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32 Audiobooks for your Summer Vacation
Whether you're navigating your way through a road trip or getting some sun by the pool, the perfect book paired with a great narrator can make your summer downtime even better. With that in mind, we pulled together 32 audiobooks to download before your next vacation (even your next staycation).
Have a great audiobook suggestion that's perfect for summer? Share it with us in the comments!
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Be sure to check out more of our summer reading coverage here.
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May 22, 2017 09:30PM
Always looking for audiobook recs
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Me too - and now I've doubled my reading powers!Ordinary Grace
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Two of my favorites so far this year.
Most of these are already in my TBR! Only added 2 more. A lot I've already read/listened to as well.
I enjoyed It's Superman. That was a pretty awesome audiobook with Ready Player One and Girl with All the Gifts!
I loved listening to The Dry on audiobook! So good!
Recently listened to Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, about growing up half-black half-white during apartheid in South Africa. So good. Normally I don't listen to books (too slow), but he does all the languages, the accents, the characters, and it added such depth and verisimilitude to his story.
Neil Gaiman is the perfect narrator for his own books! Let's see if we can get him to read the Cheesecake Factory menu...https://www.crowdrise.com/neil-gaiman...
Ugh I haaaaated Eleanor and Park on audio. The narrator's voice for Eleanor was soo whiny and obnoxious. Buyer beware, I suppose.
American Gods is honestly the best audiobook I have ever listened too.
The number one Ladies Detective Series by Alexander McCall Smithread by Lessett Lacat.
Ready Payer One is really good, American Gods is amazing.
I listened to In the Heart of the Sea yesterday and it was pretty good.
Lol now I wish I didn't already own a print copy of American Gods.
I'm lucky enough to work within the audiobook industry and there are so MANY good audiobooks out there. My favourites so far are: The Natural Way of Things
Only Ever Yours
The Summer that Melted Everything
Girls on Fire
The Dry
I'm so lucky that I get to work on these books, and I know so many already know how great audiobooks are, but seriously give them a try!
@Ellis - Now that they're available on digital, I feel they are only going to get more popular. I'll check out your titles.
Colleen wrote: "@Ellis - Now that they're available on digital, I feel they are only going to get more popular. I'll check out your titles."This is so true - from working in the industry audio is absolutely booming, especially here in the UK and the US. If you ever need any audio recommendations feel free to contact me! :)
I just finished listening to Homegoing and it was amazing. So was the audio of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. Especially the ones read by James Marsters.
The incorrigible children of Ashton Place by Mary Rose Wood series is wonderful on audio!
Melliott wrote: "Recently listened to Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, about growing up half-black half-white during apartheid in South Africa. So good. Normally I don't listen to books (too slow), but he does all the ..."If audiobooks tend to be too slow for you, Audible and Overdrive both offer the option of speeding up the narration.
The audiobook of "Unmeasured Strength" by Lauren Manning was excellent. It's about the wonderful recovery of a woman who was badly burned at Tower 1 on September 11th.
Sage wrote: "Always looking for audiobook recs" my first venture into audio books included, Anne McCaffrey's Dragon of Pern series; The Cat who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun, a female Egyptologist in the early 1900s who solves mysteries by Elizabeth Peters, and Alexander McCall Smith's humorous life of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency, set in Botswana. Recently I enjoyed, " A gentleman in Moscow", and "Z", about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda.
I really want to get into audio books this summer, so this is just what I need.
OK, folks--THE book to listen to this summer is: "Between the World and Me," written and read by Ta-Nehisi Coates!! (Random House audio, unabridged) Yesterday I listened to 2/5 of the book while I colored, and I only stopped to rest my arm for today! Wow! A powerful book, which gave me a clarity about the lot of the African-American male in the USA, which I had not had before!! It is much more powerful, up-to-date, and understandable than even the best of the previous books of its type!!
Helen wrote: "OK, folks--THE book to listen to this summer is: "Between the World and Me," written and read by Ta-Nehisi Coates!! (Random House audio, unabridged) Yesterday I listened to 2/5 of the book while I ..."There are several on-line book sites that offer free audio books. BookBub is one of my favorites. They offer older books free and others at reasonable prices. I "purchase" through Amazon and it is sent to an account you set up. I have 12 waiting for me right now, and adding more every week!
you are welcome. "Rebecca at Riffle" and "Read it forward" are two sites I check often, also.
At least the spam guys are polite! And, in pertinent news, I subscribe to email notices from AudioFile which are filled with new releases and featured selections of audiobooks with reviews of the text and the performance. They also have a program called "Sync" where they offer two free audiobooks a week during the summer. I highly recommend checking them out.
Melliott wrote: "Recently listened to Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, about growing up half-black half-white during apartheid in South Africa. So good. Normally I don't listen to books (too slow), but he does all the ..."Agreed... so good.
The audiobook for The Children of Blood and Bone is AMAZING.
