Amazon Classics Edition

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Translated By: Constance Garnett / Narrated By: James Anderson Foster

Length: 34 hrs and 18 mins

Soooo worth the time! Might I shout a mighty Huzzah?! but NOT for this translation…?

Pride and Prejudice Continues

By: Linda Berdoll / Narrated By: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 28 hrs and 4 mins

Uhm, there’s sex… and more sex… and more sex… and in trying to uncurl my toes, I think I lost consciousness…

By: Charlotte Brontë / Narrated By: Davina Porter

Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins

Loved it, but Lucy Snowe ain’t no Jane Eyre…

By: Ernie Pyle / Narrated By: Paul Boehmer

Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins

As a reviewer of audiobooks? Do NOT listen to this—READ it instead, oh doooo read it!

Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

By: James M. Scott / Narrated By: LJ Ganser

Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins

AWEsome! Breathtaking! Riveting! Holy cow! …and I could go on and on and on!!!

By: Miguel de Cervantes / Translated By: Edith Grossman / Narrated By: George Guidall

Length: 39 hrs and 37 mins

Almost 40 hours went by so very fast!

By: Stephen King / Narrated By: Grover Gardner

Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins

THE Pandemic book! But, dude—yeh yeh yeh: Budgetary reasons for the edit, but those edits were fine and dandy…!

By: David Quammen / Narrated By: Jonathan Yen

Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins

Hunting for the Next Big One… or is it here…? Or do we have even more in our future…? GREAT Book!

Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 1

By: Connie Willis / Narrated By: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins

THE best book ever! AND it turns out, it’s an extraordinary audiobook also!

By: Guy Sajer / Narrated By: Derek Perkins

Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins

My All Time FAVORITE memoir of the war viewed from the other side!!!

A New English Version

Translated By: Stephen Mitchell / Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

From a chick with absolutely noooo interest in cuneiform… Huzzah for Mitchell!

A New Verse Translation

Translated By: Seamus Heaney / Narrated By: George Guidall

Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins

And here’s something else I missed in high school!

By: Homer / Translated By: Robert Fagles / Narrated By: Ian McKellen

Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins

DISMAL production of a STELLAR performance…!

A Feline Space Adventure

By: Argus / Narrated By: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 19 hrs and 37 mins

Charming, so charming, exceeeeedingly charming -BUT- 19 1/2-HOURS of charm… yikes!!!

The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Written and Narrated By: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins

I Am. GUTTED…

Series: The Demon Cycle, Book 1

By: Peter V. Brett / Narrated By: Pete Bradbury

Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins

Superb crafting… except for oooooone MAJOR character… who inspires wishes to throttle most soundly…!

By: Barbara W. Tuchman / Narrated By: John Lee / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins

Erudite and clever crafting, impeccable narration!

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham

Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins

Overwhelming… Familiar…

A Novel

By: Ralph Ellison / Narrated By: Joe Morton

Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins

Verrrry good, exceeeeedingly powerful, but Jeez H. what a slog.

A Novel

By: Amor Towles / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins

If you’re willing to spend decades in the life of a man, do expect a jolly listen! If you’re not, however…?

The Story of 9/11

Written and Foreword By: Mitchell Zuckoff / Narrated By: Sean Pratt

Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins

An instant “classic” that tells us sooo many stories, of loss, of course, but also of those living their haunted survival

A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson / Narrated By: John Lee / Epilogue By: Erik Larson

Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins

WOW! Can chaos and carnage and political machinations be good ol’ rollicking fun? YES!!!

By: Carolina De Robertis / Narrated By: Christine Avila

Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins

Gorgeous writing of bad men and strong, er, kinda sorta strong women

Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

By: Sheri Fink / Narrated By: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins

WOW! Kinda sorta leaves ya feeling like you were slugged in the gut

By: Kate Morton / Narrated By: Joanne Froggatt

Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins

Finely wrought with, like, a GAZILLION and six characters

Written and Narrated By: Michelle Obama

Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins

A long and heartfelt journey

The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By: Lisa See / Narrated By: Kate Reading

Length: 18 hours and 6 mins

An unconventional family, ESPECIALLY considering the times!

Series: Tales From Ivy Hill, Book 1

By: Julie Klassen / Narrated By: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 17 hrs

Set in the 1800s, but there’s a lot to make modern women proud

The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

By: Ann Rule / Narrated By: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins

Creepy, tho’ I did wanna throttle Rule a bit every now and then

A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home

By: Sally Mott Freeman / Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins

UNBROKEN x 3

Series: White City Trilogy, Book 1

By: Eva García Sáenz / Narrated By: Henry Leyva

Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins

A good mystery. A GREAT story!

