I’m currently listening to One Thousand White Women, and it’s a great story! I have to keep looking things up because it’s so realistic (but it IS INDEED a novel) and the reader is amazing with all the accents of the women!
There’s so many, “The Red Rising Trilogy”, “The Red Tent”, “The Hate U Give”, “Children of Blood and Bone”, “Winter Garden”, “Bone Gap”, “The Song of Achilles”. I could go on but those are a few of my favorites.
The Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. Read by Jayne Entwistle. I have heard her do others audiobooks (Sophie Kinsella’s) and I always think Flavia is reading them. She is Flavia!!
The Help, Gentleman in Moscow, Louise Penny’s Gamache series…narrators are both wonderful (the first died), Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, The SecretLife of Bees, and I loved To Kill a Mockingbird on audiobook…it was a great way to revisit. I sometimes have three audiobooks going…in the car while running errands (not just for longer trips), in the kitchen, while cooking and in the master bath, while getting ready and ironing❤️
Count Rostov was able to come to maturity as an aristocratic and a gentleman before the start of the Revolution. Being confined to the hotel, he was only able to experience the dramatic changes occurring through the people he meets…of all economic/power levels. The third person narrative allows historical asides. What I loved are Rostov’s perceptions as a gentleman to his limited environment and how he copes and flourishes. Perceptions that the reader can absorb. Keep reading. Each of the characters met in the first half have important roles as the story develops. If you haven’t, try the audiobook.?
I loved the way “Euphoria” by Lily King was narrated – the narrator captured the resigned tone of the story so well. But I had to also read it digitally because of the many references to the Amazon, and I wanted to look details up online. Had I known, I would have read it first.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, narrated by Dan Stevens. I could listen to him read the phone book, so listening to him read Christie was a treat 🙂
I couldn’t listen to Lincoln in the Bardo with all the footnotes and different voices etc. Drove me crazy! I am looking forward to reading the book though.
Isn’t Whispersync just the electronic sounding “reading” that’s built into the Kindle devices? Narrarated audio books are MUCH better. Please correct me if I’m mistaken. ?
@Jason Thanks. I’m recovering from a surgical procedure and am still a bit foggy. lol. Text-to-Speech is the built-in feature I was thinking of. Whispersync syncs the Audible book with the Kindle e-book. ?
Currently listening to Pet Sematary narrated by Michael C Hall – I’ve read the book before, but the narration is excellent. Also A Rage in Harlem narrated by Samuel L Jackson was very entertaining and I loved Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, which he also narrates.
Harry Potter! Hands down and with my commute I listen to a lot of books! Jim Dale does an excellent job with all the voices. Another fun series is Tarzan of the Apes series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Love Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders) because of all the different voices. The best book I’ve listened to by a single narrator is A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, read by Rosalyn Landor. There are so many characters with such a range of ages all done so very well. What a great treat to listen to!
My first audiobook was The Silkworm, by Robert Gailbraith, aka JK Rowling. It got me hooked into audiobooks. The best? Probably, Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, or Eugenides’s Middlesex.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith. ❤❤❤ I love the written and audio versions of all these.
@Gwen I remember you talked about the audio version of that book! I had already read the paper version but one of these days, I am going to listen to it on audio as well per your recommendation. You’ve never steered me wrong.
I’m currently listening to One Thousand White Women, and it’s a great story! I have to keep looking things up because it’s so realistic (but it IS INDEED a novel) and the reader is amazing with all the accents of the women!
I read that years ago. Very good!!
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
There’s so many, “The Red Rising Trilogy”, “The Red Tent”, “The Hate U Give”, “Children of Blood and Bone”, “Winter Garden”, “Bone Gap”, “The Song of Achilles”. I could go on but those are a few of my favorites.
I absolutely LOVE the voice of Lisette Lecat as she reads the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith.
The Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. Read by Jayne Entwistle. I have heard her do others audiobooks (Sophie Kinsella’s) and I always think Flavia is reading them. She is Flavia!!
I completely agree with this!!! LOVE Flavia!
Jane Entwistle also narrated The War that Saved My Life and its sequel. Superb!
The thirteenth tale
You might enjoy Philippa Gtegory’s books about the Tudors.
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Kite runner
The Millenium trilogy
The Boston Girl
Hands down – Rain Dog by Adrian McKinty. Absolute perfect marriage of amazing writing and wonderful narration by Gerard Doyle.
11/22/63 by Stephen King, One Man by Andrew Gross and Invention of Wings by Su3 Monk Kidd.
The Gold Coast and it’s sequel, The Gate House by Nelson DeMille. The narrator, Christian Rummel is perfect.
Life Of Pi and Lincoln in the Bardo
Crazy Rich Asians series
The Goldfinch, The Nix, Infinite Jest are probably my top 3.
Pillars of the Earth, The Goldfinch…..
Harry Potter series.
ready player one or modern romance
I loved Travels with Charley. It was narrated by Gary Seniese.
The Help, Gentleman in Moscow, Louise Penny’s Gamache series…narrators are both wonderful (the first died), Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, The SecretLife of Bees, and I loved To Kill a Mockingbird on audiobook…it was a great way to revisit. I sometimes have three audiobooks going…in the car while running errands (not just for longer trips), in the kitchen, while cooking and in the master bath, while getting ready and ironing❤️
I’m struggling with the Gentleman in Moscow and I’m not sure why….
Count Rostov was able to come to maturity as an aristocratic and a gentleman before the start of the Revolution. Being confined to the hotel, he was only able to experience the dramatic changes occurring through the people he meets…of all economic/power levels. The third person narrative allows historical asides. What I loved are Rostov’s perceptions as a gentleman to his limited environment and how he copes and flourishes. Perceptions that the reader can absorb. Keep reading. Each of the characters met in the first half have important roles as the story develops. If you haven’t, try the audiobook.?
