I need help with what books to review, and book suggestions, Please send me all the suggestions you like

Using Audible, I like mysteries like Holmes and Agatha Christie but I've got through most of those. I do Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan now and then and I've enjoyed Dan Brown's books. I've done a few Steve Berry but they seem to be getting repetitive. Hoping for some good recommendations TIA.

Is speechify the best? I need the words highlighted as I'm reading. Is speechify the best or is there something better out there?

I'm looking for a new listen.

I want high or epic fantasy, I really don't want a "coming of age" or anything that centers on teens.

I also don't want romantasy, if there's some romance fine but I'm not looking for romance or smut right now.

No litrpg either

Also it would be great if it wasn't full of rape. If there is rape a warning would be nice.

I love Margaret Weis, Mercedes Lackey, Bryce O'Connor, Tolkien, Robert Jordan.

Hey hey! I’ve been meaning to cancel my audible subscription but have 7 credits left and am looking for some recommendations. To be honest I don’t regularly read or listen to audiobooks (I guess which is why I have so many credits) and have been using Libby when I do.

I’m looking for something that’ll give me some life experience or maybe some inspiration on how to live my life maybe? I’ve been struggling with depression for most of my life and now feel a little lost. My recent favorite reads recently have been Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Tuval Noah Harari, Stay True by Hua Hsu, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb, and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

Don’t suppose anyone has got a digital version of the 1994 Ladybird Classic Treasure Island read by Windsor Davies? Looking for some nostalgia and I can’t find this version anywhere. Thanks all

Hi guys! I currently use scribd and we are only allowed three or four credits per month, I don’t recall what it is. And I always go through those so quickly.

It Seems like their unlimited section is not the best I’ve ever, So I had the idea that maybe if I came here somebody could give me a recommendation to an unlimited book that they carry on that app.

They were much better before they changed their whole format. I’m not digging this credit per month thing. And you would think they would offer single purchases in addition to their monthly fee, but no.

Thanks for any input given! ✌🏼

And also, why are there two audiobook sub here on Reddit? I can’t see any differences. I’m kind of new here so I’m sure I sound ridiculous! Thanks again.

Hi everyone. We're trying to grow our YouTube channel with audiobooks to make world literature available to all for free. Any subscribes, likes or comments would be highly appreciated.

If you have any book recommendations you would like to see, let us know.

https://youtube.com/@audiblerealms?si=EVz4t1vpf3DPPNvW

Hello!,

I read/listen to a lot of Light Novels but not all of them are available in audio form. So I was wondering if someone knows a solution for an open source local TTS I can feed books and create my own audio books this way. Has anybody done this before and has experience with it?

I mainly wanna listen to them while at work or when tired and in bed.

What do you usually do while you listen to audiobooks? I usually like to go for a walk or listen while I wash the dishes and sometimes drive.

Hey everyone!

I am in the process of a project I call the "growing" fantasy novel.

It is an age old idea but somehow I cant seem to find people doing it alot.

I am writing short bits of story in a very wide and up for interpretation world/setting and every Chapter gets released seperatly. People can then give input, wish for things all the good stuff and that impacts how the story continues.

The first episode is now on Youtube for free, which it will forever be.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-UXgqO1s8&ab_channel=Anathema-afreeaudiobook

A short disclaimer: The text and narrative are written by me - the reading however is done by (a very good) AI because I am not a native speaker or professional speaker and I want the listening part to be as polished as possible!

Road trip calls for a new audio book!

Big fan of Cowboy Bebop and No Man’s Sky so would love something that gives similar vibes.

Recently read The Sphere by Michael Crichton and loved the technicality and creepy otherworldliness of it.

Bonus points for suspense/thriller.

I'm hoping to get a bunch of recommendations, and I find it's really important to me that the narration is wonderful. Apparently Julia Whelan is the one for me, based on what I've read here. I'd like some recommendations for the best books that she has read for. I prefer science fiction and/or fantasy and not crazy about romance right now. Although romance is actually okay, just keep the sex away from me - is kind of where I'm at.

I'm an old fart now and don't like lightweight stuff. I love intelligent writing, Terry Pratchett style sarcastic humor and satire, and I also loved the black house by Stephen King and that other guy. Sorry, it's 3:00 in the morning and I'm super tired.

