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Suggestions for audio books please

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BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 27/05/2024 17:16

I have a long car commute and have just been gifted an Audible subscription. I love reading (paper copies) but have never tried an audio book.
Any recommendations?
I like most modern fiction, read my way through the Booker long list if I have time, also like autobiography.
What's the best book you've listened to?

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WitchyBits · 27/05/2024 19:25

Apollo365 · 27/05/2024 17:22

Ohh I binged the Strike series on Audible, they are so long.
Im joining the thread for suggestions too 😆

Love love love the strike series and the narrator is just perfect ❤️

Elodie9 · 27/05/2024 19:22

Agree the Strike books are good on audible (except for one which just did not work for me) and I loved the St Mary's chronicles as the narrator Zara Ramm is excellent.
Also loved Rebecca read by Anna Massey.
Duma key read by John Slattery also excellent.
Definitely has to be a voice you like though. I have one short story read by Cillian Murphy. swoon or what!

thedendrochronologist · 27/05/2024 19:15

Susan Hill Simon Serailer (UK police) books are good series and good narrator. Set in a fictional place.

Harry Spare if you can bear it

Matthew Perry is good if you like him / friends

James Blunt - downloaded for DH and listened - it was good, funny and interesting

Just bought ed gambles Autobiography

StMarieforme · 27/05/2024 17:37

Matthew Perry's Autobiography was excellent.

I also like all the Inspector Grace books.

You get lots of free ones too so search included in subscription.

Duh · 27/05/2024 17:34

Anything narrated by Juliet Stevenson!

Pigeonqueen · 27/05/2024 17:31

I read all sorts of things but have just finished Lucky by Louise Thompson and really enjoyed it - enjoyed probably the wrong word as it’s very bleak in places, about birth trauma and mental health (something which I can relate to) but it was really interesting.

Oceansmeet · 27/05/2024 17:31

Always worth listening to a sample before you download. Some narrators are awful!
My recommendation is A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe.

hoppalong · 27/05/2024 17:26

I recently enjoyed The Dutch House read by Tom Hanks and Miss Benson's Beetle read by Juliet Stevenson.

DwarfBeans · 27/05/2024 17:25

I find the narrator makes all the difference.

Agree! Perfume by Patrick Suskind read by Sean Barrett.

WeKnowFrogsGoShaLaLaLaLa · 27/05/2024 17:24

Matthew Perry autobiography.

Apollo365 · 27/05/2024 17:22

Ohh I binged the Strike series on Audible, they are so long.
Im joining the thread for suggestions too 😆

StandardSize14 · 27/05/2024 17:21

The stand Stephen king

Chickenkorma64 · 27/05/2024 17:19

apart from a good story, you need to make sure the narrator is a good fit for you and the style of book. I love Samantha Bond, Richard Armitage and Rory Kinnear as narrators. On audible you can hear a snippet before you buy to check the narrator works for you.

tobee · 27/05/2024 17:18

Rebecca read by Anna Massey
The Paying Guests read by Juliet Stephenson

I find the narrator makes all the difference.