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Dream Count: A Novel Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
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“Every aspect of this transfixing, intimate, and astute group portrait is ablaze with scorching insights into the maddening absurdities and injustices that continue to plague women’s lives.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“The tone, tempo, and lilting intonation of all four narrators make this listening experience rewarding…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Adichie riffs brilliantly on what feminism means to her characters and renders each woman’s story in a distinctive voice.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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A New York Times Bestseller
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Dream Count Listener Reviews
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Pamela Makhubela, 9/2/2025
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JoScho, 5/1/2025
About Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of several New York Times bestselling books. Her books have won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as being finalist for other honors. She also authored Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book, written under the name Nwa Grace-James. She grew up in Nigeria and is a recipient of a 2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
About the Narrators
Janina Edwards, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a native of Chicago and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts acting program. Her 2016 performance of Voice of Freedom was a finalist for the Audie Award.
Janina Edwards, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a native of Chicago and a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts acting program. Her 2016 performance of Voice of Freedom was a finalist for the Audie Award.
Pete Cross is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He holds a BA in theater from the University of Toledo and an MFA in acting from the California Institute of the Arts. His experience on stage includes Carnegie Hall, and he has also acted in film. He has served on the faculty at Cal Arts and with Aquila Morong Studio in Hollywood. He has coached for film and theatrical productions and continues to work with private clients all over the world.