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I’m in need of a GREAT audiobook. Have been listening to too many duds lately. Would prefer something fiction and not fantasy or sci if. TIA!!

I’m in need of a GREAT audiobook. Have been listening to too many duds lately. Would prefer something fiction and not fantasy or sci if. TIA!!

Liz #recommend #fiction #audio book

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Rebecca

Next year in Havana

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Brittany

Lilac Girls

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Rebecca

Yes! Loved this on audio!

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Gina

Yes!

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Laurie

The Boston Girl, The Nightingale, Before We Were Yours

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Hillarie

I really enjoyed listening to Flight Behavior by Kingsolver

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Shelby

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult! It’s excellent on audio!

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Lisa

Listening to this right now!!

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Angela

I agree with this.

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Alaina

It’s YA, but I HIGHLY recommend Echo as an audiobook. One of my favorites ever.

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Kamesa

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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Mary

The Last Mrs Parrish

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Jennifer

I listened to Lilac Girls and The Last Mrs. Parrish. Both were great audiobooks. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts and am picky but those two are great.

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Staci

Anything by Joshilyn Jackson. She is awesome and her books are engaging.

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Jill

The light between oceans was excellent as an audio book.

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Sandie

These are good suggestions, but after “before we were yours” I now listen to a sample before downloading.

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Shellie

One of my all time favorite audio books was The Green Mile.

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Bonnie

All the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series are good on audio as well as Dead Ringer, Sweetwater Creek, Dirty Blonde, Nora Nora, The Appeal, Off Season, The Gatehouse, The Help, The Lion, Plum Island, The Heist, The Rosie Project, The Chase: Fox and OHare, The Girl on A Train, At Home with Madame Chic. I like to listen to books when I walk, travel by myself, and if I’m cooking.

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Lisa

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt!

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Gina

Yes!!!

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Becca

Cold Sassy Tree

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Lisa

The You before Me series by Jojo Moyes are great

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Kelly

I’ve loved listening to Crazy Rich Asians. I feel like it’s been my gateway into giving audiobooks a chance.

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Karla

I just finished it and it was the first audiobook I didn’t like. Not sure if it was the accents or what.

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Kelly

Oh interesting. I think that’s the reason why I like it so much.

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Patricia

And One Last Thing by Molly Harper

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Tara

Unwind by neal schusterman. I’m not really into audiobooks, but this one was great! It says young adult, but it’s a pretty adult dystopian type book in my opinion. I loved it

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Keri

November 9 and It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, The Orphan Train, Before we were yours, The Apartment are all really good. I love anything by Jojo Moyes. The Lilac Girls was probably my favorite book of all time

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Lisa

The Leavers

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Stephanie

The Extraordinary Life if Sam Hill, anything by Denise Grover Swank.

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Megan

Crazy Rich Asians … so much easier to keep track of characters Since the reader uses different “voices” depending on character.

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Karla

This is true. Not clue why I didn’t like it

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Stephanie

Listening to One Hundred Names right now and it is really great!
I also really liked Sourdough and The Wreckage and The Ticket.

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Maureen

I just finished “I’ll be Your Blue Sky” by Maria De Los Santos and really loved it. I listened on a “Playaway”mp3 I borrowed from the Library.

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Liz

The stolen marriage is on sale on audible. I’m only 8 chapters in but I am hooked

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Kamesa

I just picked it up on the 2 for 1 sale! That’s my next listen!

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Liz

@Kamesa I also got The Midwife’s Confession. What other book did you get?

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Kamesa

@Liz A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson.

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Liz

@Kamesa hmm I have read The Opposite of Everyone and The Almost Sisters… the 2 for 1 sale is so tempting.

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Janae

Following

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Kelly

I just finished Always by Sarah Jio – highly recommend.

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Annette

The Couple Next Door is the book I am listening to now.

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Melissa

I like listening to books whose Narrators have accents. The Maggie Hope series by Susan Elia McNeal are great audio. I also really enjoy Tana French’s Dublin Murder Series

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Keri

Have you listened to murder on the Orient express read by Dan Stevens. So so good

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Kelly

@Keri – I haven’t yet, but I want to now!

