Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
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Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
Posted on 2011-06-23 at 17:34 by Sam
Link: Audible.com’s “The Best of 2011 So Far”
Audible.com has posted a mini-site feature for “The Best of 2011 So Far”, which includes Solaris: The Definitive Edition and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (non-fiction) in its “Editors Picks” while “Customer Favorites” includes Solaris as well as:
- The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2 by Patrick Rothfuss [my review]
- The Throne of Fire: Kane Chronicles, Book 2 (YR)
- Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi [my review]
- State of Wonder: A Novel (non-genre alert!) (also an “Editors Pick”)
- Divergent (YA) (also an “Editors Pick”) which is reviewed at The Daily Monocle quite well
- Dreadnaught: The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality and The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (non-fiction)
- Rogue Island (non-genre alert!) which is a reporter-based neo-noir set in Providence, Rhode Island
Sadly, the mini-site doesn’t come with any sales or special deals, but, hey: this list had quite a few I’d missed entirely along the way. However, their list misses a pretty good crop of excellent audiobooks I’ll put up there with this list:
- China Mieville’s Embassytown narrated by Susan Duerden
- The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, narrated by Scott Brick
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, narrated by James Yaegash
- Lewis Shiner’s Glimpses narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
- David Halperin’s Journal of a UFO Investigator narrated by Sean Runnette
- Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo narrated by Robin Miles
Which are my own picks for “The Best of 2011 So Far”.