Big Listen Challenge

[Jonetta]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025





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, 2024. Audiobooks started in 2024 but completed in 2025 are eligible. Audiobooks started in 2025 but completed in 2026 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: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 0/4

[Jonetta]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 3/4

✔1. Story of My Life by Lucy Score (16 hours, 10 minutes)
✔2. The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware (15 hours, 11 minutes)
✔3. We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter (16 hours, 33 minutes)

[Karin]

Big Listen Challenge - 15 hours or longer
Duration: 01/01/25 - 12/31-25
Level: Hard
Progress: 14/12



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1. ★★★★★ Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 01/23 20 hours, 43 minutes
2. ★★★★★ Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros 01/31 28 hours, 16 minutes
3. ★★★★★ Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros 02/06 23 hours, 52 minutes
4. ★★★★☆ Pretty Things by Janelle Brown 02/17 16 hours, 6 minutes
5. ★★★★☆ Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 02/22 17 hours, 56 minutes
6. ★★★★☆ The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks 03/09 26 hours, 0 minutes
7. ★★★★☆ Farm 2 Forking Ominibus by Liz Alden; Lainey Davis; Karen Grey; Ember Leigh; Erin Mallon 03/29 25 hours, 14 minutes
8. ★★★★☆ We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal 04/12 17 hours, 56 minutes
9. ★★★★☆ Sword-Singer by Jennifer Roberson 04/19 15 hours, 5 minutes
10. ★★★★☆ Sword-Maker by Jennifer Roberson 04/23 16 hours, 21 minutes
11. ★★★★☆ Sword-Sworn by Jennifer Roberson 05/04 15 hours, 4 min
12. ★★★★☆ Beneath the Burning Sea by Amanda Bouchet 06/22 16 hours, 10 minutes
13. ★★★★☆ The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons 08/22 17 hours, 52 minutes
14. ★★★★☆ Shadowblood Souls by Eva Chase 10/09 51 hours, 2 minutes

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[Debby *BabyDee*]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 0/4

[Joyce]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Medium
Progress: 5/8

1. Hell Bent 16 hrs and 16 mins 5 stars 1/30/25
2. Chosen Ones 15 hr 12 min 4 stars 4/29/25
3. 1Q84 46 hr 45 min 5 stars 7/29/25
4. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep 18 hr 3 min 8/7/25
5. The Devils 25 hrs 6 min 8/17/25
6.

[Shan ~A~]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Level: Medium: 8 Big Listens
Progress: 2/8

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, 2024. Audiobooks started in 2024 but completed in 2025 are eligible. Audiobooks started in 2025 but completed in 2026 are NOT eligible.
6. Re-listens are allowed.

Books

1. The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson ~ 1102 mins.
2. Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions by Duane Tudahl ~ 1146 mins.
3.

[Mel]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 0/4

[Jill]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: hard
Progress: 9/12

2/4 3.5 stars 15 hours 52 min
2/6 4 stars 20 hours 47 min
2/17 re read 4 stars 17 hours 56 min
2/19 re-read 3.5 stars 28 hours 16min
4/5 re-read 5 stars 20 hours 15 min
4/12 4 stars 20 hours 5 min
4/21 4 stars 27 hours
6/27 A Shadow in the Ember 4 stars 19hours 19 min
8/15 Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 4 stars 15 hours 19 min
8/18 A Light in the Flame 4 stars 20 hours 11 min
8/22 A Fire in the Flesh 4 stars 19 hours 14 min
8/26 Born of Blood and Ash 24 hours 40 min
8/28 Once Upon a Crime 15 hours 42 min
9/18 The Butcher's Masquerade 19 hours 37 min
9/30 The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 26 hours 28 min

[KathyB]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 2/4

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (1/2)
21 hours, 3 minutes

2. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (2/28)
15 hours, 5 minutes

[Mel]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Easy
Progress: 1/4

1. House of Earth and Blood 1/5/25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[★☆sodalemongingerpop96☆★]

Big Listen Challenge
Duration: 1/1/25 - 12/31/25
Level: Hard
Progress: 9/12

1. Hotel by Arthur Hailey- 15 hrs and 17 minutes: 917 minutes

2. The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews- 15 hrs and 21 minutes: 921 minutes

3. Babel by R.F. Kuang- 21 hrs and 46 minutes: 1,306 minutes

4. The Charlie Method by Elle Kennedy- 15 hrs and 41 minutes: 941 minutes

5. The Secret / Ransom by Julie Garwood- 15 hrs and 56 minutes: 956 minutes

6. Master No by Lexi Blake- 15 hrs and 29 minutes: 929 minutes

7. King of Envy by Ana Huang- 16 hrs and 19 minutes: 979 minutes

8. Nocticadia by Keri Lake- 18 hrs and 37 minutes: 1,117 minutes

9. Nightshade by Keri Lake- 20 hrs and 26 minutes: 1,226 minutes