Books that are great to listen to?

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Anonymous wrote:Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.

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Try something read by Stephen Fry

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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Hearing him narrate his life and speak in several African languages is amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.

Wallace Stegner is my favorite author of all time. He came to DC and did a reading at Politics & Prose a long time back when he released his Collected Stories. The reading was his short story about a boy and his family who lived outside of town on a farm or ranch and how they were going to town for a 4th of July party or something but, true to Stegner form, the car wouldn't start so they never got to town. I so wish there was a recording of him reading that story. It is a fabulous story but his reading, with his cadence and voice, made the story just mesmerizing that night.

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Anonymous wrote:Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Hearing him narrate his life and speak in several African languages is amazing.

+1. Listening to this was fabulous!!

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Into Thin Air
True Crime Addict
Killers of the Flower Moon

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.

I didn’t like the audiobook version of A Lesson Before Dying. I picked it up on cassette tape at a Cracker Barrel maybe a decade ago. The accents were strange and over the top. Perhaps that was just a bad version.

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Anonymous wrote:Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Hearing him narrate his life and speak in several African languages is amazing.

+1. Listening to this was fabulous!!

I read it but I bet it would be great to listen to

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.

Wallace Stegner is my favorite author of all time. He came to DC and did a reading at Politics & Prose a long time back when he released his Collected Stories. The reading was his short story about a boy and his family who lived outside of town on a farm or ranch and how they were going to town for a 4th of July party or something but, true to Stegner form, the car wouldn't start so they never got to town. I so wish there was a recording of him reading that story. It is a fabulous story but his reading, with his cadence and voice, made the story just mesmerizing that night.

OP here. Crossing to Safety is my all-time favorite book. Sigh. I re-read it every few years and get a little more out of it, especially now that I'm in mid-life. When I first read it in my early 20s, I thought the characters were so old at the end of the book, but when I read it a few years ago, I realized that they were in their 60s in the final scenes.

Thanks for the recommendations!

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Anonymous wrote:11-22-63

This was a great listen.

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Just listened to Dave Barry's Insane City - need comedy for the commute, and there were so many LOL moments from this. Yes, some of the characters take stupid actions, but it really improved my mood in traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved "Disaster Artist" OMG. So quirky and cool. I also loved comedic audiobooks read by the authors like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling.

Laughs!

+1 Also "Born a Crime" by and read by Trevor Noah

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Angela’s Ashes, the Author, Frank McCort does a fabulous job narrating. You really get lost in time listening to him. The movie was nowhere near as good as listening to him telling this story. He has a great accent and a very funny sense of humor. Highly recommend!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Three books I have loved on audiobook are:

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

I loved reading Crossing to Safety. The writing is sublime.

I didn’t like the audiobook version of A Lesson Before Dying. I picked it up on cassette tape at a Cracker Barrel maybe a decade ago. The accents were strange and over the top. Perhaps that was just a bad version.

Ew, strange accents would be bad for this book. What makes it shine is the use of vernacular language. It takes a certain cadence, and in some parts reading with a ponderance, to capture the feeling. The conversational portions of the book are out-of-this-world. My best friend tells a hilarious story about how she and her mom were reading this book to each to each other as they drove cross-country. They got so into the book while driving in Ohio that they missed their turn to Columbus and ended up, surprise!, in Akron.

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Anonymous wrote:Angela’s Ashes, the Author, Frank McCort does a fabulous job narrating. You really get lost in time listening to him. The movie was nowhere near as good as listening to him telling this story. He has a great accent and a very funny sense of humor. Highly recommend!!

This was going to be my first suggestion as well. McCourt was an extraordinary author but an even more gifted public speaker. His narration of Angela’s Ashes is the best of audiobooks.

More recently, The Hate U Give was amazing in audio form.