If you greatly prefer audiobooks over text in general, I don’t recommend making a suggestion. For people who are neutral, or who prefer text, what’s a specific book you’ve listened to (and preferably, also read) that you think is more enjoyable as an audiobook, and why that book compared to other books? The only reason I could think of would be if the book in question was one full of fictional song lyrics, and even then, that seems unlikely to change things significantly. Sorry if this kind of question isn’t allowed here.
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Circe by Madeline Miller
Anathem by Neal Stevenson (although this narrator takes alittle while to get used to. They have a kind of dynamic lilt at the beginning but it gets better as the book goes)
Blindsight by Peter Watts
I’m generally down on audiobooks but Norm McDonald’s recording of his memoir-cum-novel Based on a True Story is worth a listen just for his performance.
Babel by RF Kuang so that I could hear all the words pronounced in the different languages. That’s generally been a trend for me — if a book has words I’m not familiar with, I prefer to have the narrator pronounce it bc (especially when language is so essential the book) they are pronouncing it correctly, which my brain wouldn’t do on its own.
Similarly, I felt that way about An Immense World by Ed Yong and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is a classic from 1749 that I’d heard good things about but (regrettably) I didn’t know if I’d have the patience to plow through in text. On impulse I checked out a Naxos audio version through Hoopla and I’ve really been enjoying it — the narrator does a great job bringing each sentence to life and communicating the author’s playful tone.
Project hail Mary by Andy Weir.
It’s such a good book but there’s A LOT of technical jargon that I feel would be a bit of a slog to read through, the Audiobook for it though is amazing 10/10 the narrator does an amazing job.
I found “Born a Crime”, by Trevor Noah – read by the author himself- really wonderful!