audiobook recs?

[ratcreature]

I usually don't listen to audiobooks, because I prefer reading to listening and sometimes find it hard to follow them.

Unfortunately I may need to undergo another eye treatment, and usually these come with cruel reading/screen time restrictions and admonitions to avoid any eye strain afterwards. So to prepare, I'm looking to get some audiobooks to make the internet withdrawal less horrible.

Comments

[caiusmajor]

For whatever reason I find HP Lovecraft a lot easier to deal with in Audiobook form, and a lot of his stuff is available free and legal since it's public domain: see here for example https://librivox.org/collected-public-domain-works-of-h-p-lovecraft/.

Otherwise the audiobooks I listen to tend to be pretty dependent on what my local library has -- I've listened to a good bit of Terry Pratchett that way, and Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle and its sequels. Library audio CDs are particularly useful because I can borrow them and then rip them to mp3 for later. But, I assume what is available in your area is going to be pretty different.

[ratcreature]

I've never looked at what my library offers. Previously I've cadged from my brother who has some kind of Audible subscription thing, that he allowed my tablet to share in.