Bonus List: Audiobooks!
These are in alphabetical order rather than chronological, just because. I haven't bothered to mark which ones are new and which ones I've listened to before, also because. I am full of just becauses, and that is how I like it.
Elizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted April
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Lady Susan
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara
John Burnside - The Glister
Rachel Caine - Glass Houses
Orson Scott Card - Wyrms
Sean B. Carroll - Remarkable Creatures
Leslie T. Chang - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews
Agatha Christie - Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Douglas Clegg - Nightmare House
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Volume I
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Volume II
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sherlock Holmes Theatre
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
George Eliot - Adam Bede
P.N. Elrod - Bloodlist
Michael Gruber - The Witch's Boy
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
Daniel Hecht - City of Masks
Robert A. Heinlein - The Star Beast
Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Richard Matheson - The Incredible Shrinking Man
Ian McEwan - Atonement (Abridged)
Stephenie Meyer - The Host
Arthur Miller - The Crucible (L.A. Theater Works)
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery - Chronicles of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery - Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Larry Niven - The Integral Trees
Joyce Carol Oates - The Gravedigger's Daughter
Christopher Paolini - Eragon
Christopher Paolini - Eldest
Irene M. Pepperberg - Alex & Me
Yuri Rasovsky - Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Amy Tan - The Bonesetter's Daughter
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
H.G. Wells - Strange Fiction
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Wilhelm - Huysman's Pets
Kate Wilhelm - Welcome, Chaos
P.G. Wodehouse - The Adventures of Sally
P.G. Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert
P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing
P.G. Wodehouse - The Mating Season
P.G. Wodehouse - Something New
P.G. Wodehouse - The Swoop!
P.G. Wodehouse - Three Men and a Maid
P.G. Wodehouse & C.H. Bovill - A Man of Means
Grand total: 70. (Since I didn't bother to number them. Apparently I'm too good to type numbers in front of things.)
I have to say, if you'd told me five years ago that there'd come a time when the number of audiobooks I listened to in a year would be larger than the number of ink-and-paper books I read, I would have scoffed at you. Scoffed.
But then, five years ago I hadn't had an mp3 player for very long at all, and the only things I really listened to on it were music and podcasts. (And the podcasts were mostly shows containing music.)
Most of the audiobooks I listened to came from the library, and most of them were on cassette. I really only listened to them in my car, which didn't work out to all that much listening time.
Library2Go and Librivox have made made huge differences in my listening habits. Also, I've gone from a job where I had to keep my ears open for clients and the phone all the time to a job where we're closed for most of my shift, and I'm free to take Poirot or Jeeves and Wooster along with me while I walk dogs and so forth.
To the scoffing five-years-ago me I can only say: Embrace what's coming. You get more books into your brain this way! And that, you must admit, is futuriffic.
Elizabeth von Arnim - The Enchanted April
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Lady Susan
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey
Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara
John Burnside - The Glister
Rachel Caine - Glass Houses
Orson Scott Card - Wyrms
Sean B. Carroll - Remarkable Creatures
Leslie T. Chang - Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews
Agatha Christie - Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey
Douglas Clegg - Nightmare House
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Frederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes III
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Volume I
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Volume II
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sherlock Holmes Theatre
Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
George Eliot - Adam Bede
P.N. Elrod - Bloodlist
Michael Gruber - The Witch's Boy
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
Daniel Hecht - City of Masks
Robert A. Heinlein - The Star Beast
Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen - Hedda Gabler
Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Richard Matheson - The Incredible Shrinking Man
Ian McEwan - Atonement (Abridged)
Stephenie Meyer - The Host
Arthur Miller - The Crucible (L.A. Theater Works)
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery - Chronicles of Avonlea
L.M. Montgomery - Further Chronicles of Avonlea
Larry Niven - The Integral Trees
Joyce Carol Oates - The Gravedigger's Daughter
Christopher Paolini - Eragon
Christopher Paolini - Eldest
Irene M. Pepperberg - Alex & Me
Yuri Rasovsky - Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls
Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Amy Tan - The Bonesetter's Daughter
Jules Verne - Journey to the Center of the Earth
Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
H.G. Wells - Strange Fiction
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kate Wilhelm - Huysman's Pets
Kate Wilhelm - Welcome, Chaos
P.G. Wodehouse - The Adventures of Sally
P.G. Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert
P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing
P.G. Wodehouse - The Mating Season
P.G. Wodehouse - Something New
P.G. Wodehouse - The Swoop!
P.G. Wodehouse - Three Men and a Maid
P.G. Wodehouse & C.H. Bovill - A Man of Means
Grand total: 70. (Since I didn't bother to number them. Apparently I'm too good to type numbers in front of things.)
I have to say, if you'd told me five years ago that there'd come a time when the number of audiobooks I listened to in a year would be larger than the number of ink-and-paper books I read, I would have scoffed at you. Scoffed.
But then, five years ago I hadn't had an mp3 player for very long at all, and the only things I really listened to on it were music and podcasts. (And the podcasts were mostly shows containing music.)
Most of the audiobooks I listened to came from the library, and most of them were on cassette. I really only listened to them in my car, which didn't work out to all that much listening time.
Library2Go and Librivox have made made huge differences in my listening habits. Also, I've gone from a job where I had to keep my ears open for clients and the phone all the time to a job where we're closed for most of my shift, and I'm free to take Poirot or Jeeves and Wooster along with me while I walk dogs and so forth.
To the scoffing five-years-ago me I can only say: Embrace what's coming. You get more books into your brain this way! And that, you must admit, is futuriffic.