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Big Little Lies (Big Little series) Audiobook— narrated by Caroline Lee
AudioFile Earphones Award
Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies opens with a school-fundraiser death and works backward through three mothers' overlapping lies to explain how it happened. It's a sharp, funny, ultimately serious mystery about the stories women tell to survive marriage, motherhood, and each other.
Why the audiobook wins
Caroline Lee has to voice a whole cul-de-sac of parents, teachers, and gossiping witnesses without letting any of them blur together, and she pulls it off with genuinely distinct rhythms: Madeline's clipped grudges land nothing like Celeste's careful, guarded calm. That distinction is what makes the book's chorus-of-witnesses structure work as audio instead of becoming a wall of similar voices.
This is a mystery told backward from a death you don't get explained until the end, and Lee's control of pacing keeps the dread humming under the comedy the whole way; she knows exactly when to let a line go dark. It's a great pick for a long weekend of chores or a solo drive, the kind of listen where you keep finding an excuse to stay in the car for one more chapter.
Lee's performance won an AudioFile Earphones Award, easy to understand once she's got three mothers, a suspicious husband, and a whole fundraiser committee talking over each other. Fifteen-plus hours, one credit, a narrator who never lets you lose the thread.
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- Who narrates the Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook?
- Caroline Lee narrates the audiobook edition of Big Little Lies (Big Little series).
- How long is the Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook?
- The audiobook runs 15 hr 55 min.
- Is the Big Little Lies (Big Little series) audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Big Little Lies (Big Little series) 4.3 out of 5. Caroline Lee has to voice a whole cul-de-sac of parents, teachers, and gossiping witnesses without letting any of them blur together, and she pulls it off with genuinely distinct rhythms: Madeline's clipped grudges land nothing like Celeste's careful, guarded calm. That…
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- Is Big Little Lies (Big Little series) on Kindle Unlimited?
- No. Big Little Lies (Big Little series) was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 13, 2026.
- How much does Big Little Lies (Big Little series) cost?
- On Amazon: Kindle $12.99, Paperback $9.02, Hardcover $30.77. Prices as of August 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.
