2020 CHALLENGE - Audiobook Challenge, Wrap-Up Post

 2020 AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE

hosted by Hot Listens and Caffeinated Reviewer

COMPLETED

I signed up for the 2020 Audiobook Challenge hosted by Hot Listens and Caffeinated Reviewer. It was my first year for the challenge because I love audiobooks and read a lot of books with my ears. Then 2020 happened and I forgot I had even signed up. I didn't keep track as I went along. Thanks to LibraryThing, I can go back and piece together my list.

My plan was to find as many audiobooks from my library that are on all the book lists I'm working on, with the goal of getting through at least 30 audiobooks in 2020. I ended up reading 61 audiobooks, so far surpassed my goal of 30!

BOOKS READ FOR THIS CHALLENGE

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Women's Prize)

The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics By Kevin D. Williamson

Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Costa Book of the Year)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Warlight by Michaele Ondaatje

Calypso by Davis Sedaris

The Overstory by Richard Powers (Pulitzer Prize)

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving  by Angela Santomero

Patrimony by Philip Roth

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry 

Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (National Book Award)

Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn (Wodehouse Prize)
Never Mind: Book One of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Bad News: Book Two of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Some Hope: Book Three of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
Mother's Milk: Book Four of the Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
At Last: The Final Patrick Melrose Novel by Edward St. Aubyn

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (National Book Award)
Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
The Likeness by Tana French
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize)

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Edgar Award)

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (Wodehouse Award)
The Invitation by Lucy Foley

The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman (Erica Jong List)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Classics Club)

The Underground Railroad by Coleson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize)

The Nickel Boys by Coleson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize)

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Edgar Award)

The White Album by Joan Didion

The Stranger by Albert Camus (Classics Club)
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (Classics Club)
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Murder Room by P. D. James

The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

Writers & Lovers by Lily King
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
The Hanging in the Hotel by Simon Brett
A Venetian Reckoning (aka Death and Judgment) by Donna Leon

Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

Jump the Gun by Zoe Burke

Almost all of the audiobooks I read I got from my library, using the Libby app, and listened to the on my phone. I have a bare-bones Audible account and got a few books using it. I find that most of the books on Audible are available through the library, although you have to waitlist many of them.