I started out rather strong and finished a couple of books right in the beginning of the year, and then I explored Audiobooks, which was the moment, when thing got, not necessarily out of hand, but surely a bit wild.

Once I started to read audiobooks two things happened almost immediately:

1. The time I spent reading an actual book declined almost immediately (this has also to do with the fact that I prefer focussing on one book at the time)
2. The time spent listening to podcasts declining equally dramatically. This is something that I always was thinking during all the Audible ads during podcasts: what I start listening to those, I will stop listening to this. Guess what, it happened. At the moment I have a developed a bit better balance, usually catching up with some shows once I have finished another book.

But now the books. First the actual books, and then the audiobooks. Technically there are a few audio-dramas in between, but I kept them in anyway. Also, I did not link to the book either, kind of was too lazy for that.

The Books

1. James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising
2. Dan Brown: Origin
3. John Scalzi: Your Hatemail Will Be Graded
4. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
5. V.A.Schwab: Vicous

The Audiobooks

1. Douglas Adams: Life, the Universe and Everything
2. Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless
3. Douglas Adams: So long, and thanks for all the fish
4. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide
5. Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the end of the world
6. Ernest Cline: Ready Player One
7. Martha Wells: All Systems Red
8. Martha Wells: Exit Strategy
9. Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol
10. Martha Wells: Artificial Condition
11. William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist
12. Ransom Riggs: Library Of Souls
13. Ransom Riggs: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
14. Ransom Riggs: Hollow City
15. Stephen King: Elevated
16. Stephen Hawking: A Brief History Of Time
17. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
18. Stephen Fry: Mythos -The Greek Myths Retold
19. Stephen Fry: Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets
20. Neil Degrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in A Hurry
21. Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
22. Tim Lebbon, Dirk Maggs: Alien – Out Of The Shadows
23. George R.R. Martin: Nightflyers and Other Stories
24. John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire
25. John Scalzi: The Android’s Dream
26. John Scalzi: The Redshirts
27. John Scalzi: Agent To The Stars
28. John Scalzi: Head On
29. John Scalzi: The End Of All Things
30. John Scalzi: The Human Division
31. John Scalzi: Zoe’s Tale
32. John Scalzi: The Collapsing Empire
33. John Scalzi: Lock In
34. Jason Dark: John Sinclair Compilation 4-7
35. N.K. Nemesin: The Stone Sky
36. N.K. Nemesin: The Obelisk Gate
37. N.K. Nemesin: The Fifth Season
38. Jonathan Maberry: Lullaby
39. Michael McDowell: Blackwater – The Complete Saga
40. Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
41. Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Dikr Maggs: The X-Files – Cold Cases
42. Sir Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes – The Definite Collection
43. Daniel José Older: The Last Shot
44. Peter Clines: The Fold
45. Peter Clines: 14

45 audiobooks! I’m sure there are people that have been listening to more, but I think this is quite an achievement. For my yearly stats post I had already calculated that this sums up to 23 days and 1 hour listening to audiobooks.

I’m looking forward to see how my list for next year is going to look like.