Audiobook Challenge 2025

 

Hello Audiophiles, it’s time to sign up for the 2025 Audiobook Challenge, hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About. Choose your level and get those audiobooks ready. JIAM is back for June and we’ll be hosting a special month long challenge. Grab your earbuds, decide on your goals, and sign up below!

Use hashtag #2025AudiobookChallenge on social media to alert others to your listens and progress! 

Challenge Details

• Runs January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025. You can join at any time.
• The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2024 than you did in 2023.
• Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.)
• All genres count.
• Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• You do not have to be a book blogger to participate; you can track your progress on Goodreads, Facebook, etc. I recommend creating a shelf on Goodreads titled 2025 Audiobook Challenge. You can keep track and link the shelf.
• Grab the button and do a quick post about the challenge to help spread the word. You can post on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, BlueSky, Threads, Mastodon, your blog etc. about the challenge.
• Updates plus a giveaway will be posted twice during the year. The first update will be July 5, 2025, and the last update will take place on December 27, 2025. You’ll have one week to link up and share your progress and enter giveaway

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+
• Marathoner (Look Ma No Hands) 50+
• Over-Achiever (Power Listener) 75+
• The 100 Club (Audiobook Addict) 100+
• I Can’t Hear You (earbuds always in) 125-150
• Audibly Addicted ( listening to all the books 24/7) 150+

Mini-Audiobook Challenge News!!

June is Audiobook Month, and we’ll have a special mini-challenge just for the month. Anyone can sign up. You’ll have chances to win audiobooks for finishing an audio series (3 audiobooks), tackling audiobooks from your TBR pile, or listening to 3 audiobooks from your library. Look for details in May!

I am going for 50 Marathoner :)

Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs

Series: Mercy Thompson (#14), Mercy Thompson World (#20)

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Published: June 18, 2024 by Orbit

UF/own

I am having the series has gone on too long issues. Yes it was good, yes I enjoyed it. But it is book 14! I am tired and feels like it should end. The same feeling I have with the October Daye books. Like end it and start a new fresh series.

A lyre is missing. Mercy and Adam is sent there. Trouble, snowstorm. Magical beings.

WAY too many interludes. Like why? they bored me.

Ugh, it sounds like I did not like the book. I liked it, it´s just. I am tired of reading the same old same old. It feels like if I missed the next three I would not miss a thing and could just jump back in.

It is good. Remember that. But for me Mercy should get some sort of happy ending and be left in peace

My name is Mercy Thompson Hauptman, and my mate, Adam, is the werewolf who leads the Columbia Basin Pack, the pack charged with keeping the people who live and work in the Tri-Cities of Washington State safe. It's a hard job, and it doesn't leave much room for side quests. Which is why when I needed to travel to Montana to help my brother, I intended to go by myself. But I'm not alone anymore.

Together, Adam and I find ourselves trapped with strangers in a lodge in the heart of the wilderness, in the teeth of a storm of legendary power, only to discover my brother's issues are a tiny part of a problem much bigger than we could have imagined. Arcane and ancient magics are at work that could, unless we are very careful, bring about the end of the world . . .

Two can Play by Ali Hazelwood

 

Narrated by:  Kelsey Navarro Foster

Release date: 10-01-24

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks

Categories: Romance

From: Storytel.fi

I only chose this cos it was short and should go by fast, but yeah not fast enough. It was kind of boring and emotionless.

Two companies are sent to a retreat. Viola and Jesse has been crushing on each other. Finally a move is made. I did not really felt anything to be honest. They got together, good for them. But something was always lacking.

So maybe not the novella I would recommend.

The narrator ...well I do not even remember her anymore. So maybe everything was the problem

Viola Bowen has the chance of a lifetime: to design a video game based on her all-time favorite book series. The only problem? Her co-lead is Jesse F-ing Andrews, a.k.a. her arch-nemesis. Jesse has made it abundantly clear over the years that he wants nothing to do with her–and Viola has no idea why.

When their bosses insist a wintery retreat is the perfect team-building exercise, Viola can’t think of anything worse. Being freezing cold in a remote mountain lodge knowing Jesse is right next door? No, thank you.

But as the snow piles on, Viola discovers there’s more to Jesse than she knew, and heat builds in more ways than one.

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But this book was amazing!

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