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Audio Listening Guide – 16 Audiobooks We Recommend!

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Whether you’re doing a household chore or #quarantinecooking, audiobooks are such a fun and animated way to read a new book or even a classic you love.

Here are some of our audiobook recommendations from Storytel and Audible to get you started!

 

1. Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

An engrossing, insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever reshaped the global economy.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

2. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-delusion by Jia Tolentino

Following in the footsteps of American luminaries such as Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Rebecca Solnit, yet with a voice and vision all her own, Jia Tolentino writes with a rare gift for elucidating nuance and complexity, coupled with a disarming warmth. This debut collection of essays announces her as exactly the sort of voice we need to hear from right now – and for many years to come.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

3. Close to the Bone by Lisa Ray

This is the story of Lisa Ray. Funny, charming, and gut-wrenchingly honest all at once, Close to the Bone is Lisa Ray’s brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

4. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward – with hope and pain – into the future.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

5. The Tatas by Girish Kuber

WINNER OF THE GAJA CAPITAL BUSINESS BOOK PRIZE 2019

The Tatas is a tribute to a line of visionaries who have a special place in the hearts and minds of ordinary Indians. Written by seasoned journalist Girish Kuber, this is also the only book that tells the complete Tata story spanning almost two hundred years.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

6. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery!

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

7. Let’s Talk Money by Monika Halan

India’s most trusted name in personal finance, Monika Halan offers you a feet-on-the-ground system to build financial security. Not a get-rich-quick guide, this book helps you build a smart system to live your dream life, rather than stay worried about the ‘right’ investment or ‘perfect’ insurance. Unlike many personal finance books, Let’s Talk Money is written specifically for you, keeping the Indian context in mind.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

8. Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored by Rishi Kapoor and Meena Iyer

This is as up close and personal a biography as any fan could have hoped for. A foreword by Ranbir Kapoor and a stirring afterword by Neetu Singh bookend the warmest, most dil se biography an Indian star has ever penned.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

9. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research that’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Inferior challenges our preconceptions about men and women, investigating the ferocious gender wars that burn in biology, psychology and anthropology. Angela Saini revisits the landmark experiments that have informed our understanding, lays bare the problem of bias in research, and speaks to the scientists finally exploring the truth about the female sex.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

10. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

WINNER OF THE 2019 JCB PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Far Field Madhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

11. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be “positive” all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

12. Don’t Disturb the Dead by Shamya Dasgupta

In India, the Ramsay name remains synonymous with horror movies. Still, all these decades later. Don’t Disturb the Dead is the story of their cinema, their methods and madnesses, the people and the processes, arguments and agreements, about horror cinema as a business model, and more. It is also an open-minded and affectionate ode to the ‘disreputable’ Ramsay films, and to a family that was once a genre in itself, one whose contribution to cinema deserves to be recognized.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

13. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her name on my heart.

So begins one of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust: the love story of the tattooist of Auschwitz.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

14. The Ivory Throne by Manu S. Pillai

he Ivory Throne conjures up a dramatic world of political intrigues and factions, black magic and conspiracies, crafty ceremonies and splendorous temple treasures, all harnessed in a tragic contest for power and authority in the age of empire.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

15. 14 Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

An anthology of short stories that master film-maker Satyajit Ray adapted into films.

Short stories from legendary writers like Tagore, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and Premchand, Fourteen is a beautiful collection of tales Satyajit Ray transformed into films, that have endured and become classics we all love and admire.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 

16. A Handbook for My Lover by Rosalyn D’Mello

A Handbook For My Lover is an erotic memoir that revels in the ephemeral pleasures of everyday moments. Feisty and provocative, it is an examination of the shifting equations of power and vulnerability within the intimacies of love and lovemaking.  LISTEN NOW!

16 audiobooks we recommend

 


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