The Audiobook Recommendation thread

[C.T. Phipps]

Exactly what the title says.

What are your favorite audiobooks?

What narrators did a really good job in your opinion?

Share and share alike.

[C.T. Phipps]

I'm going to recommend the Titus Crow novels by Brian Lumley as narrated by Simon Vance first.

Particularly The Compleat Crow and The Burrowers Beneath.

I'm not going to lie, the Titus Crow novels eventually become Doctor Who vs. The Cthulhu Mythos fanfiction.

But these two are great.

 

[Seiche]

George Guidall is the man when it comes to narrating action/thriller type stuff like Tom Clancy or Stephen King.  He can make anything sound good, and good stuff sound amazing. 

[Contrarius+]

A few of the best narrators out there, in no particular order:

George Guidall

Grover Gardner

Simon Vance

Simon Prebble

Tim Gerard Reynolds

Steven Pacey

 

Some others that I've really liked but haven't heard do a wide range of material:

Euan Morton

Peter Kenny

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Robin Miles

 

There are a lot of competent American narrators out there, but you can tell that I have a special soft spot for the British ones!

 

[Wilbur]

Some recommendations and relevant discussions:

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[Wilbur]

Try some of GRRM's Thousand Worlds books on this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4e_b4DwFxnL4cnV6-N97g/videos

 

[Tinker Tanner]

Andy Weir's The Martian narrated by R. C. Bray is one i would recommend. It had a crazy amount of five star reviews on audible. Bray has very very good comic timing. Ive only been listening to audiobooks for about a year and i never appreciated the skill it takes to narrate and not sound boring.

[red snow]

I was actually quite saddened to hear that Frank Muller wasn't narrating the rest of the Dark Tower books (from V on) due to a horrible motorcycle accident. Then I was even more saddened to hear he'd passed away. His narration for the Dark Tower series was really well done - he had a great narrative fantasy voice (that captured the western vibe) but also managed to make the characters very distinct. At first I thought he was a bit "too much" but then it clicked as the books are often OTT too. I'm sort of pleased that I chose to listen to some other books (including other King books) between book 4 and 5 (as I've heard that's where the quality drops) so hopefully it won't be too much of a shock when I have to learn the new take on character voices.

[C.T. Phipps]

Self-promotion wise, Cthulhu Armageddon just came out today.

On a non-self promotion level, I like to promote the following:

Prime Suspects: A Clone Detective Mystery which is basically a Bladerunner-esque pastiche but funnier as a Detective is cloned in the far future in order to solve his own murder in a society where the population is mostly mental and physical clones of a uber-rich elite.

Altered Carbon is a novel I loved in ebook form but became EVEN MORE enamored with in audiobook form. Ironically, it has much the same plot as Prime Suspects but, well...ultra serious and I'll be honest, better.

Cthulhu Attacks! by Sean Hoade is basically a Lovecraftian horror story, except told like a Kaiju Monster tale with all of the xenophobia and cosmic horror removed for pure fun.