By: Donna Barba Higuera / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo / Cover Illustration By: Raxenne Maniquiz

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

What a surprise! What a delight! Intricate, thoughtful… heartrending and heartwarming!!!

By: Dan Mooney / Narrated By: Aidan Kelly

Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins

An old trope? Yeh, but oh my good golly gosh: The laughter! The tears! The drop-dead GORGEOUS storytelling!!!

By: Adrian J. Walker / Narrated By: Jonathan Aris, David John

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

What a surprise! What a delightful, heartrending, funny, deep, just flat-out WONDERFUL SURPRISE!!!

By: Gordon Korman / Narrated By: Sarah Beth Goer, Oliver Wyman, Josh Hurley, Tristan Morris, Chris Gebauer, Sean Welsh Brown, Pete Larkin, Fred Berman, Jennifer Nittoso

Length: 6 hrs

Perfect narration with a lovingly crafted story makes this one an absolute charmer. Bad Day? Listen to this…

By: Alastair Reynolds / Narrated By: Harry Myers

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

A rave review… uhm, sans spoilers, of which there COULD be many…!

Series: Bromance Book Club, Book 1

By: Lyssa Kay Adams / Narrated By: Andrew Eiden, Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

As someone who squiiiiiints at Contemporary Romance? Imagine my delighted surprise with this!!!

Series: Eli Marks Mysteries, Book 2

By: John Gaspard / Narrated By: Jim Cunningham

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Magic, Murder, and oh yeh: High school reunions…!

By: Alan Russell / Narrated By: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

BeYONd lovely. I mean, the kind of lovely that makes you happy when you sob Super Ugly Sobs!

Series: Eli Marks Mysteries, Book 1

By: John Gaspard / Narrated By: Jim Cunningham

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

When only an itty bitty (-) is found amongst ooooodles of (+)s? A Mighty HUZZAH!!!

Series: The Sixth World, Book 2

By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Wherein a Book 2 exceeeeds expectations…!!!

A Novel

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Fleur De Wit, Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Wonderful characters chucked into the Jess Kidd Magical Grinding Mill…

Written and Narrated By: Pablo Cartaya

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Compelling Concept and Successful Execution… There, I’ve managed to take the oh sooo large heart outta a truly beautiful story that’s wonderful for all ages…!!!

By: Connie Willis / Narrated By: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Cutesy becomes utterly DELIGHTFUL when paired with Chaos Theory…!

By: Monica Wood / Narrated By: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Well done! Quite simply oh so well done!

A Novel

By: Laurie Frankel / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman

Length: 11 hrs

Beautiful, and I coooould pick at nits, but this is so heartfelt, I just don’t wanna!

By: Nick Alexander / Narrated By: Imogen Church

Length: 12 hrs and 1 min

InCREDibly well-crafted story but beYONd Trigger Warning!!!

Series: The Last Policeman, Book 3

By: Ben H. Winters / Narrated By: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Best of the Trilogy—and might I add: Simply Lovely…!

A Novel

By: Louise Nealon / Narrated By: Louisa Harland

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Paaaaaaaainful Listen, so how the HECK did this wind up being a goshdanged FAVE, for cripes sake?!?

A Novel

By: Daniel Woodrell / Narrated By: Emma Galvin

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Savagery, Poetry, in stark, stark, STARK motion. Just TRY to breathe during this one…!

By: Hannah Lynn / Narrated By: Rafe Beckley

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Saw: Rafe Beckley and snatched it up… like, imMEDiately!

Series: The DEDA Files, Book 2

Written and Narrated By: Yahtzee Croshaw

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

The Out-ing of Magic? AND Sensitivity Training?! It aaaaallll is Hitting the Fan!!! HiLARious!

By: Cormac McCarthy / Narrated By: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Sucker punched? Not quite. Shattered, cripes yes…

Stories

Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Urrea’s stellar narration aaaalways makes his work, his words, SUBLIME

By: Atticus Lish / Narrated By: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins

—DEVASTATING—

A Novel

By: Matt Haig / Narrated By: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Beautiful. That’s all… Just beautiful.

By: Annabel Pitcher / Narrated By: David Tennant

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Okay, finished this, like, ages ago… When can I stop crying…?!

