At the start of 2017 I started walking to work (plus doing more walking for exercise) so I bought some Bluetooth headphones and started listening to Audiobooks more. This is a list of the top Audiobooks I’ve read in that time.
Checkout the Audiobooks catagory on this blog to see regular short reviews. The lists below link to the post with the book in it.
Favorites – Rated 5/5
Above average, strongly recommend – Rated 4/5
- The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age by Steve Olson
- Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage by Geoffrey Blainey
- Just the Funny Parts … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club by Nell Scovell
- Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality by Bill Kilday
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
- From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
- Off the Cliff: How the Making of Thelma and Louise Drove Hollywood To the Edge by Becky Aikman
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman
- The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism by John U. Bacon
- 100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job by Chris Guillebeau
- How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
- Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
- The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle
- Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick Arthur C Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World by Rand Fishkin
- The Age of Benjamin Franklin by Robert J. Allison
- The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 by John N. Maclean
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Martin Gladwell
- Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander’s War 1944-45 by David Render and Stuart Tootal
