42 books in 15 months

Back in April 2025 I was getting bored of just listening to music while I ran - which was hours every week. So installed LibbyApp for Android, got myself an online card for my county library and started churning through audio books. Now I "read" several books a month - a mix of fiction and non-fiction and a mix of when running, hiking, biking, in the car, or chilling by the pool where reading a screen in full sun is a pain in the eye. I also signed up for the $0.99 a month Audible trial a couple of times because they have an exclusive on some audio books such as Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary". There was also the non-audiobook version of "Seveneves" which I started a long time ago but put down - so I used the accessibility option to have text to speech read it to me. It was kind of painful but got the job down.

So here we are 15 months and 42 books later... I'm impressed, I really didn't think I've read that many books. Anyway, thanks @libbyapp.com for getting me back into reading again.

On LibbyApp

Jul 2026

• 24 Jul 2026: Children of Ruin — Adrian Tchaikovsky (Audiobook; 15 hours) - still reading
• 20 Jul 2026: Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes (Audiobook; 9 hours)
• 17 Jul 2026: Data Empire — Roopika Risam (Audiobook; 14 hours) - still reading
• 14 Jul 2026: Blindsight — Peter Watts (Audiobook; 12 hours)
• 3 Jul 2026: Detour — Jeff Rake and Rob Hart (Audiobook; 11 hours; #1 in series)

Jun 2026

• 3 Jun 2026: Saturn Run — John Sandford and Ctein (Audiobook; 17 hours)

May 2026

• 25 May 2026: The Passenger — Cormac McCarthy (Audiobook; 13 hours)
• 23 May 2026: The Road — Cormac McCarthy (Audiobook; 7 hours)
• 9 May 2026: Adulthood Rites — Octavia E. Butler (Audiobook; 10 hours; #2 in series)
• 4 May 2026: Dawn — Octavia E. Butler (Audiobook; 9 hours; #1 in series)
• 4 May 2026: The Fold — Peter Clines (Book)

Apr 2026

• 14 Apr 2026: There Is No Antimemetics Division — qntm (Audiobook; 9 hours)

Mar 2026

• 14 Mar 2026: Empire of AI — Karen Hao (Audiobook; 18 hours)

Feb 2026

• 16 Feb 2026: Separation of Church and Hate — John Fugelsang (Audiobook; 9 hours)
• 9 Feb 2026: The Seven Rules of Trust — Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner (Audiobook; 6 hours)

Jan 2026

• 31 Jan 2026: Neuromancer — William Gibson (Audiobook; 11 hours; #1 in series)
• 7 Jan 2026: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (Audiobook; 6 hours)

Dec 2025

• 21 Dec 2025: The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood (Audiobook; 14 hours; #2 in series)
• 8 Dec 2025: Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood (Audiobook; 11 hours; #1 in series)

Nov 2025

• 8 Nov 2025: Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson (Audiobook; 24 hours; #1 in series)
• 7 Nov 2025: Free Will Explained — Dan Barker (Audiobook; 5 hours)

Oct 2025

• 12 Oct 2025: Apostles of Mercy — Lindsay Ellis (Audiobook; 16 hours; #3 in series)
• 9 Oct 2025: The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson (Audiobook; 21 hours)
• 8 Oct 2025: 1984 — George Orwell (Audiobook; 12 hours)

Sept 2025

• 14 Sept 2025: Parable of the Talents — Octavia E. Butler (Audiobook; 15 hours; #2 in series)
• 6 Sept 2025: Agency — William Gibson (Audiobook; 10 hours; #2 in series)
• 1 Sept 2025: The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin (Audiobook; 13 hours; #5 in series)

Aug 2025

• 8 Aug 2025: Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler (Audiobook; 12 hours; #1 in series)

Jul 2025

• 27 Jul 2025: Star-Spangled Jesus — April Ajoy (Audiobook; 8 hours)
• 16 Jul 2025: Animal Farm — George Orwell (Audiobook; 3 hours)
• 2 Jul 2025: The Burning World — Isaac Marion (Audiobook; 14 hours; #2 in series)

Jun 2025

• 14 Jun 2025: Warm Bodies — Isaac Marion (Audiobook)
• 8 Jun 2025: The New Hunger — Isaac Marion (Audiobook; 3 hours; 0.5 in series)
• 5 Jun 2025: Truth of the Divine — Lindsay Ellis (Audiobook; 17 hours; #2 in series)

Apr 2025

• 17 Apr 2025: Odds On — Michael Crichton and John Lange (Book)
• 13 Apr 2025: Axiom's End — Lindsay Ellis (Audiobook; 16 hours; #1 in series)
• 2 Apr 2025: A Truck Full of Money — Tracy Kidder (Audiobook; 9 hours)

Audible

No dates but all in 2026

• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
• Artemis — Andy Weir
• Artifact — Jeremy Robinson
• Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Google Books

• Seveneves — Neal Stephenson