Can we have an Audible recommendations thread please

The Liar, written and read by Stephen Fry

Anything written and read by Alastair Cooke.

Are they, Hak? I will keep hold of my Ian Carmichael versions!

Sayers and Christie are the bulk of my library.

Just going to mark my place with yet another recommendation for Americanah. It's exactly the kind of book I would have forgotten quickly had I read it myself, but listening to it was like getting wrapped up in other people's lives. I really enjoyed the narration.

Now I'm reading Running Like A Girl - witty & relatable if you like to run.

And I have Bill Brysons Shakespeare lined up next.

I also love the Serrailler series. The brilliant narrator, Stephen Pacey, also does the Department Q books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. I'm on the second one and really enjoying them.

Also recommend the Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.

I second Juliet Stevenson reading Middlemarch. It's brilliant. Towards the end I was taking extra long routes to work so I could listen to more!

I also like
-Pride and Prejudice read by Emilia Davies. It's a book I know very well and I listened to during a stressful period. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket by Captain Wentworth.

• Any Trollope read by Timothy West

• Guards! guards! Read by Nigel Planner. Although at one point I had to stop listening as I was snorting with laughter and getting suspicious looks

• Lenry Henry reading the Ansi Boys

Only book I have not liked is the Wizard of Earthsea. The narrator was awful!

I'm half way through Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane and it's very good.

Also just taken today's daily deal The King's Speech

Thanks for that, Juliet Stevenson is such a good narrator.

I listened to Tresspas and Alentejo Blue read by Juliet Stevenson. Both very good IMHO.

I have just discovered Patricia Wentworth. Good whodunnits a bit like Miss Marple.

I nearly cried when 1Q84 finished, 46 hours and loved every minute of it.

Justine - 35 hours - WOW! I thought I was rather heroic with the mere 32 hours of The Way We Live Now.

Serrailler series are well worth a listen, I agree.

Thank you Duchess, will give them a shout! Fantastic

Or even Balliol......[shame]

I'm very cross with Audible because they are re doing all the Peter Wimsey books with a particularly grim narrator who persistently mispronounces words which are slightly unusual but common in the books. Like Baliol.

If you like light undemanding traditional detective stories, I recomend Susan Hill's Simon Serralier series. Well read and entertaining. The Ruth Rendell ones are well read too. Bill Bryson's good. Stephen Fry's first book of memoirs- the second is ghastly Game of Thrones is good. And Anthony Trollope. And Jon Ronson.

Have you tried approaching Librivox? They use amateur readers to record books in the public domain - classics usually.

Slight hijack but can anyone suggest a way I could get involved in reading these books out loud - I'd love to do it and have loved reading out loud since I was little, but one charity said they only use professional actors, and another one just didn't respond at all.

I'd be happy to do newspapers or books or anything else tbh. Looking to do it on a voluntary basis. I'm in Kent.

Cheers

Daily Deals? I've been an Audible member for 10+ years and never knew about them till this thread! Thanks PPs for alerting me - I've subscribed now.

Oh thanks Anonymous- I'll look out for it. He has a great voice for audio books - compelling without distracting from the story.

Sorry, Far Side of the Moore, not Moon!

EAT mum - if you like Tom Hollander, you absolutely must look up his recent radio play on iPlayer "Far Side of the Moon". He is absolutely brilliant as Patrick Moore, I was blown away. I love him anyway but that just sealed it for me! Not listened to an audio book by him, but would definitely look out for one.

spinningheart - crime/thriller/funny for me too in the main for audiobooks. Long descriptive passages on the audio generally are tricky for me, though I have managed a few longish classics. But I've had to work at it a bit (with great results though).

Currently listening to:

Cosmic with the children which is bleedin' brilliant
and

Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which is totally out of my normal comfort zone and is rude (!) but also touching and funny. It must have been on a special deal as I wouldn't have used a full credit on it. Can't remember, but enjoying it so glad it has ended up in my App.

Just bought the little friend by Donna Tartt it's 3.47 today!

Another Audible addict here. I've enjoyed the Serrallier series (sp?) too, and I've just finished working through some newish PD James recording of all the Adam Dalgliesh books. I loved the Goldfinch too, and the Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling books. I'm on the hunt for some new crime fiction, though I've also just downloaded the Dirk Gently/Douglas Adams books from my library - wish our library had a bigger range or varied it.
Also enjoyed:
Apple Tree Yard read by Juliet Stevenson
Lots of Michael Connelly books
The Lawrence Block burglar books
Capital read by Colin Mace
The Casual Vacancy read by Tom Hollander (he should do more)
Ellie Hatcher books by Alafair Burke
Series by Elizabeth Corley read by Jonathan Oliver
Running like a girl read by Alexandra Heminsley
And lots of Sherlock Holmes and Poirot

Which explains why I spend so much on my Audible account - best not let DH know ...