Top Ten Tuesday used to be a weekly post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, but was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. “It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.” This is definitely something I can understand and want to participate in.
This week’s topic is a freebie, and I wanted to call some attention to awesome books that I haven’t reviewed on my blog. I love audiobooks, but I rarely post reviews of them on my blog. I like to relax while listening to them, and I rarely take the time to pull quotes from them, or write down content warnings. Instead of posting reviews on my blog, I write a quick review on Goodreads, but some of them have been so good that I wanted to highlight them today! Here’s ten amazing audiobooks that I loved but didn’t post on my blog:
- Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola — see my review here. This smart, engaging, and charming book about a young, Nigerian-British woman in college working towards social justice and falling in love was one that I couldn’t stop reading.
- Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan — see my review here. One of my favorite audiobook narrators wrote a book and it’s hilarious while still touching on serious topics, and has a main character with a disability.
- Some Maintenance Required by Marie-Renée Lavoie — see my review here. While this wasn’t a long book, it packed a huge emotional punch that hit me hard because I was so invested in the character.
- The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels — see my review here. A moving story of a young gay man with AIDS who moved back home to Ohio to die, where he finds himself not only facing his own death, but also homophobia and alienation. It gave me new insight into history that I was way too young to remember, but that had a tremendous impact on our society.
- Flying Solo by Linda Holmes — see my review here. This was a really cool mash-up of rom-com, mystery, heist, and even a little historical fiction, and the author really did great with all of them. I loved the MC and her acceptance of her new life after a cancelled wedding just before she turns forty.
- Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen — see my review here. This twisty read had me hooked from start to finish, and I loved the plot twists!
- The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain — see my review here. This sweet, heartwarming story of an older man who decides to change his life and work towards self-acceptance of being gay in his 60s was such a wonderful story!
- A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall — see my review here. Regency romance but make it trans? YES PLEASE! I couldn’t stop reading this, and absolutely loved every minute of this read.
- Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur — see my review here. Who doesn’t love the idea of an adorable romance between a free-spirited astrology buff and a hardcore realist, which turned out to be one of the hottest sapphic romances I’ve ever read?
- Violeta by Isabel Allende — see my review here. This incredible story follows the amazing 100 year life of a woman who was born in one pandemic and dies during a second, but has an incredible life that I couldn’t stop listening to.
What are some of your favorite audiobooks? Let me know so I can add them to my TBR!
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Written in the Stars sounds so good, I love the astrology angle 🙂
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I really enjoyed it! It was a great story.
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I loved the audiobooks for the whole Sleeping Giants series! It’s a phenomenal sci-fi series told through interviews and log files and the audiobooks have a full cast! I also really enjoyed Critical Role’s Kith and Kin (because I’m a huge Critical Role fan haha) it’s such a fun fantasy book and all the narrators are soooo good! Robbie Daymond really brings the world to life.
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I haven’t heard of those, but I’ll have to check them out!
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I love audiobooks, too. I usually review them as if I’d read them, mentioning the audiobook quality near the end of the review. Sometimes it is a challenge, thought, since I don’t have a physical book to look at when writing it. My TTT Freebie list
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Yes! I always refer back to the book while writing the review, so I find it really difficult to write reviews for audiobooks on my blog.
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These sound good. I don’t listen to Audiobooks, but maybe one day. I want to read Counterfeit. And Flying Solo sounds great – might need to add that to my list!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/top-ten-tuesday-storylines-settings-that-make-me-think-of-summer/
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I’ve only started listening to them recently, especially when I’m driving or doing chores. These are definitely great ones to start with if you do give them a shot!
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Thank you. I will keep that in mind. I listen to music when doing chores 🙂
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I’ve heard great things about Violeta.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-an-outdoor-adventures-reading-list/
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I’m a big fan of Isabel Allende in general, but Violeta was next level good.
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Honey and Spice and Lady For A Duke were both fantastic!
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YES! I’m so glad you agree.
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Violeta sounds great! Here’s my list: https://bonniereadsandwrites.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/top-ten-tuesday-top-10-books-featuring-animals-toptentuesday-bookswithanimals/
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It is one of my favorite Isabel Allende reads yet!
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Oh yes!!! Your post comes just at the right time!! I am looking for a few new audio books and now I have a whole nice list to chose from. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle will be my first choice. Violetta is in our Book Club, maybe I should try it on audio….
Project Hail Mary was a BRILLIANT audio book!
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
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Oooh! I hope you love them, and I’m so glad that this wound up being such a timely post for you. I’ve heard so much about Project Hail Mary, I’ll have to check it out as an audiobook, so thanks for the heads up!
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I want to read Written in the Stars so bad!!! Here is my post- https://paigesofnovels.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/top-ten-nine-tuesday-a-bookish-dnd-party/.
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I hope you get to read it soon – I loved the audiobook of it.
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The Prettiest Star sounds heartbreaking.
Currently, my favorite audiobooks are the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Dick Hill, who narrates the first handful or so, has a great voice.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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It was heartbreaking, but such an important story, and done beautifully. I’ll have to check out that series, but I hate when narrators are changed mid-series.
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I bet! I was a kid during the AIDS crisis in the 80’s, old enough to know it was bad, but not old enough to truly understand. I’ll have to check this one out.
Same here, but the last several Bosch books have been narrated by Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch in the Amazon series, so definitely an upgrade in the end!
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Me too – I remember knowing that things were bad, but not really getting the full extent of things at the time.
And it’s great to know that the narrator is actually an upgrade, so I’ll definitely have to check them out!
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Four of these books are on my TBR, so now I think I need to listen rather than read them. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh I love when my post influences how people choose to read a book! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
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the cover and your review for The secret life of albert entwistle made me immediately add it to my tbr.
my ttt: https://blessedmommysc.blogspot.com/2022/07/top-ten-tuesday-10-authors-i-want-to.html
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Oh, I’m so incredibly glad to hear that! I loved the story so much, and I hope you do too.
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Good topic. I loved Albert Entwistle!
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It was such a heartwarming story, wasn’t it?
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Written in the Stars is one of my all-time favorite audiobooks. I really need to reread it.
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You’re the one who got me to read it! Thank you so much for all of your recommendations – you’re the best.
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Always happy to help!
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This is a great topic! I can only listen to memoirs on audio but one two of my favorites this year have been Greenlights by McConaughey and Man Enough by Justin Baldoni!
My Top Ten!
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That’s awesome!
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I recently added Honey & Spice to my TBR – I read her first book Love in Color…..it’s short stories retelling myths from around the world changing them to female empowerment. Don’t know if its the same narrator.
my TTT: https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/ttt-evocative-novels-list
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Oh, that sounds amazing! I’m definitely going to have to check that one out. Thanks for the heads up!
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I love this topic. There are so many books I’d highlight that I haven’t showcased on my blog. I really want to read Written in the Stars myself. 😀
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Thank you! This was a great idea, since there were so many great books that I just never got around to posting on here. And Written in the Stars is such a fun read!
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So many of those sound fascinating! I wish I could listen to audiobooks, but I just can’t. I may have to add some of those to my TBR, though!
Stop by and see my first ever Top Ten Tuesday!
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They aren’t for everyone, but you might enjoy them a lot in book form!
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Love your list! Also, I’ve been hearing such amazing things about Honey and Spice! Need to read it.
– Sara and Olivia
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Thank you! And you totally need to check out Honey and Spice. I went into it knowing nothing about it and was so blown away.
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