Recommended audio books ? (Audible)

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Can anyone recommend some "must read" , or should that be "must listen to" audio books? I've got 3 audible credits i want to use before cancelling, but struggling to find something i want to read , no...listen to!

Some of my favourite authors are unfortunately voiced/narrated by not so great voice actors , so that's ruled some of them out.

Considering some of The Expanse series but unsure if they'd be better read than listened to.

Looking for fictions as opposed to biographies/real life , any suggestions?
 
If you like fantasy the Kingkiller Chronicles (The Name of the Wind and the Wise Man's Fear) by Patrick Rothfuss has fantastic narration by Rupert Degas. The proviso with that is the series isn't finished and potentially may not be, although the author is still maintaining they will. The books are good anyway, but I can understand people being wary of starting a series that may never be finished.
 
The Kingkiller Chronicles are great, there is a third one based off a side character (the slow regard for small things IIRC),

The Expanse is great and my dad enjoyed the audiobooks as much as the print versions (he's having to use audiobooks now due to eyesight going).

If you like Terry Pratchetts stuff there is a BBC Radio Drama collection of 5 of his stories(as a bundle), they're abridged but full cast and very good.
 
Umm, here's a few of my normal (and more abnormal ;)) recommendations. (I have over 1100 audio books on Audible now. 19 months and 6 days of listening time, and that's just on the android app. Oh dear. )

Denis E. Taylor - Bobiverse series
Christopher G. Nuttall - Ark Royal series
Scott Meyer - Magic 2.0 series
Terry Pratchett - Discworld series
Bill Bryson's travel books. Especially A Walk In The Woods and Down Under.
QI/No Such Thing As A Fish - The Audiobook of the Year series
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (A trilogy... in 5 parts)
Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking, Shockaholic and The Princess Diarist
Stephen Clarke - How The French Won Waterloo, Or Think They Did. 1000 Years of Annoying the French
Mitch Benn - Terra, Terra's World
Robert Asprin - Phule's Company, Phule's Paradise
Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Hell Divers series
Tony Hawks - Round Ireland with a Fridge, A Piano In The Pyrenees
Yahtzee Croshaw - Will Save the Galaxy For Food, Will Destroy The Galaxy for Cash
Mario Puzo - The Godfather series
Timur vermes - Look Who's Back
Tom Clancy - Jack Ryan series
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
P.G. Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1 - The Jeeves Collection
Robert Littell - The Company
Star Wars Radio Show
The Monster Collection
Robert Harris - Fatherland
Alien - Audible Original Drama series - https://www.audible.co.uk/series/Alien-Audiobooks/B071YHYVLG
Crackanory series (Again, free if subscribed)
Miranda Kane - Slaving Away (Yet another, free if subscribed)
BBC Radio - Dave Gorman - Genius
BBC Radio - I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Treasury series
BBC Radio - Hit 33 radio series
BBC Radio - Cabin Pressure radio series
BBC Radio - The Unbelievable Truth radio series (22 series of these are FREE if you're subscribed!)
BBC Radio - Fry's English Delight radio series (Again, free if subscribed)
BBC Radio - Dilemma
BBC Radio - I've Never Seen Star Wars
BBC Radio - Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister
 
Appreciate the suggestions. One thing i've noticed (That i didn't initially take into account) is that when looking at books i would quite happily read (I.e Jack Reacher series) , on Audible, the narrator ruins it... So i think that's going to be a big consideration despite the actual content being good, if that makes any sense at all!
 
If you like sci-fi....I'm listening to The Algebraist by Ian M Banks at the moment. I've read it several times before, but enjoying it even more as an audiobook. Narration is excellent and captures the dwellers well.

Ian M Banks best book imo, despite not being part of his best known Culture series.
 
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Flibster said:
Umm, here's a few of my normal (and more abnormal ;)) recommendations. (I have over 1100 audio books on Audible now. 19 months and 6 days of listening time, and that's just on the android app. Oh dear. )

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Extensive list of great audio books.

I recommend the "Expeditionary Force" series by Craig Alanson if you like sci-fi books, excellent series of books I'm currently half way through book 11, enjoyed every one in the series and love the main characters, specially the snarky one.
 
MadMossy said:
Extensive list of great audio books.

I recommend the "Expeditionary Force" series by Craig Alanson if you like sci-fi books, excellent series of books I'm currently half way through book 11, enjoyed every one in the series and love the main characters, specially the snarky one.
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Not one I've come cross, added to my wish list for now a I've got another 10 Ark Royal books to go yet. ;)
 
I wasn't sure where to post this so it's in this old thread. I have searched in case already mentioned.

Isaac Steele and the Forever Man is the best audio story I have heard to date and on Audible for free (or it was when I got it). I listen to a lot across Audible and BBC and this is exceptional.

Investigators, police, robots, aliens, augmented humans, bureaucracy and mutants. It's narrated by the author (Daniel Rigby) in an excellent way and the protagonist is a fantastically rendered substance abuser, with a unique ability, surrounded by excellent supporting characters and scenarios. Lots of comparisons to Douglas Adams when discussed as very funny and future sci-fi but this is very different stylistically. The language used is wonderful, and very sweary, which I enjoy. It's also compared to Yahtzee's audibles but it's in a different league to those I've heard to date.

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Isaac Steele and the Forever Man

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Brought to you by Its Majesty’s Government. Greatest Britain: For a Global Universe. Agent Isaac Steele has problems. He spends all his splibs on drink and drugs. He has some deep-seated and very much unresolved issues with his parents. And his rob...
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