audiobook recommendations, anyone?

[ysobel]

So I have dabbled around a bit in Audible and am 99% sure that I want to get a subscription; audiobooks are great for a) listening to while knitting, and b) something to do when I get headaches of the "lie in dark room with eyes closed" variety, or otherwise can't entertain myself with anything other than sound.

I have been collecting a wishlist, based on either stories I like (including the complete unabridged collection of sherlock holmes stories) or narrators that I like (*cough* benedict cumberbatch, among others), but I'm also looking for recommendations. Things that work well as audiobooks, or people who are good at reading.

Any suggestions? For those of you that use Audible, or listen to audiobooks on a (semi)regular basis, what sort of thing do you go for?

Comments

[firecat]

Here are some mystery and sff and urban fantasy Audible audiobooks I've liked:
--various by Agatha Christie
--Arthur C. Clark, Childhood's End
--C.S. Lewis, Narnia series
--Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
--John Crowley, Aegypt
--most of the John Le Carre books (I especially like Case/Davidson as a narrator of these)
--Ishiguro, Never Let Me go
--Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
--Stephenson, The Diamond Age
--several by Octavia E. Butler
--Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
--Pullman, The Golden Compass (but I was less impressed with the other two in the trilogy)
--Richard K. Morgan, the first two of the Kovacs series, but not the third (they changed narrators)
--if you want your head to explode, try Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea read by Harlan Ellison
--Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
--anything by Walter Mosley
--Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, if you don't mind the sexism$fail
--Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger (historical, mystery)
--Charlaine Harris, the Harper Connelly series (urban fantasy)
--Carrie Vaughn, Kitty and the Midnight Hour (urban fantasy)
--Gail Carriger, the Alexia Tarabotti series (alternate history urban fantasy)
--the first book in any Jasper Fforde series (funny British SFF)
--Jeaniene Frost, Night Huntress series (urban fantasy)
--Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean (feminist SFF)
--Rusch, the Retrieval Artist series (SF)
--Marjorie M. Liu, A Taste of Crimson (urban fantasy)
--anything narrated by Neil Gaiman, if you like his stuff. He narrates really well.
--Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series (mystery/police procedural)
--Scott Lynch, Gentleman Bastard series (swashbuckling SFF)

More here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/267223?shelf=audiobook

Sorry for overwhelming you...