Recommend me a long audiobook

[BorisTheShark]

I need a new audiobook 😀

I like them long, like 30 hours long, bonus points if it’s part of a series I can get in to.

have recently read/listened to Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Strike collection, Fourth Wing collection, all of the Sarah J Mass, The Goldfinch, things like that

thanks!

I see you’ve listened to the Goldfinch. Have you also tried The Secret History, also by Donna Tartt? That’s excellent and pretty long too!

One I listen to repeatedly is A Woman In Berlin, which is the diary of a german woman trapped in Berlin as the Russian soldiers came in during WW2. Lots of violence and sexual violence, but fascinating.

Also Bridget Jones, and the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. Oh, and Girl With a Dragon Tattoo!

How about The Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley?

I enjoyed the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the Woman in White both of which were pretty long

The earth's children series by Jean M Auel, story about a cro magnon girl living in the prehistoric ice age on audible. Great stories to listen on a long car journey.

The CJ Sansom Shardlake series, each book is 12-14 hours long, and I think there are 6 of them.

The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follet is also really long.

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is really long and although not part of a series you could follow it up by Young Mungo. These are not for the faint hearted but I loved them.

The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese is 31 hours long.

Happy listening.

I am listening to Kasuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go at the moment. I loved Remains of the Day read by Dominic West. It was so calming yet gripping.

London by Edward Rutherford…..there are many of them in the series, but London remains my favourite. Paris was good too and I’m just waiting to find the right time to start the one about the New Forest.

Mick Herron, the many Slough House/Slow Horses novels.

Have you tried the Cazalet Chronicles series by Elizabeth Jane Howard? They follow the lives of an upper middle class English family from pre war to the late 50s. Warts and all!
edited to add if you do get sucked in, I suggest you swerve the final one, which I felt was a last ditch money grab before the author died. More plot holes than Swiss cheese!

The Lord of the Rings series of books and The Hobbit all narrated by Andy Serkis (who plays Gollum in the films) are excellent. They're available on Borrow Box for free

The Outlander series, all over 50 hours long and there are nine of them.

Davina Porter the narrator is brilliant as well.

The son by Phillip Meyer. Three narrators, three time periods same family.

Kind of a pre Yellowstone (but nothing to do with Yellowstone)

It was recommended on here and I listened during my lockdown walks.

Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere books. There are loads to get into (at least 20), all fantasy, and some of the Stormlight archive are over 60hrs long 😁 the Mistborn trilogy (best to start with) are all 25-30 hrs.

There is a brand new reading of Pride and Prejudice out now that is read by Julie Andrews that is an utter delight.

Stephen King has written some epics: The Stand (47 hours!), Under The Dome (34), 11-22-63 (30). Plus the Blue Umbrella trilogy.

The count of o tie Christo and The Other Bennett Sister

Middlemarch read by Maureen O'Brien.

Not a series, but pretty epic.

His books are FAB (well, except for all the girls sacrificed at Stonehenge in "Sarum"). I think the two Ireland ones and Ruska are even better than London, but Forest is the absolute best one.

Other nice long books:

The Eighth Life
Shogun (and that's the first of a big series)
War and Peace, of course.

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett are epic audiobooks!!

I loved slow horses on telly 😀 couldn’t get on with girl with dragon tattoo reading it so maybe I’ll find it better on audio 🤔

I have read these multiple times since I was a teen. Reckon I could whittle a spear thrower myself by now😂

Thanks for all the recommendations, I can’t reply to you all

loads of good idea and several books I have read before, so presumably lots that I’d like from the list

off to listen to some previews on audible

Word war z - one of the best audio books I have ever listened to

thursday murder club series - beautiful

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.