The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

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4) Longjump: Audiobook is 15+ hours

The audiobook version of the book you choose for this prompt should be more than fifteen hours long. This doesn’t mean that you have to listen to the book on audio (although you’re welcome to do so!) As long as the audio version is more than fifteen hours long, you’re welcome to read that book as an audiobook, ebook, physical copy, live reading, etc!

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I'm reading The Women by Kristin Hannah (e-book, not audio)

I'm going big and started listening my way through the 38 hours that is The Magic Mountain

Hopefully I can make it through lol

Just finished My Name is Barbra read by Barbra Streisand and it was 48 hours of amazing. I have always admired her for her beautiful singing voice and her silly movies back in the day but I had no idea of all her accomplishments. The book although very detailed, gave such an insight into a lot of what was going on over the past 60+ years relating to women and society in general.

I'm reading, not listening, to it, but The Sword of Moses by Dominic Selwood is definitely more than 15 hours.

The Story Of The Lost Child by Elena Ferrante clocks in at 18hrs for the audiobook. However, I will be reading the paperback.

I'm sad to be ending the series but I'm excited (and nervous) to see what happens.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett... 41 hours, perfect for long road trip

I'll read Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass. This week, in fact.

I will read (I started and didn't finish) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I started the audio, read much of the hardback once I got it off hold from the library.

It is still in my audible so I will start listening (again) now, all 17 hours.

Any alternatives as I just can’t seem to do audiobooks?

Janet wrote: "Any alternatives as I just can’t seem to do audiobooks?"

You don't have to listen to an audiobook for this prompt, you're welcome to find any title that fits then read the print version of it.

I just finished Moby-Dick or, The Whale for this prompt.

I read and listened to Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

My choice was The Count of Monte Cristo. The audiobook I listened to is about 48 hours long.

I read/listened to Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir.

I listened to A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark (15hrs 40min). I really liked this book and the narrator for the audiobook.

I'm listening to The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain by Darren McGarvey

Like his previous book Poverty Safari, it's one I have to listen to in chapters, while I rant along. Both are brilliant books that cover difficult subjects with research, stories from people & a Glaswegian sense of humour.

They're books I recommend & will reread/relisten.

Listened to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

I'm moving The Annotated Arabian Nights to this prompt

Listened to the audiobook of De Ballade Van Slangen En Zangvogels (Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes). Enjoyed it very much. In the beginning I started to like Coriolanus Snow, but once halfway through I was cursing him out loud while listening :-) I'm not that big a hunger games fan, but this book makes me want to (re-)read and (re-)watch.

I read The King by J.R. Ward, 2.5 Stars

I read The Romantic by William Boyd which is over 17 hours in audiobook. It would also be a good choice for a character-driven novel. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024...

I read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I 100% recommend this as an audiobook - it is one of the best I have listened to. I really loved this book.

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn