Summer Holiday Audiobook 📚 Recommendation Request

[BobbyGentry]

Dear MN readers,

Am looking for Summer Holiday Audiobook 📚 Recommendations, ideally for a long haul flight, a few hours peace and something to sink my teeth.

Previously have enjoyed:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall series
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell
Terry Pratchett Disc World Series
Anything narrated by Stephen Fry...
Haruki Murakami Wind up bird Chronicles
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials
Tolstoy War & Peace
Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Bernard Cornwell The Warlord Chronicles

Would love a historical fiction which has an element of something special about it.

Am completely open to suggestions, have 15 credits spare on Audible so happy to try a few suggestions.

Have enjoyed the televised Handmaid's Tale but after binge watching need a break from dystopias.

Thanks in advance and happy holiday reading,

Bob 🤓 🍹 🌴 📚

Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a brilliant narrator.

Thank you 💐 Pappawasarollingbone,

So far have bought:

Ben Aaronovich Rivers of London (thank you for the recommendation)
Anne Frank Diary of a young girl
James Joyce Ulysses
Philip K Dick Blade Runner
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run

Have also previously enjoyed (looking at my audible library:
Peter Frankopan Silk Roads A New History of the World
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Garth Nix Abhorsen Series
Flann O'brien Third Policeman
David Attenborough Life on Air

Thank you and if you think of any other suggestions then please feel free to share.

Bob 📚

I listened to 44 Charing Cross Rd based on a recommendation on here and enjoyed that, John Nettles and Juliet Stevenson, pretty short but a good listen.

Was about to recommend Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese but it doesn't seem to be there any more - didn't know that they took stuff off.

Hid Bloody Project by Graeme Mckay Burnet I think is historical and a bit unusual.

Not matching your criteria but Swing Time by Zadie Smith and My name is Leon by Kit de Waal I've both really enjoyed.

I do like an audio recommendation thread, I always have a list of what I want to read on paper but the added element of narrator makes a big difference to my enjoyment, or not.

You have a similar taste to me, OP. I just finished the Cornwell Warlord series on Audible, I love Jonathon Keeble as a narrator.
I loved Americanah as well.

I'm currently listening to 1984 which I'm enjoying, but as you are off dystopias for a bit, I've also enjoyed on Audible:

Fall of Giants by Ken Follet
Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer bradley
Katherine by Anya Seton

a good friend has just recommended North and South by Elizabeth gaskell, which I have to listen to next. We have a similar taste to me, so my hopes are high

The Devil in the Marshslsea is great if you like historical fiction. I loved Elena Ferante's Neapolitan novels.

The Hearts invisible Furies by John Boyne is fantastic, my book of the year so far.

Thank you Tootyfilou, GeorgeHerbert, fatowl and NotAPenguin,

Thank you for your recommendations:

John Boyne's The Hearts Invisible Furies
Elena Ferrante's The Neapolitan Novels
Thomas Hawkins' The Devil in the Marshalsea
Ken Follett's Fall of Giants
Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
Anya Seton's Katherine
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
George Orwell's 1984
Abraham Verghese' Cutting for Stone
Helene Hanff's 84, Charing Cross Road
Graeme Macrae Burnet's His Bloody Project
Zadie Smith's Swing Time
Kit de Waal's My Name is Leon

There are now 6 audible credits remaining, for this year, on my account and have just downloaded around 130 hrs of audiobooks 🤓📚😃

Your audiobook recommendations are greatly appreciated,

Bob 👏👋🙏

The girl who saved the king of Sweden was great on audio.

the essex serpent

Thank you ladybird69 and anchor9,

Shall add to the list:

Jonas Jonasson The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Sara & Sarah Perry The Essex Serpent

Your recommendations are greatly appreciated.

Bob 📚

Oh I love an Audible thread... I just love being read to. I have enjoyed many of the same as you OK from Americannah to Pratchett to Pullman. One that I have enjoyed enormously recently wasThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth and am currently really enjoying Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan Maguire.

I am ridiculously excited to see that the Mists of Avalon is on Audible as I just love that book. I have the Abhorsen books also on my wish list. I must go shopping

It doesn't match your criteria but my absolute standout book of the year so far is Trevor Noah's memoir "Born a Crime". I read it on Kindle but Trevor reads the audiobook himself, and it thoroughly deserves it's 4.9/5 rating.

You don't need to know much or anything about him to love the book (he's the comedian who presents the Daily Show). The book isn't like most celebrity memoirs and has nothing to do with his career.

Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, take him away

A collection of 18 personal stories, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man's fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother - a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a dangerous time, as moving and unforgettable as the very best memoirs and as funny as Noah's own hilarious stand-up

Mists of Avalon is 50 hours! I lijed tge sound of tge narrator and bought it.

OP - have look at A year of runaways. I really enjoyed it.

Sorry for my typos!

I loved Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair and the others in the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series.
I also like Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake series

To read, I adore Robin Hobbs' Assassin's Apprentice and all of her wonderful books but haven't heard them on Audible

I can't wait for th next CormoranbStrike book by Robert Gilchrist, no 4 in the series. I have listened to them all 3 times.

You have some brilliant books in your Library, enjoy!

Thank you Grifone, MaximilianNero, iamEarthymama & antimatter

@Pappawasarollingbone kobna holdbrook-smith's voice is divine; I greatly appreciate your recommendation, his voice is as lovely as Stereophonics' Kelly Jones voice ~ yum (like soft golden salted butter.)

Philip Roth The Plot Against America
Seanan Maguire Every Heart A Doorway
Marion Zimmer Bradley Mists of Avalon
Trevor Noah Born a Crime
Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways
Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair Trilogy
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake seriesof
Robin Hobb Assassin's Apprentice audiobook narrated by Paul Boehmer
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Cuckoo's Calling (cormoran strike)

I have previously enjoyed:
Ursula K. Le Guin Earthsea

Recently ordered:
Simon Sebag Montefiore Red Sky at Noon : The Moscow Trilogy
And preordered (& excited to read):
Phillip Pullman La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One - Book of Dust Series

Am left with 5 credit and 20 book 📚 recommendations, think I know what I'll be reading (listening to) in 2018 too.

Thanks again, 💐

Bob 📚 📖

So Summer's nearly over for me, back to work Monday.

Update on books read.

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run - was by far my favourite

Ben Aaronovich Rivers of London - enjoyed
Ben Aaronovich Moon over Soho - enjoyed
Ben Aaronovich Whispers Underground - enjoyed
... but then felt a bit saturated so just read spoilers for the other books.

Anne Frank Diary of a young girl - didn't finish but visited the house, harrowing

James Joyce Ulysses - enjoyed initially but then just read the spoilers online

Philip K Dick Blade Runner - didn't start

I have a long train journey tomorrow so will start:

The Miniaturist Audiobook Jessie Burton
&
Red Sky at Noon Simon Sebag Montefiore (for some reason, in my head, I say his name Simon spagbol.)