List of Audiobooks Read by Jim Dale
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling, read past Jim Dale
Amazon synopsis: "Harry Potter has never fifty-fifty heard of Hogwarts when the letters starting time dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated past his grisly aunt and uncle. So, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a bully protrude-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 take chances is about to brainstorm!"
"A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin, read by Roy Dotrice
Amazon synopsis: "Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural upshot threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers tin last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the northward of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing across the kingdom's protective Wall. To the due south, the male monarch's powers are declining — his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell , a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve equally the rex'south new Hand, an date that threatens to sunder not only his family unit simply the kingdom itself."
Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
"Born a Criminal offence: Stories from a Due south African Babyhood" written and read past Trevor Noah
Amazon synopsis: " Trevor Noah'south unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable past five years in prison house. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, jump by the extreme and often cool measures his female parent took to hide him from a authorities that could, at whatsoever moment, steal him abroad. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa'due south tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother fix forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
"Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous immature boy who grows into a restless boyfriend as he struggles to notice himself in a world where he was never supposed to be. It is besides the story of that young man'south relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her ain life."
"The Martian" by Andy Weir, read by R. C. Bray
Amazon synopsis: "Half-dozen days agone, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the get-go people to walk on Mars . At present, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm about kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him expressionless, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Globe that he'southward alive — and fifty-fifty if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could get in. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving surround, or obviously-onetime 'man fault' are much more likely to impale him first.
"But Mark isn't set to give upward yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering science skills — and a relentless, indomitable refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts ane seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness exist plenty to overcome the incommunicable odds against him?"
"Prepare Player One" by Ernest Cline, read by Wil Wheaton
Amazon synopsis: "In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The just time teenage Wade Watts really feels live is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known every bit the Oasis . Wade'south devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden inside this world'south digital confines — puzzles that are based on their creator'due south obsession with the pop culture of decades by and that hope massive power and fortune to whoever tin can unlock them.
"But when Wade stumbles upon the outset clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to have this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll accept to win — and face up the real globe he'southward always been so desperate to escape."
"A Human being Chosen Ove" by Fredrik Backman, read by George Newbern
Amazon synopsis: "Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon — the kind of man who points at people he dislikes every bit if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbor from hell.' Merely must Ove exist bitter only because he doesn't walk effectually with a grinning plastered to his face all the time?
"Behind the cranky exterior at that place is a story and a sadness. And then when one November morning a communicative young couple with two chatty immature daughters motion in side by side door and accidentally flatten Ove'south mailbox, information technology is the pb-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of bankroll up a U-Haul. All of which will modify one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations."
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, read past Claire Danes
Amazon synopsis: "A novel of such ability that the reader will exist unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the well-nigh future, it describes life in what was once the Us and is now chosen the Republic of Gilead , a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining nascence rate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its give-and-take, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
"The story is told through the eyes of Offred, i of the unfortunate Handmaids nether the new social lodge. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the nighttime corners backside the establishment's calm facade, every bit certain tendencies now in being are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. Information technology is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a bout de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best."
"Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon, read by Davina Porter
Amazon synopsis: "Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a erstwhile British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her married man on a second honeymoon when she walks through a continuing rock in 1 of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach — an 'outlander' — in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the yr of Our Lord ... 1743.
"Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a earth that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only hazard of rubber lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant immature Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives."
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn, read by Julia Whelan & Kirby Heyborne
Amazon synopsis: "On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are existence made when Nick'due south clever and beautiful married woman disappears . Husband-of-the-Twelvemonth Nick isn't doing himself whatsoever favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the gradient and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-daughter perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the law and the media — as well equally Amy'southward fiercely adoring parents — the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter — but is he really a killer?"
"Bossypants" written and read by Tina Fey
Amazon synopsis: "Before Liz Lemon, before 'Weekend Update,' before 'Sarah Palin,' Tina Fey was just a immature girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local drome past her middle-school gym instructor. She also had a dream that one solar day she would be a comedian on Telly. She has seen both these dreams come up true.
" At terminal, Tina Fey's story can be told . From her youthful days equally a cruel nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Nighttime Live; from her passionately half-hearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her ane-sided higher romance to her near fatal honeymoon – from the start of this paragraph to this terminal sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: y'all're no 1 until someone calls you snobby."
"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, read by Dylan Baker
Amazon synopsis: "Based on more than twoscore interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — too as interviews with more than than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized 6 industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
"Although Jobs cooperated with this volume, he asked for no command over what was written nor even the right to read it earlier it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed confronting. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted."
"Nosotros Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor, read past Ray Porter
Amazon synopsis: "Bob Johansson has just sold his software visitor and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
"Bob wakes up a century subsequently to find that corpsicles have been alleged to be without rights, and he is now the holding of the land. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first merits to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. In that location are at least three other countries trying to get their ain probes launched first, and they play dingy.
"The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Globe at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers brand them mad – very mad."
"11-22-63: A Novel" past Stephen Rex, read past Craig Wasson
Amazon synopsis: "Jake Epping is a 30-five-year-old high school English instructor in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money educational activity adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years agone when Harry Dunning'south male parent came abode and killed his mother, his sister, and his blood brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.
Not much after, Jake's friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane — and insanely possible — mission to try to preclude the Kennedy bump-off. Then begins Jake'southward new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life – a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time."
"Unbroken: A Globe War Two Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" past Laura Hillenbrand, read by Edward Herrmann
Amazon synopsis: "In adolescence, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible runaway. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a biggy talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journeying that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will."
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, read by Sissy Spacek
Amazon synopsis: "'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you tin can striking 'em, but remember it'southward a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children every bit he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's archetype novel — a black homo charged with the rape of a white daughter. Through the immature eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich sense of humour and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of i man's struggle for justice — but the weight of history will only tolerate and then much."
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, read by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, & Cassandra Campbell
Amazon synopsis: "Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she'due south unable to hold her bitterness dorsum. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets nigh her employer that get out her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated higher. She's full of ambition, simply without a husband, she'due south considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women bring together together to write a tell-all volume about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town."
"Invisible Homo: A Novel" by Ralph Ellison, read past Joe Morton
Amazon synopsis: "A milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, information technology remained on the bestseller listing for xvi weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as 1 of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing upwardly in a black community in the South, attending a Negro higher from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem co-operative of 'the Brotherhood,' and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Human being he imagines himself to be."
"The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah, read past Polly Stone
Amazon synopsis: "With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling writer Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. 'The Nightingale' tells the stories of 2 sisters, separated by years and experience, by ethics, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and liberty in German-occupied, war-torn France ― a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for anybody, a novel for a lifetime."
"The Proper name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, read by Nick Podehl
Amazon synopsis: "This is the riveting start-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be i of the well-nigh notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled metropolis, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, 'The Proper name of the Air current' is a masterpiece that transports readers into the torso and listen of a sorcerer."
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