Top 10 Audio Books

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Top 10 Audio Books List

There is certainly more tha one top 10 audio books list, but here's mine: I love audio books and am constantly travelling with at least two or three on my MP3 player.

I use audio books to learn languages and I'm using audio books to simply relax. When on long trips, audio books are a lot easier to take along than printed books, and often, when driving readin is not really an option, but listening to audiobooks is a lot more convenient and safer!

Why Top Ten Lists? 

Why an audio books top ten list?

Man seems to be happy to establish top ten lists for just about anything. Just enter "Top 10" or "top ten" into Google and you'll find the most amazing lists.

My own top ten audiobooks lists are just what it says: My own lists. I am not pretending to have the final say, nor the ultimate wisdom. This list is also bound to change as I liten to other audio books and prefer to them to the ones listed now.

If you feel you want to add, please feel free to enter you own top ten audios list, there is space for that a bit further down the page!

Let's discuss the advantage of audio books: 

I love audio books especially due to the fact, that they make books available in places that I never could read before: the car whilst driving, in the gym while I excecise, in the house whilst doing manual chores that occupy only 2 to 3 % of my brain. They are GREAT!

Audio books are a great way to spend time

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No, I can read a lot faster than a narrator will read

Yes, They make me listen to more books than I ever could read

 

Hans Christian Andersen 

Hans Christian Andersen (}) (April 2, 1805 ? August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and the "The Ugly Duckling".

During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.Elias Bredsdorff, Hans Christian Andersen: the story of his life and work 1805-75, Phaidon (1975) ISBN 0-7148-1636-1

Michael E. Gerber 

Michael E. Gerber (b. 1936) is an American author and founder of E-Myth Worldwide, a business skills training company based in Santa Rosa, California aimed at the small business and entrepreneurial community. He is most notable for his E-Myth series. (The "E" represents Entrepreneur and was coined by Gerber many years before the more commonly understood Electronic, as in E-mail)

His most popular work The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What To Do About It'' has been on business bestseller lists for years.

Dale Carnegie 

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnagey until 1922 and possibly somewhat later) (November 24, 1888 ? November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books.

Carnegie was an early proponent of what is now called responsibility assumption, although this only appears minutely in his written work. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.

Timothy Ferriss 

Timothy Ferriss is an American author, public speaker, and productivity guru. In 2007, he published The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, which was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller.New Times Bestseller List Feb. 2008

Dr Norman Vincent Peale 

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 - December 24, 1993) was a Protestant preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".

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Nora Roberts 

Alias J.D. Robb

Nora Roberts (b. Eleanor Marie Robertson, October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA), is a bestselling American author of more than 165 romance novels, and she writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series. She also has written under the pseudonym Jill March, and by error some of her works were published in the UK as Sarah Hardesty.

Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2006, her novels had spent a combined 660 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, including 100 weeks in the number-one spot. Over 280 million copies of her books are in print, including 12 million copies sold in 2005 alone. Her novels have been published in 35 countries.

Nicholas Sparks 

Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965) is an internationally bestselling American author, writing novels with themes that include Christianity, love, tragedy and fate. He has fifteen published novels, four of which have been turned into films, including The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, and Nights in Rodanthe. Sparks also wrote the screenplay for the film adaption of his novel The Last Song. Both The Last Song and the film adaptation of Dear John are expected to be released in 2010.

Christine Feehan 

Christine Feehan (b. Christine King in California, USA) is an American romance-paranormal writer. She has published more than 26 novels, including five series, and numerous novellas since 1999.

Julie Garwood 

Julie Garwood (born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American writer of over twenty-five romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres. Over thirty million copies of her books are in print, and she has had at least 15 New York Times Bestsellers. She has also begun writing a novel for young adults under the pseudonym of Emily Chase.

Garwood's novel For the Roses was adapted for the television feature Rose Hill.

Jayne Ann Krentz 

Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle (b. March 28, 1948) is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of New York Times bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. As Jayne Ann Krentz (her married name) she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her novels of historical romantic-suspense. Jayne Castle (her birth name) is reserved these days for her stories of futuristic/paranormal romantic-suspense.

Over 23 million copies of Krentz's 122 novels are in print. With Sweet Starfire, Krentz created the futuristic romance subgenre, and further expanded the boundaries of the genre in 1996 with Amaryllis, the first paranormal futuristic romantic suspense novel. She is an outspoken advocate for the romance genre and has been the recipient of the Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies.

Debbie Macomber 

Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948 in Yakima, Washington) is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Over sixty million copies of her books are in print throughout the world, and one, This Matter of Marriage, became a made-for-tv-movie in 1998. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award.

Janet Evanovich 

Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider, April 22, 1943, in South River, New Jersey) is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet after losing her job. The fifteen novels in this series consistently top the New York Times Best Seller list.

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky (, F?dor Mihajlovi? Dostoevskij, ,loose phonetic pronunciation: fyo-der mi-(k)hail-a-vitch das-ta-yef-skee) sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij, Dostoevski, Dostojevski or Dostoevskij ( ? ) was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

Dostoevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre Walter Kaufmann ISBN 0452009308 page 12 A prominent figure in world literature, Dostoyevsky is often acknowledged by critics as one of the greatest psychologists in world literature.

Suzanne Brockmann 

Suzanne Brockmann (born 1960) is an award winning American romantic fiction writer. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, author Ed Gaffney, and their two children, Melanie and Jason.

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MP3 players for audio books 

There are nearly every day new MP3 players available, and not all of them are the best solution for audio books. So make sure you have understood all the features a particular audio player offers. Best is to have a right to return the MP3 player, should it not work the way you excpect it.

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