Listen Up! It's Audiobook Week 2012 is an event hosted by Devourer of Books and which I'm participating in this week. So it's all the same bookishness, just in a different format. Below you'll find my thoughts on what I like to see in audiobook reviews, plus a list of 10 audiobooks I would like to finish ... before Audiobook Week 2013.

10 Audiobooks {on My 2012 Reading List}

Some Audiobookishness

Q. Discuss the essentials of audiobook reviewing. What do you make sure to include? What do you want to see when you read other people's reviews?

For reviews of audiobooks, I like to see if the book was better on audio - e.g. Will Grayson, Will Grayson had some musical sections that the narrator sang which made the audio a better version of the book (in my opinion) ... Or if it would be better to read the book than listen to it - e.g., in A Visit from The Goon Squad, chapters skip back and forth between characters, back and forth in time periods, and jump between first and third person - not a format ideal for audio I think ... but I'm quite an audiobook newbie, and still have lots to learn.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) , Mindy Kaling (Author & Narrator). I've never watched the office, but I've heard Mindy & this book are really funny.
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?" (Amazon| Goodreads)

Bossypants, Tina Fey (Author & Narrator). Won a 2012 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year.
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon - from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy. (Amazon| Goodreads)

The Shoemaker's Wife, Adriana Trigiani.
Annabella Sciorra, Adriana Trigiani (Narrators)
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. These star-crossed lovers meet and separate time and again, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. (Amazon| Goodreads)

The Help, Kathryn Stockett.
Octavia Spencer, Bahni Turpin & Jenna Lamia (Narrators)
If one more person asks me if I've read this book ... Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Home, Toni Morrison (Author & Narrator).
Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he's hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. (Amazon| Goodreads)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. (Amazon| Goodreads)

Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver, Sarah Drew (Narrator). What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life? (Amazon| Goodreads)

Seraphina, Rachel Hartman
Mandy Williams & Justine Eyre (Narrators)
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high. Seraphina Dombegh is an unusually gifted musician who joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered--in suspiciously draconian fashion. She is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, and while they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life. (Amazon | Goodreads)

Every Day, David Levithan
Alex McKenna (Narrator)
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. There's never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It's all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with--day in, day out, day after day. (Amazon | Goodreads)

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.
Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne (Narrators)
Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was left in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war. (Amazon| Goodreads)