I've got a 10-day road trip ahead of me in a month or so and I want to be ready. Please help me?! 😘💖😎🥰

Ok, so I used to listen to this audiobook on Apple Podcasts (I know, I’m sorry I was a naive young man) anyways so I can’t really remember the name of the audiobook. It was something like ‘Intraverse’ or something along those lines. I believe it was about some interplanetary threat, where there were 3 protagonists, all from different planets and they had a mission or something to stop a universal threat. The cover I think was vibrant pink, in space with the protagonists and the antagonist with the title in big letters. It wasn’t an ordinary audiobook it had sound effects, different voices for each character. It was like watching a movie but instead you could only hear it and then let you imagination run free. That’s all I can remember please help me out here. I’ve tried looking for it everywhere but I can’t find a single mention of anything even remotely close to it. It’s as if it never existed?!

I'm relatively new to audiobooks and I've been listening mostly on audible going through book after book after book in my constant ravaging of every new title I can find. I'm currently on a relatively strong romance kick and take well to reading stories with dual narration, this hasn't been an issue so far until about a week ago when I found myself struggling with male voice actors in particular, most female voice actors always sound fine to me but so far I've run into many male VAs who I simply can't stand to listen to and end up dropping a perfectly good story over. Is there any reccomendations for good male VAs who do dual narration?

I have listened to all the main line Bosch books to include Lincoln Lawyer. What is a similar series? I also love Expeditionary Force so maybe a space cop series would be cool.

Did it drive anyone else a little crazy that the narrator didn't sing the songs in the audiobook, like "Old Dan Tucker" and "Blue Tail Fly"? I don't expect a Broadway performance by any means but it just sounded so odd to me when the lyrics were read without any melody!

Hey everyone,

I absolutely love using Speechify for listening to text, but I’m looking for an alternative that’s completely free. While Speechify is great, the premium features are a bit pricey, and I was wondering if there’s another service that offers high-quality text-to-speech for free.

I mainly use it for reading articles, PDFs, and other documents. Does anyone have recommendations for apps or websites that work well without a paywall?

I’d really appreciate your help! Thanks in advance!

I'm happy to post another episode of Siege of Silicon, the sci-fi tale of semiconductor technology!

Chapter[3], Enigmatic Exceptionalism
In this installment, after being rendered unconscious by Mrs. Brown’s “gift”, Lily awakens in a a place too green to be anywhere near the city and a face too familiar to be real. Her curiosity takes her deeper to find answers, but will she leave with only more questions? Find out in this installment of Siege of Silicon.

I love seeing all the new listeners and hearing your feedback!

RSS Feed: https://anchor.fm/s/ff975e14/podcast/rss

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ebcarver

Full Story Synopsis:
Lily Townes is a process engineer; she's uprooted herself to work in Taiwan on revolutionary high-k metal gate transistors. Trouble begins when a chemical leak forces an evacuation of her factory. Only Lily notices something isn’t quite right. What she finds baffles and scares her smartest colleagues. They embark on a hunt to decipher the technology and find out what, or who is behind it all.

Outside of the fab, a man named Joseph is on a crusade to bring order back to the world through any methods he deems necessary. In his search, he finds a link between a mysterious pattern drawn by a missing fisherman and a piece of strange technology.

As a dangerous splinter of the military gets wind of the discovery, Lily must brave the dense rural jungles of Taiwan, search in the narrow streets of Taipei, to find her answers before the soldiers do.

Hello everyone! I've found a lot of post asking for alternatives to Audible, but most of the recommendations work in other countries or continents. I just think audible is a bit too expensive for me and in my country there are no libraries with audiobook services (that's why I am looking for options in English).

The info in the sub description was useful, but they don't offer many books... any advice?

Kenneth Branagh's narration of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is the best audiobook performance I've ever experienced.

Usually I prefer to read but settle for audiobooks for listening on the go; in this case, the narration is better than reading (I read the book a long time ago). The pacing, emphasis, and diction actually make the narrative easier to follow and enhance the drama.

I think the only other book I've heard Branagh on was the Chronicles of Narnia, which was also great, but he takes it to another level on Heart of Darkness.