Matilda read by Kate Winslet. She did great.
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Book of Lost Things.
Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Harry Potter series. The reader is amazing
11/22/63
A Confederacy of Dunces
The ocean at the end of the lane. Gaiman
The art of racing in the rain by Garth stein and the book thief by Markus zusak
Oh and lily and the octopus and also Tina fey’s book read by her
Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey.
So far, Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi excellent book! Waiting on the sequel
I’m listening to this now!
Outlander series. The narrator makes it. I’ll never ‘read’ the books now
I loved the way “Euphoria” by Lily King was narrated – the narrator captured the resigned tone of the story so well. But I had to also read it digitally because of the many references to the Amazon, and I wanted to look details up online. Had I known, I would have read it first.
Enjoyed that book,
Guernsey literary and potato peel pie Society was awesome. There was a whole cast reading the letters. It made the characters really pop!
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, narrated by Dan Stevens. I could listen to him read the phone book, so listening to him read Christie was a treat 🙂
Ditto! He did an excellent job! A man of many talents!
He also read Murder on the Orient Express. Was amazing
@Laura it’s on my wish list!
Oliver twist – dickens
Lincoln in the Bardo is probably the best but the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness is my favorite. There are half dozen others that stand out…
I couldn’t listen to Lincoln in the Bardo with all the footnotes and different voices etc. Drove me crazy! I am looking forward to reading the book though.
@Laurie I had read the book. I suspect kit should have been a play with a really great printed program.
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Boys in the Boat or anything narrated by Edward Herrmann. I’m so sad that he passed away. That voice!!!
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series narrated by Lisette Lecat.
Kitchen confidential
The Mars Room, read by the author. Close second is A Gentleman in Moscow.
The Mars room was a good one. I like the author’s voice.
Ready Player One
11-22-63
Harry Potter
Game of thrones
Invention of Wings was amazing, but there are soooo many!
Also The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.
Nicolas Sparks The Notebook
Frankenstein
The Book Thief
David Sedaris reading his books is pretty fantastic!
The Book Thief and All the ugly wonderful things
The Bone Clocks, Ready Player One, The Handmaid’s Tale read by Claire Danes.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Bear….narrated by a little girl…
The memoirs of casanova,read by ccumberbatch
The blue bistro
The Alchemist
1. Behold the dreamers
2. The Day the world came to town
3. The Great Alone
4. Educated
Not necessarily in that order ?
I’ve never “read” an audio book.
It’s called Whispersync. Try it sometime
Isn’t Whispersync just the electronic sounding “reading” that’s built into the Kindle devices? Narrarated audio books are MUCH better. Please correct me if I’m mistaken. ?
@Kim – whispesync is an audible narrated book paired with a Kindle ebook.
@Jason Thanks. I’m recovering from a surgical procedure and am still a bit foggy. lol. Text-to-Speech is the built-in feature I was thinking of. Whispersync syncs the Audible book with the Kindle e-book. ?
Bel Canto
Bel Canto
State of Wonder and Commonwealth are really good too. Love Ann Patchett
Loved State of Wonder
According to the Nobel Price Committee: Bob Dylan…
Currently listening to Pet Sematary narrated by Michael C Hall – I’ve read the book before, but the narration is excellent. Also A Rage in Harlem narrated by Samuel L Jackson was very entertaining and I loved Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, which he also narrates.
The Girl with all the Gifts
The warmth of Other suns
Harry Potter! Hands down and with my commute I listen to a lot of books! Jim Dale does an excellent job with all the voices.
Another fun series is Tarzan of the Apes series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
He is AMAZING. In the Guinness Book for that. He did 93 fantastic and distinct voices.
A Year en Provence
Love Lincoln in the Bardo (Saunders) because of all the different voices. The best book I’ve listened to by a single narrator is A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, read by Rosalyn Landor. There are so many characters with such a range of ages all done so very well. What a great treat to listen to!
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty was my first and it hooked me on audiobooks forever.
My first audiobook was The Silkworm, by Robert Gailbraith, aka JK Rowling. It got me hooked into audiobooks. The best? Probably, Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, or Eugenides’s Middlesex.
Don’t make me chose! @Pearl
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day
Angela’s Ashes because it was read by Frank McCourt himself. Hearing his story in his own Irish accent added to an already incredible read.
OMIGOD. That’s the book I said and I didn’t even see your comment. I’m flabbergasted.
Jim Dale does a FANTASTIC job with the Harry Potter series.
I agree with this. I’ve listened to dozens of audio books and the Harry Potter series are the best ones I have ever heard
Shantaram. Say what you want about the book but the audiobook narrator is on point.
A Very Strange Trip by L Ron Hubbard. Full cast & studio production. Super fun.
Angela’s Ashes.
Definitely not the one I’m listening to right now. The narrator sucks.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles was great on audio. So are the Maeve Binchy books (if you like Irish accents).
I really liked the Outlander series, but Game of Thrones was also really good!
The Help by Kathryn Stockett, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith. ❤❤❤ I love the written and audio versions of all these.
Omigish…yes yes YES. Might be tied with Angela’s Ashes, @Becky
My comment was about The Helo
@Gwen I remember you talked about the audio version of that book! I had already read the paper version but one of these days, I am going to listen to it on audio as well per your recommendation. You’ve never steered me wrong.
@Becky HELP, dammit. Not Helo
Beloved read by Toni Morrison, it’s a great performance and makes a difficult book understandable.
A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki read by the author.