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: Bessel A. van der Kolk / Narrated By: Sean Pratt

Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins

BEYOND Enlightening… just? Oh my, Trigger Warning? You betcha…

By: Diane Setterfield / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins

A story of stories, a river unlike any other, a pig who knows it all!

The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

By: James D. Hornfischer / Narrated By: Barrett Whitener

Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins

I. Am. GUTTED…

A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

By: Adam Hochschild / Narrated By: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins

AWESOME! Soooo awesome I barely noticed Arthur Morey

By: Julie Klassen / Narrated By: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins

A different tone than I’m used to from Ms. Klassen but beguiling nonetheless

Written and Afterword By: Dean Koontz / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins

I wanted to love this, really I did—but the tangents! oh the tangents!

Series: Zamonia, Book 1

By: Walter Moers / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins

I can see where this might be tedious in print—but in audio? Pinchot knocks this outta the park!

By: Harper Fox / Narrated By: Chris Clog

Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins

A few bouts of Wandering-Mind, but narration really adds to a warm story.

A Novel

By: Jeanine Cummins / Narrated By: Yareli Arizmendi / Afterword By: Jeanine Cummins

Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins

Don’t dislike it because Cummins is white and writing about brown people; dislike it cuz of sooo many other reasons

The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency

By: Saul David / Narrated By: Sam Devereaux

Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins

From whence all my beloved Regency romances came… The debauched yet kindly “Prinny”

By: James Baldwin / Narrated By: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins

Where’s an ice pick to your brain when you need one?!?

Series: Tales from Ivy Hill, Book 2

By: Julie Klassen / Narrated By: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins

Once again, the Ladies of Ivy Hill meet the times with great strength and character

Series: Tales from Ivy Hill, Book 3

By: Julie Klassen / Narrated By: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins

Wonderful end to a wonderful series. The women of Ivy Hill rock!

By: Sarah Bird / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin

Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins

The most beautiful pairing of Bird and Turpin!

Series: The Ill-Mannered Ladies, Book 1

By: Alison Goodman / Narrated By: Kristin Atherton

Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins

Thrilling, poignant, hilarious—just BRILLIANTLY written and narrated!!!

A Novel

By: Paul L. Maier / Narrated By: David Colacci

Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins

Outstanding historical fiction!

A Novel

By: Kelly Barnhill / Narrated By: Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins

Wow… the reviews are all over the place… so listen to meeee! instead…!!!

How the Allies Won on D-Day

Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton

Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins

D-Day: The Bad, the Ugly… the Oh Sooo Good!!!

By: Delores Phillips / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin

Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins

Breathtaking! Stunningly written! Exquisitely narrated! -JUST- How MANY slugs to the gut can you handle...?

An Oral History of September 11, 2001

By: Garrett M. Graff / Narrated By: Holter Graham and Cast

Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins

All stories need to be told…

Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin / Narrated By: Karen Chilton

Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins

Okay, this jumps around ALL OVER THE PLACE, but boy is it awesome!!!

A Novel

Series: The Rajes Series, Book 1

By: Sonali Dev / Narrated By: Soneela Nankani

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Yikes! Like, 8 hours of wanting to throttle our heroine, but SAVED by remaining portion of book. Do I wanna continue with series…?

By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán

Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins

A time long past with lush prose that skirts on flowery, but dude! was our hero a creep, or what?!

By: Atticus Lish / Narrated By: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins

—DEVASTATING—

A Novel

Series: Kerney Family, Book 1

By: Michael McGarrity / Narrated By: George Guidall

Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins

Truly EPIC, but boy oh boy did I loooooathe the main character, or what?!

Series: The Shining, Book 1

By: Stephen King / Narrated By: Campbell Scott

Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins

Oh holy COW—this atmospheric haunting has aged well… but OY Campbell Scott!!!

(Amazon Classics Edition)

By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins

A “rediscovered” classic that became a favorite now becomes a TREASURE!

A Novel

By: Helen Simonson / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins

First listen? Tickled pink! Second listen? Holy cow, the narration really killed it for me…!

By: Tom Wolfe / Narrated By: Dennis Quaid

Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins

Uhm, whooo has the right stuff? Try Wolfe, try Quaid!!!

Series: All Creatures Great and Small, Book 1

By: James Herriot / Narrated By: Christopher Timothy

Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins

How did it take me so long to get around to listening to this?