I hate listening to music during work because it makes the days drag. I just finished The Storm light Archives by Brandon Sanderson and recently finished the Wheel of time. I am looking for suggestions in the fantasy genre and the longer the better. I have already read Games of Thrones as well. I just finished my last book today so any suggestions would be great. Thank you!
by FiizzyPanda
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Joe Abercrombie First Law Series
edit to add: The narration is excellent.
I think the audiobooks for The Goblin Emperor is top notch, but it doesn’t really fit well with your other books(it’s very character driven)
World War Z
The Sworn Soldier Series/T Kingfisher in general
Idk if you would want to listen to romantasy by Assistant to the Villain I enjoyed
Ring Shout
Lord of the Rings
Lois McMaster Bujold has several extensive and good series
Long good listens:
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Clarke
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Baroque Cycle + Cryptonomicon by Stephenson
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
Earthsea Cycle by Le Guin
Countless detective, cop, crime series that are benign, help pass the time and some are quite good but not sure you want
The Riyria Chronicles and Riyria Revelations series. I really like the graphic audio adaptation.
I’m reading the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. It’s a bit of Potter, a bit of Percy Jackson, a lot of wryly narrated police procedural, and a lot of laugh out loud funny, irreverent and adult writing. It’s also a love letter to the culture and architecture of London. And definitely not YA.
The last Magician/Cop of the London police magical crimes unit has a new apprentice, a young cop who is our protagonist, who is having to immerse in The Knowledge to become a ‘Practitioner’. He has to navigate a world that includes his old school upper crust boss, his jazz musician junkie dad, his West African immigrant mom, and a host of other idiosyncratic characters in modern London. Oh, and murderous wizards and supernatural beings of various sorts.
It’s humorously meta. The Master gets annoyed when his pupil keeps referring to the old defunct magic school as Hogwarts. I was cackling when someone new to the existence of magic asked if it was like the Avatar universe with Airbenders and such. He was told an emphatic “no”. A scene later a magical person jams his hand into the sidewalk and breaks it open to disappear! And our protagonist exclaims “fuck me, he’s an Earthbender!”
Later books jump to different countries, and even periods. And it’s fantastic in audiobook, the author in an interview described writing exotic characters just to challenge the reader to do the accent!
Dungen Crawler Carl. Amazing.
Red Rising series
The House in the Cerulean Sea and sequel