These days I don’t read much, but I do have 60 to 120+ otherwise boring minutes during my commute. So I listen to audiobooks.
I have die-hard reader friends that simply (OMG) cannot! listen to audiobooks. And if that’s you, that’s fine. I understand. But for the past decade or so, I’ve had trouble reading. Not trouble knowing how to read or the trouble with the mechanical process of reading. (Although come to think of it, the drop off in my reading habit started about the same time that my eyesight decided to go all 40 on me). No, after about twenty-five or so years of loving to read after discovering that was even a possibility in high school, the act finally became common enough that my ADHD decided to say, “Nah. Let’s do something else instead.”
It hurt to admit that. It really did. I love to read. Or more accurately maybe, I LOVE having read. I love the characters. I love being fooled by an otherwise obvious plot. I love figuring out the plot and watching it come to fruition. I love when a book puts me into a space, and I live there for a time, the memories every bit as real as my own – or
So yeah, having lost the will to read has been a sad, almost painful experience. But I do not have my friends’ aversion to listening to stories. First of all, I’m partially an audio learner. Second, I’m a naturally slow reader. When I do read, I slowly stroll through a book and
2018 had me completing thirty-six audiobooks. Granted, not all of them were full-length novels (50,000 words or more), particularly the writing craft and self help books, but others were quite long indeed, particularly the Bill the Vampire collections which were a steal at one Audible credit for each collection of four novels.
Craft writing books were big last year (most of Chris Fox’s works) as were LitRPG books (marked with an * in the list below). LitRPG is the sub-genre of sci-fi that involves people being pulled into game worlds. Usually the game worlds are video games, but sometimes they are also pen and paper games like DnD. The mechanics of the games are very important to the genre, and often the books deal with the main character’s progress as much or more than the central plot – usually how to survive long enough to get home. It’s a fun genre. I’ve completed all the LitRPG books in any series I started this year. I just have to know how the characters progress!
I have a least
So here’s my list of audiobooks I completed in 2018. No. That’s a lie. I listened to Bird by Bird and Monster Hunter: Vendetta too, but I purchased those in 2017 instead of this year. I listened to both this year as well. Both were excellent. There are also some books that I started but for one reason or another, I never finished. I did not include those. So, here’s the list of audiobooks I purchased and completely listened to in 2018.
Warbound By: Larry Correia
Spellbound By: Larry Correia
Port of Shadows
War Aeternus 3: The Culling *
War Aeternus 2: Sacrifices * By: Charles Dean
War Aeternus: The Beginning *
Ritualist *
The Land: Predators: A LitRPG Saga
The Land: Raiders: A LitRPG Saga
The Land: Swarm *
The Land: Catacombs * By: Aleron Kong
The Land: Alliances: A LitRPG Saga *
The Tome of Bill Series: Books 5-8 *
The Land: Forging *
The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga *
Write to Market: Deliver a Book That Sells
Launch to Market: Easy Marketing for Authors
Six Figure Author
NPCs *
Plot Gardening: A Simple Guide to Outlining Your Novel
The Tome of Bill Series: Books 1-4
The Weirdest Noob *
Lifelong Writing Habit: The Secret to Writing Every Day
The Haunting of Blackwood House
The Darkening By: Paul Antony Jones
Super Sales on Super Heroes 2 *
Critical Failures V * By: Robert Bevan
Dungeon Calamity *
Prosperity for Writers
Super Sales on Super Heroes *
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 2 *
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs *
Dungeon Madness *
Write Like a Boss
5,000 Words Per Hour
Dungeon Born *
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