Can we have an Audible recommendations thread please

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I have just purchased an Audible membership and would love advise on how to spend my credits wisely. I would love to find some ghost stories for bedtime reading. I understand I might have to remortgage now as its sooooo expensive

Daily Deals? I've been an Audible member for 10+ years and never knew about them till this thread! Thanks PPs for alerting me - I've subscribed now.

Just finished Middlemarch narrated by Juliet Stevenson. Can't recommend it highly enough. Was bereft when it was over.

Slight hijack but can anyone suggest a way I could get involved in reading these books out loud - I'd love to do it and have loved reading out loud since I was little, but one charity said they only use professional actors, and another one just didn't respond at all.

I'd be happy to do newspapers or books or anything else tbh. Looking to do it on a voluntary basis. I'm in Kent.

Cheers

Have you tried approaching Librivox? They use amateur readers to record books in the public domain - classics usually.

I'm very cross with Audible because they are re doing all the Peter Wimsey books with a particularly grim narrator who persistently mispronounces words which are slightly unusual but common in the books. Like Baliol.

If you like light undemanding traditional detective stories, I recomend Susan Hill's Simon Serralier series. Well read and entertaining. The Ruth Rendell ones are well read too. Bill Bryson's good. Stephen Fry's first book of memoirs- the second is ghastly Game of Thrones is good. And Anthony Trollope. And Jon Ronson.

Or even Balliol......[shame]

Thank you Duchess, will give them a shout! Fantastic

Justine - 35 hours - WOW! I thought I was rather heroic with the mere 32 hours of The Way We Live Now.

Serrailler series are well worth a listen, I agree.

I nearly cried when 1Q84 finished, 46 hours and loved every minute of it.

I have just discovered Patricia Wentworth. Good whodunnits a bit like Miss Marple.

I listened to Tresspas and Alentejo Blue read by Juliet Stevenson. Both very good IMHO.

Thanks for that, Juliet Stevenson is such a good narrator.

I'm half way through Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane and it's very good.

Also just taken today's daily deal The King's Speech

I second Juliet Stevenson reading Middlemarch. It's brilliant. Towards the end I was taking extra long routes to work so I could listen to more!

I also like
-Pride and Prejudice read by Emilia Davies. It's a book I know very well and I listened to during a stressful period. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket by Captain Wentworth.

• Any Trollope read by Timothy West

• Guards! guards! Read by Nigel Planner. Although at one point I had to stop listening as I was snorting with laughter and getting suspicious looks

• Lenry Henry reading the Ansi Boys

Only book I have not liked is the Wizard of Earthsea. The narrator was awful!

I also love the Serrailler series. The brilliant narrator, Stephen Pacey, also does the Department Q books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. I'm on the second one and really enjoying them.

Also recommend the Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths.

Just going to mark my place with yet another recommendation for Americanah. It's exactly the kind of book I would have forgotten quickly had I read it myself, but listening to it was like getting wrapped up in other people's lives. I really enjoyed the narration.

Now I'm reading Running Like A Girl - witty & relatable if you like to run.

And I have Bill Brysons Shakespeare lined up next.

Are they, Hak? I will keep hold of my Ian Carmichael versions!

Sayers and Christie are the bulk of my library.

The Liar, written and read by Stephen Fry

Anything written and read by Alastair Cooke.