Audible, what are you currently listening to? What's great?

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Open to any suggestions on Audible books. What has really gripped you recently? Thanks.

My top non fic Audible listens this year.

Who Dares Wins, Britain 1979 to 1982 - Dominic Sandbrook

A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism - Julia Boyd

A woman of No Importance -Sonia Purnell

Tunnel 29 - Helena Merriman

Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart

Killing Thatcher - Rory Carroll

The Lord of the Rings read by Rob Inglis is fantastic. Unabridged too, so you also get Tom Bombadil!

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

My three recent favs

JD Kirk is my favourite author at the moment. The DCI Logan Scottish police crime series has the best most hilarious dialogue ever and it's performed brilliantly by Angus King. Ditto the Hoon novels.

@StoatofDisarray Bombadil is the low point for me of an unabridged reading 🤣. I have all three volumes of Andy Serkis’ version of LOTR which I think is excellent, also Martin Jarvis doing A Tale of Two Cities.

I'm listening to the Wheel of Time series at the moment. I read the books when I was at sixth form so am enjoying revisiting them. Rosamund Pike narrates the first three and her voice acting is excellent.

Oh yes!! Me too. Timothy West plus Trollope is bliss.
Also David Timpson reading the Forsyth saga yes please; zola, blood sex and money is good; madam no art Ronald pickup was good, Willie Collins Armadale also v enjoyable, also thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks read by David Rintoul kept me happy, Mary Gaskell is well done by Juliette Stevenson

In other news... also long, well read, and a good listen ...
J Keeble Reading a place of greater safety (his women's voices are a bit ... off); there are some good Irish Murdochs, rintoul again reading Sacred Hunger, Plantagenate by Mike Walker different but enjoyable and long!

Count of monte cristo read by Bill homewood is great !!

@OhBeAFineGuyKissMe thanks for the reminder, I had an Audible credit and have just spent it on the latest Horowitz/Hawthorne.

I also love the Rivers of London series and the Cormorant Strikes, plus Mick Herron's Slough House series (first one is Slow Horses). All of these are brilliantly narrated.

Ready Player One was a gripping listen, The Martian are the Hail Mary one mentioned up-thread

Any more suggestions?

I have 2 credits to spend.

I have never read a full Dickens novel so thinking this might be my autumn project. Any good audio ones? I saw David Copperfield up thread. What should I listen to?

I like nature, things connected to India (fiction or non-fiction) Greece, Turkey or Wales, crime/detective stuff but not gory, history and all kinds of fiction - my last physical book was a novel called Fair Exchange set in revolution era France by Michelle Roberts. Also like Louise Erdrich, and children's books (read Ton's Midnight Garden for the first time last year).

Open to suggestions.

For non-fiction: I was captivated by Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite. It’s a life of John Donne and she writes so beautifully that she almost seems his equal as a wordsmith. I thought I knew quite a lot about him but I learned a huge amount. And the man who reads it does so beautifully too.

@SummerScarf I couldn’t agree more. I studied Donne & found him terribly dull. Rundell brings him to life! Her parents stuck poems to her bathroom wall at ‘brushing your teeth height’ & a seed was planted. She’s amazing!

Non fiction Bill Bryson reading At Home: A Short History of Private Life
in which he looks into rooms of houses and how they came to be and why they have what they have in them. Much more interesting than I'm making it sound!

Classics of British Literature
BY
John Sutherland
from The Great Courses series (as recommended on Mumsnet previously)

British History for Dummies by Dr Sean Lang. He writes this brief history engagingly and it's read by Johnathan Keeble who pitches the humour in it very well.

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