Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more

Link: Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more

In a week where the NY Times hardcover fiction bestseller list has 5 of its top 10 slots occupied by science fiction and fantasy novels, Audible.com’s monthly customer favorites has Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One at the top of its list:

Narrated by Wil Wheaton, this audiobook received a glowing A+ review from The Guilded Earlobe (the first review on the site to crack 1000 hits!) and I’m still letting my thoughts about the book distill and swirl around.

A bit further down the list is The Magician King: A Novel by Lev Grossman narrated by Mark Bramhall, which I already reviewed on Audible but hope to expand a bit on the 2000-character limit, as not everything I wanted to say could fit into that restriction:

That said… this all seems a bit premature, as there’s still a full week of August left, with a few serious contenders coming early next week. That said, what were your favorites?