So with all the chores and kids, my spouse and I don't have much time for activities together. But we had the idea to listen to the same audiobook wile doing stuff.
We put some rules :
1-No series (She like Outlander and I like Warhammer and we don't want to be stuck with the same characters for years 😅. Also, the goal is to get diversity.)
2-Should be 200 to 500 pages (8 to 15 hours audiobook ish, for diversity again.)
3- It need to be in english. Can be a translation . (We live in a remote french speaking area in Québec and we want to maintain our listening skills.)
The book we had before are:
-1984
-Dune
-Messia (1 rule broken we know 🥲)
-Pride and prejudice
-Handmaid's tale
-The testaments (Yeah broken rule again, don't the call the police please😅)
-A brave new world
-Dracula
-Friends of my young
So what can you suggest us?
Bonus point for fantasy or humanity fuck yeah vibe. Because we had a lot of sad stories.
Thanks!
by H4lfdog
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We loved Project Hail Mary!
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. It’s short stories but it’s great!
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. It’s the first of 3 but to me it stands alone perfectly.
The Covenant of Water
Legends and Lattes is the first book my wife and I listened to together on a trip. It’s cozy fantasy, a genre neither of us had tried before. We loved it.
Here’s some of my favorite standalone books by Canadian authors (all available in English, all the authors have additional books):
A Boy of Good Breeding by Miriam Toewes (lots of her books are dark AF but this one is funny – a bonkers little town on the Praries)
Practical Jean by Trevor Cole (dark and twisted but also funny in parts – a very vanilla housewife turns to murder)
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb (three generations of people dealing with the fallout of government oppression in Vietnam but somehow written in a way that makes you happy to read it)
Happiness by Will Ferguson (the utterly bonkers adventures of a hapless book editor who destroys life as we know it by accidentally publishing a self help book that works)
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill (dark but also funny, about a 13 year old living in Montreal with her addict father)
J-Pod by Douglas Coupland (hilarious adventures of some twenty something oddballs who work at a tech company in Van)
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland (the self-described loneliest woman in the world, living in Vancouver, reflecting on her strange but very Canadian childhood and trying to build a life in spite of herself)
Dungeon crawler Carl!