I tend to read 3 books at once. 🙂 One physical, one audible, and one my partner and I read aloud before bed.
Yes, we are nerds. 🙂
I have ONE free credit left this year. What would you suggest if you could end on the best note?
Any and all genres welcome! I want to know what blew you away!
by roguescott
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik narrated by Anisha Dadia knocked my socks off. It’s considered YA but much more mature.
Also, Never by Ken Follett narrated by January LaVoy. An elegant and progressive (for the genre) political and spy thriller that deftly models the small wars theory.
Finally, my favorite audiobook of all time: Born a Crime written and narrated by Trevor Noah. In a tour de force, Noah explores his childhood experiences in apartheid South Africa with a mature perspective. Hilarious, moving, and insightful.
Happy New Year and happy reading!
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. It’s a great book but also a great performance
I loved *Tress of the Emerald Sea* – it was the story which started my year – but you’re not going to find it on somewhere like Audible (if they’re there credits you’re referring to).
So, as a second suggestion, I’m going to suggest *Howl’s Moving Castle*. Not particularly lengthy or challenging but I absolutely adore it.
Bonus: if you are using Audible, *The Murderbot Diaries* have their first 4 novellas in the Plus catalogue in my region, I’d recommend checking them out if you have them in yours, as they’re too short for most people to spend a credit on but well worth a listen.
going postal by terry pratchett – narrated by stephen briggs
new to me, but a classic – – i am a relative newbie to discworld, but this audiobook is a wondrous delight (although descriptions of the ankh-morpork postal system are infuriating and scarily prescient). some of briggs’ voice characterizations are reminiscent of a monty python sketch.
the wordplay is witty, vividly descriptive, and sometimes beautiful…
‘haven’t you heard the saying, a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?’
‘i commend my soul to any god who can find it’
‘welcome to fear, it’s hope turned inside out’
‘peel away the lies and the truth would emerge, naked and ashamed and with nowhere else to hide’
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Jurassic park.
Siddhartha
Paris by Paris Hilton or A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. Enjoyed/horrified by both of these this year.
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Project Hail Mary or A Man Called Ove
If you’re into horror and general weirdness, Chuck Wendig’s Black River Orchard was my favorite audio book. The multiple narrators were really good.