Good Audiobooks

[Pwig]

Hi Folks,

About to do an 8 hour trip in the car on Thursday

Anyone got any good recommendations for a good Audiobook?

Can be anything, Autobiographies, novels etc.

Just something to keep me and the wife entertained for a few hours.

I've got Amazon prime if that helps

Thanks in advance

[mizx]

Prime won't help other than the free 3 month audible trial you can get (3 books), they operate fairly separate to Amazon. I'm not sure exactly what you get on Kindle with Prime, you might be able to borrow one that has whispersync.

Not sure I can recommend anything as I only listen to D&D novels, there's some good standalone books I can think of but you probably need to know the setting a bit. Unabridged novels are anything from 10 hours, up to 30 odd for 7-800 page stuff, so you'll probably want to be looking at abridged, short stories or biographies.

Edited by mizx on Tuesday 11th October 16:05

[scotlandtim]

Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy

Sign up for an Audible free trial and download it.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks as I drive too much and this is one of the best i've come across in ages!

[HOGEPH]

Anything by Bill Bryson, preferably read by himself.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

[mizx]

HOGEPH said:

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Or he could take an 8 hour drive on each of the next five Thursdays I know it's meant to be good in all seriousness, abridged 10 hour version too but opinions look mixed.

[towser]

Big audible listener, tend to "read" scifi and fantasy in the main. But....maybe some of the Robert Galbraith ( JK Rowling) Cormoran Strike series would be a decent listen?

The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill.

Or the Lewis trilogy - Peter May

[Pwig]

Thanks for the suggestions so far folks! The spy one sounds good.

As an Alternative anyone know any good autobiographies?

Already done Ronnie O Sullivan, Murray Walker, Duncan Bannatyne and Chris Evans

[K12beano]

Pwig said:

As an Alternative anyone know any good autobiographies?

Already done Ronnie O Sullivan, Murray Walker, Duncan Bannatyne and Chris Evans

Particularly enjoyable (for me) over the last couple of years have been "Becoming Johnny Vegas", "From The Elephant to Hollywood" (Michael Caine) and "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed..." (Alan Alda).

None of those are terribly "exciting", but have a good few chuckles and poignant moments to keep them at above-average ear candy as audiobooks (and it helps that they were all read by their authors).

[Ozzie Dave]

If you are into sci-fi, check out bigfinish, I must admit their reimagining of Blakes7 & the prisoner are my favorites, but also lots of others are well worth a listen to

[Flip Martian]

Michael J Fox's first autobiog is excellent, as is Steve Martin's - they both read them.

[SBQuattro]

HOGEPH said:

Anything by Bill Bryson, preferably read by himself.

Was just about to post exactly that !! :-)

Interesting, educational, and often quite funny !!

[BenWRXSEi]

scotlandtim said:

Robert Harris - An Officer and a Spy

Sign up for an Audible free trial and download it.

Definitely this. Also The Martian is a very well read audiobook (I enjoyed it way more than the film).

[anonymous-user]

just started using amazon audible.

listening to the new Alan partridge book, it is really good, never thought it would be.

[jukkha156]

Mark Webber (aussie grit and Damon Hill (watching the wheels)) are very good.

For fiction: 11/22/63 (Stephen King)

Ken Follet - Fall of Giants/winter of the world/Edge of Eternity (huge epics but very good)

The Stone Man (Like Simtherd)