Best Audiobook that you read (listened to?) this year..GO!
Best Audiobook that you read (listened to?) this year….GO!
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Best Audiobook that you read (listened to?) this year….GO!
This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
I haven’t read that one.
oh it was so lovely! if you’re a fan of her others I strongly recommend this one!
Great book, love her writing.
Thanks! Just finished this on audio on your recommendation and loved it.
Small Great Things Jodi Picoult really REALLY enjoyed and I struggle with audiobooks at times.
Audra McDonald was amazing!
Lincoln in the Bardo
(You may now commence the throwing of rotten produce)
Wanted so badly to like it.
I gave up on the audio, but I had the feeling I would have undersood it better if I was reading it.
A Gentleman in Moscow
Im reading that right now!
Loved this book!
Red Rising series
I’ve heard Born a Crime is great! And I loved The Help on audio.
It was so great to hear Trevor Noah read his story. He is fabulous with all the different African dialects.
@Susan I wish I had known that when I read the book. I liked the book-I really did-but those in my book club who listened to it were so much more passionate about their love for his story.
Etched in sand
The pale king
The Mothers.
A Man Called Ove was phenomenal!
Love Britt-Marie was here too!
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
I love David Sedaris!
The Handmaid’s Tale Narrated by Clair Danes.
Loved this as an audiobook
Yes! So good, yet creepy…
American War by Omar El Akkad
Also, White Trash by Nancy Isenberg, Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston, Word by Word: the secret life of dictionaries by Kory Stamper, Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, and My Absolute Darling by Daniel Tallentt were also standouts.
The Charley davidson series
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
One of my favorite books – haven’t listened to the audiobook though
11/22/63 Stephen King
I just love this book!!!! Have read it a few times.
He read it hinself?
I’m listening to it now and I enjoy the narrator as well. I like his voice for Harry the janitor. I think it’s fun when a narrator can change his voice around like that
The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne
Absolutely beautiful ❤️
Born a Crime read by Trevor Noah
Also, The Western Star by Craig Johnson.
@Teresa Love Longmire!
I read it. I liked it. I might listen to it
Hillbilly Elegy. Author reads it
Guess Who’s Back
The Kings Daughter…
The Power By Rhonda Byrne
Kings of the Wyld
The one I’m listening to now is great, The Thirteen tale,
Tales of the Otori (series)
I didn’t know these ones! I’m ashamed of myself… They Just made it to the top of my what-to-read-next list!!!! Thank you!!!
The A.B.C Murders by Agatha Chirstie
Robert Kennedy narrated by Chris Matthews.
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Girl Waits With Gun…
I’ve read about 40 this year and can’t pick just one: A Hundred Thousand World’s. The Almost Sisters. We Are Many, We Are Bob.
And Bear Town
@Deborah which one do you remember most?
It’s a dead heat.
Dogs of War, written by Jonathan Maberry, narrated by Ray Porter
Oh ! Second place , The Cuban Affair written by Nelson DeMille, narrated by Scott Brick.
Not really second place…tied?
This https://www.guardianbookshop.com/to-kill-the-president.html
Fifty shades darker was really good on audio… I listened to it on my commute to work xx
Column of Fire was also very good and probably a little more mainstream than Bardo.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the world
This was a very nice surprise for me, loved it!
What Happened by Hillary Clinton.
Just got this from Audible.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
A Little Life
IT. I don’t like SK and didn’t find IT remotely scary but IT was excellent on audio! If only for the “coming of age” aspect alone IT was great!
Tipperary.
Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming’s memoir and Anansi Boys
I liked Anansi boys so I’ll make a note of the other one, thanks
They are very different books, but if you are familiar with and like Alan Cumming, his story is very interesting.
i read Alan Cumming’s memoir – it was good!
Loved Anansi Boys!
The game of thrones series by a long shot and I’ve listened to over a hundred
American Gods
Loved this, so well narrated.
Lincoln in the Bardo. The cast was over 100 people, and Nick Offerman and David Sedaris are the main two voices. I feel like the book was written for audio. Brilliant.
I’d second that pick!
Ah – this is on my book club’s list next year. I’ll be sure to listen. I LOVE David Sedaris.
Harry Potter and the ….well, all of them really!
Great narration!
A view from the cheap seats
The Help, The Hobbit, A Dirty Job, Outlander series, The Book Thief… ?
The good daughter
I know it so stupid but i’d love reading the most i mean actual reading even though its on Kindle or Ibooks it so much more.
I agree. But for people with sight impairment, audible books are a Godsend!
Now i understood ? thats a much hell idea they are able to read you a book, i guess you’re a better listener
I like to listen when I am driving or out walking, but I always have the actual book as well and read when I am not listening! Lets me get through books faster and try and make a dent in the TBR stack!
Me too!
@Beth Exactly!
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah…LOVED it!
Yes !!
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
The Mothers by Brit Bennet
Sapiens
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime – written and read by Trevor Noah
The fact that he read the audio book made me listen to it way after reading the book!
Wishful Drinking! Written and narrated by Carrie Fisher!
Outlander and Ready Player One
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, The Coincidence of Coconut Cake, The Rosie Project
The Sellout by Paul Beatty.
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Believe Me by Eddie Izzard
Hillbilly Elegy
I just finished “Small Great Things”. Excellent book and really good narration. The author read author note at the end really made the book for me.
Agree. Excellent narration. Wonderful book.
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
I am listening to Grant by Chernow now – it is soooo long but very worthwhile.
It. The Shining. Chasing the Devil. Different Seasons. When the game was ours. Deviant.
Outlander Series
I’ve listened to lot of books this year, but the most impressive has been Roxane Gay’s Hunger – the memoir of my body. She reads it herself, a must-listen for everyone, stuggling with their bodies or not.
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
I got the complete war memoirs of Spike Milligan, read by him, on cd. They are hilarious.
Watch me disappear by Janelle Brown
So That Happened: A Memoir read by the author, Jon Cryer.
I do mostly nonfiction on audio and here are my favs from this year: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. What Happened by Hillary Clinton. Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco. Hunger by Roxane Gay. They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowry. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (@Liz)
You by Caroline Kepnes was a fun listen bc the narrator was excellent.
The Name of the Wind was a good audiobook too.