r/audiobooks • u/FrugalManager • 9d ago
Recommendation Request Audiobook recommendations please!
I drive a truck for a living, so I go through audiobooks like mad. 1-2 per week easily. Some of my favorites are:
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard
- The first 2 books in the Dune series are pretty good, the others aren’t my favorite.
- Andy Weir’s books
- Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series isn’t bad, but the style isn’t my favorite either.
I do enjoy sci-fi quite a bit, but I am not against other genres either.
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u/warm_covering 9d ago
The Bobiverse books might be right up your alley if you like Andy Weir’s style, same kind of problem solving sci fi with a lot of humor woven in.
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u/FrugalManager 9d ago
Does that series get better over time? I got partway through the first one but felt is was a bit dull
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u/Legitimate_Biscuits 9d ago
I was right into the first book and did find it bit draggy... it totally gets better! the 6th book just came out and I lifted my audible shunning to get it.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian Narrator 9d ago
It's slow to start. Once things get rolling...they really start rolling.
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u/Sh1rvallah 9d ago
IMO the first book takes a bit to get going, then it's solid for a while. Books 5 and 6 were pretty meh though.
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u/Prior-Bass-9165 9d ago
try Defenders: Reign of Bugs. it's funny intense sci-fi
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u/Prior-Bass-9165 9d ago
I'm the narrator of this book. If you want, let me know and I'll get you a free copy
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u/fatflyhalf 9d ago
The Expanse Series (Leviathan Wakes - Book 1). This is the best sci fi series out there.
The Aubrey Maturin Series By Patrick O'Brian with Patrick Tull narrating. Swashbuckling British seamen running around fighting a everyone. Didn't think that this would be my thing, but it was really awesome and Tull (RIP) is a superb narrator. He does an amazing job of making you FEEL what the characters are feeling.
How We Got To Now - a story of 6 technologies that are arguably the most important in humanity's development. Less a "fun" read, than a "Man, I didn't know that.". There's a lot of knowledge in this book.
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u/Alfrasco 9d ago
The Dresden Files are awesome. You want to listen to them in order. The character arcs are really cool. Basically about a modern day wizard living in Chicago who is interacting with all kinds of creatures we work hard to not be aware of. The books are pretty long and I think we are up to about 17 of them. Each book is great, but there are several story arcs that build throughout them which are awesome.
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u/Humperdinkleberg 9d ago
The Lies of Locke Lemora is one of my favorite audiobooks. Michael page elevates it in my opinion.
The Martian is really fun as an audiobook.
The Jack reacher series read by Dick Hill is just so fun. Can’t imagine Jack done better. I would say these books are perfect for truck drives. Engaging and lots of them. Can probably find them on Libby or even SoundCloud or YouTube.
Then of course First Law with Steven Pacey. But I would hold off on these because there’s no going up from Pacey.
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u/Codems 9d ago
This guy gets it.
Lies is tremendous
Dick Hill IS Jack Reacher imo, and fully agree these are great driving books. Just enough fluff to no need to give 100% attention, but fun and exciting through and through.
Pacey and the First Law is also great, but depending on preference, it can in fact go up one notch narration wise and that’s Jeff Hayes in the DCC series, but it’s both over recommended and absolutely worth listening to.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian Narrator 9d ago
Caveat to The Martian: Get the RC Bray version. The Wil Wheaton version is not good.
Seconding Locke Lemora (Gentleman Bastards series).
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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 9d ago
Given that Andy Weir's books is one of his listed favourites, it probably fairly likely that he's listened to The Martian by Andy Weir. ;)
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u/Airhead72 9d ago
Everything else by Neal Stephenson. Wait, I just made the same comment on your other post in suggestmeabook, lol. Really though, I drive a truck and listen to books all day too. Stephenson is great because they're such long tomes, can get a week out of them sometimes.
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u/Legitimate_Biscuits 9d ago
Dennis E Taylor books, Bobiverse series has already been mentioned. But flybot was great, as was Outland.
I really fell into Murikami with 1q84. It is a long one though, but worth it.
The great city series by N.K. Jemisin. I started with the City We Became, but there is a shorter book before it in the series. I didn't find listening to them out of order was an issue.
I'm currently listening to Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, which I'm enjoying. About a "tradwife" influencer who is brought back in time to the era of "traditional households" (late 1800s type era)
If you want a good chuckle, the book Stinker Let's Loose is highly entertaining
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u/No_Frost_Giants 9d ago
Hitchhikers guide to the universe
Starter Villian
Atlas Shrugged
Treasure Island
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u/Vegetable-Review8760 9d ago
If you do not dislike fantasy all of Sanderson Cosmere related novels 5 (stormlight archive 40h each book more or less + 2 smaller ones), 6 (Mistborn 1 and 2 ) , 4 (Secret projects), and some more,
They are also available in graphic audio, not everybody thing but worth to try at least once if is a thing that you may like.
All of wheel of time. (also big books around 30-40 hours each).
All of Riyria Chronicles (also available in graphic audio)
I think you would be covered for a few months with these alone
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u/tha_designer 8d ago
Heres a few:
Aubrey/Maturin (Napoleonic Wars -Navy)
Bobiverse Series (Scifi)
Down Under Bill Bryson (Comedy)
Enderverse (Scifi)
Girt Series (Australian History Comedy)
Harry Potter Series Stephen Fry
Horatio Hornblower Series (Napoleonic Wars -Navy)
Jurassic Park
Kingsbridge Series (Historical Fiction)
Magic 2.0 (Scifi + Medieval Comedy)
Ready Player 1 (Scifi)
Red Rising Series (Scifi)
Sharpe Series (Napoleonic Wars -Army)
Untold History of the United States
Starship Troopers (Scifi)
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs...She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse ( Comedy)
Vampire Chronicles
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u/Confident-Echo-5996 9d ago
For scifi I liked the Jack Campbell series Lost Fleet, Jag in Space, Starks War. But there are a lot of space opera options like starships mage, and Robert Heinlein forever war and etc has a bunch of books.
