Really good audiobooks (not for kids)
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Anonymous
| I'm getting ready to drive out to CA by myself (ack!) and I'm looking for some really good audiobook options. Great story and good narrator. |
Anonymous
| The Outlander series has been great. |
Anonymous
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I am an audiobook-a-phile. It would help to know what kinds of books you like? Some recent ones I liked:
- The Fireman - Joe Hill - The Nightengale - Kristin Hannah - Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty - The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins - Redshirts - John Scalzi - In a dark dark wood - Ruth Ware - The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt - The Martian - Andy Weir - Sycamore Row - John Grisham - The Girl with all the Gifts - M.R. Carey - The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - The Dublin Murder mysterses by Tana French (there are 5 of them and they all stand on their own and are excellent in their own right) - This is where i leave you - Jonathan Tropper - Life after Life - Kate Atkinson I could go on but those are all over the spectrum...knowing your genres would help! |
Anonymous
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Under the banner of heaven
Me talk pretty one day Into thin air |
Anonymous
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Thank you!! I'll start looking through these.
Has anyone read/listened to The Martian? I loved the movie and now I'm kicking myself for not reading the book first. Is it readable/enjoyable if I've already seen the movie? |
Anonymous
I just finished these. Phew! Generally enjoyed them but it seemed like a chore towards the end. |
Anonymous
I started Girl on the Train but could never get into it. I also didn't like Confederacy of Dunces, but that might be related to my boyfriend at the time who obsessed with it. 
The rest I'll check out. Was wondering about The Martian... I love great characters and getting swept away. I struggling with the wordy Outlander series towards the end, but ripped through first two. Loved Me Before You. Unbroken. Brooklyn. Gone Girl. Those are some recent ones I've enjoyed. Thanks!! |
Anonymous
COD took me awhile to get into and it really took being on a road trip to get into it by the end. Definitely not for everyone! I think you'd like The Nightingale and the Dublin Murder Squad series. Which I would actually skip the first one and start with "The Likeness." I thought that was a great! The other Gillian Flynn books are good audios (sharp objects and dark places) but aren't as good as GG. Big Little Lies gets recommended here all the time (its must be because women readers because on Reddit you can't ask for a rec without 100 people saying the martian!) but it really is so so so good. And I personally think its even better on audible because the narrator has this really delightful australian accent that puts you right there in the mood. The martian is also excellent (and to PP who only saw the movie I know its cliche but the book was WAY better and WAY funnier!). The Goldfinch is also really really awesome. I really dragged on getting in the mood to read that but its a really amazing caper and it spans the entire country so could be fun to do on a road trip. Happy reading! 
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Anonymous
| Thank you! Thank you! I'm excited to get so much book time!! |
Anonymous
| A man called Ove. The guy reading does a great grumpy voice for the lead curmudgeon character, Ove, and it makes you love him even more. |
Anonymous
| These are not literature, but so much fun: Crazy Rich Asians, Luckiest Girl Alive, The Good Girl, Eleanor and Park and Heartburn (read by Meryl Streep). Also, Gone Girl. |
Anonymous
| On my last coast to coast drive, I loved listening to Amy Poehler's book Yes Please and World War Z the extended edition. World War Z was great because it had a ton of different amazing actors doing the readings and it is looooooooong. |
Anonymous
| Thank you!!! Will check these out too! |
Anonymous
| If you have never read / listened to Forrest Gump, I would recommend it. He has different adventures in the book vs. in the movie. |
Anonymous
| Gone Girl was GREAT on audio! |