Top Ten Tuesday – September 20, 2016: All About Audio

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TOP TEN TUESDAY
September 20, 2016

It’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the wonderful blog at The Broke and the Bookish! This week’s topic was All About Audio! 

I accidentally jumped the gun on this topic a couple weeks ago when I posted about my favorite audiobook narrators (Rats!) so instead, for today’s Top Ten Tuesday, I’m going to compile a sort of hodgepodge of my favorite audiobooks, narrators, and other things audio-related, except in threes instead of tens!

BY BOOK

MY TOP THREE WELL-KNOWN SERIES RECS

  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling | Read by Jim Dale
  • The Magicians series by Lev Grossman | Read by
  • The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich | Read by Lorelai King

MY TOP THREE BRANDON SANDERSON READS/LISTENS (because I’ve read so many)

  • The Mistborn series | Read by Michael Kramer
  • The Reckoners Trilogy | Read by MacLeod Andrews
  • The Rithmatist | Read by Michael Kramer

THREE AUDIOBOOKS I DNFed WHOSE NARRATORS I ACTUALLY LIKED

  • Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
  • An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
  • Invisibility by Andrea Cremer & David Levithan

THREE SERIES I’VE RE-READ AS AUDIOBOOKS

  • Harry Potter
  • The Lunar Chronicles
  • The Grisha Trilogy

THREE SERIES I BINGED AS AUDIOBOOKS

  • The Elemental Trilogy by Sherry Thomas
  • The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall
  • The Mara Dyer Trilogy by Michelle Hodkin

THREE BOOKS I HALF READ & HALF LISTENED

  • A Song of Ice and Fire (series) by George R.R. Martin
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (I couldn’t stop!)
  • Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (wanted to hurry up and read!)

MY TOP AUDIOBOOKS EVER

  • The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

BY NARRATOR

MY TOP THREE NARRATORS WITH AN ACCENT

  • Michael Page
  • Jim Dale
  • Philip Battley

THREE SURPRISING NARRATOR CHOICES THAT TOTALLY WORKED

  • Will Patton for The Raven Cycle (old southern guy narrating a teen novel)
  • Michael Kramer for The Rithmatist (usually does adult audiobooks)
  • Jesse Eisenberg for The Curse Worker Trilogy (surprise celeb narrator)

MY TOP THREE MALE NARRATORS

  • MacLeod Andrews
  • Steve West
  • Michael Kramer

MY TOP THREE FEMALE NARRATORS

  • Julia Whelan
  • Jorjeana Marie
  • Lorelai King

MY TOP THREE CELEBRITY NARRATORS

  • Wil Wheaton
  • Jesse Eisenberg
  • Anne Hathaway

MY TOP THREE “AUTHORATORS” (AUTHORS WHO NARRATE THEIR OWN BOOKS)

  • Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book
  • Adriana Mather | How to Hang a Witch
  • Libba Bray | Beauty Queens

MY TOP FULL CAST/MORE THAN THREE NARRATOR RECORDINGS

  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • As You Wish by Cary Elwes

MY TOP THREE NARRATORS OVERALL

  • MacLeod Andrews
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Michael Kramer

Those are some of my audiobook favorites! It was actually really fun breaking them down into categories. I’ve never done that before!

Hi, I'm Brittany!
Hi, I'm Brittany!

I'm an avid reader, candle-maker, and audiobook lover! Here you'll find book reviews, fun blog posts, and my other loves of photography & craft beer!

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