Anyone know some good audiobooks?

I'm stuck at home with a badly broken ankle, and probably will be for the next week. I could use a few audiobook suggestions to keep me from going crazy.

Fiction or non-fiction. I'd just like something engaging and entertaining. Thanks :hi:

HIGHLY recommended!

First one I thought of when I saw the title.

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These suggestions are specifically for audiobooks. They start with good source material and add excellent readers.

Harry Potter Series, UK Version. Stephen Fry reading. MUCH better than the American version, IMHO
His Dark Materials (Golden Compass, et al). Full voice cast. Very well done.
I Am Legend. Good horror novel and great, passionate reading by Robertson Dean
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins Read with delicious snarkiness by the author and his wife, Dr. Who actress Lalla Ward
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Very well-done reading of one of my favorite books
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Ditto
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman


Avoid:

Cell by Stephen King. Crappy rework of The Stand with unbelievably bad reading.
Anything by Michael Crichton, just cuz he's an asshole.

it was very enlightening and well read. I also enjoyed listening to the audio book of To Kill a Mockingbird. It was read by a lady with a nice Southern accent and I'm a sucker for that!

I randomly picked out the audiobook of "Gerald's Game" and enjoyed it in a suitably creepy way.

David Sedaris books on audio. It's the only way to "read" them. Got us through this stupid holiday season last year. Sorry about the ankle! :hi:

Check out the following website. The current season contains conversations with Johnathan Kozol and Naomi Klein and there are many archived seasons of conversations with brilliant writers and authors including Arundhati Roy.

http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/current-season/

Though Virtual Light was the one that I actually heard on tape. Interesting interaction between the reader, the writing and the subject matter.

I had a coupon for it and was curious about the uproar over the movie. I'm so hooked and just downloaded the sequel.

I've also enjoyed Thomas Cahill's Hinges of History series. Are you a member of audible.com? I have found them to have decent prices.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
The 4 Hour Work Week, by Timothy Ferriss
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Betrayal, by Eric Van Lustbader
Tilt-a-Whirl, by Chris Grabenstein
Einstein, by Walter Isaacson
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan
The No Asshole Rule, by Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D.
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

I've got some good stuff to listen to over the next week or so. :pals:

Also highly recommend Lois McMaster Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" and "Paladin of Souls." That's on top of her Miles Vorkosigan series (simply the best sci-fi period).

John Ridley's "Those Who Walk in Darkness" is very good. Dark, but good.

"Soon I will be Invisible" By Austin Grossman was pretty damn amusing too.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks.

It's a totally captivating series. Sucks you in and doesn't let you go. If you saw "The Mist", the painting the guy was working on in the beginning was "Dark Tower" themed.

The first book is about 7 hours on tape, the second 12, the third 18. I haven't listened to the fourth yet, but I've read it a couple of times. I would guess about 22 hours.

The guy reading it, Frank Muller IIRC, does a damn good job. Really brings those characters alive in a way I didn't think could be done only with audio. He got injured in a motorcycle accident after doing the 4th book though. Brain damage, can't talk anymore. Stephen King wrote about it at the end of the 5th book in the series.