to ask you to help me spend my 6 Audible credits ASAP!

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I want to cancel my membership but need to use up my credits first! I've already paused my membership once in the last year so I can't do that again.

Anyone got any recommendations for good audiobooks? Something that is pretty gripping and easy to get through :)

Thanks so much lovely MNetters

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's totally fascinating and the production makes it very easy to listen to.

Yes I have children, will download a few for them, thanks for the tip!

Thanks so much everyone for your help :)

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Great story and beautifully read be Lesley Manville.

The Hate U Give and On the come up by Angie Thomas. Young adult novels but excellent on Audible

If they are just regular credits (ie not a cheapie deal) you can use them to gift a book to someone else.

Another vote for The Midnight Library. Also anything read by Stephen Fry

Seconding Cabin Pressure and Rivers of London. Or Game of Thrones if you’re up for a long one.

American Dirt is fantastic. I couldn’t turn it off. I also enjoyed Michelle Obamas book. Barack’s is good too and I could listen to him all day but it can be a bit heavy going (politics wise and I still haven’t finished it). I like John Grisham so would also recommend any if his. Just pick the ones with the best reviews . They often have similar titles so I struggle to remember which is which!

Wishful Drinking & Shockaholic, both by Carrie Fischer.
I smashed through the first and now on to the second and have so far enjoyed both enormously. She is very witty and self deprecating.

Cabin Pressure is brilliant and well worth listening to. As are Stephen Fry's readings of the complete Sherlock Holmes and the compilation of the Jeeves and Wooster books.

For scifi, Ready Player One read by Wil Wheaton is also good.

I loved The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and its sequel, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow.
Neil Gaiman's American Gods is great if you like slightly surreal fantasy. Don't judge it by the TV series, which was based on it but departed from it in many places.
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford if you're interested in evolution and/or genetics.
Tamed by Alice Roberts for evolution and pre-history.
The Martian by Andy Weir is good SF based on science.
Jodi Taylor's Chronicles of St Mary's are fantasy with history, not realistic but fun.

Rivers of London series, St Mary's series by Jodi Taylor, Jilly Cooper books.

I have been listening to Sarah Painter's series that starts with "The Night Raven", it is very light escapism.

I recently downloaded The Son by Phillipp Meyer. It was absolutely unputdownable. Unlike anything I usually read.

I couldn't have actually read it as I am a terrible skim reader and would have skipped all the detail!

I have also recently listened to:
The most recent Slough House
The most recent Galbraith
Charles Cumming Trinity Six

I adore spy books but prefer to read them.

I had to send the Tom Bradby Triple Cross book back on audible as the narrators male Scottish accent made me want to scream!!!

I used to be with Audible, but not anymore. There are many audiobooks on YouTube now and there is software to easily download them and convert into MP3 format.

Not sure what sort of books you like, but I hope this is a helpful suggestion.

P.S. Someone has mentioned ‘the classics’ & there is a site called Librovox where there are free audiobooks of out of copyright (e.g. old) stuff and that is good to check out too, for example Sherlock Holmes.

If you like sci fi, you could try Becky Chambers, The Wayfarers series. Sometimes the books read as a series of short stories, but I found them very enjoyable and different.

Sorry totally missing the point but Scribd is amazing. It is like Audible but has ebooks and audiobooks. None of this credit nonsense - listen to as many books as you want. It’s the same cost

I am pilgrim
The sandman
Beekeeper of Aleppo
Where the crawdads sing
Six of crows + any more in the series and adjacent series
The Knife (lates Harry hole)
Just one dammed thing after another (and the entire rest of the St Mary’s series)

Go for the good readers. DP has been listening to a Thomas Hardy novel read by Alan Rickman, and he says even if Rickman was reading the phone book it would still be awesome.

+1 for rivers of London series if you haven’t already got it

+1 fir American gods

The Wandering Inn is great it’s a loose lit rpg but very light on the rpg, fantasy. It seriously has it all. And super listening time for your credits ... www.amazon.co.uk/The-Wandering-Inn-Volume-1/dp/B07X4LZ3QC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&s=audible&crid=2W84B1QFOPQJT&keywords=the+wandering+inn&sprefix=The+wande%2Caudible%2C236&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1621859150&sr=1-1

Someone else mentioned the the six of crows...that is a really good one to as are the Greisha-verse. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AFYF5T2?ref=adblp13nvvxx_0_1_ti&plink=nZwo2ikdgaELA0e7&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

For sci-fi you can’t go wrong with this series... The expeditionary force series. www.amazon.co.uk/Columbus-Day-Expeditionary-Force-Book/dp/B01NCF1LNV/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&s=audible&keywords=Columbus+Day&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1621859428&sr=1-1

A couple I've enjoyed recently are "Mutiny on the Bounty" by Peter Fitzsimmons - what happened after the mutiny was just as interesting as what happened up to that point. Really grippping.

Even better: "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing, about Shackleton's journey through Antarctica. Slightly slow to get going, but after the first half hour or so, I was absolutely riveted. Things just seem to get worse and worse and tougher and tougher ... it's like reading a thriller, but it's all true. And as a side effect, you'll probably conclude (like I did) that you can't possibly know the meaning of the word "tough" unless you've been stranded for months in a freezing wasteland with zero chance of anyone ever coming to help - at least that's what I try to tell myself when "things" are going badly.

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A couple I've enjoyed recently are "Mutiny on the Bounty" by Peter Fitzsimmons - what happened after the mutiny was just as interesting as what happened up to that point. Really grippping.

Even better: "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing, about Shackleton's journey through Antarctica. Slightly slow to get going, but after the first half hour or so, I was absolutely riveted. Things just seem to get worse and worse and tougher and tougher ... it's like reading a thriller, but it's all true. And as a side effect, you'll probably conclude (like I did) that you can't possibly know the meaning of the word "tough" unless you've been stranded for months in a freezing wasteland with zero chance of anyone ever coming to help - at least that's what I try to tell myself when "things" are going badly.

That is a great shout, I love books about the Arctic and Antarctic explorers from the past. Here are two: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Karluk: The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration by William Laird McKinlay.

I enjoyed the Bobiverse series for sci fi, also Ian sainsbury worldwalker series and Peter clines series. I also like river of London series mentioned above.

I love the Graham Norton books because his voice is so melodic. Also recently enjoyed The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney. I need to cancel mine for a while as well, I'll probably buy some more from the Game of Thrones saga.

I enjoyed the Thursday murder club . Also second rivers of London series.
I love audible but l always fall asleep after one chapter takes me so long to finish a book l have now cancelled it.
Although now after looking at this thread the advert is following me around 🤣