Audiobooks narrated by L J Schulz (2024)

• It Ends with Us

• By: Colleen Hoover
• Narrated by: Olivia Song
• Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
• Unabridged

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.

• 1 out of 5 stars

• Not what I expected.

• By Love2Read on 01-23-20

• It Starts with Us

• A Novel
• By: Colleen Hoover
• Narrated by: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
• Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
• Unabridged

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Good narration. Story was meh.

• By Cynthia on 10-19-22

• Drop Dead

• By: Lily Chu
• Narrated by: Phillipa Soo, John Cho
• Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
• Original Recording

Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”. It suits the ice queen persona she’s cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she doesn’t hesitate to run the obituary…only to discover that Dot is very much alive. Nadine’s screw-up has brought Wesley Chen of the rival Spear no end of joy—she’s been a thorn in his extremely ambitious side for years. But the renewed interest in Dot also surfaced chatter about a mysterious past scandal.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Clean and sweet

• By Momma Nae on 08-02-24

• A Court of Thorns and Roses

• By: Sarah J. Maas
• Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
• Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
• Unabridged

When 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin - one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Bad ending and Immaturity

• By The Story Adict on 09-13-17

• The Women

• A Novel
• By: Kristin Hannah
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
• Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
• Unabridged

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• WOW. Just Wow

• By Joanne DeVuono on 02-08-24

• Atomic Habits

• An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• By: James Clear
• Narrated by: James Clear
• Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
• Unabridged

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• Author went overboard hawking his site

• By CHughes on 06-25-19

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
• Unabridged

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

• 5 out of 5 stars

• A great reading of the wrong book

• By P on 11-24-15

• The Housemaid

• By: Freida McFadden
• Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
• Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
• Unabridged

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....

• 1 out of 5 stars

• One Big Cliche’

• By Karen Brow on 08-03-22

• All the Colors of the Dark

• By: Chris Whitaker
• Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
• Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
• Unabridged

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Best book of 2024

• By Jmo930 on 07-04-24

• A Court of Mist and Fury

• By: Sarah J. Maas
• Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
• Length: 23 hrs and 16 mins
• Unabridged

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court - but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms - and she might be key to stopping it.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Shippers will either Love it or Hate it

• By Natalie C on 05-05-16

• Hillbilly Elegy

• A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
• By: J. D. Vance
• Narrated by: J. D. Vance
• Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
• Unabridged

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Enlightening!

• By Gotta Tellya on 09-11-16

• The God of the Woods

• A Novel
• By: Liz Moore
• Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
• Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
• Unabridged

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Good story telling

• By Ri on 07-12-24

• Fourth Wing

• Empyrean, Book 1
• By: Rebecca Yarros
• Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
• Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
• Unabridged

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Erotica with Dragons

• By Trev on 05-13-23

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
• Unabridged

Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Jim Dale is wonderful!

• By ladigolfer on 12-31-15

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
• Unabridged

When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Jim Dale at his best

• By rottndachs on 01-12-16

• The Anxious Generation

• How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
• By: Jonathan Haidt
• Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Jonathan Haidt
• Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
• Unabridged

There is no bigger public health story now than the collapse in youth mental health. The numbers are terrifying and dominate our headlines. There has been much debate over how we got here, and what to do next, and bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the white-hot center of that discourse. Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth into the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for Gen Z.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• A Parenting Book for the 2020's

• By Anonymous User on 03-29-24

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Book 4

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
• Unabridged

The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!

• 5 out of 5 stars

• “Harreeeeeeeeee”

• By D.S.G. on 01-06-18

• A Court of Wings and Ruin

• By: Sarah J. Maas
• Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
• Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
• Unabridged

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court determined to gather information on Tamlin's maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so, she must play a deadly game of deceit - and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre but for her world as well.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Jennifer Ikeda declined to continue with theseries

• By JP on 05-04-17

• He Who Fights with Monsters 11: A LitRPG Adventure

• He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 11
• By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
• Narrated by: Heath Miller
• Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
• Unabridged

Jason and his companions managed to forestall the inexorable undead, but their battle is far from done. Both they and their enemies are scattered across a strange realm, one that someone must conquer if anyone is to get out alive. Territory by territory, factions fight to reunite their people and conquer the realm. Jason must contend with alliances he doesn’t want, friends he cannot find, and enemies ranging from angelic despots to the power of an undead god. He must face a realm that has been warped by his own mind and find a way to save a friend whose sacrifice got them this far.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• stop moralizing at us so much

• By Brendan on 07-24-24

• 48 Laws of Power

• By: Robert Greene
• Narrated by: Richard Poe
• Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
• Unabridged

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.

• By Gaggleframpf on 02-25-16

• First Lie Wins

• A Novel
• By: Ashley Elston
• Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
• Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
• Unabridged

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• What’s The lie?

• By Luke Schafer on 01-13-24

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 26 hrs and 28 mins
• Unabridged

Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time...

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Jim Dale is the BEST!

• By Leigh on 07-03-19

• Mad Love

• By: Wendy Walker
• Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others
• Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
• Original Recording

They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Surprised

• By marcie on 05-25-24

• Iron Flame

• Empyrean, Book 2
• By: Rebecca Yarros
• Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
• Length: 28 hrs and 16 mins
• Unabridged

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College―Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.

• 2 out of 5 stars

• I wish I could throw this book off a cliff.

• By Rebekah L Johnson on 11-10-23

• A Game of Thrones

• A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
• By: George R.R. Martin
• Narrated by: Roy Dotrice
• Length: 33 hrs and 46 mins
• Unabridged

Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse - unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circ*mstances....

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Terrible editing, though...

• By Kristie on 05-09-13

• Verity

• By: Colleen Hoover
• Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon
• Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
• Unabridged

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

• 4 out of 5 stars

• intriguing but skip if triggered by child abuse

• By Amazon Customer on 05-16-19

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Book 6

• By: J.K. Rowling
• Narrated by: Jim Dale
• Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
• Unabridged

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny...

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Masterful Narration Continues

• By Gina on 05-13-16

• The Mercy of Gods

• Captive's War, Book 1
• By: James S.A. Corey
• Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
• Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
• Unabridged

The Carryx—part empire, part hive—has waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy in its conflict with an ancient and deathless enemy. When they descend on the isolated world of Anjiin, the human population is abased, slaughtered, and put in chains. The best and brightest are abducted, taken to the Carryx world-palace to join prisoners from a thousand other species. Dafyd Alkhor, assistant to a prestigious scientist, is captured along with his team.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• So slow…

• By Pentimento on 08-12-24