2020 Audiobook Challenge Recap

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This is the 4th year in a row that I’ve participated in this challenge. In 2017, I was still very hesitant to even try audiobooks, but then my friend Sarah finally convinced me to give it a try and I subsequently found this “reading” challenge. Since I’m super competitive, I figured it was the best way to get me motivated to not only read (Ok, listen) to more audiobooks, but also challenge myself to try beating my own progress from previous years. Read on for more details!

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Purpose/Goal:
The goal of the challenge is to find a new love for audiobooks, and/or to try to outdo yourself by listening to more audiobooks this year than in the previous year.

Rules:
The books need to be in audio format, any genre, and rereads and crossovers with other challenges count.

Achievement Levels:
There are 8 total levels that one can achieve based on the number of books listened to:

1. Newbie (1-5)

2. Weekend Warrior (5-10)

3. Stenographer (10-15)

4. Socially Awkward (15-20)

5. Binge Listener (20-30) - 2019 Goal of 25

6. My Precious! (30+) - 2019 level achieved with 34 so I made my 2020 goal to be 30 books. I reached this goal in June, so I upped it to 75!

7. Marathoner (50+) - 2020 level achieved with 76 total books listened to!

8. The 100 Club (100+)

Progress/Books Read:
Have you read any of these? Let me know in the comments what you think! As I write reviews, I’ll link the titles in this post.

1. Insurgent by Veronica Roth

2. Allegiant by Veronica Roth

3. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

4. The Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand

5. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

6. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

7. A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

8. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

9. The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy

10. Red White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

11. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

12. The Power of Self-Compassion by Laurie Cameron

13. The Beekeeper’s Promise by Fiona Valpy

14. Sea of Memories y Fiona Valpy

15. Code Girls by Liza Mundy

16. Everything My Mother Taught Me by Alice Hoffman

17. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

18. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman

19. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

20. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

21. Everything’s F*cked by Mark Manson

22. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (this was technically a DNF, but I tried several times to get through it so I’m counting it!)

23. Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

24. The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

25. Where There’s Smoke / Larger Than Life by Jodi Picoult

26. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

27. Long Bright River by Liz Moore

28. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

29. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

30. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummings

31. Educated by Tara Westover

32. A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

33. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow

34. Animal Farm by George Orwell

35. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

36. UnF*ck Yourself by Gary John Bishop

37. How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram K. Kendi

38. The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

39. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

40. Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

41. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

42. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

43. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

44. What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

45. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

46. Beartown by Fredrik Bachman

47. 1st to Die by James Patterson

48. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

49. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

50. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

51. Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

52. Know My Name by Chanel Miller

53. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters by Barrack Obama

54. The Guersney Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

55. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

56. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

57. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

58. Clara & Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland

59. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende

60. The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney

61. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

62. The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

63. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

64. A Borrowed Life by Kerry Anne King

65. First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

66. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

67. 11/22/63 by Stephen King

68. Climbing With Mollie by William Finnegan

69. The Diviners by Libba Bray

70. Midnight Son by James Dommeck Jr.

71. H is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald

72. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

73. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

74. The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone

75. Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

76. The Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray