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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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!!
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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! :)[/quote]

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