Best Chick Lit Audiobooks

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Meg Elison

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Angela Dawe

The concept of childbirth becoming a rare event is not new. Children of Men and The Handmaid's Tale are just two phenomenal examples of the premise. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is the diary of a woman trying to survive in a world that fears an empty future. But it is so much more than that. It becomes an invaluable record, a guide for future generations and a catalyst for renewal.

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Matt Haig

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Carey Mulligan

Matt Haig's masterpiece about life and death will not only provoke your thoughts, but fill your mind for a long time after you've finished listening. If the fascinating concept isn't enough to entice you, perhaps the lure of narrator Carey Mulligan will do the trick.

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Christina Sweeney-Baird

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Cathleen McCarron, Aysha Kala, Denica Fairman, Penelope Rawlins, Debra Michaels, Julia Locascio, Sasha Alexis, Robert Bradley, Sara Lynam, Rebecca Perfect, William Hope

An epic story deserves a grand production and that is delivered in the 2021 audibook for The End of Men. Eleven narrators come together for this pandemic apocalypse with a difference, bringing to life this end of the world where a virus renders men all but extinct.

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Bethany Crandell

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Xe Sands

When Jane Osborne snaps, she does it in style, in public and in contravention of the law. It's quite the sight to see. From there, cracks apear in Jane's seemingly ideal life, growing, spreading and destroying everything in their path.

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Adele Parks

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Rachel Atkins

Adele Parks has long been responsible for many of the best audiobooks for women. Once upon a time, her novels were classic chick lit, residing in the realm of prickly friendships and tricky relationships. She has since turned her pen to much darker themes and this, her first thriller, proved she is more than equal to the task.

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Gill Sims

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Gabrielle Glaister

Motherhood is beautiful, magical, tranformative. That's one way to look at it at least. Mum of two, Ellen would add that it is also exhausting, frustrating, impossible and does require a decent amount of gin to get you through. Then she might mutter something profound, like FML. Gabrielle Glaister is equal parts snarky and relatable in her performance of this hilarious depiction of mummyhood.

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Jennifer McMahon

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Cassandra Campbell, Käthe Mazur

How strong is the bond between mothers and daughters? This is a central theme in many works of women's fiction and The Winter People is no exception. Cassandra Campbell and Kathe Mazur deliver a breath-taking performance of this supernatural story of enduring love, betrayal and revenge.

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Sophie Mackintosh

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Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan, Morfydd Clark

Three sisters alone on an island, their parents gone. Brought up to believe men are dangerous, their lives are upturned by the arrival of three of them. This wistful, disorientating coming of age story follows the girls as they navigate unchartered waters.

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Liane Moriarty

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Caroline Lee

Any list of the very best audio lit for chicks and chickens must, by law, include at least one by Liane Moriarty. When Alice loses 10 years' worth of memories, she finds that the life she knew at 29 has fallen apart in the course of a decade. Whilst not her most well-known title, What Alice Forgot is a masterful look at the disintegration of a marriage and how small changes over time can add up to big mistakes.

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Wendy Holden

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Suzy Aitchison

Wendy Holden's humour is drier than a drained Martini glass. She puts this wit to excellent use in this lighthearted tale of pregnancy and parenthood. The characters range from sweet and naive to infuriating and vile, each and every one performed with the snark they deserve, courtesy of Suzy Aitchison.

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Karen McQuestion

Stacey Glemboski

Refreshingly Different

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Nick Hornby

Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Kate Reading

Endearing, witty, an entertaining commentary on human nature.

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Joanna Cannon

Lissa Berry

This Year’s Eleanor Oliphant

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K.L. Slater

Lucy Price-Lewis

That Twist Gave Me Whiplash

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Rachel Abbott

Lisa Coleman

DCI Douglas As Gripping As Ever

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Heidi Perks

Sally Scott, Nathalie Buscombe

Closets Open, Skeletons Everywhere.

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Ronald Malfi

Joe Hempel

A carefully crafted mystery with echoes of (and I don't bandy this about) Gone Girl

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Stephanie DeCarolis

Norma Butikofer

I Know What You Did Last Summer Meets Gossip Girl

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Lucy Dawson

Georgia Maguire, Rachel Atkins

A Juicy, Vengeful Delight

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Kyla Stone

Stacey Glemboski

William R. Forstchen Meets K.L Slater

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Gail Honeyman

Cathleen McCarron

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Charming

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Emma Healey

Anna Bentinck

Charming, compelling, utterly unique

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Gillian Harvey

Olivia Mace

An Easy Listen

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Nick Spalding

Heather Wilds, Napoleon Ryan

Big Fat Fun - Great For Fans of Nick Hornby and Mike Gayle.

