Audiobook recommendations- shall we share our highlights & duds??

Thanks Quogwinkle, the book looked dauntingly huge. I saw on Audible that the audiobook is 29 hours long!

I loved David Attenborough reading his autobiography.

I've listened to The Luminaries on audio book. Thought it very well done. It certainly helped me get through the story where I might not have done otherwise.

Moving I am about to get an Audible subscription, so will need some recommendations on best buys. I was thinking of The Luminaries - has anyone bought this one?

I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, mostly because of the fabulous readers.

Unbroken was riveting though covers some upsetting content.

The first two Diana Gabaldon books in the Outlander series got me through several long drives, with the only downside being that when driving I can't fast forward through the cringe-inducing sex scenes that I would skim over if reading on paper (I remember guffawing at one seemingly non-ironic use of the term "rogering" and a description of passionate lovemaking that occurred seconds after Claire, struggling with morning sickness, spewed violently into a chamber pot).

I've been trying to listen to Cold Mountain, which I loved when I read several years ago. Unfortunately it is read by the author, and while his voice is pleasant enough, he doesn't vary his tone at all -- puts me right to sleep! It's made me appreciate the very real talent the good readers have!

Gliblet was it the Radio 4 dramatisation of the Weirdstone of Brisingamen? I listened to it when I was younger and I have been trying to track down a copy for years, it was excellent. Radio 4 replay it every now and again on Radio 4 Extra but I always miss it.

I listen to audiobooks on my long drives for work. I've found it easier to listen to and follow autobiographies - with a preference for it being read by the author. I find it difficult to follow a convoluted plot when I'm driving - I constantly have to rewind because I've zoned it out for a spell.

I really enjoyed Alan Cummings book and also Jeanette Winterson's. Currently listening to Alec Ferguson's autobiography and might try Brian Blessed's next.

I loved Bill Bryson's At home

I am enjoying Bill Bryson reading his most recent book The Road to Little Dribbling.
And can also recommend The Help and Harvest (Jim Crace).

I'm listening to Americanah on Audible at the moment - great narrator IMO

I loved 1Q84. As much as Murakami's other books.
I couldn't get into the Miniaturist. Must try again.
The Bone Clocks - I don't know why but I got bored of it and stopped half way through.

As for Luminaries - I had to give it 5 goes. But once it started flowing I couldn't het enough of it.
I love Julie Stevenson's as narrator too.

Agree with Andcake - The Bone Clocks is amazing.

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton was a long and involving novel, read really well. I don't think I would have got through it otherwise, and I ended up rather enjoying it in spite of its sometimes incomprehensible astrology references.

The goldfinch ( just brilliant)
The miniaturist
Girl on a train
The circle
My best of the year 'the bone clocks' just wish it never ended
Hating 1Q84 which is a shame as I have loved every murikami I have read as a book)

Susan Hill' s Simon Serrailler series is well narrated too. I really enjoyed these. And The Paying Guests and Fingersmith both by Sarah Waters.

I have particularly enjoyed:

The Aubrey/Maturin series narrated by Simon Vance

The Pratchett books by Stephen Briggs - the earlier ones by Nigel Planer are fine, but the Briggs "voices" work better for me

Norah Lofts - everything I've listened to so far have been excellent.

Should add that I particularly value narrators who don't over-dramatise to the point of lowering the voice to the point of being barely audible during confidential conversations etc since I'm usually listening while out walking.

Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys read by Lenny Henry is brilliant - perfect match of reader and story.

I would recommend the audiobook of The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet. The narration is outstanding. Dutch accents, Japanese accents - all flow brilliantly.

My favourites
Anthony Trollope The Way we Live Now and The American Senator
Anything by Edith Wharton
Also
The Other Typist
Mrs sinclair's Suitcase
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
little Paris Bookshop
Hello from the Gillespies.
North and South

I a mgoing to write about successful purchases here...

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlo James is one of the best I've listened to for a while
7 narrators are making it such a great book to listen to it is almost like a play.
I can highly recommend it.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - another very well written book with suitable actor who read it. I can recommend it too.

NW by Zadie Smith - 2 narrators made this book came alive, worth listening to.

Kiss, kiss by Rhoad Dhal - I haven't read it before but somehow knew plots of 2 stories. Very atmospheric.

Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
I think is very well narrated. I learned a lot about Dickens and his family.