2022 Favorite Listens

Ah jeez, is it just me, or is Time just being All-Fraught, like, ALL of the time?!

2022 brought inflation, supply chain breakdowns, further unrest…

You know! Hap Hap HAPPY STUFF!

-BUT-

2022 also brought some mighty fine Listening to, well, meeeee! Please enjoy the audiobooks (New to me) that just danged-well knocked m’ socks off!

Cuz it’s like this, see: If the world is gonna get weird? It’s up to us to be weirder, as in: Show kindness (RADICAL, huh?!), love all we can… AND truly enjoy our Listening Time!

What were YOUR favorite Listens? Oh dooo tell!!! Shoot me a line, and let’s get ‘em added to Shared Faves for 2023, yessss?!

Or dive into all of my favorites regardless of listening year


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Favorite Historical Fiction:

By: Aaron Jackson / Narrated By: Joel Froomkin

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Whazzis? An Impulse Buy… that delighted me… to tears

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Favorite Contemporary Fiction:

By: Nick Alexander / Narrated By: Imogen Church

Length: 12 hrs and 1 min

Life can be Ugly, so it’s awesome when the story-crafting is so goshdarned LOVELY

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Favorite Kids:

Series: Kenny and the Dragon, Book 2

By: Tony DiTerlizzi / Narrated By: Alan Cumming

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins

Book One? AMAZING! This, Book Two? AMAZING—plus—Tissues, please >sniffle<

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Favorite Teens:

By: Daniel Woodrell / Narrated By: Emma Galvin

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Harsh, bitter, biting, brutal… Stunning

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Favorite Fantasy:

By: Tamsyn Muir / Narrated By: Moira Quirk

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Oh yeh, Muir went THERE! and oh how hiLARious!

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Favorite Magical Realism:

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Jacqueline Milne

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

The. Most. BEAUTIFUL Love Story… EVER!

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Favorite History:

Written and Narrated By: Giles Milton

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

Thrills! Spills! Chills! -And- KA-BOOOOMs Galore!

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Favorite Military:

By: Michael Herr / Narrated By: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

The 2022 Slug To The Gut Award… just Wow…

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Favorite Bio / Memoir:

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

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

There are, quite simply, no words for depth, beauty, such as this

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Favorite Mystery:

Series: The Last Policeman, Book 3

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

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Did NOT expect to adore this series; did NOT expect an Ending that brings on the Tears

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Much Loved Animals:

By: Merlin Tuttle / Narrated By: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins

Unlikely, yes, but oh how I LOVED this!

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Favorite Holiday Listen:

By: Alan Russell / Narrated By: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Well, if you’re not going to sob at Christmas, when ARE ya gonna sob?!

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Most Soundly Deserved Thrashing:

By: Richard Flanagan / Narrated By: Essie Davis

Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins

Oh.

My.

GOD!!!

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