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Engrossing audiobook recommendations

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BB49 · 10/02/2025 22:10

I have had a few disappointing listens on audible recently so would love to hear any fantastic books you’ve listened to. I like most fiction, but specially horrors or thrillers.

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HowardTJMoon · 14/02/2025 09:35

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar I'd be interested in some sci-fi recommendations!

ButterCrackers · 14/02/2025 08:52

slippersandfleece · 13/02/2025 23:55

Is into the uncanny different to the podcast? I have listened to all those so don't want a repeat. Thanks

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I just started this on Audible and it’s different to the podcast. He starts off with an introduction and then explains what happened to a friend of his. I’ll be listening whilst driving long distance tomorrow. He has a good voice for narration .

slippersandfleece · 13/02/2025 23:55

cuttinganotheronion · 13/02/2025 18:29

Another vote for Uncanny by Danny Robbins
Also The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Currently enjoying Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Is into the uncanny different to the podcast? I have listened to all those so don't want a repeat. Thanks

MayfairRose · 13/02/2025 23:40

@olivehater I struggle as well. I much prefer full-cast audio books or audio dramas. When I listen to an audio book it's much harder to concentrate and easy to forget what happened.

I'm curious now about Lucy Foley's audiobooks thank you for suggesting it

ThePoshUns · 13/02/2025 21:59

cuttinganotheronion · 13/02/2025 18:29

Another vote for Uncanny by Danny Robbins
Also The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Currently enjoying Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

The Seven Husbands ofEvelyn Hugo is wonderful on audiobooks, so well narrated.
I also enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry.

ButterCrackers · 13/02/2025 21:57

Freida MacFadden Housemaid series and others.

MichelleCancelled · 13/02/2025 21:39

Another one for Project Hail Mary and I am Pilgrim.

I'd add The Women and A marriage Portrait.

olivehater · 13/02/2025 21:39

I like Lucy foley on audiobooks. They are murder mysteries read by multiple narrators as different characters and their perspectives. I struggle when audiobooks are read by one narrator.

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BB49 · 13/02/2025 21:36

Fantastic thank you, I’ll look through all these :)

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Bookish123 · 13/02/2025 20:32

If you fancy a bit of non fiction I'm most of the way through Storm Pegs by Jen Hadfield. It's absolutely brilliant and beautifully narrated by the author herself. She's a poet so if you dislike poetry it's not one for you. However her descriptive language is something else and you can tell she is a poet as she reads. Her love of the ancient Shetland language is also really interesting. It's been an absolutely unexpected joy for me.

BlueberryStar · 13/02/2025 19:48

No Exit by Taylor Adams.
The Shining by Stephen King.
Misery by Stephen King.
Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven.
Sadie by Courtney Summers.
The Last House of Needless Street by Catriona Ward.

I also thought I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid was really good on audio but the book does have mixed reviews as it's a bit unusual.

I just started listening to Impact Winter by Travis Beacham which is a full audio production which is included with Audible. It's good so far.

I agree with others that the Martian and Project Hail Mary are great. Stephen Fry does an excellent job with the Harry Potter books too.

SydneyCarton · 13/02/2025 19:29

@Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit Martin Jarvis also does a great reading of A Tale of Two Cities (the only Dickens I can stand). Andy Serkis doing all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings is brilliant, so many different voices and characters.

This is a bit niche but you can find Kenneth Williams reading the Just William books on YouTube and they crack me up. My sisters and I used to listen to it on tape from the library and we still quote phrases from it to each other.

StinkerTroll · 13/02/2025 19:21

Another vote for project Hail Mary by Andy weir narrated by Ray porter, one of the best audio books I've ever listened to.

Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit · 13/02/2025 19:08

I'm such a bore about this topic but Diary of a Nobody read by Martin Jarvis is just wonderful. And Kobna Holdbrook Smith Reading Rivers of London, is such a pleasure for me.
@Dappy777
I'm sure Stephen Fry is very good at Sherlock Holmes but I think Derek Jacobi is sublime. He was Watson for me. I first read Sherlock Holmes when I was 11 and I'm 58 now, that voice, that narrators voice which is Watson in my head all those years? It is Derek Jacobi!

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 13/02/2025 18:57

Audiobooks that I have enjoyed recently
Lavender's Blue by Jennifer Cruise and Bob Mayer (also listened to the next two books in the series)
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne (also more books in this series)
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly, also by him Contest
The Liar's Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
Who Took Eden Mulligan by Sharon Dempsey

I have a load of sci-fi recommendations but people either really like the genre or not at all IME.

bumblingbovine49 · 13/02/2025 18:45

In memoriam by Alice Winn. I was absolutely spellbound by it.

OswaldCobblepot · 13/02/2025 18:40

thornbury · 13/02/2025 06:15

I loved Andy Weir Project Hail Mary - superbly narrated and I kept getting to work and not wanting to get out of the car!

Yes! I was the same, loved this audio book.

Also recommend:
The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

cuttinganotheronion · 13/02/2025 18:29

Another vote for Uncanny by Danny Robbins
Also The Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Currently enjoying Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Abracadabra12345 · 13/02/2025 16:13

Dappy777 · 10/02/2025 23:14

M. R. James is great on audiobook. For me he’s still the master of horror.

Also, if you haven’t done so already, you must listen to Stephen Fry read Sherlock Holmes.

Another one who recommends Sherlock Holmes. Mine was read by Stephen Fry or rather, performed, and he's excellent. The stories are so clever and the characterisation spot on. I really did fall in love with Sherlock!

I'm currently reading Wolf Hall read by Ben Miles and love it.

I do know what you mean - poor narrators can ruin a book

DisplayPurposesOnly · 13/02/2025 07:51

Samuel Pepys Diary BBC adaptation

Ridingthegravytrain · 13/02/2025 07:46

I am pilgrim is a good thriller. And at over 20hrs you get plenty of bang for your buck!

thornbury · 13/02/2025 06:15

I loved Andy Weir Project Hail Mary - superbly narrated and I kept getting to work and not wanting to get out of the car!

bettbburg · 13/02/2025 06:03

The Naturalists Society on audible is excellent

chillycat · 11/02/2025 20:12

BB49 · 10/02/2025 22:10

I have had a few disappointing listens on audible recently so would love to hear any fantastic books you’ve listened to. I like most fiction, but specially horrors or thrillers.

Heart's Invisible Furies
Intermezzo
You are Here
Wuthering Heights
Shardlake series

LittleMG · 11/02/2025 19:46

Into the Uncanny by Danny Robins I really enjoyed it