Celebrate the Bond of Fatherhood with these Heartwarming Titles from Audible

International Father’s Day honors the joys of fatherhood and celebrates the paternal bond. Fathers are usually considered a child’s first hero. While growing up, they often impart worldly wisdom through stories and experiences while creating memories with their children. In that spirit, Audible commemorates the father-child bond through these heartwarming titles.

Calling Sehmat

When a young college-going Kashmiri girl, Sehmat, gets to know her dying father’s last wish, she can do little but surrender to his passion and patriotism and follow the path he has so painstakingly laid out. 

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

This fictional book follows an inquisitive nine year old Oskar who looks at solving the mystery of a key he finds in his father’s closet after his father’s demise in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson produces an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America’s heart.

Grief is the thing with Feathers

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother’s sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.

Lincoln in the Bardo

Based just under a year of the Civil War, where the nation has realised that it is in a long and bloody struggle the world would write in history. Soon, President Lincoln’s son passes away and Saunders is seen spinning a tale both unforgettable and realistic.

Autumn

This book begins with a letter that the author Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter showing what to expect of the world. With a sense of tenderness he provides a precious and unique perspective into rural Sweden and the bonds between a parent and their child.