Do you get to read dizzy on the train but don't want to sacrifice a good book? Your solution has a name and you'll find it in the form of an audiobook, or spoken book, which is nothing more than a recording of a novelist reading aloud.
There are many different platforms offering this service. One of the best known is Amazon Audible, though not available in Spain. IOS and Android devices include an integrated audiobook app: Apple Book and Google Play Book.
In addition to music and podcasts, we can also find audiobooks on Spotify. On the other hand, Kebo is one of the most popular e-book service and includes this other type of reading. Next, we collect the best audiobooks.
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Year: 1597
Original title: Romeo and Juliet
Classics is, undoubtedly, one of Shakespeare's most popular works. In this tragic scene, the story of the forbidden love is told between Romeo and Juliet, belonging to two families facing Verona: Montesco and the Capulets.
Everyone knows how his story ends (we won't reveal the ending if it does) and many scenarios are made. Although some critics have identified several weaknesses, the work has gained acceptance by the majority over the centuries.
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Our Lady of Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Author: Victor Hugo
Year: 1482
Original title: Notre-Dame de Paris
One of the best in international literature is this novel by Victor Hugo, in which a French writer depicts 15th-century Paris. And throughout this history many things have been done for cinema, television and theater.
The story revolves around three characters: gypsy dancer Esmeralda, a hunter working for Notre Dame Quasimodo church and her adoptive father and archdeacon Claude Frollo. Victor Hugo tells us his story in eleven books.
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The Sapiens. From animals to gods: A brief history of humanity
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Year: 2011
Original title: Chap
From the classics we turn to marketing success: The Sapiens. From animals to gods: A brief history of humanity. Yuval Noah Harari's book has captivated fans around the world, in part, in his invitation to showcase them.
The Sapiens Explore human history from the Stone Age to the present. Throughout the book, Harari attempts to justify the notion that homo sapiens is a world-dominating animal because it is capable of interacting with each other and can create logical entities.
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The shadow of the wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Year: 2001
Original title: The shadow of the wind
Another commendable achievement is the commercial success, in this case the Spanish profession. The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the first book in the saga Book cemeteries are forgotten, followed An angel game, Prisoner of heaven and A labyrinth of spirits.
The shadow of the wind starring Daniel Sempere, a young man who will live passionately with some sad story behind the author of The shadow of the wind: all books of the same author have been burned by one of their opponents.
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Pain
Author: Margaret Atwood
Year: 2019
Original title: Testament
In our selection of excellent ebooks, I add The story of the girl from Margaret Atwood. In this article, we didn't want to miss the opportunity to recommend the sequel: Pain.
The story took place 15 years after the first book was made. In this case, the novel is narrated by Aunt Lydia (whom we already knew from the beginning), Agnes (a Gilead-based young woman), and Daisy (a Canadian-born woman).
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Young Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Year: 1868
Original title: Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy
Young Women reproduces the success of the past few decades thanks to a film directed by Grayta Gerwig and Sairir Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep. But this audiobook lets you get closer to the first story.
It follows the life of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Specifically, we are told of their passing from childhood to adulthood, the experience that each of them lives in a different way, through their dreams and aspirations.
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War and peace
Author: Leon Tolstoy
Year: 1869
Original title: Война и мир, Voiná i mir
Next to Anna Karénina, War and peace It is the top biblical work of Leon Tolstoy and the Russian and universal literature. It portrays a part of the history of his birthplace over half a century and in very different characters.
Also mentioned are other historical figures such as Napoleon or Alexander I. The three main characters are Princess Andréi Bolkonsky, Count Pierre Bezújov and Countess Natasha Rostova.
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Frankenstein or Prometheus of today
Author: Mary Shelley
Year: 1818
Original title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley's famous novel tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist, in an illegal experiment, creating a giant two-foot-high beast capable of thinking and that will bring him a lot of headaches.
Although known as Frankenstein, the truth is that nowhere in this novel does Shelley talk about the beast. This is part of the legacy of this novel, since its publication has gained thousands of fans.
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A young prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Year: 1943
Original title: King Peter
If there is a popular book on this list it is A young prince, a wonderful biblical work by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is, in fact, the most widely read and translated book in French history, as it was also published in Braille reading.
This is a water-borne fantasy made by the author himself telling a meeting between a young prince from another planet and a lost pilot in the Sahara desert. In their discussions there is much public criticism.
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Bad flowers
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Year: 1857
Original title: Les Fleurs du mal
We conclude with a different recommendation. A collection of poems, is certainly one of the most famous in international literature. Charles Baudelaire is one of the greats and the quality of these poems attests to it.
Baudelaire's book is divided into seven parts: the poem in the introduction To the reader, the first part Esplín e Good, the second part Paris paintings, one third Wine, the fourth part Flowers of Evil, the fifth part Apostasy and the final conclusion Death.
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