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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

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Release Week: Wolf in White Van, Afterworlds, Rooms, Horrorstör, and Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard

Posted on 2014-10-01 at 20:33 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014: Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks, and this release week roundup is more than a week late. But! I can't do my usual trick of combining two weeks into one roundup, because there's just too many great titles coming out here as summer turns to fall. This week: a full review of John Darnielle's affecting Wolf in White Van, along with picks from YA (Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds) and horror (Lauren Oliver's adult debut Rooms and Grady Hendrix's bizarre and aptly-published-by-Quirk

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterworlds, bronson pinchot, grady hendrix, Heather Lind, horrorstor, john darnielle, lauren oliver, michael fenton-stevens, rooms, scott westerfeld, sheetal sheth, tai sammons, terry pratchett, wolf in white van