<p>I have a long car ride tomorrow and am looking for suggestions of audiobooks. It has to be pretty light, my mind tends to wander when I drive. </p>
<p>The last audiobook I liked was Mindy Kaling’s book. I listen to This American Life podcasts, and The Moth. </p>
<p>Any suggestions?</p>
<p>To Kill a Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek</p>
<p>The Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Pie Society - ensemble cast</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>The Parasol Protectorate series. First book is titled Soulless. Written by Gail Carriger, read by Emily Gray.</p>
<p>Steampunk alternative history. Victoria is queen and has werewolves and vampires as royal advisors. Both a mystery and a romance. And very funny! Carriger has a sly, wry sense of humor; Gray does a marvelous job of giving each character a unique, recognizable voice.</p>
<p>^^^ Not the OP, but</p>
<p>both of those sound really good.</p>
<p>I am not the greatest critic because I like almost all audiobooks (it is the only way I can get myself to do <em>any</em> housework/gardening at all!) but I just finished “The Submission” by Amy Waldman. It has to do w/ a 9/11 memorial design competition in NYC. I did tons of stuff from my to-so list because I wanted to keep listening & I finished it in record time.</p>
<p>Anything by Louise Penny (mystery). The man who reads it has a great voice. Alan Alda has a couple of amusing memoirs.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions! I will put them on my list. I ended up choosing a safe bet…Rachel Dratch’s book, Girl Walks into a Bar, continuing on my streak of funny women’s autobiographies. My third now, after Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling.</p>
<p>Bill Bryson’s books, “A Walk in the Woods”, “In a Sunburned Country”, “Thunderbolt Kid” are all great. But make sure the version is read by Bryson himself.</p>
<p>I was just going to post the Bryson books- we listened to a Walk in the Woods on audio tape and loved it (and we had already read the book).</p>
<p>Just finished listening to Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. It is actually a YA novel which I spied in my 12yo D’s school library one day, but a good “read”.
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<p>The James Clavell book, Noble House (NOT a light read, it’s nearly 60 hours) has a guy with a wonderful voice who does all the accents beautifully.</p>
<p>Dean Koontz & Harlen Coben books have been good for me, also not light, more mystery/thriller.</p>
<p>Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (steampunk?) was amusing and kept my attention</p>
<p>Michael Gruber’s The Book of Air and Shadows: the book is great, the performance is absolutely superb. The audio version of The Help is excellent. (And I usually don’t like multiple narrators.) Anything read by Barbara Rosenblatt is worth listening to, even though amongst her authors is one of my least favorite mystery writers, Diane Mott Davidson.</p>