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Hey everyone,

I had some Audible credits and thought about what I use them on. Then I wondered what some people here thought about audiobooks in general. Anybody have some favorite ones?

For me personally, I enjoy the Discworld Novels as narrated by Nigel Planer, Star Wars' Thrawn Trilogy narrated by Marc Thompson, The Disaster Artist read by the author Greg Sestero, the Red Rising Novels narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds and anything with Brian Jacques, most notably the Redwall Series.

For something new, I'm listening to The Giver, read by Ron Rifkin.

How about the rest of you?

The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher and read by James Marsters is really excellent.

A friend of mine got into that series. I need to give that a listen.

The Silent Gods Series by Justin T Call. Probably my favorite fantasy settings and each book is like 19 hrs long in audible. I think Book 3 was just released, so probaby some time before its on audible.

The Fallen Series Written by Lauren Kate. 

1. Fallen (2009)
2. Torment (2010)
3. Passion (2011)
4. Fallen in Love (2012)
5. Rapture (2012)
6. Unforgiven (2015)
7. Angels in the Dark (2013)

It's a great book and they also have audiobooks too. The movie is, eh, fine.... 

Sorry, I don't like audible books. When someone else reads the story, they put their own spin on it, and that might be different from mine. I also tend to fall asleep because since they are reading, my brain shuts down and I go to sleep. Good luck, though, hope you enjoyed your choices!

Tardy to the party but I highly recommend The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. The First Law series is easily the best audiobook I have listened to when you combine quality of story with quality of audiobook. It's probably my favourite book series of all time, so there's that, but it is also one of the few audiobooks I've listened to where I would recommend listening to the audiobook above reading the actual book. Steven Pacey is very good at what he does.

Like, I'm listening to the audiobook of Game of Thrones now and it makes me REALLY appreciate how good Steven Pacey is by comparison. Roy Dotrice makes all the child characters sound like 80 year old men, and for some reason makes all the Lannisters sound like West Country farmers.

Nigel Planer is great too, I think his deadpan reading style makes the Discworld books even funnier. ^_^