By: A.S. King / Narrated By: Karissa Vacker

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

Wow—simply Wow. That said? This should come with a Trigger Warning…

By: Kevin Wilson / Narrated By: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Yeh yeh yeh—ya see the ending a mile off… oh but that final TWIST! Yessss!!!

By: Joseph Skibell / Narrated By: Allen Lewis Rickman

Length: 7 hrs

Exceptional; just drop dead, or kinda dead, gorgeous

My Year of Domestic Mayhem

Written and Narrated By: Sandra Tsing Loh

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Started off haaaating it, full-expected to continue haaaating it, but danged if I didn’t wind up laughing so hard I cried, like, SEVERAL times!

By: Elizabeth Crook / Narrated By: Will Collyer

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

When “True Grit” meets “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”… with a bit o’ “Moby Dick” for good measure? The results are awesome!

Written and Narrated By: Frank Delaney

Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins

Splendidly, Divinely, BOISTEROUSLY, Wonderful!

Series: Anty Boisjoly Mystery, Book 1

By: PJ Fitzsimmons / Narrated By: Tim Bruce

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

BeYONd chucklesome; utterly delightful!

A Novel

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Fleur De Wit, Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Wonderful characters chucked into the Jess Kidd Magical Grinding Mill…

A Novel

By: Aaron Jackson / Narrated By: Joel Froomkin

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Charming and delightful winds up being Beautiful!!!

Series: The Cthulhu Casebooks, Book 1

By: James Lovegrove / Narrated By: Dennis Kleinman

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Dude! if this wasn’t entertaining enough?! Well then the bad reviews surely are! HA!

By: Andrew Miller / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

All surface, little depth… how on EARTH did this wind up being a Fave?!

A Novel

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Jacqueline Milne

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

What I’m having the absolute joy to learn? Jess Kidd: Always a FAVE!

Series: Mycroft Holmes and Sherlock, Book 1

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anna Waterhouse / Narrated By: Damian Lynch

Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins

Amusing, interesting, enough action with a heavy emphasis on witty dialogue? GREAT characters who are well-developed? Dude, what’s NOT to LOVE?!

Series: Christmas Stories, Book 1

By: Anne Perry / Narrated By: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins

Dunno, some hated it, but me? I found it to be quite moving…

By: Elvira Woodruff / Narrated By: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

5-Freaking-Unabashed-Stars, soooo gonna be a Fave!!!

Series: Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles, Book 2

By: Stephanie Laurens / Narrated By: Helen Lloyd

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

BeYONd delightful! Truly wonderful!!!

By: Simone St. James / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Oh PHEW! Got the bad taste outta m’ mouth from The Haunting of Maddy Clare…!

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!

Project: Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries

By: Clair Huffaker / Narrated By: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins

loved it! Loved It!! LOVED IT!!!

By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

A different version of The Enchanted April—What a deLIGHt!!!

By: Elizabeth Cadell / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Awwww, just a sweet all-around Listen. Curl up in your favorite chair, flop on your bed, whatever—just do give it a try!

Series: War Horse, Book 1

By: Michael Morpurgo / Narrated By: John Keating

Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins

… >sniffle< …>sniffle< WAAAAAH!!!

By: Jack London / Narrated By: John Lee

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Release date: 10-26-07

What’s this? Not as desperately tragic as I’d once felt? Beautiful!

By: Ned Hayes / Narrated By: Anne Day-Jones

Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins

Slow, oh so painful, fraught with suffering… LOVED IT!!!

A Novel of the Plague

By: Maggie O'Farrell / Narrated By: Ell Potter

Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins

Lovingly crafted, yes, but OH, the Narration!!!

A Novel

By: Jamie Ford / Narrated By: Emily Woo Zeller / Afterword By: Jamie Ford

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Truly lovely! Mr. Ford, sir? Pleeeeze tell me the Muse will have ya coming out with a new one soon?

Written and Narrated By: Tom Mula

Length: 1 hr and 57 mins

Awesome! Just AWEsome!

By: Christopher Morley / Narrated By: Nadia May

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Oh how I loved this little book! Oh what a charmer!

A Novel

By: Jess Walter / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortego, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston, Frankie Corzo

Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins

WOW! Sometimes brutal, ENDlessly beautiful… just WOW!

By: Rafael Sabatini / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

A jolly swashbuckler of a jaunt!

