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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I listen to Audible A LOT so I have tons of suggestions. You haven't said what kind of books you like, so my favorites might not work for you but I hope they do.

*) I was going in order through my library and I didn't feel like renumbering (the below is not done in order of enjoyment) but I had to stop and put this one at the top - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. He also wrote The Martian if you've never read that one. I am NOT a sci-fi person at all but I loved both these books and you HAVE to listen to Hail Mary (you'll figure out why) rather than read it, making it the perfect audiobook. I usually listen on 1.3x and I slowed this one down to 1x because I didn't want it to be over. My husband also loved this one.

1) Stephen King - I really like him as an author (I'm not a horror/fantasy/sci-fi person) because I get pulled into his books immediately and I love the characters he writes. Will Patton, the narrator for the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and a few other books like The Outsider is great. I also happen to like Stephen King's voice even though he's kind of nasally. Duma Key is also a good one and is narrated by John Slattery, who has the best voice. And The Institute is narrated by Santino Fontana, who is another great voice. Finally, King does a lot of short stories, which can be a nice change of pace for shorter listens here and there.

2) The Terminal List and subsequent books by Jack Carr - these were made into a show starring Chris Pratt (which I haven't watched yet so I can't speak to it), and the narrator, Ray Porter, is a really good one. I actually listened to all five books in a row because I enjoyed them so much. Not super high quality writing but good story lines and interesting characters.

3) Lessons in Chemistry and Remarkably Bright Creatures - these two books are lumped together only because I listened to them back-to-back and they have some similarities. Both were very good with excellent narrators. I can't recommend them highly enough.

4) Wrong Place Wrong Time - an interesting murder mystery narrated by a Brit. I listen to a lot of murder mysteries/thrillers/crime fiction because they tend to be simple and entertaining and this was my most recent favorite. (I have several duds in this category as well, which I won't list here, but it's a common genre and easy to do wrong).

5) Jennifer Weiner - chick lit/beach reads but pretty good. I did NOT like Big Summer but I did like The Summer Place, That Summer, and Mrs. Everything. Again, not high quality literature but great for listening to while doing things.

6) The Midnight Library - note that many people listed this on the popular books they hate thread, but I enjoyed listening to it. (Conversely, I did hate Where The Crawdads Sing so I agree with that thread in many ways).

7) When We Believed in Mermaids

8) The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand - kind of like Jennifer Weiner if you enjoy those types of books. I actually can't speak to her other titles because I think this is the only one I've ever read/listened to but I would be into others.

9) Anything by Jen Lancaster. Mostly she does autobiographical stuff (The Tao of Martha was her trying to live like Martha Stewart for a year). She's really funny and narrates well. She also wrote a fiction book called The Gatekeepers which is basically teen lit but was quite good.

10) Anything by David Sedaris. His are all autobiographical that I know of, but he's hysterical and has a great take on life. His Santaland Diaries is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.

11) John Grisham books by the right narrator. I read all of John Grisham's books (I'm a lawyer and have been a fan of his for decades), but the best ones I've listened to are A Time for Mercy, A Time To Kill, The Guardians, and The Reckoning, all narrated by Michael Beck. HIs voice is like cotton candy and so easy to listen to.

12) You and Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes. Santino Fontana is the narrator and after listening to these I watched Frozen and he played the voice of Hans and I immediately said, oh, he's a bad guy. The books are entertaining and he's great to listen to.

13) All the Light We Cannot See[/quote]

DP. I think you’ve posted in other threads and just wanted to say I appreciate your detailed posts![/quote]

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