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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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Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adjoa andoh, afterparty, amber benson, andy weir, andy weird, ann leckie, anne charnock, area x, bd wong, ben h. winters, bronson pinchot, catherynne m valente, chang-rae lee, cherie priest, chris beckett, cibola burn, claire north, daniel abraham, dark eden, daryl gregory, donna tartt, drizzt, evie wyld, fred berman, gabrielle de cuir, haruki murakami, ironskin, j.k. rowling, james marsters, james sa corey, janis ian, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, joe hill, john darnielle, john scalzi, johnny b truant, jonathan lethem, josh cohen, junot diaz, kameron hurley, katherine addison, kristen bell, lev grossman, lewis shiner, lock in, macleod andrews, manly wade wellman, maplecroft, margaret atwood, mark bramhall, michael chabon, michel faber, monica byrne, motherless brooklyn, my real children, neil gaiman, nick harkaway, octavia butler, on such a full sea, one hundred years of solitude, peter berkrot, RA Salvatore, rc bray, richard kadrey, robert galbraith, robert glenister, rosalyn landor, ruth ozeki, sandman slim, sean platt, shirley jackson, six-gun snow white, stefan rudnicki, ted chiang, the beam, the book of strange new things, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the girl in the road, the goblin emperor, the goldfinch, the martian, the mirror empire, the silkworm, the yiddish policeman's union, therese anne fowler, tigerman, tina connolly, vampire empire, veronica mars, we have always lived in the castle, when women were warriors, wil wheaton, wolf in white van, xe sands

Release Week(s): Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Tobias Buckell's The Apocalypse Ocean, Stephen King's Revival, V Wars: Blood and Fire, Bitter Waters, Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking, and Jeff VanderMeer's "Area X"

Posted on 2014-11-25 at 05:00 by Sam

NOVEMBER 5-18, 2014: A Chinese science fiction blockbuster translated into English by one of the world's best new writers, a new novel from Stephen King read by actor David Morse, Amanda Palmer's self-help advice/memoir book, an anthology series sequel to V Wars, Chaz Brentley's collection Bitter Waters, the entire 4-book set of Tobias Buckell's Xenowealth series, and a gorgeously packaged "Area X" omnibus of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy headline a fantastic fortnight of new audiobooks. There's

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged amanda palmer, area x, bitter waters, chaz brentley, daniel abraham, jeff vandermeer, johannes cabal, ken liu, liu cixin, luke daniels, prentice onayemi, revival, robin miles, sarban, stephen king, the apocalypse ocean, the art of asking, the three-body problem, tobias s buckell, v wars, xenowealth