Monday, January 24, 2011

Best Audiobooks of 2010

Do you prefer reading a book or listening to a book? I prefer reading a book myself- there is just something about holding a book that I enjoy. But when I am taking a car ride or am going to be on vacation for a while, I like to listen to audiobooks. Just like there are lists for the Best Books of 2010, there are also lists for the Best Audiobooks of the Year. Here are a few lists for the Best Audiobooks of 2010.

AudioFile's List

61 Hours by Lee Child. Read by Dick Hill.
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu. Read by Jim Dale.
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. Read by Ralph Cosham.
The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt. Read by Rosalyn Landor.
The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott. Read by Simon Prebble.
Faithful Place by Tana French. Read by Tim Gerard Reynolds.
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Read by David Ledoux.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. Read by Simon Vance.
The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke. Read by Will Patton.
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. Read by Bronson Pinchot.
The Midnight House by Alex Berenson. Read by George Guidall.
Nemesis by Philip Roth. Read by Dennis Boutsikaris.
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre. Read by Robin Sachs.
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow. Read by Edward Herrmann.
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory. Read by Bianca Amato.
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva. Read by Phil Gigante.
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay. Read by Simon Vance.
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst. Read by Daniel Gerroll.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Read by Jonathan Aris & Paula Wilcox.
Three Stations by Martin Smith Cruz. Read by Ron McLarty.
The Tower, The Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart. Read by Jonathan Crowley.
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Read by Roxana Ortega.

Blockade Billy by Stephen King. Read by Craig Wasson.
The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds. Read by Kate Reading.
Broken by Karin Slaughter. Read by Natalie Ross.
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. Read by Gareth Armstrong.
Crossfire by Dick Francis. Read by Martin Jarvis.
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett. Read by Richard Aspel.
The Passage by Justin Cronin. Read by Scott Brick.
Pearl of China by Anchee Min. Read by Angela Lin.
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. Read by Orlagh Cassidy.
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. Read by John Lee.
So Cold the River by Michael Koryta. Read by Robert Petkoff.
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf. Read by Eliza Foss, Therese Plummer, Tony Ward, Andy Paris, Jim Colby, & Cassandra Morris.
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey. Read by Simon Prebble.

Amazon's List

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. Read by Ralph Cosham.
Faithful Place by Tana French. Read by Tim Gerard Reynolds.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. Read by Simon Vance.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson. Read by Peter Altschuler.
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck. Read by James Daniels.
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich. Read by Lorelei King.

If you like to listen to audiobooks on your iPod or MP3 player, you can also check OverDrive for any of the titles listed above. OverDrive continues to increase their online collection of audiobooks and e-books every day, so check out this cool library resource!