Books where listening to the audiobook is better?

In general, I prefer reading the physical copy of a book over any other mode (the physical page turning, the smell of books, the quiet atmosphere, etc. 😍).

But I have a lot of driving to do over the next few months and will have to get my fix via audiobooks. I don’t want to listen to anything that I would prefer having the reading experience for, and ideally am interested in finding audiobooks that just seem to do it better than what the paper format could do – like being in the author’s unique voice, including snippets of interviews / other conversations with folks, using music which is key to the story.

Some examples –

— I enjoyed listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s “Talking to Strangers”, since it included interviews and music. (I also don’t care for Gladwell a ton so I knew I was probably never going to bother getting a physical copy of the book.)

— I LOVED listening to Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World”. I did end up getting a hard copy of this to page back through time and again, but still glad I listened to the audiobook first. I then listened to “Cosmos”, which was good, but I did have a hard copy of this & only decided to look through it when I was over halfway through the audiobook and… damn… there’s so many wonderful illustrations and tables in it that I missed!

— I listened to Trevor Noah’s memoir, which was good to hear it through his own voice. I’m not that big on memoirs, so I knew I wasn’t going to read it otherwise, and I was kinda stumped on what I wanted to listen to next anyways.

Has anyone listened to any excellent audiobooks that you think told the story better than paging through it?

by Louise_HandfulOfRain