Tuesday, March 26, 2019

March 26, Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week’s TTT topic is Audio Freebie

I guess I am still getting into audio books as I do not listen too many, but there already a lot of favorites.

1. The Diviners series by Libba Bray
Narrated by January LaVoy 
Goodreads
Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.
Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.
As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

2. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling 
Narrated by Jim Dale
Goodreads
Audible
      Well everybody knows what it is about.

3. The Illuminae Files series by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Narrated by a full cast 
Goodreads
Audible
  Illuminae is a 2015 young adult space opera epistolary novel written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The story is told through a series of classified documents, censored emails, interviews, and others. Illuminae is set in 2575 and is the story of teenage colonist Kady Grant and her fighter pilot boyfriend Ezra Mason.

5. Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by a full cast
    A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
    Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown
 

6. Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo 
 Narrated by John Lee
Goodreads
      Harry Hole is the main character in a series of crime novels written by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. Hole is a brilliant and driven detective with unorthodox methods, a classic loose cannon in the police force.  Hole is unmarried but has had relationships with a number of women throughout the series of twelve novels. Otherwise, he has few close friends. Hole frequently makes enemies among his colleagues who, nevertheless, grudgingly respect him.

7. Wayward Pines Series by Blake Crouch
Narrated by Paul Michael Garcia
The Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–2014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch. It follows U.S. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke as he unravels the mystery surrounding his unanticipated arrival in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho following a devastating car accident. The novels are Pines (2012), Wayward (2013), and The Last Town (2014). In 2015, the novels were adapted into the television series Wayward Pines. 

8.  Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Narrated by Caroline Lee
Goodreads
Pirriwee Public's annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might have been cold-blooded murder.
In this thought-provoking novel, number-one New York Times best-selling author Liane Moriarty deftly explores the reality of parenting and playground politics, ex-husbands and ex-wives, and fractured families. And in her pitch-perfect way, she shows us the truth about what really goes on behind closed suburban doors.


20 comments:

  1. I love Big Little Lies and I can imagine it being pretty awesome on audio! Same with illuminae. And I enjoyed the wayward books as well- another series that is probably amazing as an audio!

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    1. There are lot of good books now in audioformat. And that's so good.

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  2. I'd somehow missed the fact that the Harry Potter books were audiobooks, too. Cool.

    This is our Top Ten Tuesday.

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    1. Yes, once you re-read them 20 times, you start to search for different formats)))

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  3. A lot of people have been recommending the Illuminae audiobooks to me! My friend loves The Diviners series, so maybe I'll have to give that one a try.
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/top-ten-tuesday-204/

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  4. The Wayward Pines made for a very good TV show. I'd bet it was just as good in audiobook form.

    My Top Ten Tuesday post.

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  5. I had my eye on the audiobook for Big Little Lies! I have a lot of issues re: focusing on audiobooks but I feel like that is definitely one of those books that would be easy to listen to, especially since I've read it already in physical form. Great picks!

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  6. I don't listen to audiobooks much. (Actually, never.) So my list would be even shorter than yours.

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    1. That's a pity, as I learned to enjoy audio books

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  7. I would love to do a re-read of Big Little Lies with the audio version.

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    1. I might do the opposite thing: read it in paper))

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  8. Big Little Lies sounds interesting...

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  9. Yes, January LaVoy is a fantastic narrator for The Diviners!

    Lauren @ Always Me

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  10. I really want to check out The Diviners. Great list!
    Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian

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