Tag: best audiobooks

It’s been a while, but I’m excited to be back with a post for the Bionic Bookworm’s Top 5 Tuesday!

Books surprise us all the time. Usually, it’s something that we think we’re going to like and end up LOVING! I guess there’s the other kind of surprise, where we think a book is right up our alley and end up hating it. I didn’t both putting any of those books on this list. Good surprises only.

 

FURIOUSLY HAPPY
by Jenny Lawson

One of those books that I didn’t hear a single bad thing about, but it just didn’t seem like it was for me. I was wrong. Full of insight and hilarity all the way through.

 

11/22/63
by Stephen King

I don’t know why King’s books still surprise me. I always know I’m going to like them, but when I read the synopsis, I never think I’m going to LOVE them. I’m wrong pretty much every time.

 

THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS
by Katy Rose Pool

I believe this was a debut, and there was some fire behind it, so I was relatively confident this was going to be pretty great and it still managed to exceed expectations!

 

THE WAREHOUSE
by Rob Hart

This might have been the biggest surprise of the year. It sounded like a cool premise, but I hadn’t heard of the author and the cover made me think it was self-published (not that there aren’t great self-published books.) However, this delighted me in several ways.

 

A MAN CALLED OVE
by Fredrik Backman

Okay, maybe THIS was the biggest surprise of the year. It’s one of those books that just doesn’t sound like there’s much going on. And there wasn’t in an action, monsters, and spaceships sense. But there’s plenty of meaning and feels in this delightful page-turner.

Fun fact about this post: It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything, but November was crazy and I promise I’ll tell you about it soon.

Hello Top 5 Tuesday! How the heck are you? It’s been a minute or two hasn’t it? First I was unavailable, then the I couldn’t think of books for the next week’s topic, then the Bionic Bookworm herself is off on a well-deserved vacay, and now here we are, together, looking at audiobooks. Which, honestly, without audiobooks I couldn’t read half of what I do in the average month. Probably more than half. That being said, narrowing it down to 5 is a special circle of hell for me. Thanks Shanah…

 

 

ANYTHING WRITTEN BY STEPHEN KING AND NARRATED BY WILL PATTON!

I can’t tell if Will Patton makes Stephen King books that much better, or if Will Patton seems so good because he gets to read Stephen King books. I like to believe it’s a combination. King’s books are some of the best out there, but Will Patton’s performance elevates them to a whole other level!

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WORLD WAR Z
by Max Brooks

With a full cast and written in the style of recorded interviews, this book was destined to be an audiobook. It’s one of those rare books that might actually be better as an audiobook.

 

SLEEPING GIANTS
by Sylvain Neuvel

See above reasons.

 

ILLUMINAE
by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

This one is a treat for the ears! It’s what I imagine radio plays must have been like. Full cast, sound effects, and of course the killer story that I originally took in with my eyes is just as good with ears.

 

 

SCRAPPY LITTLE NOBODY
by Anna Kendrick

Anyone who has seen Anna Kendrick on a talkshow knows that she’s funny. Not just when she’s in a movie with funny lines written for her. No. She’s funny all by herself. And with this book being narrated by the author, that humour is in full swing and on display for all to enjoy. I’m usually not that big a fan of bios. They usually have some interesting stuff, but usually don’t impress me as a book. This one was an outlier and I highly recommend it!

Fun fact about this post: This is only my second post in all of the October so far. What the hell happened!?