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Christina Dalcher

Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Morris

Very Close To Living Up To Expectations

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Gillian Flynn

Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne

Julia Whelan as I’ve never heard her before

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Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes

Utterly charming. A touch (or shove) too long.

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Nell Pattison

David Thorpe, Sherry Baines, Alex Wingfield, Nick Biadon, Clare-Louise English, Billy Ashcroft, Beth Eyre

Excellent, Especially the Characters

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Sequoia Nagamatsu

Jason Culp, Stephanie Komure, Micky Shiloah, Joe Knezevich, Brianna Ishibashi, Kotaro Watanabe, Matthew Bridges, Kurt Kanazawa, Greg Watanabe, Jeanne Sakata, MacLeod Andrews, Keisuke Hoashi, Brian Nishii, Julia Whelan

High Praise for this Darkest of Tales

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Matt Wesolowski

Tim Bruce, Jane Slavin, Kris Dyer, Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker, Julius Howe, Rebecca Rainsford

Like binging a deep dive true crime podcast about the creepiest, most disturbing story ever. But it’s fiction.

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Clare Mackintosh

David Thorpe, Julia Barrie

An Irresistable Page Turner

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Clare Mackintosh

Rachel Atkins

Chills and Thrills

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Casey Kelleher

Daphne Kouma

This. Gave. Me. Chills.

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Lisa Jewell

Donna Banya, Katherine Kelly, Connor Swindells

Lisa Jewell Casts Another Dazzling Spell

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Mandy Byatt

Melissa Woodbridge

Elements of John Marrs, Rachel Abbott and Adele Parks.

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Kate Atkinson

Fenella Woolgar

Simply stunning.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sophie Roberts, Esther Wane, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Sarah Feathers

Predictable but still enjoyable.

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Serena Terry

Serena Terry

Fun, Lighthearted MumCom

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Anna Burns

Brid Brennan

Dark and light in equal measure.

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Carole Johnstone

Katie Leung

Haunting story, beautifully read.

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Georgina Cross

Emma Ashton

Twisted Me Round Its Little Finger

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Vera Kurian

Brittany Pressley

Aaaaaargh-mazing. Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test meets Alice Feeney’s Sometimes I Lie meets Scream (shout out 1996).

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Rachel Yoder

Cassandra Campbell

This is a literary art installation. Think Damien Hirst meets American Beauty.

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Claire Fuller

Eilidh L. Beaton

A tough, but beautiful listen

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Sarah Lyons Fleming

Thérèse Plummer, Luke Daniels

28 Days Later as written by Tina Fey

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Sarah A. Denzil, Anni Taylor

Aimee Horne

Kept Me Guessing To The End

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Leni Zumas

Karissa Vacker, Erin Bennett

This is to dystopia what Station Eleven is to the post apocalyptic genre. Beautiful, Funny and Scarily Prescient. Inches From Reality

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Alice Feeney

Stephanie Racine, Richard Armitage

Thrilling and Creepy With A Killer Twist

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Bethany Crandell

Xe Sands

A Sweet, Sardonic, Fruit Throwing Frolic

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Mike Gayle

David Morley Hale

Funny, Engaging, But Depressing

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Sarah Lyons Fleming

Julia Whelan

The Walking Friends. See what I did there? Yes, I know it doesn't work.

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Alice Feeney

Stephanie Racine

Flawed? Yes. But Eerie and Captivating

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Paul Tremblay

Erin Bennett

Wistful Apocalypse With Echoes of Station Eleven

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Marian Keyes

Juanita McMahon

Quirky and Hilarious

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Rowan Coleman

Juanita McMahon

The second instalment of the series is just as engaging as the first.

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Karen Thompson Walker

Laurence Bouvard

The Wonder Years: Post Apocalypse.

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Rowan Coleman

Phoebe James

Funny, endearing and filled with colourful characters.

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Melanie La'Brooy

Federay Holmes

Snort out loud funny

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Wendy Dranfield

Sarah Borges

Moriarty, Jewell and now Dranfield

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Meg Elison

Angela Dawe

As powerful and Inspiring As The Handmaid's Tale

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Fiona Barton

Clare Corbett, Adjoa Andoh, Finty Williams, Fenella Woolgar, Steven Pacey

Just brilliant.

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Lauren Weisberger

Laurel Lefkow

A classic. The audiobook that started it all.

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Shaun Bythell

Robin Laing

Charming and funny, sardonic and quirky.

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John Boyne

Richard E. Grant