I often write and speak about the benefits of reading via audiobooks, so thought I’d provide you with a list of the audiobooks I read last year, emboldening my favourite in each category. I managed to read forty-nine audiobooks this past year so naturally, I’ll be shooting for fifty in 2018.

Anyway, check out the list and let me know which audiobooks you listened to last year and which were amongst your favourites.

Novels/novellas

1. Psycho by Robert Bloch
2. The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
3. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
4. Pines by Blake Crouch
5. The Sadist’s Bible by Nicole Cushing
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
8. Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
9. Kissing the Bee by Kathe Koja
10. The Magic Wagon by Joe R. Lansdale
11. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
12. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
13. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
14. Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
15. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
16. After Dark by Haruki Murakami
17. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
18. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
19. Lost Girl by Adam Nevill
20. The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
21. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
22. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
23. Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama

Nonfiction

1. Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching by Adam Alter
2. Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster – in Just Two Weeks by Dave Asprey
3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
4. Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull
5. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
6. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
7. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
9. So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport

Short stories and collections

1. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
2. The Voice from the Edge, Vol. 1: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
3. Behold The Void by Philip Fracassi
4. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman
5. Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
6. Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
7. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Volume 1 by Haruki MurakamiBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman Volume 2 by Haruki Murakami
8. Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
9. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
10. Five Short Stories by Women by Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Hempel, Rebecca Lee, Nadine Gordimer, and Sandra Cisneros
11. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flanner O’Connor
12. The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
13. Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk
14. Fox 8 by George Saunders
15. Tenth of December by George Saunders
16. Little Dead Red by Mercedes M. Yardley

Let me know your favourite audiobook listens of last year. And if you’re so inclined you can grab a free Audible.com 30-day trial here: www.audibletrial.com/thisishorror.

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