Audible Anniversary

Next month marks my one-year anniversary as an Audible.com subscriber. I know this because last week I received a Happy Audible Anniversary email from them, including a credit for a free book (!). Initially, I subscribed because I wanted to make better use of my commute to and from work. What I've found though, is that the books are usually so outstanding that I look forward to hopping in the car! (This brings me down though, but that's a topic for another day...)

Here's what I've heard so far (all in Unabridged format, newest to oldest):

• Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer; ~8 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer; ~12.5 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent by Anne Garrels; ~7 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum; ~7 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas Friedman; ~23 hours, rated 4/5
• 1984 by George Orwell; ~12 hours, rated 4/5
• 21 Dog Years : Doing Time @ Amazon.com by Mike Daisey; ~6.5 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence by Deepak Chopra, M.D.; ~6 hours, rated 4/5
• The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman; ~8 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken; ~10 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; ~18 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• Horatio's Drive : America's First Road Trip by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns; ~3 hours, rated 4/5
• Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore; ~7 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown; ~16 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben; ~5 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel; ~12 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• The Art of Happiness at Work by The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler; ~6 hours, rated 4/5
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; ~16.5 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; ~12 hours, rated 5/5, highly highly recommended
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain; ~8 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand; 55 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended
• Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser; ~9.5 hours, rated 5/5, highly recommended

The 18th of every month is Audible Day for me (2 book credits appear & $20 is charged to my credit card), and now that Blogger is happy and cozy I'm planning to post more here about what I'm groking. Up next is Middlesex followed by The Coffee Trader, then the other 86 books in my Audible wishlist.