Good books on Audible for elderly mum

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My mum can't read any more and has asked me for good book recs but when I look up books I've enjoyed they are not on Audible.

Please recommend me any good books that she might listen to - she's clever and modern and enjoys good fiction (not chick lit) and biography.

Thanks

I love Hugh Grant's reading of A Christmas Carol. He reads it with such respect for Charles Dickens! Often use it to fall asleep to 😊

Most of Maeve Binchy audio books are read by her niece, Kate Binchy, who is an actress. She reads magnificently - I've never read a Maeve Binchy book, but have listened to loads on long car journeys and get swept away!

A good narrator makes all the difference. Fenella Woolgar read Kate Atkinson's Life After Life brilliantly and I love Hattie Morahan's narrations.

Montalbano's First Case and other stories on Audible.

Pip Williams - The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho

Longbourn is great its pride and prejudice but the servants story

I agree about the narrator - if there’s something she fancies try a sample before buying it, I’ve been put off several because I don’t like how it’s read or the narrator doesn’t sound as I expect. In particular I hate it when they give characters different voices and it’s like listening to a play instead of a story but she might prefer that!

Lots of the classics are included with an audible membership, and I do enjoy them.

The Cormoran Strike series is great, and a good bang for your buck as they are so long!

Mary Oliver reading her poetry is also good

And Patti Smith reading her book Just Kids was my surprise favourite.

oh! And Jake Gyllenhall reading the Great Gatsby

Lady in Waiting : Anne Glenconner
A very Private Scool: Charles Spencer

The Anthony Horowitz series Hawthorne Investigates is v good on audible and his moonflower (?) murder duo too

Does she belong to a library. I signed my elderly dad up so he could join Libby. They have plenty of audio books on there.

Kristen Hannah The Nightingale

I’m quite surprised by that - audible is the place I go to to find pretty much any audiobook I’m after (apart from Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, which isn’t there).

What books has she enjoyed reading recently/ recently ish?

If she likes historical fiction I have a huge list. Lots of early 20th century crime writer stuff available as well (Dorothy l sayers, etc), plenty of free audible plus late Victorian stuff (Elizabeth Gaskell etc).

What?! Thank you for this! I binge listened to the entire Aubrey maturin series fairly recently, and I needed a lot of winding down after they stopped. Love a book series podcast chat - I’ll definitely have a listen to some of those. Is it “the lubbers hole” one? Googled and that came up.

Without knowing about the podcast, and needing other things to browse around in, I found these, which you might like:

https://www.cannonade.net/index.php

• this has all the routes of the voyages in the books mapped out. Noticed it opens fine on our computer but v slow on my phone - so try elsewhere if it doesn’t work.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AubreyMaturin

• this is a fun site! It’s all about identifying the main tropes in film, tv but also literature and it’s very thorough and done with affection it seems! Lots of other authors searchable in here too - I was looking up The Last Kingdom books as well.

Oh wow so many replies! This is great, thanks everyone, I shall go through them all.

Ps I don't know anything about Borrowbox or Libby - shall look them up first!

If not already mentioned - have a look at the Cazalets books by Elizabeth Jane Howard - family saga spanning WW2.

I recommend these 2 over and over:

My Dear, I wanted to tell you

and the sequel, The heroes welcome

Both by Louisa Young, brilliantly read by Dan Stevens

World War 1 and aftermath theme. Not ‘light’ but so, so good.