(Part 4) Top products from r/audiobooks

Finished my third "reading" and first listening-to of The Time Ships, a great book, an official sequel to The Time Machine written by Stephen Baxter. If you like amazingly complex stories of time travel, it's a real treat. Best of all was the performance by the reader, who got all the accents perfect, including Nebogpifel, the Morlock from the year 657,208. Highly recommended!

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Ships-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0061056480

I loved Ready Player One, written by Ernest Cline and read by Wil Wheaton.

I just finished this book last night, I listened to it at every moment it was so fun. Engaging, interesting, exciting, new, GOOD.

Ready Player One book reviews on Amazon

Ready Player One on Audible

I listened to "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton, read by Richard Green. I was only able to get it on cassette (ex-library), but it was a fun listen. It's from the 1930s and is where the story of Shangrila came from.

I'm currently listening to Born to Run by Christopher McDougall , read by Fred Sanders.
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307914550
It's about how the author, a writer and (broken) runner, went on a quest to uncover the secrets of a tribe of very long distance runners in Mexico. This book might be one of the more popular to inspire the "barefoot running" movement.

I like a lot of Non-Fiction and just finished Think Like A Freak, by the Freakanomics authors and really enjoyed it! If you like novels, I highly recommend The Peripheral

The First Immortal by James Halperein is a novel all about the ramifications of cryonics. It's been years since I read it, but I remember finding it enjoyable and thought-provoking. However, it is not available as an audiobook, or even an ebook.

It's not exactly what you are looking for, but The Dead Zone by Stephen King is about someone who wakes up after several years in a coma. Also quite good.

Best,

Geoff Jones

Author of The Dinosaur Four

I really found How to Fight the President entertaining, it is more history of course. For meditation, check out Dan Harris' 10% Happier... psychology, anything by Oliver Sacks is good... economics, Freakonomics...

Check with your library, mine has a great selection of digital audiobooks, just download using the Overdrive app...

Ghost in the Wires - The story of famed hacker Kevin Mitnick

Any Mary Roach Book if you like Science

In the Heart of the Sea - The true story behind Moby Dick

The Omnivore's Dilemma - A great walk through our food landscape

Gang Leader for a Day - Behavioral Economist embeds with a Chicago Gang

Shadow Divers - My first audiobook. It's a thriller about a scuba discovery of a Nazi Submarine on the Eastern US coast.

The Devil In The White City - A story about a serial killer at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893

I have one for you.

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors

The real Robinson Crusoe story.

The story of Hugh Glass is not to missed.
The movie plays a bit with the truth.

I've got nothing for horror, but have you read Paranoia yet? That was a surprise hit for me, sort of thriller-ish, but not in the guns blazing kind of way.

While not strictly about Statistics Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman looks into the science of decision making and how people aren't good at statistical thinking. It's a fascinating book and does have some basic discussions on statistics.

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. It's set in the same world as the First Law trilogy, but its a standalone. It's actiony low fantasy fun.

Mindy Kaling's book is hilarious.

According to Amazon it is September 17, 2019

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https://www.amazon.com/New-Joe-Abercrombie-Novel-1/dp/031618716X

See if you can find this one in audiobook form. https://www.amazon.com/Germania-Wayward-Pursuit-Germans-History/dp/0312680686

James Herbert - Fluke

Check this out it spans all of Europe and Asia. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393059758/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_aUTQCb3ZN84TN

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here's The Odyssey narrated by Alex Jennings and Derek Jacobi:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140861572

Here's the listing on worldcat:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/odyssey/oclc/879898931

We listened to 'Joyland' in a spirit of lighter fare. Sort of like King's The Colorado Kid. Since we weren't expecting a diabolical masterpiece, it was an enjoyable vacation. It's tough to do anything with a fair ground and not tread lightly since Something Wicked This Way Comes owns the lot. I saw Joyland as an homage of sorts to Bradbury. Props go the Sara Gruen's Water For Elephants since she flipped the circus motif in a new direction and a different take on death.

Best book on a circus has to be Gary Jenning's Spangle. It's a paperback at 1296 pages and worth it. There's an audio version available but it's worse than terrible quality. It sounds as though it was recorded years ago. The narrator is fine but it's from cassettes that were in bad shape.