Contagions, Pandemics and the Apocalypse
Apocalypse & Pandemics Fiction:
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: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
Beautiful; simply lovely…
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…!!!
By: Albert Camus / Narrated By: James Jenner
Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
Pretty sure it wasn’t Camus, and goodness knows I ain’t gonna blame m’self for it, but…
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
Oh, if he could see us now… stuck in one of those cycles… HOPING to get to a new and better one
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…!
Series: Pax, Book 2
By: Sara Pennypacker / Narrated By: Michael Curran-Dorsano
Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
Jeez, and I thought the first book made me cry…!
By: Cormac McCarthy / Narrated By: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
Sucker punched? Not quite. Shattered, cripes yes…
Series: Seasons of Man, Book 1
By: S.M. Anderson / Narrated By: Jay Snyder
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Cuz the current pandemic makes me hanker for even more pandemic schtuff… It’s the end of the woooooorld!!! :)
A Novel
By: Waubgeshig Rice / Narrated By: Billy Merasty
Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
A quiet tale that builds and Builds and BUILDS until I danged near screamed with the tension!
A Novel
Written and Narrated By: C. A. Fletcher
Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
And this might show how easy an audience I am: I was taken by the twists at the end!
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: 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 Merliss Tales, Book 1
By: Jeff Chapman / Narrated By: Jannie Meisberger
Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
A cat’s eye view into a fantastical world—Enchanting and filled with grit and humor!
By: Peter Heller / Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
Question: Is this a good story because of Mark Deakins, or in spite of Mark Deakins…?
Stories
By: Jess Walter / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini / Afterword By: Jess Walter
Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
Truly exquisite and creative stories with Ballerini at his BEST!
By: Marlen Haushofer / Narrated By: Kathe Mazur
Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
Almost five years past my review on Audible, the listen this time? WOW…!
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: Ray Bradbury / Narrated By: Mark Boyett
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
I bow low, touching my forehead to the earth; all in homage to the great Ray Bradbury!
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!
Pandemic
By: Alex Burns / Narrated By: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
Wait, wait, wait! Lemme spare you the time—
Series: The Last Policeman, Book 2
By: Ben H. Winters / Narrated By: Peter Berkrot
Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
So help me, this series is growing on me… big time!
By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett / Narrated By: Martin Jarvis
Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
Heavenly writing. Wickedly funny!
Series: The Last Policeman, Book 1
By: Ben H. Winters / Narrated By: Peter Berkrot
Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
One book in the series down, two to go!
Series: Prequel, Book 0
By: Keith C. Blackmore / Narrated By: RC Bray
Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
My first zombie book! …and I’m so disappointed…
Contagions & Pandemics Nonfiction:
An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
By: John Kelly / Narrated By: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
Yeh, yeh, yeh: It sometimes gets a bit repetitive, but Oh. My. GOD!!! One of the best books on the Plague out there
History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
By: Jennifer Wright / Narrated By: Gabra Zackman
Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
Maybe not very Academic, but WILDLY entertaining… Plus, the cover has the Creepy Beak-Doctor from my nightmares…!
A True Story
By: Richard Preston / Narrated By: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
Disjointed? A bit… but soooo exciting: Listened to it in a single sitting!
On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
By: Ali Khan, William Patrick / Narrated By: Ben Sullivan
Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
Kinda good, kinda…. >Meh<
How Microbes Shaped Our History
By: Dorothy H. Crawford / Narrated By: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
Taken in by the cover; bored to death by the text
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!
By: Steven Johnson / Narrated By: Alan Sklar
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
The rambling Epilogue can’t mar what’s a really nifty story of sage sleuthing
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris / Narrated By: Ralph Lister
Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
Superb narration takes us on a downright dirty jaunt into Victorian medicine
A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy / Narrated By: Johnny Heller
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Can Rabies be a lot of fun?!? Why, yes! It can! HUZZAH!