Anonymous wrote:Remarkably Bright Creatures
Bird Hotel
House in the Cerulean Sea

All entertaining on audiobook IMO

I second Remarkably Bright Creatures. Really good as an audiobook!

Remarkably Bright Creatures
Bird Hotel
House in the Cerulean Sea

All entertaining on audiobook IMO

You can probably get this entire series in the library on audiobook:

It is so well done. It's about an adventurer named Jack, born a girl, lives as a boy. She has every adventure. She's at the Boston Tea Party, she battles with Napoleon. She's on the silk road, spends time in New Orleans at a brothel. She fights with Layfette. She does it all. The reader is so fantastic that she'll keep your attention. Also, the stories are outrageous but PG at most.

Opal & Nev. fiction. Fabulous voice actors!!!

Nonfiction: Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win. There is one chapter on military events and one chapter on how to apply leadership skills to business. I am by no means a military person - but my job has extraordinarily poor leadership at all levels. While I can't really do much about them, the book is empowering for mid-level people like me. So if you can relate at all, you'll find it interesting.

I've found that books with more narration and less dialogue are better in audiobook form. Otherwise every tenth word is "said Anne" or "said Margaret" in a way that is choppy to listen to, but fine when reading.

The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King - biography of Mister Rogers

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado is a memoir written and read in a very interesting style. Chapters are short and a little disjointed, so easy to listen to while distracted.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers was an excellent audiobook. Available through Fairfax County Library's Libby app.

Nonfiction: Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides

Fiction: anything by Paul Auster, who narrates himself and has such a great voice for reading his work.

Also, people tend to not go back and read the big books of a year/era once their moment passes, but the audiobook of The Goldfinch is really good for anyone who never got around to reading it.

Anonymous wrote:Pp, posting the links was very kind.

Bumping every single thread so the front page of this forum is all old threads wasn’t necessary.

I am the person who went "bump" in the night. Several times. I am so sorry everyone.
I thought there were somewhere between zero and maybe two other threads here on the DCUM book section asking for audiobook recommendations. I thought I would simply bump those couple of threads. By the time I got to about the fourth one I was like, "Oh dear. Well surely this is the last one." Then I kept finding yet another thread on the topic. I see now, today, that there were eight previous threads on pretty much the same topic.

I am sure there was a smarter way to find all the previous threads and do a cut and paste with links for the poster to find them all.

My apologies to all.

Anonymous wrote:Pp, posting the links was very kind.

Bumping every single thread so the front page of this forum is all old threads wasn’t necessary.

I was wondering why all the threads were about audiobooks!

Pp, posting the links was very kind.

Bumping every single thread so the front page of this forum is all old threads wasn’t necessary.

There have been several threads on this topic. Here are cut and pastes of every one of them since the DCUM book club section started a year or so ago.


https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1052975.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1071949.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1114603.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1090469.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1037313.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1130349.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1140366.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1109099.page

I’m looking for a new audio book. For audio books, I am fine with fiction or nonfiction, but I appreciate gripping/engaging writing. I often multitask, so I don’t want anything that’s hard to follow (e.g. tons of characters who are easy to confuse is better in writing than audio book format for me).

Recent ones I’ve been glad to hear in audio format are:

1619 project
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Rose code

Very different books, but each were great in the audio book format. I’d love additional ideas. Thanks!