I have an audible subscription and a few credits to use. I find I do much better with audiobooks these days, have them on when I’m driving/ walking and for half an hour through headphones before bed.
Yesterday finished The Hallmarked Man the most recent Strike one and I feel a bit bereft. I found this one really good on audio (the one before last just did not work at all) and I really was drawn in and looking forward to my next chance to listen each day.
Looking for my next listen but nothing is grabbing me.
Have very wide tastes, not particularly fantasy though not ruling it out 100%. Nothing too bleak or depressing - I did skip forward a couple of gruesome passages in the Strike one. But what’s important is it has to really work in the audible format and have a great narrator (I really enjoyed the Richard Osman books in this format for example, suspect I wouldn’t have enjoyed them as much had I read them ‘properly’).
I also don’t particularly like the ones that are more like plays, with all the different character voices and sound effects - I really do just want to be told a story. Don’t mind if there’s 2 narrators but not more.
Other things I’ve loved in this format - memoirs eg Educated, and a few years back remember really enjoying both Americanah and An American Marriage as audiobooks. I also loved the audible version of David Copperfield that Richard Armitage read.
Anything seasonal/ Christmassy would be good, but also recs for next year too.
Thank you.