Recap: 2022 Audiobook Challenge
For the last several years since 2017, I’ve been participating in the Audiobook Challenge. Caffeinated Reviewer has been hosting since the challenge started in 2016, and That’s What I’m Talking About joined a few years later when the other co-host decided it was time for them to step down.
The gist of this challenge is to “read” as many audiobooks as possible throughout the year. The only “rule” is that they are in audio format and there are no other rules, obligations or prompts, simply just listen!
If you’re a blogger like I am, feel free to write a blog post to help promote the challenge. If not, then post on social media or Goodreads or the Story Graph app! You’ll need something that you can link to if you want to sign up and enter their giveaways they do half-way through the year and at the end of the year. More guidelines for the challenge are available on Caffeinated Reviewer’s blog.
Achievement Levels:
📚 Newbie (I’ll give it a try) 1-5
📚 Weekend Warrior (I’m getting the hang of this) 5-10
📚 Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15
📚 Socially Awkward (Don’t talk to me) 15-20
📚 Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
📚 My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+ - 2022 level unlocked for Books, Interrupted! :)
📚 Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
📚 Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
📚 The 100 Club (Audiobook Addict) 100+
Levels I’ve reached over the years:
2017, 15 audiobooks: Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15
2018, 26 audiobooks: Binge Listener (Why read when someone can do it for you) 20-30
2019, 34 audiobooks: My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
2020, 76 audiobooks: Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
2021, 49 audiobooks: My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
2022, 31 audiobooks: My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+
Clearly, for the last several years, I am consistently hitting at least 30 audiobooks! I’m probably going to hit 30 again for 2023, but we shall see. I am going to set my goal to 20, or binge-listener, this year because I’ll be focusing on other hobbies and side hustles this year.
Books listened to in 2022:
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Euphoria by Lily King
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Isn’t It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Cress by Marissa Meyer
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Carlton Abrams
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Winter by Marissa Meyer
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Hotel on The Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
Under The Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxanne Gay
Things You Save In A Fire by Katherine Center
Ready to join in the fun for 2023?? Sign up here at Caffeinated Reviewer’s site.
