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!

Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential”, read by the man himself.

Yes!! Also a series it’s definitely worth listening to rather than reading (or in addition to). Jeff Hays is a GLORIOUS narrator.

Oooh yes - one of my favourites.

All the colours of the dark? It's about 600 pages long so probably a decent length as an audiobook, I absolutely loved it.

I think I’m going to start with the pillars of earth 😀

so many recommendations are ones that I’ve red or listened too, so I know your recs should be good as well obviously have similar tastes

Yes, good recommendation!😀

Yes, yes, yes, Miriam Margolyes reads Dickens brilliantly.

The Seven Sisters books are amazing.

Half of a Yellow Sun is an excellent epic novel set during the Nigerian civil war.

I haven’t listened to it, but how about George Eliot’s Middlemarch? Some consider it the greatest novel in English.

Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. It has been called Britain’s answer to Proust, and it probably is the closest thing in English to A La Recherche.

Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honor trilogy is wonderful. Michael Maloney does a brilliant reading of Waugh’s Decline and Fall. He might have recorded this too.

Ford Maddox Ford: Parade’s End (Harold Bloom thought it the most underrated English language novel of the 20th century).

Vanity Fair is another underrated novel. It tends to be overshadowed by Dickens and George Eliot and the Brontes.

I’m a big Iris Murdoch fan. Many of her novels are 500 or 600 pages. Maybe try The Sea, The Sea or The Good Apprentice, if they have been recorded.

Stephen Fry has recorded the whole of Sherlock Holmes. Listening to that in a hot bath with a bottle of wine is my idea of heaven.

Yes - agree, good call

not the kind of thing that I would normally pick up but it was in the sale and I needed an epic, I found Wilbur Smith’s Courtney series set in Africa absorbing and they often run at 30 hours+ The first one In the series is When The Lion Sleeps is ’only’ 17h if you enjoy it, there are loads.

Rohington Mistry’s A Fine Balance is a favourite at 25h

The last Hours and The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters are about 16 hours each. Absorbing tales of the response to the plague in Dorset.

I would second the Ken Follett Kingsbridge series , apart from the More recently written prequel which didn’t add much.

I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes.Again Not one that I would have picked up but it was given to me as a gift and I enjoyed it And it’s race against time style.

I never finished reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth in hard copy but a couple of people from my Bookgroup have recommended the audiobook version to me recently. I’ve downloaded it but not read it yet. It might be another one to consider, maybe other people on the thread have read it and can give an opinion

I have just realised What a small percentage of my library Is listens of an epic length!

The Lion women of Tehran. A beautiful book for audio book. I usually listen to all audio books on 1.8 speed but it was so vividly written I could not bear to. Also topical right now ofc. I had limited knowledge of the history of Iran and went down all sorts of internet rabbit holes finding out about it whilst reading