Because of my current existential dread that has been around for some time now, as well as chronic pain, I have been listening to audiobook after audio (with the occasional print book mixed in, either in hard print format or ebook.) While listening I can multitask with activities such as crocheting my 2024 Temperature Blanket, which I will post a picture of when it is complete in January 2025. I can listen to books while cooking, doing things around the house, or while playing a game on my phone at the same time. Sometimes I have fallen asleep while listening (and then I have to “rewind” and try to figure out where I lost my concentration. One thing I cannot do while listening to audiobooks is write. This uses the same part of my brain, I believe, so that would be harder to do. (Although I still beat myself up over writing enough. Do occasional private journal entries count?)
The following is a list of audiobooks that I have listened to in their entirety during 2024, although mostly since March 2024. I may add a list of DNFs at a later time. Again, this list does NOT includes books that I have read in some form of print format (although I listened to some of those being read by Kindle, which is very robotic, but does make them accessible!)
Marmee by Sarah Miller
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner
Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal by Gretchen Schreiber
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Give Me A Sign by Anna Sortino
Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Greenwild by Pari Thomson
The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland
I Was Born for This by Alice Osman
The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak and Magic by Breanne Randall
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel
The Secret Library by Nekla Magoon
This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed
Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper
From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond
Out of My Heart by Sharon Draper
Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest
True Biz by Sara Novic
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
Back in a Spell by Lana Harper
In Charm’s Way by Lana Harper
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Normal Sucks by Jonathan Mooney
Lounder than Hunger by John Schu
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
The Change by Kirsten Miller
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
Scattered Showers: Stories by Rainbow Rowell
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi
Prairie Man: My Little House Life and Beyond by Dean Butler
My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenny Levine
Small Town, Big Magic by Hazel Beck
Big Little Spells by Hazel Beck
Truly Madly Magically by Hazel Beck
Together Tea by Marjan Kamali
The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren
Stitches and Witches by Nancy Warren
Crochet and Cauldrons by Nancy Warren
Stockings and Spells by Nancy Warren
Purls and Potions by Nancy Warren
Fair Isle and Fortunes by Nancy Warren
Lace and Lies by Nancy Warren
Bobbles and Broomsticks by Nancy Warren
Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren
Garters and Gargoyles by Nancy Warren
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
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