Big Listen Challenge

[Jonetta]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

Rules:
1. A Big Listen is an audiobook that is 15 hours or longer in duration.
2. Choose your level. You can change this at any time during the challenge.
3. You can list your audiobooks now or as you go along.
4. When you’re done, rate it, date it, enter the hours and minutes and mark it off your list if you created one before completion.
5. All books must be listened to between January 1 - December 31, 2021. Audiobooks started in 2020 but completed in 2020 are eligible. Audiobooks started in 2021 but completed in 2022 are NOT eligible.
6. Re-listens are allowed.

NOTE: You may use the Audible time if it’s the same recording (same narrator and unabridged/abridged edition).


Choose your level:
► Easy: 4 Big Listens
► Medium: 8 Big Listens
► Hard: 12 Big Listens

Copy the template below, edit it and paste it into your comment to start the challenge. Update your original comment as you go along!

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 0/4


Alyana Pearl
Carla
Debby
Heather
Holly
Jonetta
Joyce
Karin
KathyB
Lieke
Mary
Renégade
Samantha
Susan
Tina T
Wealie

[KathyB]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: COMPLETE - 5/4

1. Prince Charming by Julie Garwood - 16 hours, 2 minutes (1/14)

2. Legacy by Nora Roberts - 15 hours (7/6)

3. High Noon by Nora Robert - 16 hours, 34 minutes (8/28)

4. A Rogue of One's Own by Evie Dunmore - 16 hours and 2 minutes (9/13)

5. Sanctuary by Nora Roberts - 15 hours (11/5)

[Alyana]

2021 Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2021
Level: Hard
Progress: 15/12

✔1. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins - (16 hours and 54 minutes) - read on 01/16/21

✔2. A Time to Kill - (16 hours and 47 minutes) - read on 02/21/21

✔3. Becoming - (19 hours and 3 minutes) - read on 03/02/21

✔4. A Promised Land - (29 hours and 9 minutes) - read on 05/13/21

✔5. Gone Girl - (19 hours and 7 minutes) - read on 05/18/21

✔6. Mystic River - (15 hours and 23 minutes) - read on 06/10/21

✔7. What Alice Forgot - (15 hours and 35 minutes) - read on 06/12/21

✔8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - (17 hours and 10 minutes) - read on 07/08/21

✔9. Game of Thrones - (33 hours and 46 minutes) - read on 08/18/21

✔10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - (21 hours and 34 minutes) - read on 09/24/21

✔11. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - (29 hours and 7 minutes) - read on 10/23/21

✔12. 11/22/63 - (30 hours and 37 minutes) - read on 11/04/21

✔13. As Good As Dead - (15 hours and 3 minutes) - read on 11/12/21

✔14. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - (20 hours and 57 minutes) - read on 11/19/21

✔15. Shelter in Place - (15 hours and 22 minutes) - read on 11/22/21

✨✨✨ COMPLETED ✨✨✨

[Jonetta]

Big Listen Challenge***Complete***
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Progress: 9/9

1. The Awakening by Nora Roberts (15 hours, 27 minutes)
2. Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson (15 hours, 34 minutes)
3. No Good Deed by Allison Brennan (16 hours, 26 minutes)
4. Lover Unveiled by J.R. Ward (15 hours, 41 minutes)
5. Legacy by Nora Roberts (15 hours)
6. The Lost Girls by Allison Brennan (15 hours, 27 minutes)
7. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (15 hours, 54 minutes)
8. Compulsion by Allison Brennan (15 hours)
9. Shattered by Allison Brennan (15 hours, 32 minutes)

[Samantha]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 2/4

1. Hideaway by Nora Roberts 15 hrs, 50 minutes 1/4/2021
2. The Awakening by Nora Roberts 15 hours, 27 minutes 1/13/2021

[Debby *BabyDee*]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 5/4

1. Lara by Bertrice Small - 18 hours 50 minutes, 1/18/2021
2. Moonshadow by Susan Wiggs
3. Indiscretion by Hannah Fielding - 17 hours 58 minutes, 1/12/2021
4. The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan - 15 hours 18 minutes, 1/27/2021
5. Prince Charming by Julie Garwood- 16 hours 2 minutes, 2/5/2021
6. His Forsaken Bride by Alice Coldbreath - 17 hours 18 minutes, 3/7/2021

[Karin]

Big Listen Challenge - 15 hours or longer
Duration: 01/01/21 - 12/31-21
Level: Hard
Progress: 9/12



(view spoiler)[
1. ★★★★★ Ripper by Lexi Blake 04/06 15 hours, 28 minutes
2. ★★★★☆ Loose Ends: Volume One by Kristen Ashley 06/05 15 hours, 79 minutes
3. ★★★★☆ The Gamble by Kristen Ashley 06/17 25 hours, 17 minutes
4. ★★★★☆ Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley 06/25 25 hours, 6 minutes
5. ★★★★☆ Lady Luck by Kristen Ashley 07/01 22 hours, 3 minutes
6. ★★★★☆ Breathe by Kristen Ashley 07/02 22 hours
7. ★★★★☆ Bounty by Kristen Ashley 07/07 21 hours, 7 minutes
8. ★★★★★ American King by Sierra Simone 09/06 16 hours, 7 minutes
9. ★★★★☆ Harvest of Sighs by Sierra Simone 09/15 15 hours, 31 min


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[Mary]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 13/4
Challenge complete!

