Version 7.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Pedagogy. Linux.

1. Laurie Halse Anderson-Speak
2. Laurie Halse Anderson-Wintergirls
3. Piers Anthony-Bearing An Hourglass
4. Paul Auster-Invisible
5. Donald Barthelme-Sixty Stories
6. Sissela Bok-Lying: Moral Choices in Public and Private Life
7. Roberto Bolano-2666
8. Alison Booth-Greatness Engendered: George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
9. Terry Brooks-The Druid of Shannara
10. Terry Brooks-The Elf Queen of Shannara
11. Terry Brooks-The Scions of Shannara
12. Terry Brooks-The Talismans of Shannara
13. Italo Calvino-Cosmicomics
14. Lewis Carroll-Alice In Wonderland
15. Tracy Chevalier-Girl With A Pearl Earring
16. Robert Coover-A Night At The Movies
17. Robert Coover-The Universal Baseball Association
18. Richard Dawkins-The Ancestor’s Tale
19. Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
20. Richard Dawkins-The River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
21. Cory Doctorow-For The Win
22. Michel Foucault-The History of Madness
23. Sigmund Freud-The Penguin Freud Reader
24. Charlotte Perkins Gilman-Herland
25. Robert Graves-Homer’s Daughter
26. Henrik Ibsen-The Major Plays Volume One
27. Shelley Jackson-Half Life
28. Friedrich Nietzsche-The Birth of Tragedy & The Case of Wagner
29. John Perkins-Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why The World Financial Markets Imploded
30. Mark Twain-Who Is Mark Twain?
31. Leonid Tsypkin-Summer In Baden Baden
32. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-Cat’s Cradle
33. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
34. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-Hocus Pocus
35. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-Player Piano
36. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-Slaughterhouse Five
37. David Foster Wallace-Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
38. David Foster Wallace-Infinite Jest
39. Tim Weiner-Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
40. Virginia Woolf-Mrs. Dalloway’s Party

Jacket Copy recently had a good post about the promise and perils of audio books. As I have mentioned before, I listen to a lot of audio books these days. One issue which they have that I seem to have successfully avoided is crappy narrators:

Another disaster lies in hiring one reader to do all the book’s voices. DiMeo cites Jim Dale, who reads the Harry Potter series, as the rare talent who can successfully portray more than one character without sounding hammy. I recall David Sedaris doing this well too, but then, Sedaris is another rare talent.

My favourites so far have been the actual authors reading their work. Whether Barack Obama (Hmm, need to get a post up about that) or Richard Dawkins (currently listening to The God Delusion) I think I have had the most success when the author is also the reader.