Audiobook ONLY recommendations

[Anonymous]

Daisy Jones and the Six is good on audible
Listened to Lock In (sci-fi) - you can choose if you want a male or female identified voice when you download

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really loved The Poet X as an audiobook, because the lyrical writing is beautiful read aloud. It’s YA but was so engaging on a road trip for me.

I agree with the memoir suggestion above. For example Stanley Tucci’s Taste was great, not because it was the best book ever (though it was good), but because I love him. Anything read by David Sedaris is also a good bet.

Some other audiobook faves:

The Nature Fix
Educated
How the Word is Passed

I haven’t listened to Harry Potter audiobooks yet, but I’ve heard they are very well done.

I've been listening to the HP audiobooks and find myself hooked (and also regretting that I didn't get into these until the JKR controversy; I would have preferred to enjoy them without having to think about her being so trolly). They are well done. I think they switched voice actors after the third or fourth and it was a little jarring getting used to that switch, but now I am used to it. And pretty engrossed in this children's book series.

I really enjoyed soe of the others recommended here already - Remarkably Bright Creatures, and Nothing to See Here, especially. I liked Circe a lot, too.

[Anonymous]

Loved The Henna Artist and its sequel The Secret Keeper of Jaipur Both were available in Libby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Viola Davis’ memoir was great, narrated by her.

Yes! I loved Finding Me. All the better that she narrated it. Brandi Carlile's Broken Horses is good as well. She narrates and sings.

[Anonymous]

If you are a fan of Michelle Obama you will love listening to her read Becoming. I listened to it on a long, solo drive and it was like having her sitting in the passenger seat telling me her life story, totally enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

The Kate Quinn books:

1. The Alice Network
2. The Huntress
3. The Rose Code

The narrator is fantastic!!

[Anonymous]

Inciting Joy- Ross Gay

[Anonymous]

Atomic Habits was enjoyable if you like self improvement books

[Anonymous]

I do a lot of books on audio (many more than I read on the page). I just finished and really enjoyed Circe. Last year I listened to “The Rose Code” in just a few sittings and loved listening to “All the Light We Cannot See” and “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” My favorite book of 2022 was a classic - The Count of Monte Cristo - which was a REALLY compelling audiobook. (Though my husband also tore through it on the page, so probably it’s compelling in any format!)

[Anonymous]

I listen to Audible A LOT so I have tons of suggestions. You haven't said what kind of books you like, so my favorites might not work for you but I hope they do.

*) I was going in order through my library and I didn't feel like renumbering (the below is not done in order of enjoyment) but I had to stop and put this one at the top - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. He also wrote The Martian if you've never read that one. I am NOT a sci-fi person at all but I loved both these books and you HAVE to listen to Hail Mary (you'll figure out why) rather than read it, making it the perfect audiobook. I usually listen on 1.3x and I slowed this one down to 1x because I didn't want it to be over. My husband also loved this one.

1) Stephen King - I really like him as an author (I'm not a horror/fantasy/sci-fi person) because I get pulled into his books immediately and I love the characters he writes. Will Patton, the narrator for the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and a few other books like The Outsider is great. I also happen to like Stephen King's voice even though he's kind of nasally. Duma Key is also a good one and is narrated by John Slattery, who has the best voice. And The Institute is narrated by Santino Fontana, who is another great voice. Finally, King does a lot of short stories, which can be a nice change of pace for shorter listens here and there.

2) The Terminal List and subsequent books by Jack Carr - these were made into a show starring Chris Pratt (which I haven't watched yet so I can't speak to it), and the narrator, Ray Porter, is a really good one. I actually listened to all five books in a row because I enjoyed them so much. Not super high quality writing but good story lines and interesting characters.

3) Lessons in Chemistry and Remarkably Bright Creatures - these two books are lumped together only because I listened to them back-to-back and they have some similarities. Both were very good with excellent narrators. I can't recommend them highly enough.

4) Wrong Place Wrong Time - an interesting murder mystery narrated by a Brit. I listen to a lot of murder mysteries/thrillers/crime fiction because they tend to be simple and entertaining and this was my most recent favorite. (I have several duds in this category as well, which I won't list here, but it's a common genre and easy to do wrong).

5) Jennifer Weiner - chick lit/beach reads but pretty good. I did NOT like Big Summer but I did like The Summer Place, That Summer, and Mrs. Everything. Again, not high quality literature but great for listening to while doing things.

6) The Midnight Library - note that many people listed this on the popular books they hate thread, but I enjoyed listening to it. (Conversely, I did hate Where The Crawdads Sing so I agree with that thread in many ways).

7) When We Believed in Mermaids

8) The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand - kind of like Jennifer Weiner if you enjoy those types of books. I actually can't speak to her other titles because I think this is the only one I've ever read/listened to but I would be into others.

9) Anything by Jen Lancaster. Mostly she does autobiographical stuff (The Tao of Martha was her trying to live like Martha Stewart for a year). She's really funny and narrates well. She also wrote a fiction book called The Gatekeepers which is basically teen lit but was quite good.

10) Anything by David Sedaris. His are all autobiographical that I know of, but he's hysterical and has a great take on life. His Santaland Diaries is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.

11) John Grisham books by the right narrator. I read all of John Grisham's books (I'm a lawyer and have been a fan of his for decades), but the best ones I've listened to are A Time for Mercy, A Time To Kill, The Guardians, and The Reckoning, all narrated by Michael Beck. HIs voice is like cotton candy and so easy to listen to.

12) You and Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes. Santino Fontana is the narrator and after listening to these I watched Frozen and he played the voice of Hans and I immediately said, oh, he's a bad guy. The books are entertaining and he's great to listen to.

13) All the Light We Cannot See

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous
11) John Grisham books by the right narrator. I read all of John Grisham's books (I'm a lawyer and have been a fan of his for decades), but the best ones I've listened to are A Time for Mercy, A Time To Kill, The Guardians, and The Reckoning, all narrated by Michael Beck. HIs voice is like cotton candy and so easy to listen to.


Find Grisham hard to read, mediocre writer at best. But stories are usually pretty good and his audiobooks entertaining.

[Anonymous]

“Nothing to See Here” by Kevin Wilson. The woman who narrates it is amazing. It’s a quick, easy, entertaininc listen

[Anonymous]

Where the Crawdads Sing (beautifully read)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you like?
I really like memoirs read by the author and surpringly enjoyed Jeannette McCurdys I’m Glad my mother died.

Fiction:
Dutch House
Remarkably Bright Creatures

I enjoyed all ^^ these books. Warning about Jeannette McCurdy’s book if you have any kind of eating disorders. This book was a tough read.

[Anonymous]

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld was really good. A novel written as an alternate history of Hillary Clinton. So well done and often hilarious.

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