1. The Royal We - 17 hours, 54 minutes
2. A Court of Thorns and Roses - 16 hours, 7 minutes
3. A Court of Mist and Fury - 23 hours, 16 minutes
4. A Court of Wings and Ruin - 25 hours, 9 minutes
5. King of Scars - 16 hours, 13 minutes
6. Jurassic Park - 15 hours, 10 minutes
7. The Lost World - 15 hours, 18 minutes
8. The Gamble - 25 hours, 17 minutes
9. The Heir Affair - 17 hours, 45 minutes
10. Bitterblue - 16 hours, 33 minutes
11. A Court of Silver Flames - 26 hours, 5 minutes
12. Aurora Burning - 15 hours, 16 minutes
13. Aurora's End - 15 hours, 5 minutes

Currently reading:

Possible Titles:
Kingsbane
Winterkeep - 16:31

[Renegade ♥]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 4/4 CHALLENGE COMPLETE

✔1. A ​Sky Beyond the Storm - 17 hours, 9 minutes
✔2. Mistborn: The Final Empire - 24 hours, 39 minutes
✔3. Becoming - 19 hours, 3 minutes
✔4. The Well of Ascension - 28 hours, 56 minutes

[Heather]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Hard
Progress: 3/12

1. A Heart of Blood and Ashes, Milla Vane - 15 hours, 16 minutes, 1/3/21
2. Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir - 16 hours, 50 minutes, 1/9/21
3. The Last Widow, Karin Slaughter - 16 hours, 41 minutes, 2/14/21

[Susan]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Progress: 0/8

1. Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith (31 hrs 52 min) 1/4/21 5*
2. The Wall of Winnipeg and Me,Mariana Zapata (16 hrs 0 min) 1/6/21 5*
3. Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness (24 hrs 25 min) 1/24/21 4*

[Tina]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 5/4

✔ Closer Than You Think - Karen Rose 28hr 31min
✔ Alone In the Dark by Karen Rose, 30hr 16min
✔Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose, 24 hr 18min

✔A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, 24hr 1 min
✔Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, 24hr 25 min

Maybe
Rock Chick Revenge- Kristen Ashley, 17hr 49 min
Rock Chick Reckoning - Kristen Ashley, 16hr 52min

[Lieke]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Easy
Progress: 0/4


Almost:
Of Wicked Blood (14 hours 41 minutes)

[Joyce]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Hard
Progress: 11/12

1) Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Tales: Eleventh Doctor Audio Originals (17 hrs 44 min)
2) Elantris 5/10/21 (28 hrs 42 min)
3) Nine Perfect Strangers 16 hrs and 18 mins (978 min) 7/1/21
4) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 17 hrs and 10 mins (1030 min) 7/28/21
5) Consider Phlebas 16 hrs and 26 mins (1560 min) 8/3/21
6) Daughter of the Blood 16 hrs and 52 mins (1012 min) 8/24/21
7) The Diviners 18 hrs and 14 mins (1094 min) 9/2/21
8) NOS4A2 19 hrs and 41 mins (1181 min) 10/22/21
9) The Once and Future Witches 16 hrs and 3 mins (963 min) 11/5/21
10) Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold 15 hrs and 26 mins (926 min) 11/24/21
11) Aurora Rising 12/3/21 19 hrs and 41 mins (1181 min)

[Wealie]

Duration: 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2021
Level: Hard - 12 or more
Books Read: 12/12
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01. Tangle of Need – Listened: 12/06 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 15 hours, 41 minutes
02. Shield of Winter – Listened: 14/06 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 15 hours, 47 minutes
03. Shards of Hope – Listened: 15/06 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 15 hours, 40 minutes
04. Allegiance of Honour – Listened: 16/06 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 15 hours, 08 minutes
05. Silver Silence – Listened: 19/06 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 16 hours, 01 minute
06. A Rogue of One’s Own – Listened: 19/08 - 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 16 hours, 02 minutes
07. Honest Illusions – Listened: 15/09 – 3 🌟🌟🌟 – 15 hours, 25 minutes
08. High Noon – Listened: 16/09 – 4 🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 16 hours, 34 minutes
09. Magic Breaks – Listened: 17/09 – 4 🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 16 hours, 32 minutes
10. Wildest Dreams – Listened: 19/09 – 3 🌟🌟🌟 – 18 hours, 49 minutes
11. The Moonstone – Listend: 27/09 - 3 🌟🌟🌟 – 18 hours, 45 minutes
12. Necroscope II Wamphyri! – Read: 09/10 – 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 – 17 hours, 55 minutes

[Carla]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Progress: 7/8

1. Cress - 941 minutes

2. All Creatures Great and Small - 923 minutes

3. Big Little Lies - 955 minutes

4. The Traitor - 1083 minutes

5. The Four Winds - 902 minutes

6. Just as I Am: A Memoir - 968 minutes

7, Legacy - 900 minutes

[Holly]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Progress: 5/8

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (45hrs 30 mins)
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (48hrs 13mins)
Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning (15hrs 4mins)

[Alyana]

I think I'm finished for the year. Off to the next! :)

[Jonetta]

Congratulations, Alyana!

[Samantha]

Alyana wrote: "I think I'm finished for the year. Off to the next! :)"

Congrats!

[Alyana]

Samantha wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I think I'm finished for the year. Off to the next! :)"

Congrats!"

Jonetta wrote: "Congratulations, Alyana!"

Thank you dear mods! :)

[Carla]

So, I am done for this year. I only managed 7/8. I had a couple that were over 14 hours, but didn't make it to 15. Great job everyone.

[Jonetta]

Congrats, Carla!

It’s frustrating with those 14 hour books. I just finished one that was 14 hours and 30 minutes. Grrrr.

[Samantha]

Well done, Carla!

[Jonetta]

Jonetta wrote: "Big Listen Challenge***Complete***
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Progress: 9/9

1. The Awakening by Nora Roberts (15 hours, 27 minutes)
2...."

Finished this at the medium level!