Hi all.
First post here so sorry if I’m breaking any rules.
Just looking for some audiobook ideas.
In the past I really enjoyed series and books like lotr, asoiaf, dune, the hyperion books, the annihilation series… I really liked all of Andy Weir’s book.
I go in for some buddhist/ Ram das/ zen non-fiction crap when I’m feeling particularly full of myself but haven’t really been sucked in by a good fiction book in a while.
Anyone have anything I can escape to for the foreseeable future? Will probably end up listening on some long commutes I have coming up.
Thanks in advance.
-gd
by grishna_dass
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Yahtzee Croshaw, funny author with great characters. Narrates his own audiobooks.
Differently Morphus and Existentially Challenged – Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings.
Mogworld – Main character is undead. Hijinks insue.
Will save the galaxy for food and Will destroy the galaxy for cash – An unemployed star pilot tries to get by in a universe where transporters are a thing.
Good taste in fiction there!
I haven’t tried it in audio, but *The Three Body Problem* trilogy would fight right in with the books you’ve listed. You might also like Gene Wolfe’s *Book of the New Sun* series, if you’re comfortable with some ambiguity. Both are challenging, epic, and brilliant.
The Wayfarers series by Beck Chambers, starting with “The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet”. The whole series is kind of looking at a huge, complex sci fi setting like in Star Trek or Star Wars from the perspective of different relatively ordinary people caught in the systems of the universe
The Heartstriker series by Rachel Aaron, starting with “Nice Dragons Finish Last”. Near future fantasy in a somewhat cyberpunk setting that’s resulted from magic, spirits, and dragons suddenly awakening in the modern day. I really like the audiobook narrator of this series, I feel like he brings personality to all of the voices of the large cast of this series
The Stormlight Archive is an epic fantasy series and each book is like 40 hours. The author is a master of inventing religions and magic systems. Sounds like what you are asking for.
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi.
A fun adventure where Godzilla like creatures exist.
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells follows a socially anxious, and quite possibly depressed, cyborg that has absolutely no right to be as relatable as they are, and I hear good things about the audio books.
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If you want something cozy and low stakes just so you can decompress, Try Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, it even has a sequel due out in November, or the Tomes and Tea series by Rebecca Thorne.
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Old Man’s War by john Scalzi, when a person turns 70 they can enlist in the military and are given a new body then sent to fight over various habitable worlds.
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Frontlines by Marko Kloos is a military scifi series written by a former soldier, so those aspects of the book are quite realistic though it is somewhat dystopian.
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Cradle by Will Wight is one of the most widely loved fantasy series I’ve ever found, it’s nothing special in terms of the genre, where it stands out is that Will has taken the Cultivation sub genre of fantasy known for it’s bloated story telling and streamlined it for easier consumption.
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The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, LESBIAN NECROMANCERS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE. If you this tagline sounds like something you’d like then grab the series.
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His Dark Materials bu Philip Pullman, an oldie but a goodie. It was adapted into the frankly awful movie Golden Compass and the much more enjoyable His Dark Materials TV series. It’s hard to describe without spoilers so maybe take a look at it online.
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The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, and finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan’s death, is a very well fleshed out world, though not everybody enjoys Jordan’s specific style of writing. It’s the usual story for the time it was started, Dark forces are gathering and it’s up to five unassuming village folk to find a way to save the world, It’s one of the series that provided the most ~~content~~ *inspiration* for the Eragon books.
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That’s all I can think of right now, hopefully one of these catches your eye.