Brilliant Audio Books

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Please tell me your best audio books - I am looking for inspiration.

I have just finished Anthony Horowitz Hawthorne series, they were brilliant and now I need something new to keep me entertained.

Thanks

If you like historical fiction then any of Kate Quinn's books narrated by Saskia Maarleveld are excellent. She's brilliant with accents.

I do enjoy Kate Quinn's book but disagree about the narrator, I thought she was awful. I listened to the one about Bletchley Park and a character went to the Lake District and the narrator kept pronouncing all of the place-names incorrectly eg saying the w in Keswick. It drove me mad.

I agree The Martian and Project Hail Mary were great audiobooks.

Lemn Sissay’s memoir, read by himself, is really good.

The James Herriot books read by that lovely young Scottish actor who plays Herriot in the current series are fantastic - he has a great voice and the books are wonderful to dip in and out of.

Nicholas Ralph! That’s the name. Damn my stupid memory.

I love Jeremy Nicholas's version of Three Men in a Boat

I listen to a lot of non-fiction history books on Audible but for fiction I loved the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom, the narrator Stephen Crossley is absolutely brilliant. I'd read all the books before but loved listening to them. The later ones are really long though!

Talking of long books I "re-read" the Wolf Hall trilogy, they are narrated by Ben Miles who is superb.

I like to get my money's worth

Oh I loved them as well - they were brilliant!

Yes - I loved these as well :) Her other books (not St Marys) are also excellent.

If you fancy some classics, search audio books on YouTube read by Mil Nicholson - she is an absolute master at accents and giving characters different voices so you know who's talking. I'm on my third classic read by her and she's spoiled all other narrators for me!

DH is also listening to The Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis. DH says he's very good.

I loved the first two and was "devastated" to find that the original narrator was too busy to do the next two. Took me ages to get used to the new narrator and I did not enjoy them as much, even though the third book was the best story of all of them. Really irrationally annoyed about it!

The Shardlake books on Audible are brilliant. Saw they were mentioned above. The narrator Stephen Crossley is great.

Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series (Roman Empire) I thought was fabulous. The 23rd book is released this year. They are each around 12-15 hours long, I got to the end of the series, and then immediately started them again as I had enjoyed them so much!

I think I actually cried about that at the time. I'll blame pmt

Me too. One of my favourite audiobooks, Seveneves, is 25 hours long. 😁

I really enjoyed The Power by Naomi Alderman last week, wonderfully narrated.

I always tell people Sherlock Holmes read by Dereck Jacobi. I am a crime fan but my word Sir Dereck is awesome. I even started to write him a fan letter. I know he is a recognised actor of international renown blah blah but honestly his reading is truly outstanding, you can even hear him stiffle a giggle a few times at the more extremely bonkers bits!
Also Diary of a Nobody read by Martin Jarvis, so funny. I know it was written in the 19th century but the everyday situations the narrator describes are so resonant. I laughed out loud a lot on my commute home. His problems with tradesmen are so familiar to me.

I'm halfway through his earlier book, When Skippy Dies and I am enjoying this too. Total surprise find, I'd never heard of Paul Murray, but I am glad I found him!

His writing is incredibly funny (I have actually laughed out loud, unheard of!) and very moving too. He writes teenagers so well, it's uncanny.

Derek Jacobi has narrated some of the Cadfael books and some of the radio dramatisations! I love that sleuthing medieval monk, wish, they'd make another TV series.

@AlwaysFreezing I loved Skippy Dies. The Bee Sting also by Paul Murray is super as well, maybe not so much humour but a great story.

I really like The Bee sting.

I also like Milkman, and the Glorious Heresies trilogy.