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The Sympathizer
Featured Article: The Best Short Story Audiobooks to Immerse Yourself In Now
Short stories have had a huge impact on the canon of great literature. In fact, some of history's most revered novelists—Ernest Hemingway, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Louisa May Alcott among them—wrote short stories, which make excellent introductions to their work. Plus, these bite-size listens are the perfect way to get a big dose of literary inspiration even when you’re short on time. To get you started, we’ve compiled a list of listens.
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance37
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Story37
Now an HBO Original Limited Series on Max, and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, a startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent years: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The winner of...
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The narrator’s voice
- By Mo Fitz on 01-31-26
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Series: Sympathizer
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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To Save and to Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Story2
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity.
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To Save and to Destroy
- Writing as an Other
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-08-25
- Language: English
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The Committed
- A Novel
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall832
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Performance717
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Story717
The Committed follows the unnamed Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing....
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Clever, Ironic, Repetitive
- By AuntGert on 03-05-21
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The Committed
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Francois Chau
- Series: Sympathizer
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance111
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Story111
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life....
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If you don't like coddled, cry-babies, then avoid
- By Wayne A. Curto on 12-30-23
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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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The Refugees
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall905
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Performance791
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Story794
With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds....
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Good collection of short stories
- By Thomas More on 03-19-17
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The Refugees
- Narrated by: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-07-17
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance74
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Story75
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory....
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Good, probably should be read and not listened to via audible for the best experience.
- By Tanya on 10-24-16
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Nothing Ever Dies
- Vietnam and the Memory of War
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-20-16
- Language: English
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen - editor
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance37
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Story37
In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience....
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Not worth your time
- By AC Mom on 02-10-26
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The Displaced
- Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
- Narrated by: Greta Jung, Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Simone
- By: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Minnie Phan - illustrator
- Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
- Length: 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
When a wildfire threatens Simone’s home, she and Má must rush to take shelter. Guided by her own creativity, and buoyed by Má’s memories of her childhood in Viet Nam, Simone navigates her way through an all-too-common crisis.
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Der Sympathisant
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-24-22
- Language: German
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Die Idealisten
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-24-22
- Language: German
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