I love books and reading but I tend to listen rather than read because my life is busy. One day I’ll get back to that preferred format of a real book.
For now I’d love audiobook recommendations! Please nothing too sad and tragic, I’m really down at the moment. Things don’t have to have a 100% happy ending but I’m not looking to be made miserable in the end.
*Here’s what I enjoy*:
Largely fiction (though I did enjoy “unruly” by David Mitchell and like history, humour, and studies of mythology etc.)
Retelling of fairy tales and myths
Fantasy, I love Brandon Sanderson, used to like “A Song of Ice and Fire” before the show was made but the ending of the show made me too sad to re read. I like most of the classic fantasy authors and also more modern things like Rivers of London.
Historical fiction, preferably NOT the last 100 years. If there is romance in it somewhere and not just endless battles that’s a plus! A feminist Retelling is good but I think I’ve already listened to most of them.
Cosy crime like Agatha Christie but I have read all of hers multiple times.
Romance if it has a good plot and is actual decent fiction… needs to not just be about the love story even if that’s central. Prefer this in a fantasy or non modern setting. For example I really enjoy Naomi Novik’s work. I also like classic stuff like Jane Austen. I particularly appreciate unrequited love, unconsumated love, limmerence, longing, delayed gratification etc. I don’t mind smut but it’s hard to have smut at the same time as pining and hoping etc. I mostly prefer heterosexual romances just because that aligns with my own sexuality but that isn’t a strict rule.
I will read YA but usually prefer adult fiction slightly.
Good lengthy works…. if something is too short I finish it too quickly
Really compelling books that feel easy to read but compell you to keep going and you cannot put down! I want a book that just absolutely hooked you in and the ending didn’t leave you desolate.
Will pick up multi volume series’ but if I don’t love the first one I wouldn’t keep going.
Some examples I wasn’t bowled over by this year so wouldn’t seek again: The Midnight Library. Anything Leigh Bardugo, Pandora by Susan stokes-chapman, the art of prophecy, daughter of the moon goddess. I liked all these “a bit” but didn’t feel compelled by them. I am hoping to find something I actually love.
Preferably available from audible please as that’s where I have credit.
by Kitty-Gecko