2020 Favorite Listens
Whoo boy!
Was 2020 some kinda year, or what?!?
Well, at least a Global Pandemic and all SORTS of civil unrest kept me home and hunkering down with m’ family... and with audiobooks...!
Not necessarily released this year, but DEFINITELY Wowzers, here are the audiobooks that had me celebrating 2020 (No really—there truly were reasons to give mighty Huzzahs)!
Or to dive into all of my favorites regardless of listening year, go to all my Faves →
Do you have a favorite audiobook that you’ve listened to this year? Email me at Gillian@AudiobookAccomplice.com and I’ll get it on the reviews!
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Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
Deep and fraught; shallow and histrionic: Ronson always, ALWAYS provides a hilarious descent into Hell
Written and Narrated By: Gregory Boyle
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Whazza? No longer available but through CDs?!? This is a gem, an epic of love hard-won! Beautiful!!!
By: Erik Larson / Narrated By: John Lee / Epilogue By: Erik Larson
Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
WOW! Can chaos and carnage and political machinations be good ol’ rollicking fun? YES!!!
Written and Narrated By: Kerry Egan
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
A StoryHolder tells tales of love
By: Tommy Orange / Narrated By: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo, Kyla Garcia
Length: 8 hrs
Astonishing, just absolutely astonishing
By: Jess Walter / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortego, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston, Frankie Maria Corzo
Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
WOW! Sometimes brutal, ENDlessly beautiful… just WOW!
Series: The Last Detail, Book 1
By: Darryl Ponicsan / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
Heartwarming tho’ sooooo bawdy!!!
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By: Rachel Joyce / Narrated By: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
Oh good golly gosh—how hard I fell for this story. Gorgeous: purely, simply
By: Barbara Metzger / Narrated By: Pippa Rathborne
Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
I howled with laughter and delight, but what’s this? Did I have to sob into a couple of tissues also…?
Series: Earthseed, Book 1
By: Octavia E. Butler / Narrated By: Lynne Thigpen
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…
By: Robin Sloan / Narrated By: Therese Plummer
Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
Oh Huzzah HUZZAH for this one!!!
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…!
By: Gillian McDunn / Narrated By: Cassandra Lee Morris
Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
As it was my pick for our little audiobook club, I held my breath… until I let out gasps of surprise and delight!
By: Tiffany D. Jackson / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin
Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
Not a Did She/Didn’t She—More like a young girl trying to survive, trying to live Hope in a brutal world…
