Sample · Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

Listen to The Fault in Our Stars

A short excerpt from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, narrated by Marguerite. Try other narrators below, then bring your own DRM-free copy to hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Marguerite
Friendly, upbeat Australian female voice, ideal for lifestyle content, travel, and casual narration.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

About this sample

Hazel’s voice is dry, young and self-aware. Marguerite’s upbeat Australian delivery keeps the opening about depression light on its feet, as John Green wrote it.
The excerpt is the book’s opening passage, a few sentences long, generated with the same narration pipeline the app uses for whole books. Every narrator you can pick above is available for your own files, in this and 40+ other languages.

How to listen to all of The Fault in Our Stars

1.
Get a DRM-free ebook of The Fault in Our Stars (see the guide on where to find DRM-free ebooks; store purchases with DRM cannot be opened).
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Drop the file above or open Book2Speech and choose it. Chapters are detected and front matter is skipped.
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Pick Marguerite or any other narrator and press play. The narration streams within seconds and your position syncs to the iPhone app.

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