Hi guys! I asked last week for your 5 star reads so far this year and I received SO many incredible recommendations! I would love to hear your favorite audiobook recommendations! I often drive for work, so I would love to hear which books you would recommend listening to.
by effyoucaribou
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The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
I know so many people are going to say Project Hail Mary and I agree with that as well.
This is a short, but eclectic, list of audiobooks that I think are better than the print versions.
– Born a Crime: Trevor Noah’s Memoir
– Project Hail Mary: Sci-fi
– Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth: Poetry
– Dungeon Crawler Carl: LitRPG
Project Hail Mary. I loved the print version but I adore the audio!
Daisy Jones and the Six. It’s read by a full cast which elevates the interview style of the book.
Celebrity memoirs read by the celebrity. It’s great hearing their story in their own words. (Michelle Williams reads Britney Spears’ book and does an amazing job.)
Any book written by a comedian
A Scanner Darkly read by Paul Giamatti
Milkman by Anna Burns. The book isn’t for everyone, but the performance and how it melded with the narrative/writing style was remarkable
listen for the lie
the favorites by layne fargo
a good girl’s guide to murder
I really loved the audiobook version of Jim Carreys bio. It was read by Jeff Daniels and he did an amazing job – its a weird bio, half truth half fiction and Daniels’ voice is very much William S Burroughs inspired.
Lolita
Educated by Tara Westover and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Project Hail Mary
World War Z
Circe
I’ve been listening through Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series and could not recommend those audiobooks loudly enough. I looove them. All of the voice actors have been so great and the prose is just gorgeous. The mysteries/crimes get better with each book imo (except maybe one miss), but yeah they are so great I think
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman.
Also, the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor.
Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidies. I was so *fucking bummed* when I read it with my eyes, which may have just as much to do with my mood at the time. It felt hopeless and fated and grungy. Kristoff Taboor (? I forget it’s been a couple years but his name is similar to that) brought a detached, accepting levity to the book that made some of the worst parts hilarious. 100/10.
Note that this work is fiction and is not a historical recount of how intersex people are medically/socially handled/understood/happen to be born intersex in reality.
Piranesi was an outstanding audiobook, as was Deacon King Kong.