Honestly Ben Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Bill Konigsberg (Author), Dan Bittner (Narrator), Scholastic Audio (Publisher)

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In this companion to Openly Straight, Ben confronts pressure at school, repression at home, and his passion for two very different people in figuring out what it takes to be Honestly Ben.

Ben Carver is back to normal. He's working steadily in his classes at the Natick School. He just got elected captain of the baseball team. He's even won a full scholarship to college, if he can keep up his grades. All that foolishness with Rafe Goldberg the past semester is in the past.

Except...there's Hannah, the gorgeous girl from the neighboring school, who attracts him and distracts him. There's his mother, whose quiet unhappiness Ben is noticing for the first time. School is harder, the pressure higher, the scholarship almost slipping away. And there's Rafe, funny, kind, dating someone else...and maybe the real normal that Ben needs.

Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Andrew Smith, and John Green, Honestly Ben is a smart, laugh-out-loud novel that will speak to anyone who's struggled to be "honestly ____" in some part of their lives.

Listening Length

9 hours and 16 minutes
Author

Bill Konigsberg
Narrator

Dan Bittner
Audible release date

April 1 2017
Language

English
Publisher

Scholastic Audio
ASIN

B0722Y2Z7M
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
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Listening Length	9 hours and 16 minutes
Author	Bill Konigsberg
Narrator	Dan Bittner
Audible.ca Release Date	April 01 2017
Publisher	Scholastic Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0722Y2Z7M
Best Sellers Rank	#70,242 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #89 in Teen Fiction on Dating & Sex #179 in LGBTQ2S+ Audiobooks for Teens #366 in LGBTQ2S+ Literature & Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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540 global ratings

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Great sequel to Openly Straight

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 25, 2022

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I’ve read a few reviews that expressed disappointment toward Honestly Ben vs Openly Straight. IMO they go hand in hand, especially since book 2 picks up exactly where book 1 ended. The tone of the narrative is different, as it should since the perspective shifts from Rafe’s pov to Ben’s. Konigsberg treats the question of sexual/emotional identity very seriously and doesn’t attempt to simplify it. I found Honestly Ben as good as Openly Straight if one accepts that Konigsberg’s style of writing is even heavier on stream of consciousness thoughts - as it should since Ben is a more introverted character who is always questioning and second-guessing. His relationship with his father is an important feature of the narrative. His family history and relation to his father is the total opposite of Rafe’s and demands a sober, sometimes angsty tone. I like Konigsberg’s sober yet poetic writing style and his choice of uneasy subject matter. I unreservedly recommend Honestly Ben to the serious reader of queer YA literature.

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Readist

It was a bit predictable and not as good as the last one

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 30, 2018

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Meh - it's OK. It was a bit predictable and not as good as the last one. But cute.

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Client Kindle

Wish for another book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 27, 2019

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In love with those character!

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Alberta

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 15, 2018

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Remarkable. I want to read more!!!

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leonard C.

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 19, 2017

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no complaints

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Hauntgrey

Really amazing sequel, better than the first

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 6, 2017

Let me just say this book made me care sooo much about these characters and Ben specifically on a very visceral level. I love love love these characters and the struggles they through. trigger warning for abusive father in this book but that's also partially why I related so heavily. I will say the wording and explaining of gender fluidity of a side character is kinda clunky in this book but the heart of it is still there. I love the entire rise and fall of this books plot and I reread these two books again after because I wanted a reminder of Ben and Rafe's connection. GAH so good

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Olivia Helling

After a confusing semester of falling in love with his male best friend

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 24, 2017

After a confusing semester of falling in love with his male best friend, Ben believes he’s returned to normal — but whose ‘normal’ is it? It’s certainly not Ben’s.

In this controversial sequel to the young adult Openly Straight, Bill Konigsberg continues to explore what labels mean to us, but this time how we allow others to place labels on us. I related to Ben’s inner struggle with ‘not good enough’ and ‘not living up to expectations’. If you love YA, high school norms and figuring out who you really want to be, then you will love Honestly Ben. (But read Openly Straight first!)

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Steve

Believable and heart wrenching

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 8, 2020

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In 'Openly Straight', 17-year old Ben was confronted by his sexual attraction to his best friend, Rafe, and was angered and traumatised when Rafe belatedly told him that he was gay. In this captivating sequel, Ben (in a way which many of us have experienced) explores his attraction to a girl. But whereas he feels attraction and arousal, Hannah cannot compete with the intensity of Ben's feeling for Rafe. In this book, the relationship between Ben and Rafe becomes both deeper and more complex. Ben starts to come to terms with who he is, rather than trying to be the person his loving but repressive and homophobic father would like him to be. The road he takes is a rocky one and the only definition of his sexuality that Ben arrives at by the end of the book is that he is 'gay for Rafe'. That is enough for him, for now.
This is a book written for late teens but any older reader, such as me, remembering what it was like to wrestle with one's sexuality and to try to be someone one was not, will find it powerful, moving and persuasive.

kindle reader

Meandering plot with a lot of repitition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 31, 2020

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While Rafe and Ben getting a happyish ending is nice I'm not sure this sequel was at all necessary. The plot of Ben's sexuality was eye-roll worthy and nothing in it struck as particularly pleasant or interesting to read. It could have been about 50 pages shorter too and still cover all the plot.
It feels like the author wanted to cover Ben's side of the story but really had enough material to fill out a few chapters and just threw in Everything Else He Could Think Of to fill it.

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Gawain the Cat

Loved this book .....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 25, 2021

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This book was recommended to be read by the LGBTQ+ book group I help run. It is about a young gay man's time in boarding school in America ....... Ban has supportive parents, but wants more, and it is about finding himself. Our whole group loved the book.

An easy, simplistic, well thought through read for those aged from 14 up - thoroughly recommended!

Matthew Hawkins

My new favourites

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 10, 2020

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I fell in love with this series when I finished openly straight I went straight into the the fuller short story openly honestly and then straight I to this book honestly ben, the books are so captivating and warming they made me feel so happy and I like the little bid to David levithan in this book too.

Thomas J.

Solid sequel that stands on its own feet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 13, 2019

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I read Openly Straight before I read this, but actually this works on its own. Bill Konigsberg again does a great job with a character who makes unconventional choices when it comes to his life decisions, and he’s very good at building believable, sympathetic characters. This was a real joy to read.

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