Looking for some new audiobooks to dig into.
Ones I’d recommend: Elementals, Gilded Needles, anything RC Bray. Stephen Fry’s Greek Mythology series is impeccable. Douglas Murray does a great read of his book Madness of Crowds.
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King James Bible. The Old Testament before Job where they recite the geneologies and census numbers and architectural dimensions is calming for falling asleep.
Unironically The Gulag Archipelago. Get the three volumes narrated by Frederick Davidson, (though tbh all but the last few hours are on youtube here). I listened to it around Summer 2017 while I would be out mowing, doing yard work, working out, what have you and I still remember loads of it. The section on the Kengir Uprising is as much inspiring as it is heart breaking (iirc that's in volume...2?).
I also highly, highly recommend The Storm Before the Storm, by Mike Duncan. It covers the history of Rome right before its Republic falls and is an interesting and engrossing listen. Mike Duncan is, incidentally, the same guy who did The History of Rome podcast so if you like that you'll like this because he narrates the book.
Check out the Dimension Space series if you're scifi tolerant and like RC Bray.
The first few books of the Expeditionary Force series are good. Kind of peters out into redundant wheel spinning in the later books. Also RC Bray.
Super heroes in the zombie apocalypse? Ex-Heroes series. Again. First few books are OK. Then meh sets in.
If you're into Tom Clancy like stuff Ghost Fleet is good. Same with 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.
Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis The children of hurin read by Christopher Lee.
Dresden Files The GrimNoir series Ananzi Boys by Neil Gaiman and read by Lenny Henry. Coraline, the Graveyard Book, Neverwhere by and read by Neil Gaiman Proof the woke do have talent, and are refusing to use it.
The great lecture series can also be very good. Histories told by guys who normally know their stuff.
I haven't heard the new Serkis LOTR, but the Rob Inglis LOTR is one of the best listens out there. Every voice done to perfection, and his reading makes the text more understandable via his pacing and the way he reads to certain "beats". The best. https://www.amazon.com/The-Fellowship-of-Ring-audiobook/dp/B0099SNQYG
I have the full Inglis as well. I love how he sings everything. The Ents make more sense with his voices.
Robert Conquest's Reflections on a Ravaged Century.
Written quite a long time ago, but not only being a nice reflection on the 20th century and its totalitarianisms, but also somewhat of a diagnosis of the problems we have today (bureaucratization).
H. P Lovecraft historical society
https://www.hplhs.org/completefiction.php (also available on audiobookbay)
Flowers for Algernon - First book that made me tear up. (available on audiobookbay)
These guys produce old horror books with a really great narrator: https://horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are a pretty good listen, too. Can't find the one I have (which I think is the best narrator of the ones I've found) but this one is pretty close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_6Jg5pLYc
Reamde, by Neal Stephenson
Can't comment specifically on audio books since I don't listen to them, but if you're into non-fiction you might wanna try a underrated American classic like "Two Years Before the Mast". In a quick googling you can find a few different recordings (and most of them free). This book was the one who got me addicted to maritime non fiction. It offers a wealth of information on California in that brief Mexican interregnum (after it no longer belonged to Spain, but before the American settlers). Not to mention that it's always fantastic to put yourself in the shoes of a person that lived some 200 years ago). If anyone is interested in first hand accounts of old sailing voyages I got tons of recommendations.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Tom Woods. Or anything else by Tom Woods.
The Black Company series has wonderful narration, if you're into brutal fantasy. The Day of the Jackal if you're looking for one of the best suspense/thrillers ever written. The Devil's Chessboard if you're looking for history, with a touch of JFK conspiracy theory. The Cyberiad for clever, fun, lighthearted scifi. Blindsight for heady, complex scifi. A Distant Mirror for medieval history and its wonderful prose God's Bankers is a solid history of Catholic corruption Use of Weapons, Player of Games, Consider Phlebas - if you love Iain Banks Hyperion - Fantastical scifi Solaris - Philosophical, slow moving scifi
Atomic Attraction: The Psychology of Attraction: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Attraction-Psychology/dp/B07MXS85H9/
Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is the best book/audiobook I've ever read. There's a public domain audiobook everywhere for it.
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis