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Old 04-30-2013, 06:56 PM   #1
digamma
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Audible Book Review/Recommendation Thread

I have a couple of credits to burn and am looking for any recommendations.

I am all over the place when it comes to Audible listening habits. A fair bit of history, biographies and memoirs, but also a decent amount of fiction.


Some of my own favorite titles I've listened to on Audible:

Non-Fiction
John Adams, by David McCullough
The Heart and the Fist, by Eric Greitens (memoir of a Rhodes Scholar turned Navy Seal)
Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard (the story of the Garfield assassination)
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
Disney War, by James Stewart
Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
Manhunt, by James Swanson (the search for Lee Harvey Oswald)
Charlie Wilson's War, by George Crile (RIP Charlie)

Fiction
I've listened to several Vince Flynn novels in the Mitch Rapp CIA Special Ops bad ass series, if that is your flavor.
I very much enjoyed the set up of Reamde, by Neil Stephenson.
11-22-63 was a good listen
I've also listened to a decent amount of political satire, mostly by Christopher Buckley.

I generally listen to things on 1.5x speed on my commute (1/2 hour each way), so I don't mind getting caught up in longer stories, but definitely prefer narratives (even if on the non-fiction side) to heavy learning.

What have others enjoyed?

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