The Last Thing He Told Me
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New reader needs guidance
Brad
Nov 14, 2022 07:35AM
I'm a 43yo man who is decidedly NOT well-read. I'm trying to fix this and have found audiobooks are likely to be my best way to improve this.
I'm so unfamiliar with this world that I don't know what I like or don't like, and even if I did, I probably lack the vocabulary to express preferences. Because of this, my audiobook journey has been hit or miss. Some I've REALLY liked and others that simply haven't reeled me in. If I throw out a short list of titles that I have/haven't like, might some of you give me guidance on genres, authors, etc that I might seek out moving forward?
Loved:
Girl Forgotten, Karin Slaughter
The last thing he told me, Laura Dave
Liked:
The people we meet on vacation (a little too "romance novel" for my tastes.
The four winds, Kristin Hannah (this was fantastic on so many levels, but the themes of suffering were too much for me...I need reading as an escape, not just another dark place for my mind to go)
Didn't really care for:
The last white man, Mohsin Hamid
The alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Educated, Tara Westover
If the creek don't rise, Leah Weiss
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer this reading noob :-).
Brad
I'm so unfamiliar with this world that I don't know what I like or don't like, and even if I did, I probably lack the vocabulary to express preferences. Because of this, my audiobook journey has been hit or miss. Some I've REALLY liked and others that simply haven't reeled me in. If I throw out a short list of titles that I have/haven't like, might some of you give me guidance on genres, authors, etc that I might seek out moving forward?
Loved:
Girl Forgotten, Karin Slaughter
The last thing he told me, Laura Dave
Liked:
The people we meet on vacation (a little too "romance novel" for my tastes.
The four winds, Kristin Hannah (this was fantastic on so many levels, but the themes of suffering were too much for me...I need reading as an escape, not just another dark place for my mind to go)
Didn't really care for:
The last white man, Mohsin Hamid
The alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Educated, Tara Westover
If the creek don't rise, Leah Weiss
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can offer this reading noob :-).
Brad
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First - congrats on taking steps to broaden your world with reading! The trick with audiobooks is that the reader is often as much a reason to enjoy a good audiobook as the author. I would suggest browsing a library catalog or online source to find other works read/narrated by those you enjoyed. For example - Kathleen Early reads Girl Forgotten. She also read Find me by Alafair Burke as well as several other Karin Slaughter works.
I just finished The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda, same feel as The Last Thing he Told Me.
If you like mystery and twists try Harlan Coben. Great twists in the stand alone books. His Myron Bolitar series are more like whodunits. All are easy reads, nicely paced.
If you like mystery and twists try Harlan Coben. Great twists in the stand alone books. His Myron Bolitar series are more like whodunits. All are easy reads, nicely paced.
Loved both "The Last Thing He Told Me" and "Five Years" because they were not the same old plot that I've read so many times before. They were unique. I also liked "First Husband" by Laura Dern, but not her others.
Highly recommend "Where the Crawdads Sing", "Magic Hour" by Susan Issacs and "Resistance" by Anita Shreve.
Without being too self-serving, I'd love for you to take a look at my four novels: Kathleen Cochran here on GoodReads
Highly recommend "Where the Crawdads Sing", "Magic Hour" by Susan Issacs and "Resistance" by Anita Shreve.
Without being too self-serving, I'd love for you to take a look at my four novels: Kathleen Cochran here on GoodReads
I agree on The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. I quit listening halfway through because it was SO depressing. In the other hand, I loved Anxious People. I'm listening to Ann Patchett's Tom Lake right now and finding it kind of boring.
I'm not sure what to tell you to try, but you could check out Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt.
I'm not sure what to tell you to try, but you could check out Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt.
a really good audio book and one of the only ones i could bear the narrators voice was 'kill your brother'
suspense thriller, not horror just twists and turns
suspense thriller, not horror just twists and turns
I am going to recommend a slightly controversial one.
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. It is kind of like a Jason Bourne but with funny snappy dialogue. I know Stephanie Meyer gets a bad rap because of the Twilight books but this one was really good to me.
The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer. It is kind of like a Jason Bourne but with funny snappy dialogue. I know Stephanie Meyer gets a bad rap because of the Twilight books but this one was really good to me.
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