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2021 Listening Book Club

Discovering audiobooks has been a game changer for me. I wasn’t a avid reader before discovering audiobooks. I get my audiobooks with my free library card through the OverDrive or LibbyByOverdrive and Audible.  I have listened to 28 so far. Not only are the audiobooks entertaining but I learn so much from the memoirs and self-help books (WIN WIN). Check out the list of titles and ratings below. 

Inthethickofitblog.com rating legend:

5-stars Loved, loved, loved it, unique topic/story and dynamic narration

4-stars Liked it and it had good narrator(s)

3-stars Average topic/story and it had good narrator(s)

I won’t have any lower ratings, when I sense a book is not for me I give up on it, life is to short to grunt your way through a book that isn’t for you. ;)


Thriller / Suspence

The Wife by Burke, Alafair  5-stars

Those Girls by Stevens, Chevy 5-stars

Even If We Break by Nijkamp, Marieke 4-stars

The Night Before by Walker, Wendy 5-stars

Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum, #27) by Evanovich, Janet 5-stars

Romance

The Plus One by Archer, Sarah 5-stars

Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5) by Guillory, Jasmine 5-stars

Your Irresistible Love (The Bennett Family, #1) by Hagen, Layla 5-stars

Self Help / development

Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Goodwin, Doris Kearns 4-stars

May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook by Bernstein, Gabrielle 4-stars

Memoirs

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Van Ness, Jonathan 5-stars

REALISTIC FICTION

That's What Frenemies Are For by Littlefield, Sophie 4-stars

Clap When You Land by Acevedo, Elizabeth 5-stars

Widows-In-Law by Miller, Michele W. 5-stars

Hope and Other Punchlines by Buxbaum, Julie 5-stars

Charming as a Verb by Philippe, Ben 5-stars

Black Lit

Dispossession by Jones, Tayari 4-stars

Sag Harbor by Whitehead, Colson 5-stars

No One Is Coming to Save Us by Watts, Stephanie Powell 5-stars

Contemporary fiction

The One by Marrs, John 5-stars

Young Adult

Yes No Maybe So by Albertalli, Becky 5-stars

Fable by Young, Adrienne 5-stars

Fantasy

Fable by Young, Adrienne 5-stars

Short Story Medleys

So We Can Glow:Stories by Cross-Smith, Leesa 3-stars

Glass Beads by Dumont, Dawn 4-stars


To Be Read (TBR) Pile

  1. Expect to Win: Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet by Harris, Carla A.

  2. Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) by Thomas, Angie

  3. Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Witherspoon, Reese

  4. Binti (Binti, #1) by Okorafor, Nnedi

  5. When No One is Watching by Cole, Alyssa

  6. Breathe In, Cash Out by Henry, Madeleine