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Andrea

I second the Maggie Hope books!

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Mygal

Any of the Harry Potter books. Jim Dale is amazing

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Lisa

I must be the only one who doesn’t love him ?

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Kristen

“Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty on audiobook is EXCELLENT.

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Linda

Their lost daughters.

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Lisa

The Great Alone, A Map of the World, and anything by Frederik Backman.

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Nicole

I’m listening to The Alice Network and am enjoying it.

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Gina

That was a good one!

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Margaret

Born a Crime

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Kendra

Hope Never Dies–Obama/Biden Mystery. Very funny!

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Andrea

The Irish Doctor series is great!

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Loretta

@Judy,

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Angela

The Runner by Patrick Lee. I guess it is kind of science fiction, but in the lightest most realistic way possible. It was fast paced and grabbed me right from the beginning.

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Elisa

The Midwife’s Revolt by Jodi Daynard. Historical fiction

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Leanne

Middlesex

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Leslie

Following…

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Janelle

Eleanor Oliphant is excellent in audio

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Sabrina

Sue Grafton’s books are great on audio.

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Toula

Defending Jacob

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Rose

Ronald Poe East of Eden

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Laura

Broken Harbor by Tana French

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Heather

Following

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Michelle

The Nightingale

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Laura

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule, You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson, You by Caroline Kepnes

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Tasha

Elenor Oliphant!! Soooo good!
Also anything by Alice Hoffman

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Jan

I second Elenor Oliphant!

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Debi

Yep, Eleanor O

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Holly

What Alice Forgot

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Tracy

Just finished My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. I’m sorry I’m finished with it…I miss it!

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Gina

Now read Britt Marie Was Here, you will see her in a whole new light. I loved them both.

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Tracy

Thanks for the recommendation. I was wondering if I should!

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Gina

Definitely!

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Alma

John Saúl

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Carina

Christopher Moore is great in audiobook form Diry Jobs and Secondhand Souls are my favorites

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Gina

The audio for Guernsey is AH-maz-ing.

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Kali

Ready Player One and Artemis!

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Terry

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese & When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin D. Yalom

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Jill

Cutting for Stone is one of my all-time favorite books. I read it (before I got into audiobooks) but gave an audio version to my dad because he has a long commute. It was really outside the genre of book that he prefers (spy/thriller stuff), so he was reluctant to listen to it, but when he did he called me when he got home one day and asked “what did you do to me? I’m sitting in front of the house and can’t go in because the book is so good.” That’s how good it is. I’ve been meaning to listen to it since then so I can experience it with all of the accents.

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Terry

It’s one of the few books that I read, then listened to, then reread. The audio is SO well done & the medicine is incredibly accurate. I emailed Dr. Verghese & told him how much I love it & he REPLIED! He thanked me for my kind words. ❤️

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Jill

@Terry OMG – I’m totally fan-girling now. He replied??? He practiced medicine in El Paso, which is where I’m from, so he’s always been on my radar as a local. How cool!

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Terry

Yeah, I about died when he graciously replied. Totally love him. He actually teaches at Stanford School of Medicine & I emailed him there about 2007-8, whenever the book first came out. ❤️

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Michelle

Following

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Billie

Absolutely anything written by Carl Hiassen!The narrators chosen are always outstanding and entertaining! I also enjoyed Defending Jacob and The Disaster Office.

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Judy

The Great Alone Born a Crime, Educated

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Arlene

Watch me disappear and something in the water were good…I’m onto Kevin kwans trilogy crazy rich Asians etc

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Kate

C.B. Strike series was amazing

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Ayeprul

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. She is author and reader. A really fun book!

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Shelly

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Sharon

A Gentleman in Moscow

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Sarah

The Goldfinch or The Storyteller. Amazing narrators and accents!

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Melissa

Also! Any of Fredrik Bachman (Man Named Ove, Brit-Marie Was Here, My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry) are fabulous as audio. I think it helps to get the humor of the book that might be lost in translation.

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