The Podiobooker Blog, the blog for Podiobooks.com, has posted the 20 most popular podiobooks of 2007. They are, in alphabetical order:
 7th Son: Book 2 – Deceit J.C. Hutchins |
 The Arwen Timothy Callahan |
 Badge Of Infamy Lester Del Rey |
 Billibub Baddings Tee Morris |
 Crescent Phil Rossi |
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 The Failed Cities Monologues Matt Wallace |
 Forever Fifteen Kimberly Steele |
 Full Share Nathan Lowell |
 Half Share Nathan Lowell |
Heaven – Season 2: Hell |
 Heaven – Season 3: Earth Mur Lafferty |
 How to Disappear Completely Myke Bartlett |
 The Immortals Tracy Hickman |
 In The Service of Samurai Gloria Oliver |
 Jack Wakes Up Seth Harwood |
 Number One with a Bullet Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff |
 Quarter Share Nathan Lowell |
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 The Silk Code Paul Levinson |
As you can see there’s quite a few podiobooks that still need our attention. Which of these have you enjoyed? Which have you loved? Which have you hated?
Personally, I’ve got my eye on those Nathan Lowell titles.
Posted by Jesse Willis
You’ll not be disappointed in Nathan’s books, Jesse.
There were quite a few titles which we didn’t make this list due to our criteria. I’m thinking about going through everything and making an “editor’s choice” list where I ignore size of audiene. That’ll help some of the books that came to us late in 2007.
E.
Quarter, Half and Full Share are excellent, although I could’ve done without the erotica.
Billibub Baddings is super with a lovely atmosphere.
Shadow Falls was oddly confusing, just the sort of thing I love.
The Arwen, Badge Of Infamy, Eastern Standard Tribe, The Failed Cities Monologues, How to Disappear Completely and The Immortals I haven’t checked out.
The rest I gave a try, however they didn’t appeal to me for one reason or another.
Crescent gets my vote for my number one favorite of 2007. It’s a unique and challenging story in a dark and brilliantly realized world. Think Stephen King meets Firefly, toss in some Bladerunner and Alien (Ridley Scoot w00t!) for good measure. Very, very dark and enjoyable. Billi Baddings was great–just a lot of good fun–as was the Failed Cities Monologues (not fun like Baddings). I hope at least these three make it on the “editor’s choice” as mentioned by Evo. And One Among the Sleepless should get an honorary mention :)
And hats off to Podiobooks.com. The quality of work seems to get better all the time!
Nathan Lowell is an excellent author, narrator, and audio editor. If you like the trilogy above, also check out his podiobook South Coast. How to Disappear Completely is also excellent.
I’m puzzled as to why Singularity didn’t make the top ten. I think you reviewed it here, and it is certainly a great book.
Wow. I thought my ears were burning.
Thanks for all the nice comments about the books!
2007 was a heck of a ride and I’m looking foward to 2008.
My ears were burning, too!
Thanks!