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: Patti Callahan / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins 

Listened to it, liked it. Thought about it, lackluster… So there you go…

By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins

ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…

By: Chet Raymo / Narrated By: Donal Donnelly

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Unique protagonist, gorgeous prose… oh my… how UN-engaging…

Written and Narrated By: Frank Delaney

Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins

Splendidly, Divinely, BOISTEROUSLY, Wonderful!

Series: Holiday Cozy Mystery, Book 1

By: Tonya Kappes / Narrated By: Elizabeth Demetrios

Length: 5 hrs

Sweet, but Suspend Disbelief (LIKE CRAZY!) all ye who enter here…!

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…

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!

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?!?

By: George Bernard Shaw / Narrated By: Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, Paul Merton, Peter Hall

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

My first George Bernard Shaw? Dude, it must be St. Paddy’s Day…

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!

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: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Aidan Kelly

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Intense, beautifully written, oh so ugly but lovely lovely lovely

A Novel

By: Colum McCann / Narrated By: Geraldine Hughes

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Yes, McCann can write, but it’s still Literary Fiction, and we all know I’m a pretty dismal person when it comes to all that…

By: Carmel Harrington / Narrated By: Jill Crawford, Frank Grimes

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Hated it, wondered about it, considered it, was moved by it, wound up loving it!

Series: The Pig Trilogy, Book 2

By: Joseph Caldwell / Narrated By: Chris Patton

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Fun, but can’t hold a candle to the first in the series!

Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1 (Publication order), Book 2 (Author’s preferred order)

By: C.S. Lewis / Narrated By: Michael York

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Such a joy! May I get to the next in the series soon? Pleeeeeease?!

Series: The Pig Trilogy, Book 1

By: Joseph Caldwell / Narrated By: Chris Patton

Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Oh what a surprise! Grinned, chuckled, laughed till I cried…!

Series: Finfarran, Book 1

By: Felicity Hayes-McCoy / Narrated By: Emma Lowe

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Definitely has its charm… but… it has a couple of deplorable characters too…!

A Novel

By: Jess Kidd / Narrated By: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Luminous writing, memorable characters—a strange and sometimes bumpy joy of a ride!

By: Jean Grainger / Narrated By: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Pretty good if really quite predictable. Then again, I do love all things Irish

By: Sara Baume / Narrated By: Heather O'Neill

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Sorry, Ms. Baume, but The Bell Jar has already been written…

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

By: Sara Baume / Narrated By: John Keating

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Stunning writing with perfect narration!

By: Oscar Wilde / Narrated By: Michael Page

Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins

So here I am, 30 some odd years outta High School, finally getting around to this book…

By: John Banville / Narrated By: John Lee

Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Gosh! What is it about the Irish! :)

The Chronicles of Narnia

Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6 (Publication order), Book 1 (Author’s preferred order)

By: C.S. Lewis / Narrated By: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins

Kenneth Branagh makes this a real treat!

A Novel

By: Cecelia Ahern / Narrated By: Ali Coffey

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

7 hours foot-stomping snits; 1 hour and 10 minutes intrigue; 15 minutes resolution… I need a drink!

A Novel

Series: Irish Country, Book 1

By: Patrick Taylor / Narrated By: John Keating

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Aha! NEVER let the patients get the upper hand!

The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home

By: Patrick Barrett, Susy Flory / Narrated By: Gary Furlong

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Gonna have to say it: NOT what I’d been expecting -AND- coulda been edited better… so >SOB<!!!

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…

An American Son's Search for Home

Written and Narrated By: Michael Brendan Dougherty

Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins

At less than 4 hours? Good gosh, the Publisher’s Summary tells ya all ya need to know

An Irish Girl's Journey from Maiden to Mother to Crone

Written and Narrated By: Alicia McMahon

Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins

Kinda sweet, kinda endearing, but I kinda shot m’self in the foot because—

A Memoir

Written and Narrated By: Tia Torres

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Never watched the show, but now I soooo wanna!

By: C.S. Lewis / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham

Length: 1 hr and 50 mins

One of the better books on sorrow

Calving Season on a Family Farm

By: John Connell / Narrated By: Alan Smyth

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

When living and working on a farm makes you more loving and NOT callous!

A Memoir

By: Martin McKenna / Narrated By: Aaron Abano

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

The Dirty Dog Gang raises a boy