Audiobook Listening Challenge
Posted by: Mary Burkey
J.Kaye’s Book Blog is hosting an audiobook listening challenge for 2009. Think you can listen to 12 titles next year? Make it a New Year’s Resolution. Join in – and use the suggestions in my Audiobooker’s Choice part 1, part 2, and part 3 to get started! Or leave a comment with your suggestions of some great titles – including audiobooks for <gasp!> grown-ups 
December 31st, 2008 at 8:29 am
I’m in this challenge. Hope J Kaye gets lots of participants. Now I’m off to see your lists.
January 7th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I’m actually a huge audiobook fan, and got very much into it in 2008. I listened to 55! So I can join the challenge and try to beat my previous record. I’m interested to see your lists. Here are some of my suggestions from what I read in 2008:
-Artemis Fowl (series is MUCH better on audio)
-Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
-Founding Mothers
-A Single Shard
-Life of Pi
-Stargirl
-Freak the Mighty
-A Northern Light
-Dream When You’re Feeling Blue
-A Thousand Splendid Suns
-Holes
-The Hannah Swenson series
-Rebecca
I’m currently listening to “Al Capone Does My Shirts” and am loving it!
January 7th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Wow, Heidi! You are a true audiobook addict
Great list of titles – and Al Capone is on my personal all-time top audiobooks list.
Mary
January 8th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
i am also a hugh audio book addict. i have created a booklist (pdf) of audio recordings that i have listened to. http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/southview/media/booklists/booklists_listenup.html
i am listening to octavian nothing volume 2, just finished an abundance of katherines, the graveyard book, twelve, and skulduggery pleasant.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I am in on the challenge as well. I have listened to 18 so far this year, and am still going strong. I have created the list in my Audio Pod Library Favorites page and, if you visit my Bookmarks page, you can see which ones I currently have open and how far I have got through them. (http://www.audiopod.ca/audiopod/servlet/AudioPod?ra=RA85&P_2=1807&P_86=2) Feel free to visit.
From what I have listened to this year, I would have to say that the series of 4 Bloody Jack audiobooks are the best read. (‘Bloody Jack’, ‘Curse of the Blue Tattoo’, ‘In The Belly of the Bloodhound’, and ‘Under the Jolly Roger’) I think one of them has previously won an Audie Award, and another is nominated this year.