Audiobook ONLY recommendations

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Violeta by Isabel Allende. It's a fictional memoir and the narrator reads so beautifully.

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Demon Copperhead was really good. It was a cross between Hillbilly Elegy and Davis Copperfield.

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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb
Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. I meant to read this a.long time ago, but I am so glad I picked it up as an audiobook instead. OMG. More like a play than narration and the story is so good.

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+1 Loved this

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Behold the Dreamers has been one of my favorite audiobooks of the last couple years
The Girl with the Louding Voice

Anything read by Bahni Turpin or Jeannette Whalen (Whalen is correct, Jeannette is off the top of my head without going back. But I am pretty sure this is the narrator of Nothing to See Here and she is great)

Oh shoot, I went backwards through the thread and was reminded it's Marin Ireland for Nothing to See Here - also anything with her has been really good!

I think Whalen has done some of the Kristin Hannah books? Either way, I know for sure I like her narration.

Julia Whelan I think is who you're talking about - she does a lot of Kristin Hannah books.

Yes! Thank you!

Julia Whalen I've enjoyed-
Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read - All written by Emily Henry (Vacation was my favorite)
Evvie Drake Starts Over and Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (both cute, prefer Evvie)
The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
Malibu Rising, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Giver of the Stars, Jojo Moyes

Marin Ireland -
Beartown, Us Against You, Anxious People - All Fredrik Backman
Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
Remarkably Bright Creatures - has been mentioned, loved it!

Marin Ireland also does Cloud Cuckoo Land and Nothing to See Here (two totally unrelated books but I happened to buy both and listened to them back-to-back not knowing she did them both)

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Have you listened to the stories of Edgar Allen Poe on audiobook? They're pretty good. Most are available on Amazon.

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I’ll show myself out. Cried laughing.

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

Marin Ireland narrated it. She did lots of books listed here. I agree, I really like her.

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

Just finished this based on the recommendation here. What other autobiographies would someone recommend that would be as good as Viola Davis’ memoir?

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

Just finished this based on the recommendation here. What other autobiographies would someone recommend that would be as good as Viola Davis’ memoir?

Sally Field’s memoir In Pieces, read by her is difficult and beautiful.

Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller. This came out just months before Taylor Hawkins’ death. Hearing Dave talk about losing Kurt Cobain and a best friend (heart attack) while also talking about Taylor being his best friend and like a brother, well, very hard. He is a smart, witty person with a strong connection to DC.

And my favorite - Brandi Carlile’s Wild Horses. At the end of each chapter she sings a song, sometimes one of hers, sometimes a cover, that relates to the chapter she just read. I was truly moved by the experience.

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Begrudgingly started The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo on long, solo train trip.

Loved it!

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

Just finished this based on the recommendation here. What other autobiographies would someone recommend that would be as good as Viola Davis’ memoir?

PP who recommended this. Glad you liked it! I liked Simu Liu’s audiobook as well, and Jessica Simpson’s. I have not read it but have heard that Phil Knight from Nike has a great memoir.

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Currently listening to The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science, by Kate Zernike. I promise — it’s super-interesting!

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for Remarkably Bright Creatures as an audiobook
-1 for Lessons in Chemistry as an audiobook. I hated the narrator (or one of the narrators; I guess there are several?)

Loved Christopher Moore's Noir, which like RBC has a talking animal

Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series is technically for kids, but I love it and the narrator

If you're up for some nonfiction, Anhad Giridharadas reads his own Winners Take All and it's really well done.

Loved this so much

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Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore. Great book and audiobook had multiple narrators. I think the audiobook won some awards.