Audiobooks discussion

I'm currently working my way through Postwar by Tony Judt, having just finished Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It's good, but Judt is no Shirer, so I get sidetracked.

I'm also scouting out a new fiction book. I'm on "A Brutal Telling" but i'm not feeling Three Pines at the moment either (I think I need to bake something).

So, if you've got a suggestion for a new suggestion, especially if you're wiling to take a look at my previous history,

here's my purchase history (sans personal information) : http://pastebin.com/2Bd9QtG4

and here's my wishlist: http://pastebin.com/Bcmyu9DA

This community has been incredibly helpful in the past in picking winners (and the reason why I've been able to keep my platinum membership without racking up lots of spare credits). Thanks for being awesome.

Of your entire lists, there were only two I'd read: "Jerusalem" was very long and somewhat tedious, though I finished it; I bailed on "Destiny of the Republic" after a while. Perhaps you ought to consider 11/22/1963 as it's gotten rave reviews?

It's on my purchased list; I finished it ages ago; it was amazing

If you haven't bought it already, try Colin Firth's reading The End of the Affair that's available now free next.

From your wishlist: I thought 1984 and The Poisonwood Bible weren't all that great. I don't read much non-fiction, so I can't comment on those.

I absolutely loved The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This was one of those crazy things in my early days with Audible that just popped up as a recommendation from them, so I thought I should give it a shot. I hadn't heard of it before that. It's complex, political and intellectual, and all the threads in the books don't really seem like they haven anything to do with each other until the book wraps up. The suspense really builds in this one. The narration is great, too!

I also liked Cryptonomicon, but read that in paper so I can't comment on the narration. Again, a pretty complex book and more of a puzzler than a suspense book.

Both books move at a pretty good clip.

Given what I saw in your list, I think you might enjoy Birds Without Wings. The narration by John Lee was fantastic. And then there is Lolita, narrated by Jeremy Irons.

I think I will link to my reviews so you can see what I so highly recommend them:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Well books that are on your wishlist I would recommend
The Graveyard Book
Defending Jacob
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Historian



and for Non-fiction
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a great story , just fascinating and well written and very, very well narrated

Based on your history, I would strongly recommend To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War by Jeff Shaara and narrated by Paul Michael. I haven't read any of J. Shaara's other books, but this one was fantastic. It's 26 discs long, and I didn't want to see it end. The story has three main parts. The first focuses on the American flyers we now know as the Lafayette Esquadrille interwoven with the story of Manfred von Richtofen, the "Red Baron." The second part deals with the tedious process of trying to bring the U.S. into the war. Finally it moves on to the arrival of the American Expiditionary Force and the final push toward the Armistice. While the middle does get a little bogged down, the rest is absolutely fascinating.

If you liked American Gods, I highly recommend Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman read by Lenny Henry--funny, great story, great narration. I would also second the recommendation for The Graveyard Book.

The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspeare is a wonderful mystery series set in a historical context--post WWI with some back story before and during the Great War. The narrators change but the stories are quite well done.

In the sci-fi genre, I didn't see Ender's Game on your list but I highly recommend it. It's in my top five books of all time--if you count Lord of the Rings and HP each as one book.