A Novel

By: Rachel Joyce / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins

Oh good golly gosh—how hard I fell for this story. Gorgeous: purely, simply

A Novel

Series: The Last Detail, Book 1

By: Darryl Ponicsan / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins

Heartwarming tho’ sooooo bawdy!!!

By: Markus Zusak / Narrated By: Allan Corduner

Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins

Breathtaking; simply lovely!

By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Exquisitely written with heartfelt narration. Absolutely devastating…

Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 4

By: Gail Carriger / Narrated By: Emily Gray

Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins

Four down, One to go? Say it ain’t so, cuz this book is to die for!!!

By: Barbara Metzger / Narrated By: Pippa Rathborne

Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins

loved Loved LOVED this!!! Happy Christmas, one and all…!!!

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!!!

Series: Pride and Prejudice Chronicles, Book 3

By: Anna Elliott / Narrated by: Mary Sarah

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Move over Lizzie B. Kitty has morphed into an AWEsome heroine here!!!

Series: Bromance Book Club, Book 1

By: Lyssa Kay Adams / Narrated By: Andrew Eiden, Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

As someone who squiiiiiints at Contemporary Romance? Imagine my delighted surprise with this!!!

By: Barbara Metzger / Narrated By: Pippa Rathborne

Length: 7 hrs and 1 min

One o’ Metzger’s romp-iest romps… and whazzis: A bit of inCREdible depth? >sniffle<

Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 2

By: Gail Carriger / Narrated By: Emily Gray

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Book 2 Blues? Not on your life!!! SUCH FUN!

Series: The Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles, Book 3

By: Stephanie Laurens / Narrated By: Helen Lloyd

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Here! The third in the series. One more to go? Boooooo, and I >sniffle< most mightily!

Series: Eli Marks Mysteries, Book 1

By: John Gaspard / Narrated By: Jim Cunningham

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

When only an itty bitty (-) is found amongst ooooodles of (+)s? A Mighty HUZZAH!!!

By: Sarah Page / Narrated By: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Emily Barber, Fehinti Balogun, Adrian Edmondson, Leila Farzad, Stephanie Hyam, Jodie McNee, Natalie Simpson, Ray Panthaki, Emily Johnstone

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

A True Delight!!!

Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 1

By: Gail Carriger / Narrated By: Emily Gray

Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins

Charmed! Absolutely smitten by this Series Opener!

By: Amy D'Orazio / Narrated By: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Dare I say it? DeLIGHTful!!!

By: Barbara Metzger / Narrated By: Pippa Rathborne

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Thoughtful and deliberate character-building to go with gross misdemeanors and hiLARious side-plots? FUN!

Series: Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Chronicles, Book 2

By: Stephanie Laurens / Narrated By: Helen Lloyd

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

BeYONd delightful! Truly wonderful!!!

Series: Regency Faerie Tales, Book 2

By: Olivia Atwater / Narrated By: Rafe Beckley

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

A truly excellent 2nd installment—Run, run to Chirpbooks to get this raucous yet gentle ride of a tale!

Series: Jane Austen Fantasy, Book 1

By: M Verant / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

This ain’t my first Pride and Prejudice retelling involving dragons, but it miiiiiiight just be my favorite—

By: Jessica Anthony / Narrated By: Matt Amendt

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

First Listen? Haaaaated it! Listened again to see exACTly why, and I? Loved it…?

By: Alicia Cameron / Narrated By: Rafe Beckley

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Oh gosh; what a WONDerful way to spend 6 hours!!!

By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Kate Reading makes this my all-time FAVORITE P&P!!!

Series: The Sisters of Castle Fortune, Book 1

By: Alicia Cameron / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Oh how grand!!! Oh what HEAVENLY sighing over here!!!

By: Jill Mansell / Narrated By: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins

I do love Jill Mansell, and this book is one of her best

Series: Timeless Regency Collection, Book 1

By: Josi S. Kilpack, Donna Hatch, Nancy Campbell Allen / Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

How I did get my Regency ya-ya’s out on this one!

By: Barbara Metzger / Narrated By: Pippa Rathborne

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

I howled with laughter and delight, but what’s this? Did I have to sob into a couple of tissues also…?

A Regency Cozy

Series: Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, Book 4

By: Lynn Messina / Narrated By: Jill Smith

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

MagNIFicent!!! And, what? Is there room for ANOTHER book?!?

Series: The Fentons, Book 1

By: Alicia Cameron / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins

LOOOOOVED IT!!!!

