Audiobooks!!!

[jax8it]

I now listen to audiobooks! Thank you SAAG! I used to love to read all the time. It took some adjustments, but I can deal with the audiobooks now. I just need some good titles. Any suggestions for some good reads?!
Thanks!
Bianca

[Guest]

So glad you are enjoying them! Like you say, it takes some adjustments, but at least you can get back some of the pleasure you used to enjoy from reading

As for good reads (err, "listens" haha), depends on what you're into. I liked audible.com because I could click on the preview button to make sure the narrator's style of speaking was satisfactory (I'm too impatient for slow talkers haha)... then I'd go to amazon.com to check out reviews on the print book to see if the storyline was likely to be decent... after that, just depends on your tastes! Maybe check the best-seller lists for a start? Or look up books by authors that you used to enjoy in print? (you'll be amazed at how many of them have audiobook versions of their stuff - it's super!)

Here are a bunch I've listened to... but like I said, my tastes and yours may differ


Birmingham, John
Without Warning

Bronson, Po and Merryman, Ashley
NurtureShock

Collins, Suzanne
Catching Fire (Book 2 in Hunger Games series)
The Hunger Games (Book 1 in Hunger Games series)


Flynn, Vince
Consent to Kill
Extreme Measures


Grisham, John
The Appeal

Hamilton, Peter F.
Pandora's Star

Heinlein, Robert A.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Herbert, Frank
Dune

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
Infidel

Kress, Nancy
Beggars in Spain (Beggars Trilogy)
Beggars and Choosers (Beggars Trilogy)

Levinson, Jay Conrad
Guerilla Marketing

Lessing, Doris
The Good Terrorist (didn’t finish it… I think I read the paper version already)

McCammon, Robert
The Wolf’s Hour

Niven, Larry
Lucifer’s Hammer

Patterson, James
Against Medical Advice
Lifeguard
Mary, Mary
Sam’s Letters to Jennifer
Sail
Sundays at Tiffany’s
The Quickie
You’ve Been Warned

Richards, Leigh
Califia’s Daughters

Roberts, Nora
Dance of the Gods (Circle Trilogy, Book 2)
Morrigan’s Cross (Circle Trilogy, Book 1)
Valley of Silence (Circle Trilogy, Book 3)

Sax, Leonard
Boys Adrift

Simmons, Dan
Hyperion (Book 1 in series)

Steward, George R.
Earth Abides

Stirling, S.M.
Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket Series)
Islands in the Sea of Time (Nantucket Series)
On the Oceans of Eternity (Nantucket Series)

Vonnegut, Kurt
Galapagos (awful!!)

Wilhelm, Kate
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Willis, Connie
The Doomsday Book

[soaps]

Oh im now listening to a little princess on librivox while waiting for eye pain to settle so i can continue sleeping . i prefer the English reader. Kids stories are so simple and encouraging. i also love bbc documentaries podcasts . i am so well informed on US issues lol....

[jax8it]

@ SAAG- Thank you for the list. I like a lot of the authors you listed. BTW, I almost wrote "listens" instead of reads.

@soaps- I hope the eye pain settles. Thank you for the info!