Over the years I’ve come to appreciate the audiobook format more and more. Not as a complete substitute to physically reading but as an accomplice to it. There have been days when I’ve been too tired to look at a screen or words on page at the end of the day, and audiobooks have been there to help me get my fix for the day. Going from that to listening to books I’ve already read to experience the nuance the narrator brings to some of my favourite worlds has been an experience in its own. I had uploaded a blog post a while back about audiobooks so I’ll link that one below, followed by some of the favourite audiobooks over the last few years.
Audiobooks – To listen or not to listen?
Every now and then I come across the topic of audiobooks, and their legitimacy in a world of reading. Now I don’t mean legitimacy in terms of content, but more in the metric driven world of goodreads ratings and challenges. In today’s world, numbers mean everything. Be it in the number of likes a post…
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A list of recommended audiobooks (in no particular order) linked to either their goodreads page or a blog post if I’ve reviewed them at some point.
- Anything narrated by Stephen Fry
- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection
- Moab Is My Washpot
- The Fry Chronicles
- Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
- Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- and, of course, his audiobooks for the Harry Potter series
- The Terry Pratchett Discworld audiobooks (both, narrated by Steven Briggs as well as the newer full production with an exceptional cast)
Discworld, and where to start.
For the uninitiated here, Discworld is a comic fantasy series that spans 41 novels. Written by Sir Terry Pratchett from 1983 till his passing in 2015 (The 41st book was released posthumously in 2015), these books have captivated people, old and young, with their witty dialogue and loveable characters. The books rely on satire to…
- Books Narrated by the author themselves (as they tend to add a lot more charm and authenticty to the words on the page, especially when it’s a memoir)
- and, a lot more to come as I inevitably fill this in!