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Audio book suggestions?

NeuroticVirgo
NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
Any suggestions for audio books to listen too? My family is going through the Harry Potter ones right now, and those have been good. (but I'm only allowed to listen to it when my husband and daughter can too...so in the mean time I need my own. lol).

I just have one problem...I'm too picky! I got some Stephen King and Anne Rice audio books (all books I have read and liked)...but the person reading made them sound sooo boring. I couldn't sit through more than 30 minutes.... :frown: Maybe they are just the wrong kind of book for audio? I dunno.

But I'm all ears for something to try! Thanks!

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  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I have heard the the James Bond series is very good. Dr No in particular.
  • roballesteros
    roballesteros Posts: 140
    The Help
  • lilybug13
    lilybug13 Posts: 154
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Life of Pi
    Water for Elephants
    The Book Thief
    The Kite Runner
    ... The Lovely Bones
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Glass Castle
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Blink
  • innerfashionista
    innerfashionista Posts: 451 Member
    Anything by Augusten Burroughs. He's hysterical!
  • hroush
    hroush Posts: 2,073 Member
    A must read series for audio books is harry potter. The reader is awesome. He is actually in the record books for most voices done for the series.
  • jcbernahl
    jcbernahl Posts: 61 Member
    Ditto on The Help - I listened to it a couple years ago and it's one of the best I have listened to while working out.
  • MrsVagus
    MrsVagus Posts: 82
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Life of Pi
    Water for Elephants
    The Book Thief
    The Kite Runner
    ... The Lovely Bones
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Glass Castle
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Blink

    Some of my favorites too! Also, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese is great and Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, David Sedaris too
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    A must read series for audio books is harry potter. The reader is awesome. He is actually in the record books for most voices done for the series.

    I think that's why it was easy to get into them. He does a really good job, without being reminded you can tell just by the voices who the characters are.
  • Nikkie_too
    Nikkie_too Posts: 495 Member
    I don't usually read fantasy, but recently enjoyed The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud. It was a bit snarky and fun. :)

    A few others:
    Story of Beautiful Girl
    Any of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich (funny as all get-out!)
    The Art of Racing in the Rain (the story of a semi-pro race car driver as told from the viewpoint of his dog)
    The School of Essential Ingredients (a feel good read - will probably make you hungry... :) )

    I haven't read them myself yet, but was Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series was recommended and I got the first few from Audible. I'm told it's a cross between a detective novel and Harry Potter - the detective is a wizard.

    NPR's got book lists here too:
    http://www.npr.org/series/summer-books/?sc=gaw&gclid=CMSZ1YSBm6sCFQnc4AodxitHeg

    Enjoy! :)
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