2014 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults

Just announced from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association:  

The 2014 Amazing Audiobooks list has been announced, consisting of 27 fiction titles and two nonfiction, features recordings covering a wide range of interests for young adults from memoir to psychological horror to parody.

See the full list here.  

In addition to the full list, the committee chose the following recordings as its top 10:

• "Zombie Baseball Beatdown" by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Sunil Malhotra. Listening Library, 2013. 
• "Etiquette & Espionage" by Gail Carriger, read by Moira Quirk. Hachette Audio, 2013. 
•  "William Shakespeare's Star Wars" by Ian Doescher, read by a full cast. Listening Library, 2013.   
•  "If You Could Be Mine" by Sara Farizan, read by Negin Farsad. High Bridge Audio, 2013. 
•  "Scowler" by Daniel Krause, read by Kirby Heyborne.  Listening Library, 2013. 
•  "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson, read by Danny Burstein. Simon and Schuster Audio, 2013. 
•  "Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away (A Bloody Jack Adventure)" by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren.  Listen and Live Audio, 2013. 
•  "Crap Kingdom" by D.C. Pierson, read by D.C. Pierson. Blackstone, 2013. 
•  "Dodger" by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs. Dreamscape Audio, 2012. 
•  "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell, read by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra. Listening Library, 2013.

Listening to an audiobook can be a real treat.  Remember back to the days when your parent or teacher or librarian would read out loud to you?  Listening to an audiobook can also be a way to understand a book on a deeper level (hearing the correct pronunciation of words, an increase in remembering details from the story, etc.)  Audiobooks are worth a try- check one out from the library today!