Anonymous wrote:I’ve listened to a bunch of SNL cast members’ memoirs while multitasking: Tina Fey, Colin Jost, Leslie Jones, Amy Poeler. All funny and enjoyable!!

I also loved Tiffany Haddish’s first book and both memoirs by Rob Lowe (poignant more than funny.)

All read by the author, and all available on Libby.

Anonymous wrote:In no particular order:

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (it's a winding family saga but there's no strict plot that you'll miss if you fade out)

Midwives (and others) by Chris Bohjalian (this book is good enough to give it a careful listen but you'll be fine if you miss parts). Bohjalian is either a 5/5 or a 1/5 for me, weirdly enough, but he has plenty of great books to listen to.

If you like CIA/military thrillers, there are multiple books in The Terminal List series (a TV show with Chris Pratt but the books and the prequel TV show, not based on the books, are better). These books are plot driven but not overly important or complicated.

Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld (I love this narrator, I could listen to her all day, this is another family saga type book)

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza (this one is a story about a friendship and racial tensions but it's not like a James Baldwin)

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (these are short, only like 3-4 hours and there are multiple of them and they are clever and funny and easy to listen to)

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdich (this is a novel about friendship and it can get heavy in parts but it's not a drag at all and the plot isn't crucial)

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield (this is a fun space thriller)

The Wedding People by Alison Espach (this is not a romance)

If you like police/legal thrillers, Michael Connelly has a bunch of books, some police, some legal (the plots are not difficult to follow, there's no AHA moment in them, just listen and let them figure out who did it)

Destination and Unknown and The Bridge both by Bill Konigsberg (these I would call maybe YA but they are beautiful coming of age novels)

My Friends by Fredrik Backman (this is also sort of a coming of age novel and I think it's beautiful enough to be listened closely to but it's not plot heavy)

This is Where Leave You (and other books) by Jonathan Tropper (these are generally family saga type funny books, you may miss wit if you aren't paying attenion but you won't get lost)

Sunrise on the Reaping and the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (these are prequels to the Hunger Games, I wouldn't listen to them if you haven't read those, they are dense but the plot isn't crucial)

Swan Song (and others) by Elin Hilderbrand (these aren't romances, just friendship or family novels, nothing important, easy to listen to)

Run for the Hills and Nothing to See Here and Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson (these are smarter than ones that should be only half-listened to but they're more rolling stories than literature that must be enjoyed)

I have to run but hopefully you like some of these and if not, I have more!