What Audiobooks are Cued Up in the Car?

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I spend more than an hour a day driving to and from work, and for years, listened to satellite radio or local sports talk. Occasionally, I would queue up music on my phone. Last fall, I started listening to audiobooks and radio dramas almost exclusively, and I've found my commutes are a lot more pleasant. With one reader providing all of the voices that go along with the books, I am amazed at what they can do (Jim Dale's work with the Harry Potter books are amazing). As a service to fellow B&B commuters, please share the good reads you're listening to.

To get us started:

Great stories:
Lisey's Story, Stephen King, read by Mare Winningham

Great stories and great performances in the read:
Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling), read by Robert Glenister
American Gods (unabridged), Neil Gaiman, read by Robert Guidall

 

[njpaddy]

I don't do books in the car but here's a link to the best audio book of The Count of Monte Cristo that I've come across so far. The reader is David Clark and follows closely the 1846 anonymous translation. It's a free download, but at over 50 hours you'll have to put sections at a time on a phone or ipod for the car.

https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-version-3-by-alexandre-dumas/

 

[kwk285]

I order books from my public library and save them to my itunes account. I usually keep at least 5 books on my phone at any one time. Once I listen to the book I delete it from my phone and itunes.

I have found that the story isn't as important as the narrator. A great narrator makes the book. A bad one makes the best book awful.

I do a lot of searches at the library by narrator. Some of my favorites are Richard Ferrone, Ron McClarty, Jim Dale, Tony Roberts,

 

[emwolf]

right now, Die Trying, book 2 of the Jack Reacher series. I love these books.

 

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I totally agree about the narrator. I just finished Kerouac's On the Road narrated by David Carradine, and it sounded like he was sitting in his kitchen eating a sandwich.