How do I have so much time to listen to audiobooks? Housework. Walks. Insomnia? How about you? Are you addicted to audiobooks, too? What are your favorite audiobooks? Who are your favorite narrators? [Share your favorites in the comments below!]
In my newsletter last week, I mentioned Ted Chiang's Exhalation, Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse books (Collect All Five!) and Neil Stephenson's Interface. This week, I searched through my audiobook history, and here's what I found.
I do not know why I picked up The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis except maybe because I saw it was narrated (and so excellently) by Michael York.
I really enjoy most of the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson et. al. (which was also a failed television series, and I can see why after watching the first episode free on YouTube). Nevertheless, one of my favorite narrators is Carolyn McCormick who also narrated:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (I could listen to Annihilation another dozen times, it's so poetic.)
- So many more! Find them here.
Anything narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, and it's lucky he's narrated so many well-written books.
- Hugh Howey's Silo Saga, Wool, Shift, and Dust, which is also a Netflix series that I'm fairly ambivalent about, though I still watched it. I've also read it in print. Love this series, and that he is a committed self-publisher. Listen to this great interview with Hugh Howey on the Tim Ferriss Show.
- Playground, a Novel by Richard Powers. Also check out Bewilderment. I had to read (listen to) Playground twice, and enjoyed it both times.
- Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hernan Diaz
- Termination Shock, a Novel by Neal Stephenson
- Old Path White Clouds, Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Thich Nhat Hanh
- So many more to choose from, he's a popular narrator!
What are your favorite audiobooks? Narrators? Share in the comments below.
