Audiobooks where the audio makes it better

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Anonymous wrote:Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

I think Chelsea Handler does a good job reading her books.

Interesting, I wouldn't have thought the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks would make a good audiobook.

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Hijacking for recs for good middle grade audio books. We’ve already done Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and most of Series of Unfortunate Events. We have some long road trips coming up so looking for ideas.

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Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann. (One of the characters has a beautiful Irish brogue.)

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Anonymous wrote:Hijacking for recs for good middle grade audio books. We’ve already done Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and most of Series of Unfortunate Events. We have some long road trips coming up so looking for ideas.

Check out The Lost Prince, by Julie Kagawa, and whatever comes next in the series. We listened to that in the car and it's really engaging -- for both kids and parents.

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I listened to Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine and liked it quite a bit. I would have enjoyed it in print too, but the Scottish accent in the narration made it much better, I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Any that are by the comedienne/comedian and read by the author. Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper, Chelsea Handler, etc!

+1 Tina Fey, Craig Ferguson, etc.

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Born a Crime for sure.

Also, all the Crazy Rich Asian books were amazing on Audible. I would not have enjoyed them half as much without the accents. Just great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hijacking for recs for good middle grade audio books. We’ve already done Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and most of Series of Unfortunate Events. We have some long road trips coming up so looking for ideas.

Check out The Lost Prince, by Julie Kagawa, and whatever comes next in the series. We listened to that in the car and it's really engaging -- for both kids and parents.

For kids, the Artemis Fowl books are well read!

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For middle grade, The War That Saved My Life, The War I Finally Won, The Journey of Little Charlie

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The Hate U Give and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas were so much better as audiobooks

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Dopesick by Beth Macy and the Audible Originals audiobook documentary follow up

Angela’s Ashes read by Frank McCourt

Room by Emma Donohue

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For adults (when there are not kids in the car/within earshot), Furiously Happy by J Lawson.

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Life After Life is a great book but the audiobook is a strong complimentary to it

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Anonymous wrote:Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

I think Chelsea Handler does a good job reading her books.

Interesting, I wouldn't have thought the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks would make a good audiobook.

OP here, this thread is giving me all sorts of great books. I just looked up the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and it's narrated in part by Bahni Turpin, who was one of the great narrators in The Help. And it turns out Turpin has narrated a bunch of great books, so just going off her books alone will give me some good candidates.

Thank you! I would never have thought to listen to this book as an audiobook, and I have been meaning to read it.

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Just finished listening to The Dutch House read by Tom Hanks, it was very good.

I also love listening to any book read by an Australian guy.

+1000 to Becoming read by Michelle Obama, awesome!

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City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert