Audiobooks have become a big part of my life. I can’t remember a day in the past year when I haven’t gone into my audible app and listened to something.

Whether I’m commuting to work, mowing my lawn, or flying through the air, audiobooks have turned the most annoying parts of a day into my favorites. On more than one occasion, I’ve sat in my car after a commute just to keep listening to a fantastic book.
As of May 2023, I’ve grown my audible library to 231 titles. If I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that not all audiobooks are created equal. A great book can easily be ruined by a bad narrator. Now that I have the Califoreigners blog, I wanted to carve out a place on the blog where I could share my audiobook library and give suggestions about what I liked and disliked
My Preferred Genres
I know everyone has their preferences when it comes to a book, so please take my recommendations with a grain of salt. I’m a fan of longer audiobooks and tend to lean toward Sci-fi, Fantasy, Thriller, and Survival fiction. Though, I have found quite a few great books on Audible’s Daily Deals and Sales. I try not to get anything under 10 hours in length unless it is highly recommended by a friend.
TOTAL AUDIOBOOKS
231
TOTAL LISTENING TIME
6m, 1d, 16h, 5m
FAVORITE AUTHOR
Aleron Kong
FAVORITE NARRATOR
R.C. Bray
FAVORITE PODCAST
We’re Alive
FAVORITE BOOK OF 2023
Lost Gods By Brom
Below you can view my Audible library. I’ve separated the audiobooks into five categories. The categories rank my audiobook library from 1 to 5 stars. With each title linked to its Amazon.com page, where you can buy the book in whichever medium suits you. These links use our Amazon Affiliate ID, so any purchases through the links help us pay for the site, allowing us to keep making helpful content.
GREAT – 5/5 STARS
My favorite audiobooks. Highly recommend, and have listened to each multiple times
- The Stand
- The Martian
- Ready Player One
- The Road
- The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Book 1
- Words of Radiance: The Stormlight Archive, Book 2
- I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
- 11-22-63: A Novel
- The Final Empire: Mistborn, Book 1
- The Well of Ascension: Mistborn, Book 2
- The Last Tribe
- Fear the Sky: The Fear Saga, Book 1
- Fear the Survivors: The Fear Saga, Book 2
- Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1
- For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2
- The Land: Founding: A LitRPG Saga: Chaos Seeds, Book 1
- Replay
- All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3
GOOD – 4/5 STARS
Really enjoyed. Would recommend.
- The Cartel
- Gone Girl: A Novel
- Pandemic: A Novel
- A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
- Leviathan Wakes
- Lord of All Things
- Off to Be the Wizard
- Theft of Swords: Riyria Revelations, Volume 1
- Red Rising: The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 1
- Golden Son: The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 2
- Contact
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
- Lock In
- One Second After: After, Book 1
- The Power of the Dog (Read our Audiobook Review)
- The Hero of Ages: Mistborn, Book 3
- The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy
- Hell Divers: The Hell Divers Trilogy, Book 1
- Heir of Novron: Riyria Revelations, Volume 3
- The Pillars of the Earth
- The Company: A Novel of the CIA
- Jurassic Park: Jurassic Park, Book 1
- The Final Day: After, Book 3
- True Grit
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Not Alone
- Steelheart: The Reckoners, Book 1
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- The Winds of War: Winds of War, Book 1
- Columbus Day: Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- Firefight: The Reckoners, Book 2
- The Land: Forging, Chaos Seeds Book 2
- The Land: Alliances: A LitRPG Saga: Chaos Seeds, Book 3
- The Land: Catacombs: Chaos Seeds, Book 4
- The Land: Swarm: Chaos Seeds, Book 5
OKAY – 3/5 STARS
Didn’t love or hate the book
- The Three-Body Problem
- 14
- Muscle Myths: 50 Health & Fitness Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making: Build Healthy Muscle
- Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body
- A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
- The Fifth Assassin
- Well Fed: Mountain Man, Book 4
- The Mountain Man Omnibus: Books 1-3
- The Fold
- Dead Six
- The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge
- Fear the Future: The Fear Saga, Book 3
- Patient Zero: The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1
- In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
- Island 731
- Beijing Red: A Nick Foley Thriller, Book 1
- Paradise: Expeditionary Force, Book 3
- Alien: Out of the Shadows: An Audible Original Drama
MEH – 2/5 STARS
I struggled through these books
- A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3
- American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
- The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories
- Rise of Empire: Riyria Revelations, Volume 2
- Caliban’s War: The Expanse, Book 2
- Armada: A Novel
- Morning Star: Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy
- The Science of Interstellar
- Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
- Spell or High Water: Magic 2.0
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)
- The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor
- One Year After
- SpecOps: Expeditionary Force, Book 2
- Oathbringers: The Stormlight Archive, Book 3
- NPCs
- Iron Gold, Red Rising Book 4
- Warbreaker
PASS – 1/5 STARS
Did not enjoy these books at all
- Going Home: A Novel: The Survivalist Series, Book 1
- An Unwelcome Quest: Magic 2.0, Book 3
- Doomsday Book (Returned)
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Returned)
- The Hospital: The FREE Short Story: The First Mountain Man Story
BACKLOG
Audiobooks I’ve purchased but still haven’t been started
- The Breakers Omnibus: Books 1-3 and Prequel Novella
- Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire
- The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2
- Prince of Fools: The Red Queen’s War, Book 1
- The Wheel of Osheim
- Shantaram: A Novel
- Will Save the Galaxy for Food
- Private
- The Liar’s Key
- The Wild Inside: A Novel of Suspense
- Nice Dragons Finish Last: Heartstrikers, Book 1
- Brave New World
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
- The Good Girl
- Anne of Green Gables
- Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
- The Boy on the Bridge
- Children of Time
- The Force: A Novel
- Tier One
- The X-Files: Cold Cases
- All the Pretty Horses: The Border Trilogy, Book One
- Extracted: Extracted, Book 1
- The Collapsing Empire: The Interdependency, Book 1
- The Aeronaut’s Windlass: The Cinder Spires, Book 1
- The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1
- Dawn of Wonder: The Wakening, Book 1
- War and Remembrance
- Son of the Black Sword: Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, Book 1
- Reamde
- Wolves
- World Without End
- The Rose and the Thorn: The Riyria Chronicles, Book 2
- Shogun: The Epic Novel of Japan: The Asian Saga, Book 1
- The Crown Tower: The Riyria Chronicles, Book 1
- The Abyss Beyond Dreams: Chronicle of the Fallers, Book 1
- Abaddon’s Gate
- The Red Sea: The Cycle of Galand, Book 1
- The Godfather
- Elantris
- The Goldfinch
- Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3
- Locke & Key
- The Hospital: The FREE Short Story: The First Mountain Man Story
- FREE: Professional Integrity (A Riyria Chronicles Tale)
- FREE: The Jester (A Riyria Chronicles Tale)
- The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories
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