By: Georgette Heyer / Narrated By: Phyllida Nash

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Wow! Thought The Corinthian was the best until…

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…!!!

By: Kelly Barnhill / Narrated By: Suzanne Toren

Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins

CROWS! And goodness, and sadness, and love Love LOVE… and… CROWS!!!

By: Jeff Chapman / Narrated By: James Young

Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins

Aha! Gore and humor delight yet again!

Series: The Sixth World, Book 2

By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Wherein a Book 2 exceeeeds expectations…!!!

Series: Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 1

By: Derek Landy / Narrated By: Rupert Degas

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Oh how wonderful! Excellent writing with BeYONd excellent narration make for such a fun ride!

The Adventures of Alfie Blackstack

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Chris Devon

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Jess Kidd’s foray into Kids: Death! Mayhem! Witches on vacuum cleaners! Huzzah!

Series: The Luck Uglies, Book 1

By: Paul Durham / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Just how it should be! Forget about the kids who’ll LOVE this cuz it’s all about meeeeee!!! I LOVED it too!

By: Tamsyn Muir / Narrated By: Moira Quirk

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Gruesome, gruesome, GRUESOMELY charming… uhm, but ya may barf… barf in a gooood way

Series: A Nursery Crime Novel, Book 1

By: Jasper Fforde / Narrated By: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Masterful narration of a true gem o’ depravity!!!

Series: Kenny and the Dragon, Book 2

By: Tony DiTerlizzi / Narrated By: Alan Cumming

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins

Did I LOVE the first in the series? Good cow, man: This one? Soooo good and Whazzis? Even tears?!

By: Norton Juster / Foreword By: Norton Juster / Narrated By: Rainn Wilson

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

The audiobook that spawned an entire Newsletter…!

Series: Kenny and the Dragon, Book 1

By: Tony DiTerlizzi / Narrated By: Alan Cumming

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

AWESOME “Anthropomorphic” fun!

Series: The DEDA Files, Book 2

Written and Narrated By: Yahtzee Croshaw

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

The Out-ing of Magic? AND Sensitivity Training?! It aaaaallll is Hitting the Fan!!! HiLARious!

Series: Regency Faerie Tales, Book 2

By: Olivia Atwater / Narrated By: Rafe Beckley

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

A truly excellent 2nd installment—Run, run to Chirpbooks to get this raucous yet gentle ride of a tale!

A Novel

Series: Samuel Johnson vs. The Devil, Book 1

By: John Connolly / Narrated By: Jonathan Cake

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Jolly good fun! FANTASTIC!!!

By: Kelly Barnhill / Narrated By: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Purely, simply, just an all-around wonder of a story. And do I even neeeed to add: SIMON VANCE?!

Series: Jane Austen Fantasy, Book 1

By: M Verant / Narrated By: Helen Taylor

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

This ain’t my first Pride and Prejudice retelling involving dragons, but it miiiiiiight just be my favorite—

By: Kathi Appelt / Narrated By: Lyle Lovett

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Nosotros somos paisanos sayeth the Sugar Man

By: Mira Bartók / Narrated By: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

DeLIGHTful, and OH Simon Vance!!!

By: Joseph Skibell / Narrated By: Allen Lewis Rickman

Length: 7 hrs

Exceptional; just drop dead, or kinda dead, gorgeous

Series: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Book 1

By: Michelle Paver / Narrated By: Ian McKellen

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

LOVED IT! LOVED Sir Ian! …but whazzis…? Where is Book Twooooo…?!

Series: The Prydain Chronicles, Book 2

By: Lloyd Alexander / Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins

Darker than the first, but I sailed through it with such delight!

Series: The Prydain Chronicles, Book 1

By: Lloyd Alexander / Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

James Langton makes this special… but MEEEE? I bring it to Life!!!

By: Carrie Anne Noble / Narrated By: Amanda S. Brown

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

A mashup of old and new and all in between—just deLIGHTful!!!

By: K. E. Ormsbee / Narrated By: Brian Holden

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Don’t be fooled by the cover—There’s a LOT more depth than cartoon figures might denote!

By: Andy Giesler / Narrated By: Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins

Absolutely wonderful, but don’t be all shocked and offended if…

Series: The Sixth World, Book 1

By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated By: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

What a reFRESHing and fun jaunt, jam-packed with action, mythology, and characters to root for!

