2024 Audiobook Challenge -year end review

2024 Audiobook Challenge – Mid Year Check In

Join Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About for the annual audiobook challenge.

 

Challenge Details

• Runs January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2024. 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 2024 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 or X, 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 6, 2024, and the last update will take place on December 28, 2024. 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+

 

Julie’s 2024 Audiobook Challenge:

I kept my goal low again this year. It is hard to listen to audiobooks or do much reading in general when we move so much, and this was another moving year. Though I had to drive my own car this time, I got some audiobook time while driving across states. I find it impossible to read or listen to books when traveling with family unless my husband is listening to his own and I can plug in my earbuds. It’s mostly during boring spreadsheet work that I listen to audiobooks when no one else is here, and I have no meetings.

My goal:

• Stenographer (can listen while multitasking) 10-15

 

My status:

I was super happy by mid-year, I had already met my goal of 10+! Anything past that is extra awesome WINNING THE CHALLENGE. Now, I’ve exceeded the entire goal range! WOOP WOOP!

By mid-December, I’m already at 21 books! I might have to increase my goal for next year!

 

Here’s my 2024 Audiobook Challenge shelf on Goodreads.

My embedded shelf montage:

 

 Lynn’s 2024 Audiobook Challenge:

Yes. Yes I did listen to a lot of Audiobooks last year. 72% of all the books I read last year. But looking at that next level of 50+ books is unrealistic. That’s my whole reading goal for the year!

I’m sticking with the same goal as last year as well. It’s doable and still a stretch with looking at some really big books down the line to read.

My goal:

• My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) 30+

 

My status:

Clearly, I’ve been listening to A LOT of books! More so than I sit and read. 52 books! I’m up to 77% of all the books I read were audio books. And that’s 10 more books listened to than 2023. It’s all about the shorter books, if you as me. I might push myself and level up to 50+ next year. That’s a bit scary! But sometimes, we need to challenge ourselves.

Here’s my 2024 Audiobook Challenge shelf.

My embedded shelf montage:

 

 

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