Currently unemployed and seeking a career change and not a single clue on where to go next. All due to high anxiety/depression.

Any books (audiobooks preferred) you could recommend to help find clarity, direction etc. I've read David Goggins, Atomic Habits, Jordan Peterson among some others.

Pretty much begging here for a book to challenge me and help to get me unstuck and out of this dark hole I'm in.

Thankyou so so much in advance

p.s I am going though convenient treatment this request is just supplementary

I have the libation programs on my laptop. It's connected to my audible account and I've downloaded all my books, about 88 total. Here's what I would like to do:

I've noticed a lot of audiobooks that I want to listen to this year are in audiobooks.com. I would like that to be my main app. Is it possible to import my Libation downloads into my audiobooks.com library so I can just have it there nice and neat?

Or is there a kind of Movies Anywhere Type app available where I connect it to to various app libraries and I can see everything there?

So did you listen to anything good this week? Or something so truly terrible you want to warn other listeners?

Please include the following information: Author, Title and Narrator.

Why does identifying the Narrator matter?

Often books will be recorded with different narrators for different regions (ie. Harry Potter was read by both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry) or produced by different publishers (ie... Elizabeth Moon's books were produced by both Graphic Audio and Tantor). It is extremely helpful to other listeners to know what version you are sharing to avoid confusion.

Links to a source are welcomed and encouraged!

Overdrive, Audible, Downpour, Librivox, etc... It doesn't matter the source, as long as the Author, Title and Narrator are easily identified.

I really need distractions from real life and haven’t really been able to focus on words on a page so audiobooks have been my go to for now and the less realistic the story, the better. Any recommendations for audiobooks that have a good narrator and will get you lost in a fictional land?? Hoping for something with a lot of action to keep my mind from wandering.

Hey everyone, wondering which fantasy audiobooks the community might recommend? looking for the usual fantasy stuff; magic, swords, dragons, wizards. Finished listening to the First Law Series and Raymond E Feist's Magician/Riftwar series as well, they were great. Also finished the Stormlight saga, not currently looking to read another massive series like Wheel of time, but its okay if its part of a trilogy or series as long as each individual book/audiobook isn't massive in length like a typical Sanderson novel.

Update: Thanks for the recommendations so far, also wondering which books/audiobooks you think would be amazing if they had illustrations (i.e. 1-2 illustrations per chapter) - thinking of creating a few illustrations in my free time as I'm an artist as well.

I know that this question has been asked already, but is there any way to obtain an audiobook edition of Last Days by Adam Nevill in the United States? I have tried the other reddit posts about using Audbile UK and a few webistes that have it listed but they always say not available in your country. Would it be possible to find it as an .mp3 style file somewhere. Thanks in advance to any advice offered.

New to the sub, but came to ask about the rating system for audiobooks. I'm currently listening to Wind and Truth by Sanderson (and also reading - well, now only reading) I have really enjoyed reading Sanderson's books in the past. This is the first time I tried listening, and the narrators and their accents in this book are (I'm sorry!) really awful. So many of the characters became annoying because of their odd intonations... which got me wondering about the audible ratings - I guess the stars tell you nothing about the narration quality! Is there any website that rates narrators rather than the content? Thanks!

Just got done listening to his secrets illuminations and that was amazing and would love to know more of the same dynamic of a strong dominant female and a sub less confident male romance story if yall know any I would appreciate it

The Little Astronauts: A Mission to Mars! By Hilda Williams

Narrated by me D.T. Ritchie, is now available on audible. I really enjoyed working on this project. It was my first time narrating a Children's Audiobook and was more challenging and fun than I had expected.

I would love to share a few audiobook codes with people willing to leave an honest review. (Specify US or UK codes)

Summary: Join Sarah, Sam, Stella, and Chris on a fun-filled space adventure! Using their imaginations and teamwork, these four friends blast off in their homemade rocket to explore Mars. With laughter, creativity, and a touch of stardust, this story is perfect for little dreamers who love outer space!

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Little-Astronauts-A-Mission-to-Mars-Audiobook/B0DSJZKY4V?qid=1738381192&sr=1-2&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=GPM71GVCFECQF1DS4383&plink=kh3zgv4fYbcEVsHu&pageLoadId=70ikQ6BQkCIbARTa&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2