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I like Terry Pratchett on Audio but not to read – I think it is the narrator.
If you want a romantic fantasy that is really awesome : Poison Study.
World War Z is AWESOME
Hatred’s Kingdom (about Saudi Arabia)
What Went Wrong (The fall of the Turkish Empire with resonance for today.)
Islam : A Short History
The Frog Princess (great young adult read for the whole family)
Religious Literacy
How Doctors Think
American Theocracy
The Saudis
The Great Influenza (How medicine became what it is today.)
Beyond Belief
Sleeping with the Devil
Understanding Islam
UFOs, JFK, and Elvis (Richard Belzer’s ingenious conspiracy comedy.)

Um… I’m sort of a promiscuous reader.

I have to recommend ‘Old Man’s War’ and ‘The Ghost Brigades’ by John Scalzi.

‘God is My Broker’ and ‘No Way to Treat a First Lady’ by Christopher Moore

I, Robot – read by Scott Brick.

Favorite Readers – Scott Brick, George Guidall aka Alexander Adams, & Fisher Stevens.

Happy listening!

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, read by Michael Emerson
This book is one of my all-time favorites and I’ve read it more than once, but I still got a lot out of the audiobook that I had missed in reading. Michael Emerson does a fantastic job with this.

Sahara by Michael Palin, read by the author
Michael Palin made a TV series about the Sahara, then wrote this book about the experience. This was everything an audiobook should be: fascinating subject, well written, well read.

I agree with everybody else who said you can’t go wrong with This American Life.

I love Audible and have been a member for years. You can pay about 9 bucks to have the credits extended so you won’t lose them.

Here’s what I have purchased with my credits and enjoyed thoroughly! I love to listen to these books over and over again!

The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
The Walmart Effect-(you’ll love this)
Blink, by malcom Gladwell
Anything by Seth Godin
Warren Buffet Speaks
Success through a positive Mental Attitude, Napolean Hill
The Go-Giver-bob Burg, (awesome!)
Learning Spanish Like Crazy
The Fountainhead by Ayne Rand
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (about TR Roosevelt!)
4 Hour work week, timothy ferris
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
The Richest Man in Babylon-George Clason
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl.

Mornings on Horseback, by D. McCullough (Teddy Roosevelt’s early life)

In Cold Blood, by T. Capote — it was riveting!

The Wal-Mart Effect

And the Earth’s Children series by Jean Auel: Clan of the Cave Bear, Plains of Passage, The Mammoth Hunters, etc.

Also, I have enjoyed everything I’ve listened to that was read by Edward Hermann.

I have to echo others and say that David Sedaris and Bill Bryson (everything by each) are MUSTS, as hearing the humorous reading by the authors is something you can’t miss. If you’ve only read the print versions of the books by these authors, you have to hear the audiobooks. have to. run don’t walk. Some of the Bryson stuff isn’t on audible, and I had to do some hunting. And a couple of his older books weren’t done in audio unfortunately.

I really liked all the Chuck Klosterman books, too. Hilarious. As was Microthrills by Wendy Spero.

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, Wayne Dyer (interpretation of the Tao)

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefevre

iWoz, Steve Wozniak

Nothing’s Sacred, Lewis Black

The Beatles, Hunter Davies

Full Circle, Michael Palin

Fawlty Towers (radio versions!)

The Meaning of Life, and The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama

Kiss Me Like a Stranger, Gene Wilder

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, Alan Alda

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out & Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, R. Feynman

Hughes, Richard Hack (fascinating Howard Hughes bio)

Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot, R Restak

On Writing, Stephen King

Audible member since march 2000, sorry for long list.

Some of the best “audio books” I listen to are actually seminars. Best one I have ever heard:

JIM ROHN’S WEEKEND EVENT 2004

Full 3 day seminar on productivity, goals, and personal development.

Some other great ones I also listened recently to:

THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE by David Bach

GOALS by Zig Ziglar

GETTING THINGS DONE FAST by David Allen

RICH DAD POOR DAD and CASH FLOW QUADRANT by Robert Kiyosaki

Also An Ordinary Man: an autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, an excellently written story of how Mr. Rusesabagina, the hotel manager of the Hotel Diplomat and Hotel Milles Collines, owned by the Belgian company Sabena, saved 1200 lives during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Better than the movie, though equally tragic. If the reader wasn’t Don Cheadle, it was a man with a wonderful accent.

Imagine the Napoleonic wars with an Air Corps!

Great book on simple time management.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

I also recommend the entire Chronicles of Narnia series, Corrie Ten Boom’s “The Hiding Place,” Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind,” and Gary Chapman’s “The Five Love Languages.”

Also, Josh Waitzkin’s “The Art of Learning”.

There’s also an audiobook series of The Chronicles of Narnia that I quite like. The Horse and His Boy read by Alex Jennings in particular is good.

Enjoy! I love audiobooks.

If you don’t mind cursing, they did a great job with Feed by MT Anderson. It’s a SF novel about some teens and the “Feed” that’s connected to their brains. It’s a good social commentary on the effect of advertising on today’s youth. That sentence makes it sound boring but it’s very fast paced and they have the “feed” playing in the background so you get a good sense of what the characters are experiencing.

Two short but wonderful audiobooks:

The Finer Points Of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith (a marvellous reading by Hugh Laurie)

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (mesmerizing to listen to)

Also, pretty much anything by P G Wodehouse lifts my spirits (ought to be unabridged and not dramatised) ‘Summer Lightening’ is a great introduction to his Blandings series, and it’s difficult to go wrong with the Jeeves and Wooster books.

If you can find Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton, that narrator does a bang-up job too.

Have fun!!