Friday, January 23, 2009

Audiobooks of 2008

My commute is long (relatively speaking for Northern Colorado, at least) and I mitigate the mental slack time with audio books. Most of these are thanks to Overdrive (http://www.overdrive.com/products) through my local library. 2008 saw me through the following works:

Edith Wharton
Age of Innocence

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of the Island
Anne's House of Dreams

Elisabeth Gaskell
Cranford
Wives and Daughters

Sarah Jewett
A Country Doctor

Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales

P. G. Wodehouse
Carry On Jeeves

Hugh Lofting
The Story of Dr. Dolittle
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight
Dragonquest
Dragonsdawn
Moreta
The Renegades of Pern
The White Dragon

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers

John Galsworthy
Forsyte Saga

Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe

Holly Black
Spiderwick Chronicles

Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge

Charlote Brontë
The Professor

It is not a substitute for real reading, and it's a lot slower than the pace I normally go through a work, but I love how the audiobooks help me fill an otherwise unproductive (but substantial) chunk of my day.