Long story short, I’ve really gotten into reading over the past 18 months and have finished more than 100 books. At the beginning of my escapade, it was 70/30 audiobooks, and now it’s more like 60/40 physical books. It’s been awhile since I’ve been really hooked on an audiobook, so looking for any suggestions. Below are some of my favorites and * denotes audiobook. Thanks and cheers!!!
5 stars:
– Fiction: Lonesome Dove; Project Hail Mary*; Book Thief*; A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World; Silo trilogy (Wool; Shift; Dust); James; Shogun
– Non-Fiction: When Breath Becomes Air; Tao Te Ching
4.5 stars:
– Non- Fiction: Into Thin Air; Educated; Nickel Boys*; Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship; The Untethered Soul*
– Fiction: 11/22/63*; The Shining*; Stoner; Remarkably Bright Creatures*; A Short Stay in Hell; We Need to Talk About Kevin*; A Thousand Splendid Suns*; True Grit; The Underground Railroad; The Sisters Brothers; Kindred; A Prayer for Owen Meany; Shane
4 stars:
– Non-Fiction: In the Heart of the Sea; The Wager*; Dead Wake; Abundance by Ezra Klein*; Only God Can Judge Me, the Many Lives of Tupac Shakur; The White Castle*; Everything is Tuberculosis*
– Fiction: The Kite Runner*; Piranesi; Where the Red Fern Grows*; Butcher’s Crossing; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; The Trees (Perceval Everett)
3.5 stars:
– Non-Fiction: 438 Days; The Stranger in the Woods*; Miracle in the Andes*; All Quiet on the Western Front*; Burial Rites; Yearbook (Seth Rogen)*; The Gift of Fear*; The Power of Now*; The Surrender Experiment*
– Fiction: Fairy Tale*; Go Tell It on the Mountain; Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir (Norm Macdonald); Fairy Tale*; The Story of Edgar Sawtelle; The Great Alone*; Parable of the Sower; Beacon 23
by acohn1230
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I don’t see it on your nonfiction list, but it does look like you like memoirs, so I would recommend Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Sooooo good on audio.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
When it comes to audiobooks, the reader can really make an impact. Many of the audiobooks you have listed (including DCC) have great people reading them. Even if you have read the Lord of the rings books, and seen the movies, the audiobooks read by Andy Serkis are next level.
The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything is Tuberculosis both by John Green
Bit of a mix:
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – fantasy book. Nowhere near as thrilling as the blurb sounds but I still think it’s a special gem. It just FEELS magical. I love the way she writes.
Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (audiobook adaption) – I was already familiar with this story (I grew up with a sister and she watched a TV adaptation). Rachel McAdams does a tremendous job of bringing the character to life. Fantastically narrated. It’s a great listen.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – the book or the audiobook. I’ve only listened to the audiobook but it was great. Presume the book is too. Probably my fave I’ve heard, after Project Hail Mary.
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell or The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell or Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell or anything by David Mitchell – he’s one of my fave authors.
Babel by R.F. Kuang is really cool. I’d say it’s better to read because she really brings the world to life with little additional footnotes all over the place.
There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak – I’ll be honest. I picked this up on a whim because the cover looked nice but I absolutely loved the story, too. Grandiose, yet personal and gut-wrenchingly sad at times.
The Dispatcher (audiobook) series of novellas by John Scalzi are great and narrated by Zachary Quinto!
Wonder by R.J Palacio (audiobook or book) for some wholesomeness
And it can never hurt to sling in some Iain M. Banks like Consider Phlebas – I’ve just heard a few of the audiobooks but I imagine the books are great too. Really good narrator for the audiobooks though.
Non-fiction: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson- the narration is entertaining, and it is a funny and enjoyable read. The Right Stuff narrated by Dennis Quaid is also good if you’re interested in NASA/space race history.
Fiction: Circe by Madeline Miller- I’m a sucker for a good British narrator plus the book is fantastic. I also loved Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Ten Thousand Doors of January. If you’re a Nick Offerman fan, he narrates A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and it is great.