Hi readers! I have 3 audible credits I need to use soon and wanted to hear some suggestions from the group on what they’d use them for in my situation. Generally I borrow books on the Libby app and usually do ebooks rather than audio so I’m not sure who good narrators might be or what books might really be great in audio format.
I enjoy a wide variety of genres but I’ve been on a real biography/autobiography kick recently (I’m Glad My Mom’s Dead, Educated, Know My Name, Glass Castle, Born a Crime, etc) and my favorite podcasts are usually human interest stories (think This American Life, Serial, Scamanda, Radiolab, etc)
I’m open to really any suggestions so throw them my way! Thanks for your help!
by babbles-bobbles
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The audiobook is incredible.
Regarding biographies, I guess it really depends who you’re interested in. Patrick Stewart has just released his, narrated by himself, which I’m currently really enjoying. Bob Mortimer’s is also amazing.
Outside of that, there’s really too many possibe suggestions. If you like gritty fantasy, *The First Law* trilogy has excellent narration. If you enjoy non-fiction, anything by *David Attenborough* is solid. If you enjoy mystery, Stephen Fry narrates all the *Sherlock Holmes* novels for a single credit. For something more horrific, you can get the entire H.P. Lovecraft bibliography for a single credit narrated by the Lovecraft society. A little more dystonian, and the *Silo* trilogy is excellent with two books done well by Susannah Harker. Fancy something totally random and daft, then check out Philomena Cunk. Want to hear the best worst writing ever , then check out *Terrortome*.
Hope there’s something useful in that scattering of well-narrated content.
*Finding Me* by Viola Davis is a great autobiography that I think fits with the ones you listed.
I personally always have a fiction/novel going in physical book form and a nonfiction going on audible. Russell Shorto is fantastic (and narrates his own books). I would highly recommend “island at the center of the world”. Listed to “amsterdam” as well and loved that too.
Here are a few of my 5-stars:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow