I love Hot Listens and Caffeinated Reviewer’s audiobook challenge. For my audiobook challenge I wanted to listen to 20+ books this year and I did it! This is a challenge I have participated in for a few years and each year I find more ways to integrate audiobooks into my reading life. This year that makes me a Binge Listener!
THE BOOKS
cover of Elton John book “”Me” featuring Elton wearing rainbow sunglasses 
“The Greatest Love Story Ever Told” Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally sit together surrounded by pink roses. 
“The Zookeepers Wife” a gate to a zoo with the sky in the background. 
A profile black and white picture of Cary Grant for the cover of Cary Grant 
The Cover of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry features a silhouette walking in front of a rainbow of the night sky. 
A bright yellow cover of The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl has Issa Raw in glasses wearing a white button down. 
The Hunger Games: A black cover with a golden pin of a mockingjay. 
Catching Fire Cover: a red cover with the mockingjay mid-flight 
Mockingjay cover: a light blue with the mockingjay flying away 
A grey book cover with blue green and pink text messaging boxes and the title “Notes on a Nervous Planet.” 
The Cover of The Humans is a white cover with a pencil drawing of a nose 
How to Stop Time: a blue cover with silhouettes of people holding hands, playing the piano and a ship 
Finding Audry has a yellow and orange striped cover with an illustration of a girl with sunglasses 
The Year of Less cover with simple drawings of birds, dragonflies, leaves, and clouds. 
The Dutch House cover: an oil painting of a girl with long black hair and blue eyes wearing a red coat 
The Power of Habit cover is illustrated people running, climbing and falling off of a hamster wheel 
The Ghost Hunter Next door cover: a cartoon red headed woman sitting with a white cat 
The Canterville Ghost: an old two story house in shades of grey with a ghost out front 
Daisy Jones and the Six cover: a woman’s face surrounded by redish curling hair 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: different pictures of a woman cut apart 
Five women in a black and white photograph in military uniform smile under the title: Code Girls, The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II 
Furthermore: a vivid colorful cover with a cartoon girl in the middle who is nearly devoid of color 
A Boy Called Christmas cover: a boy wearing a red Santa hat riding a flying reindeer 
MY NONFICTION AUDIOBOOKS
I love listening to nonfiction audiobooks, especially memoirs. This year I enjoyed Me by Elton John, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, Cary Grant: A Class Apart by Graham McCann, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae, Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig, The Year of Less by Cait Flanders, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, Code Girls by Liza Mundy, The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone, The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Kranonstein, A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell and The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
MY FICTION AUDIOBOOKS
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackermann, The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, The Humans by Matt Haig, How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella, The Dutch House by Ann Pratchett, The Ghost Hunter Next Door by Danielle Garrett, The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkinds Reid, Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi, A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig.
MY FAVORITE LISTENS OF 2020
I listened to so many fantastic audiobooks but there were three stand-out listens for me this year. Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig is the book that landed in my lap at precisely the right time. In the middle of a pandemic, the book radically changed how I allowed the world into my home and my head via social media and the news. I have probably recommended this book so much I have overhyped it but it was, honestly, the book that saved my sanity this year.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a gorgeous story but was perfectly narrated by Tom Hanks. I felt like I knew this family through this story and Tom Hanks brought them fully to life and made them important to me. The end of the book was like saying goodbye to each of them.
Similarly, Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid was a nearly perfect audiobook. This story of a band coming together and falling apart in the 1970s had everything I wanted in a story and was exquisitely casted. In a rare moment of peace this year I sat and watched the sun set as I listened to the final chapter.
Tell me, please! What were your favorite audiobooks of 2020?
Silver Button Books 
Oh Daisy Jones is amazing on audio!
Cnograts on finishing your goal!
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Thanks! Audiobooks were like weekend guests for me this year.
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Daisy was definitely one of my faves this year!
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It really lived up to the hype didn’t it?
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