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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: The Magician's Land, Frostborn, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Spirit and the Skull, The Widow's House, and Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories

Posted on 2014-08-11 at 14:31 by Sam

JULY 30-AUGUST 5, 2014: Trilogies conclude and trilogies begin, and still another expands, along with two intriguing standalone novels to kick off August: Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land, Lou Anders' Frostborn, David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, J.M. Hayes' The Spirit and the Skull, and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. It's a busy week, with other audiobooks out including Carol Berg's Dust and Light, Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale (in Brilliance Audio's ongoing productions of his Malazan Book of

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged bernard setaro clark, daniel abraham, david shafer, fabio tassone, frostborn, JM Hayes, laird barron, lev grossman, lou anders, mark bramhall, occultation and other stories, the dagger and the coin, the magician's land, The Spirit and the Skull, the widow's house, thrones and bones, whiskey tango foxtrot

Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis' Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne's Malice

Posted on 2013-12-06 at 21:4 by Sam

NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2013: While there's still no sign of Nicola Griffith's Hild -- read like the wind, Ms. Flosnick! -- we still get another fantastic week of audiobooks, including the latest GRRM/Dozois anthology, a Kirkus year's-best-listed new standalone novel from Ian Tregillis, Helen Marshall's creepy ChiZine collection Hair Side, Flesh Side, and the Gemmell-winning epic fantasy Malice by John Gwynne. In the "also out" listings this week, even more epic fantasy than you can shake a stick at, space

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Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:39 by Sam

bookrageous:

Out today!!! Many exclamation points!!!!

Josh raved about The Magician King on our “To BEA and Back Again” ep. Jenn is reading it now in prep for Lev Grossman’s release party at WORD Brooklyn tonight (if you are in New York, YOU SHOULD GO!) and sharing quotes here, here, and here. Rebecca just read The Magicians and can’t wait to get to this one.

It’s unanimously a Bookrageous favorite! And if that doesn’t convince you, can we tell you about the time Lev Grossman recited “The Owl and the

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