Your best book ever....

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I've got a very long car journey coming up and I'm looking for recommendations for a really good audiobook. AIBU to ask what's the best book you've ever read/listened to? I'm open to all types of genres except sci-fi. Thanks!

It’s a shame you don’t like sci fi as Project Hail Mary is incredible.

My most memorable audio books for long journeys have been Pillars of the Earth, The Rosie Project and Rivers of London.

The Handmaids Tale is also a good listen.

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

you are pulled into the story from the very first paragraph

Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Germinal by Emile Zola

or if you want something modern
The Stand by Stephen King
Marion Keyes Walsh family books are fun
Or the Rutland Chronicle books by Jilly Cooper

Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (not at all what the title sounds like!)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali.
Vernon Godlittle by DBC Pierre.
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt.

Agree with Bill Bryson
The diary of a nobody
Three men in a boat with Montmorency the dog
And then there were none
Everything by PD James

YABU

Another vote for "All the Light We Cannot See"

Never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

I've read a few of his books since and know now that he is a master of letting the unexpected horrors slowly dawn on you. That book though, I got it at a charity shop in a bundle when I was skint and alone and it just was amazing. The movie is ok but it's hard I think to convey that dawning of the characters reality in screen in the same way.

The Calamity Club. Just getting to the end of this. Absolutely loved it. The narrators are superb.

Pride and prejudice
Birdsong
First Light
Angela’s ashes
Boy in the striped pyjamas
All the light we cannot see
The Kite Runner
American dirt

I like a lot of what Claire Macintosh and Frieda McFadden writes too.

Oh and Snow flower and the secret fan

I loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. It made me laugh out loud several times.

You may well have read it, but the sequel "Mrs de Winter" by Susan Hill is excellent too

She somehow gets right into Daphne du Maurier's "voice" and it's hard to realise it wasn't written by the original author ... hugely recommended

For me, however, most else pales against Frederick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal. Only the book will do - rather than the films - and it's a masterpiece

Ooh I will have a look, I don't think I've heard of that.

I too loved Day of the Jackal. I sadly watched that travesty of a Sky series with Eddie Redmayne and wanted throw the TV out of the window. I think I'm going to re read it as was probably 30 years ago I read it! Thanks for the inspiration!

Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent.

The Calamity Club is wonderful. Over 21 hours of amazingness.

Day of the Jackal is one of my all time favourite books - but have never tried an audio version.
I wish I could read it for the first time again .

A Prayer for Owen Meany

The Calamity Club on audible is wonderful

The best book I have ever read is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry - utterly heartbreaking but so well crafted.

Picked up this book completely randomly a couple of years ago and absolutely loved it!

Memoirs of a geisha

Mine too - and the TV adaptation was great!

The Heart’s Invisible Furies is my all time favourite the story and narrator are just brilliant.
Others I also enjoyed
American Dirt
Americanah
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Shuggie Bain
A Man Called Ove

Piranesi is great as an audiobook, one of my favourites. If you fancy non-fiction, the Etymologican is a lot of fun.