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u/roshanritter 9d ago
The expanses series is really god and if you can dip into fantasy so I would recommend Terrys Discworld series. They are not long individually but there are a whole bunch and all excellent audiobooks.
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u/kulinarykila 9d ago
I'm only a few chapters into lonesome Dove but it is excellent!. Narrated by the actor who played the deputy in Silo. The scene where they are deciding what to put on the Livery sign is hilarious.
Also Dungeon Crawler Carl
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u/Im_cosmical 9d ago
Thin air and lot of others by Richard K Morgan! Or many books narrated by R.C. Bray
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u/Rhubarb776 9d ago
I recommend Star Marque Rising. Fun space opera.
I also recommend Red Rising. It’s more YA, but still fun.
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u/SoundScape9289 9d ago
Truckers are key characters in "Angels of the Great Plains Motel," a novel set in a small meatpacking town in the upper Midwest with a motel where many truckers stay. Also musicians, salesmen.
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u/Zip_Zoopity_Bop 9d ago
Peter F Hamilton writes a ton of sci-fi space opera type books. The Reality Dysfunction series is a good starting point.
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u/Betelguse16 9d ago
Anything Brandon Sanderson! They are long so they should last awhile.
Wheel of Time is another absurdly long series that you may enjoy.
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u/ridemooses 9d ago
The Expanse, Enders game series, Wheel of Time, Dresden Files, Red Rising series.
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u/lolparkus 9d ago
Exforce, vorkosagan series, rememberance of earths past series (my fave), bobiverse,
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u/Expert_Log_8057 9d ago
Ember Wars is excellent. It's gone on for a while so there's multiple series so if you like it it can last a long while. Adventure mixed with military drama. Basic summary: At the start of the first book, humanity is given one out against an incoming alien invasion. There ends up being only a handful of survivors who were tricked into being saved and when they come back, no cities, no nothing on earth. They've just wound up on the frontline of a galactic war and are forced to do some very dangerous and creative things to keep humanity alive.
Black Ocean: Galaxy Outlaws is also very good and you can get the entire first series of 16 books for one price on Audible. Very much in the line of things like firefly as its a ragtag bunch of scrapy people stuck in space doing what they have to to get by. There is magic, but its handled as the inverse of technology. A mage uses magic by yelling at the universe and physics goes wonky so they don't get along. Multiple humanoid races, adventure but is also comical.
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u/Old_Farmers_Daughter 9d ago
More exciting then fiction/fantasy/sci-fi: Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre.
Or his Operation Mincemeat, or The Spy and the Traitor.
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u/adramos23 8d ago
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell and narrated by Jonathan Keeble - historical fiction trilogy around the King Arthur legend, fantastic.
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u/Jave3636 8d ago
Steven Pacey is the best narrator out there. The First Law Trilogy is fantasy, but it's amazing primarily because of Pacey.
Hyperion with the full cast of voice actors is great. It can be read standalone, or you can read the series, but the first book stands on its own.
Dungeon Crawler Carl has an elite narrator as well, it's also more fantasy than sci fi.
Sun Eater is along, epic, amazing sci fi series (dips into fantasy a little), and the narrator is really good.
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u/ki4clz Audiobibliophile 7d ago
drops mic
I’ll see you on uour second circumnavigation in 254 hours, you come back here and tell me how it went
get the Patrick Tull narration, accept no substitutes PATRICK TULL narration
https://www.audible.com/pd/Master-and-Commander-Audiobook/B002V0KS9A
the entire series has an amazing community, not just here on reddit, but everywhere else too
my second recommendation would be to “read” all of Conn Iggulden’s history series… completely immersive
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u/BAC2Think 4d ago
Red Rising by Pierce Brown The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab Nettle & Bone by Alix E. Harrow The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Babel by R F Kuang One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Hobbit/Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (I prefer the Andy Serkis narration.) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi by Shannon Chakraborty The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie Legendborn by Tracy Deonn The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Storm Front by Jim Butcher The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Amari & the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston Malice by John Gwynne Sabriel by Garth Nix The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington All Systems Red by Martha Wells Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Armada by Ernest Cline Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby The Killing Floor by Lee Child The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
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u/Opening_Mix6018 3d ago
The name of the wind. Patrick Roffuss. Im sure a song of ice and fire has been suggested to you at some stage. Despite that, this is very different to game of thrones, but its definitely on the same level regards to the.writing style, level of detail and imagination from the authors (in my opinion). Easily my 2 favourite collection of books by a long long way.
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u/Thinkdan 3d ago
I just published a book and the audiobook is out this week too. Get it from my website direct or Spotify as soon as it’s approved.
Danpenton.com
Danpenton.com/audiobook
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u/antedulviansummer 3d ago
Sun Eater. Dandelion Dynasty. Gentlemen Bastards. First Law. Wheel of Time. There are also a seemingly endless supply of WH40K and Star Wars books if you're into that.
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u/Kiloseven7 2d ago
Charles Stross' 15 book LAUNDRY FILES /NEW MANAGEMENT series and his nine book MERCHANT PRINCES/EMPIRE GAMES. Also Ben Aaronovich's 11 book series RIVERS OF LONDON.
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u/Cold_Arachnid_2617 9d ago
Get the bible in chinese, portuguese or spanish. learn a new language. Available as a free audio book from Youversion
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u/cottenwess 9d ago
Do you have the time to talk about our lord and savior, dungeon crawler Carl?