By: Kate DiCamillo / Narrated By: Judith Ivey

Length: 1 hr and 55 mins

Best. Book. EVER…!

Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd

By: Patrick Ness / Narrated By: Jason Isaacs

Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins

It starts with tears, goes on to sobs, then ends with letting go

Series: Hollow Kingdom, Book 1

By: Kira Jane Buxton / Narrated By: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

The Zombie Apocalypse… With Bird and Bloodhound!

By: Donna Barba Higuera / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo / Cover Illustration By: Raxenne Maniquiz

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

What a surprise! What a delight! Intricate, thoughtful… heartrending and heartwarming!!!

By: Adrian J. Walker / Narrated By: Jonathan Aris, David John

Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins

What a surprise! What a delightful, heartrending, funny, deep, just flat-out WONDERFUL SURPRISE!!!

By: Alastair Reynolds / Narrated By: Harry Myers

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

A rave review… uhm, sans spoilers, of which there COULD be many…!

By: Alastair Reynolds / Narrated By: Natasha Soudek

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Beautiful; simply lovely…

By: Connie Willis / Narrated By: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Cutesy becomes utterly DELIGHTFUL when paired with Chaos Theory…!

A Novel

By: Matt Haig / Narrated By: Mark Meadows

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Beautiful. That’s all… Just beautiful.

By: Walter M. Miller Jr. / Narrated By: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Iffy narration doesn’t get anywhere neeeear keeping this from being an absolutely BEAUTIFUL book!!!

By: Carrie Anne Noble / Narrated By: Amanda S. Brown

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

A mashup of old and new and all in between—just deLIGHTful!!!

Series: The Time Police, Book 2

By: Jodi Taylor / Narrated By: Zara Ramm

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

Not as AWEsome as the first in the series, but am I getting the Next? You BETCHA!

And Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler / Narrated By: Janina Edwards

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Infinitely intriguing; Infinitely disturbing… AWESOME…!

By: Matt Haig / Narrated By: Carey Mulligan

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Surprisingly stellar; thought I might hate it but wound up weeping at the end and loving my life… Go figure…!

Series: Earthseed, Book 1

By: Octavia E. Butler / Narrated By: Lynne Thigpen

Length: 12 hrs

Hope amongst the stuff that will give you nightmares

Series: The Time Police, Book 1

By: Jodi Taylor / Narrated By: Zara Ramm

Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins

Oooooh! Let’s get ready for a new series, y’all!

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!

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover / Narrated By: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Big Sis and I differed on this, but hey! listen to meeeeee: Devastatingly fanTAStic!!!

The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Written and Narrated By: Alan Paul, Andy Aledort / Epilogue: Jimmie Vaughan

Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins

Memories of a WonderMan… and some pretty goshdanged Ugly Sobs as well

A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

By: Ben MacIntyre / Narrated By: John Lee

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

A smarmy, schmoozy, amoral… Hero?!? This is so entertaining as To DIE For!!!

A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances

By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel

Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins

My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!

The Madness of American Incarceration

Written and Narrated By: Christine Montross

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

A most DEFinite slug to the gut—with the tiiiiiniest of glimmers of Hope at the end. And I DO mean TINY

On Vision Lost and Found

Written and Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

NOT what I was expecting; and that’s a GOOD thing!

A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

By: Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary / Narrated By: Ruth Coker Burks

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Moving, heartfelt, emotionally evocative, and I could go on. Let’s leave it at simply stunning.

Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying

By: Joe Hammond / Narrated By: Russell Tovey

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Well-written, well-narrated. BeYONd heartbreaking, yet so very loving

By: Paul Brickhill / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

You KNOW how it ends, but it’s STILL so gosh darned mesmerizing!!!

My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski / Narrated By: Erin Moon

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Oh a mighty HUZZAH for Moms and Animals!

The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

By: Luke Harding / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins

Enlightened the first Listen morphs into, well, stunned for the second… Do give this a Listen

Seventeen Brushes with Death

By: Maggie O'Farrell / Narrated By: Daisy Donovan

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Beautifully written, hauntingly touching; just absolutely stunning…

Pioneer in Racial Advancement

By: John M. Carroll / Narrated By: JD Jackson

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

The man’s story is sooo good, sooo inspiring…!

