Recommend me an audiobook please

[FormerlySpeckledyHen]

Looking for inspiration.
What have been your recent favourites?

Thanks again . So many to investigate!

Didn't rtwt and see you got there before me

Just make sure you get the unabridged versions - I always feel so cheated when I use an Audible credit and it's 2 hours not 14!

I've enjoyed Spare by Prince Harry - whatever you think it's compelling stuff, also Time to Think as previously mentioned. Forensic journey through a public service fuck up and Paul McKenna on Anxiety which actually is pretty good for a self help book, he doesn't piss around telling you for thirteen chapters waffle that's irrelevant, cracks on fairly quickly with practical stuff.

Placemaking

A terrible kindness by Jo Browning Wroe.
it’s a really wonderful story about a young man, newly qualified as an embalmer who volunteers to help with the tragedy at Aberfan landslide. And his life before and after this life changing event.

It made me sob, laugh…and really think! It’s the best book I’ve listened to/read for years

Some writers are made for audiobook, others not so much. I love Virginia Woolf and Joseph Conrad, but I wouldn’t recommend listening to them.

Dickens, however, is perfect, because his novels are full of vivid and unusual voices, which a good reader can bring alive. Evelyn Waugh is also great (Michael Maloney reading Waugh’s Decline and Fall is my all-time favourite).

Stephen Fry reading P. G. Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes is bliss. Douglas Adams, Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, and H G Wells are also great.

How about children’s books? In general, it’s best to stick to books with simple language (avoid people like Henry James, for example). I love Thomas Hardy, but when I listen to him on audiobook I often find my attention wandering. But with The Wind in the Willows, or Kipling’s Jungle Book, or Lewis’s Narnia stories, I’m gripped. Philip Pullman is also perfect for audio.

This year I have listened to...
My Dark Vanessa
The seven husband's of Evelyn Hugo
Tipping the Velvet

All very enjoyable

Books I have enjoyed in recent times :-

Lessons in Chemistry
A Man Called Ove
The Keeper Of Lost Things
A Terrible Kindness
Wild
Marlow Murder Club
Death Comes to Marlow
All Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series
The Hearts Invisible Furies
Various Lynda La Plante - Widows, Tennison

Hungry
Spare
Lady In Waiting

Unnatural Causes - Dr Richard Shepherd . Utterly compelling

Returned Richard Osman first one for a refund after an hour.

Anything read by Lindsay Duncan

Oh I was about to recommend The Heart's Invisible Furies! I can sometimes zone out with audio books, but found myself stopping what I was doing to listen so often with that.

How do you search by narrator on audible please?

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (narrated by Angus King)

People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (narrated by Danielle Vitalis)

How The One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (narrated by Danielle Vitalis)

You can search by narrator on Audible :)

I adored American Dirt on audiobook. The narrator was brilliant.

To search for a narrator you go about it in the same way as author or book title

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