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Any recommendations for audiobooks?

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Hobnobswantshernameback · 01/05/2026 10:11

Anyone recommend my next audio book? I prefer factual to fiction for listening.
Quite new to audio books but so far have listened to an autobiography and a travel/social history book so keen to look at anything factual really
Any pointers?

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Davros · 01/05/2026 10:21

Ben MacIntyre?

Hobnobswantshernameback · 01/05/2026 10:22

What sort of books does he write?

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maftaz · 01/05/2026 10:42

I enjoy biography with a bit of history thrown in. I'll throw out a few that I found great, they kept my attention which is, for me, a good sign! But all our tastes are different. I use Borrow Box for all my audiobooks.

Exodus - Deborah Feldman. About a Hasidic Jewish woman's life in the ultra Orthodox community and how she escaped it.

The Empress and the English doctor - Lucy Ward. Fascinating story about how Catherine the Great agreed to take an experimental smallpox inoculation from an English Quaker doctor to encourage others. Science over superstition.

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe. About the Sackler dynasty in the US and their involvement in the opioid crisis. Fascinating and terrifying.

The Bettencourt Affair - Tom Sancton. About Lilaiane Bettencourt the heir to the L'Oreal fortune, and the world's richest woman. Her story is fascinating. Lots of history and family rifts. Great listen.

And the one I'm listening to right now and enjoying it -

The Art of Resistance - Justus Rosenberg. About a man who is sent to France from Poland at the outbreak of WW2, and becomes involved with the Resistance. I'm only a few chapters in, and so far it's very engaging.

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Davros · 01/05/2026 11:16

Robert Harris might be good. He mostly writes fiction based on real events

ShallWeDance · 01/05/2026 11:21

Carolly Erikson's 'Josephine' is available for free and really excellent. 🙂

Hobnobswantshernameback · 01/05/2026 19:57

Thank you all
im making notes!!

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AudiobookListener · 01/05/2026 20:03

How to listen to and understand great music by Robert Greenberg. Or any of his books/courses really.

thornbury · 01/05/2026 20:13

Project Hail Mary is simply one of the best.

thesandwich · 01/05/2026 20:24

Have you looked at bbc sounds? Some brilliant stuff- enjoying Amal Rajans series

MissDixieVoom · 01/05/2026 21:12

I like history and science. My current top 10 are...

Anything by Ruth Goodman, though the ones where she narrates are my favourites.
Flappers: Judith MacKrell
Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nicklas Brendborg
Churchgoing: Andrew Ziminski
A Cheesemonger's History of Britain: Ned Palmer
Unruly: David Mitchell
SPQR: Mary Beard
Good Pop, Bad Pop. Jarvis Cocker.
Peas and Queues: Sandi Toksvig
How to make the World Add Up: Tim Harford

MissDixieVoom · 01/05/2026 21:19

I also like BBC Sounds for their incredible range of non-fiction programmes.
Our local library uses the Libby app so you can borrow audiobooks for free.
Internet Archive has many programmes that are no longer available.
And, of course, Youtube.

onpills4godsake · 01/05/2026 21:23

dystopian novels:
I who have never owed men
world war z

Detective series
joy Ellis - Jackman series

murder mystery
Thursday murder club

kate Atkinsons - case histories

sophie Ellis anything by her

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