By: Pam JenoffNarrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace ThaxtonLength: 11 hrs and 41 mins I was looking for a book to listen to with my sister on our trip to celebrate the coming 250th anniversary of the United States. I wanted something that would intersect our interests, and The Lost Girls of Paris ended up occupying…
Tress of the Emerald Sea
By: Brandon SandersonNarrated by: Michael KramerSeries: Secret Projects, Book 1, The CosmereLength: 12 hrs and 27 mins I was eventually going to get to Tress of the Emerald Sea, but at the behest of my sister, who had recently read it, I picked it up sooner so I could enjoy it with her. That made it…
Master of the Senate
Master of the SenateThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 1 of a 3-Part Recording)By: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 3.1Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins Master of the SenateThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 2 of a 3-Part Recording)By: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover…
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dungeon Crawler CarlDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff HaysLength: 13 hrs and 31 mins18 JUL 2026 Carl’s Doomsday ScenarioDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff HaysLength: 11 hrs and 28 mins22 JUL 2026 The Dungeon Anarchist’s CookbookDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 3By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff Hays, The Critical DrinkerLength: 16…
Light Bringer
Red Rising, Book 6By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard ReynoldsSeries: Red Rising, Book 6Length: 30 hrs and 8 mins Spoilers I walked into Light Bringer expecting the conclusion of the series and felt personally backstabbed when I discovered that it was only the first half of the ending. I understand why the story needed more…
Dark Age
By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton, Rendah HeywoodSeries: Red Rising, Book 5Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins Brutally beautiful. Dark Age was a hard book to read, and by the end I felt almost exhausted by it. Yet that exhaustion was part of what made the book so…
Iron Gold
By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, Aedin MoloneySeries: Red Rising, Book 4Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins What a wonderful rejoinder to the Red Rising series. It was a joy to be back with Darrow and to see the story expanding through Lysander and the other new perspectives. Pierce Brown…
Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon JohnsonBy: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 2Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins The Means of Ascent takes the qualities revealed in the first volume and follows them toward their nearly inevitable conclusion. Johnson wants the United States Senate, and Caro shows a man willing…
The Path to Power
The Passage of PowerThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4By: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins Reading The Path to Power and The Means of Ascent back to back was extraordinarily revealing. Together, they begin the story of a man consumed by the…
The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John ScalziNarrated by: Wil WheatonLength: 8 hrs and 2 mins
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3An Experiment in Literary InvestigationBy: Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynNarrated by: Frederick DavidsonLength: 21 hrs and 55 mins Finishing The Gulag Archipelago was something I had left unfinished for quite a while. I began it last year, but the sheer volume of tragedy became difficult to absorb. The suffering does not arrive as…
Red Rabbit
By: Tom ClancyNarrated by: Scott BrickSeries: A Jack Ryan NovelLength: 26 hrs and 20 mins I thought I had read this one before, but it turns out I had confused it with The Cardinal of the Kremlin. That made me especially glad I restarted the Jack Ryan books from the beginning. Great Clancy. Smart, engaging,…