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Ep. 27: Best of 2019: Our Top Picks

By: The Audible Editors
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  • Our editors take you through Audible’s Best of the Year, including the Top Ten, category winners, trends, and more.

    To see the full Best of the Year list, go to Audible.com/Bestof2019.

    Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar

    Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

    Normal People by Sally Rooney

    Know My Name by Chanel Miller

    The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia, Simon Bruni - translation

    The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

    Call Me God by Jim Clemente, Tim Clemente, Peter McDonnell

    Twisted by Mary Pilon, Carla Correa

    Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis

    Metahuman by Deepak Chopra

    Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

    Work It Out by Mel Robbins

    Foreverywhere by Steve Burns, Steven Drozd, Gabe Soria

    Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant by Alan Cumming

    Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson

    Olio Live by Tyehimba Jess

    Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo

    Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

    Good Talk by Mira Jacob

    Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

    Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

    The Border by Don Winslow

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

    The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

    The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

    The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

    The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

    Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

    Forward by Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir

    The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

    Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

    Underland by Robert Macfarlane

    The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

    Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec, Andi Arndt

    It's Not What It Looks Like by Molly Burke

    Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid

    Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

    The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

    The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

    The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

    Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

    Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

    In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

    Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

    My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams

    My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

    The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

    Find Me by André Aciman

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I'm intrigued by some of the titles. I always like the best of the year books because it is interesting seeing which books are popular.

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love audicted!

I love the addicted podcast and would rank it is one of my favorite things about audible. This episode 27 was full of great suggestions, but I found that I kept missing the name of the title, or maybe it wouldn't catch my interest until I heard the description, and then the title was never mentioned again. Fortunately i was able to go on my computer and find the list of books from this episode (i cant figure out how to find that on the app on my phone yet!). But my one suggestion would be to say the name of the title at the end of the description/discussion and not only at the beginning. thanks for this great podcast!

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U need boomer reviewers.

These people love to hear themselves talk. Less talk and more samples please! Maybe there is a boomer top picks on here that I missed. Wrong generation to be picking for your boomer target audience.

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Audicted is not for me

Not a regular listener. I'd be delighted to read a transcript, but definitely not for me.

High production value all around, with pleasing voices. Stopped listening to the words and just enjoyed their voices after a bit.

That there isn't a link to the whole best-of lists would seem an obvious oversight. Especially since titles were only mentioned once. When it's the first exposure to a title, then followed by a multi-person review, one expects at least one more mention to make it memorable and searchable.

Would enjoy reading this for the same reason I prefer a written diy over videos - written is easier to repeat, or scan, or pause to secure it in the brain. Also, screen captures for reference.

Also, really felt the generation gap while listening. It's only a decade or 2 we're talking about here (I'm barely 50), but there were a few double takes just in the first 20 minutes. Certainly, podcast productions should cater to they're repeat listeners. But if Audible plans to promote it to everyone, why not make it inclusive for a wider audience?

if your brain is still in top top shape, if you're a millennial, if you either follow all the genres or stick to your comfort zones, give it a try! It has the right ingredients to delight.

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Not a good list

Many of the books reviewed are not what I’m interested in. The people in the program where also kind of preachy. Im not interested in there personal or political views i just want to find good books.

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