A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife

By: Rodney Stotts, Kate Pipkin - contributor / Narrated By: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Listen to the Universe; Lean into the Dream…!

How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place

By: David Sheff / Narrated By: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Listened to it twice cuz once, quite simply, was NOT enough.

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!!!

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

ZOUNDS!!!!!!

My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle / Narrated By: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Oh gosh, went into this with loooow expectations but hopeful…? Finished oh soooo enchanted!!!

(Abridged)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!

The True Story of How One Amazing Dog Changed His Owner's Life

By: John Tovey, Veronica Clark / Narrated by: Philip Ormond

Length: 7 hrs and 39 min

Went in worried about non-Brit narrator, but dang! the story just carried the day and made this magNIficent!

The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Written and Narrated By: Gregory Boyle

Length: 10 hrs

I prefer to say “Gosh”, but here? I HAVE to say it: Thank God for Gregory Boyle!

The Magic and Madness of a Life for the Birds

Written and Narrated By: Eric Dempsey

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Yeh yeh yeh—like watching paint dry… BUT if you’re NUTTY about birds? AWESOME!!!

The Extraordinary Journey of a Boy and His Comfort Rabbits, and How They’re Teaching Us About Hope and Kindness

By: Caleb Smith / Foreword & Epilogue By: Caleb Smith / Narrated By: Michael Gallagher

Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins

AbsoLUTEly ASTOUNDING…!

By: Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

MAGNIFICENT!!!

By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!

Memory, My Mother, and Me

By: Cathie Borrie / Narrated By: Jill Tucker, Cathie Borrie

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Sometimes lovely, sometimes heartbreaking—Bits and pieces strung together; it’s Life in all its desperate and gorgeous glory…

Tales from a Sex Pistol

Written and Narrated By: Steve Jones

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Honest, soooo honest, totally honest, BRUTALLY honest… LOVED it…

Life Among the Emperors

Written and Narrated By: Lindsay McCrae

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Okay okay writing’s not the best okay! -BUT- It has freaking penguins!!!

Overcoming Today's BS for Tomorrow's Success

Written and Narrated By: Kevin Hart

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Went in hoping for >Meh< but came out with >WOW<

The One

Series: The One collection

Written and Narrated By: Jess Walter

Length: 49 mins

Can you really pack that much into just 49 minutes? …Yesssss…!!!

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…

The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945

By: Julia Boyd / Narrated By: Christa Lewis

Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins

Three words? Stunning. Terrifying. Timely…

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

Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins

Erudite and clever crafting, impeccable narration!

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!!!

A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

By: Ben MacIntyre / Narrated By: John Lee

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

A smarmy, schmoozy, amoral… Hero?!? This is so entertaining as To DIE For!!!

Escape from the Battleship Oklahoma

By: Stephen Bower Young / Narrated By: Tim Murphy

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

An Edge of the Seat Listen

The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

By: Keith Thomson / Narrated By: Feodor Chin

Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins

When pillaging and mayhem are… hiLARious…!

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…

By: Michael Herr / Narrated By: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

I may say this a lot, but oh yes: STUNNING

By: Walter Lord / Narrated By: Fred Williams

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Brilliant classic!

The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

By: Damien Lewis / Narrated By: Matt Bates

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Is it just me, or did the Publisher’s Summary get this AWEsome story entirely wrong?!

The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

By: Jonathan Kaufman / Narrated By: Joel Richards

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Engaging, a real treat!

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham

Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins

Overwhelming… Familiar…

Pioneer in Racial Advancement

By: John M. Carroll / Narrated By: JD Jackson

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

The man’s story is sooo good, sooo inspiring…!

The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness

By: Jennifer Berry Hawes / Introduction: Jennifer Berry Hawes / Narrated By: Karen Chilton

Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins

ExTENsive and even-handed reporting on a tragedy made this a MUST Listen

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!!!

The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

ZOUNDS!!!!!!

(Abridged)

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Editor: Clayborne Carson / Narrated By: Levar Burton

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

BeYONd inspiring; beYONd heartbreaking. Just truly excellent!

By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

No finer essayist on All Things American—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly… The Hilarious…!

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…

An Oral History of Women in World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich, Translated By: Richard Pevear Larissa Volokhonsky / Narrated By: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins

Emotions so raw, so fierce, so devastating… A MUST-Listen

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!!!

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