driscoll, narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden
Tags: Thriller & Suspense

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When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realizes they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.