Audible recommendations for chemo

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Have just started chemo and been too ill to watch the many hours of TV I'd downloaded. Planning to get an Audible trial and need some recommendations. I normally read crime/thrillers, but can't tolerate anything with any gore due to the sickness! Also don't want anything upsetting, emotional, too emotive. Not a big fan of romance and can't think of any biographies I'm particularly interested in. Any ideas?

Not an audio book but I really recommend the podcast The Allusionist. Episodes vary from 25 to 45 minutes, extremely varied tied by the loose theme of Language.... Why are there Welsh speakers in Patagonia?... Things named after people... Euphenisms
Helen Zaltzman has a wonderful soothing voice.
If you fall asleep listening, you won't miss anything crucial, just move on to the next episode.

Irish writer Marion Keyes is a good listen. Recently listened to Rachel Again and enjoyed it. For peaceful..not much happening..but lovely stories l like all of Elizabeth Strout. Easy listening.
Hope all goes well.

If you find that audiobooks become too much to take in, maybe try some lighthearted podcasts. I have to have regular hospital treatment and find that episodes of The Infinite Monkey Cage, or Rob Becket and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Nightmare are nice and easy to listen to. Spotify has a lot of good podcasts like these.

If you like Richard Osman then you may also like Robert Thorogood's Marlow murder books.

Jodi Taylor- The chronicles of St Mary are my go to when I want something like that.
Or Terry Pratchett which I have read/listened to dozens of times and can relax in the familiarity of it.

I'd also recommend seeing if your library has a link to apps like Borrowbox or Libby, the choice isn't quite as wide as audible but it will be free if you are listening to a lot.

I enjoyed the Alan Partridge "From the Oasthouse", so if you like Alan Partridge.... You haven't asked for podcasts but the Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is very good and there is a massive back catalogue. Ou can download them for free.

Hope your treatment goes well.

Sorry you are going through this OP.

My number one recommendation would be Stephen Fry reading P. G. Wodehouse. Heaven. Fry has also recorded some Sherlock Holmes and Oscar Wilde.

I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I have a soft spot for the Narnia books and Roald Dahl. Simon Callow reading The Twits is amazing. Callow is a wonderful reader and has recorded all sorts of things – Peter Ackroyd's biography of London, for example.

The funniest audiobook I have ever heard is Michael Maloney reading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. I also loved Brian Blessed's autobiography. He reads it himself. It's really funny and interesting (especially the chapter on his friendship with Peter o' Toole)

I agree with The Infinite Monkey Cage. The best thing on Radio 4, for me, is Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time. There is a huge back catalogue as well.

I’d recommend Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.

I second Alan Partridge From The Oasthouse (on audible) and absolutely Bill Bryson, but only the ones he reads himself!

Any of Richmal Crompton's William books are lovely and easy listening, also any Agatha Christie.

Any of the Alexander Mccall Smith series ie No1 Ladies Detective Agency or the 44 Scotland Road books

Nonfiction books:
Freakonomics
Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world and things are better than we think
Joyful - Ingrid Fetell Lee

podcasts:
Katherine Ryan Telling Everybody Everything
Giles Coren Has No Idea

If you like cosy murder try Marlow Murders, Canon Clement series, Vera Wong or A Spoonful of Murder. Or the Murder Most Unladylike series if you don't mind a bit younger.

Another recommendation for The Stranger Times stories here. The author has a podcast too but I haven't listened yet.

I was in hospital recently, I read Terry Pratchett's Discworld years and years ago so I downloaded some as I already know the rough plot. They have just been re-recorded and I really enjoyed them.

Also highly recommend Cabin Pressure!

Also, there is often something on BBC Sounds, I sometimes find an Agatha Christie.

Graham Norton narrates his own books on audible. Nice and light and I find his voice soothing