I'm an animation. I normally listen to something while animating. And seeing how I do that for 8-12 hours a day. I've run out of audiobooks to listen too

anyone got any good suggestions? I nice long series would be best.

If you haven't read Wheel of Time, do so.

Also check out the website Podiobooks.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel as narrated by Simon Prebble. SO. INCREDIBLY. AWESOME.

Feed (the dystopian fiction one, not the zombie one) plays out wonderfully on audio book, to the point where I'd recommend listening over reading. In essence, it's about societal decline due to misapplication of technology, in this case a chip in people's heads that essentially permanently connects them to a sort of future-internet (the Feed). Part of the way this is conveyed is with the portrayal of short clips from the Feed, including advertisements at the beginning of many early chapters. Said advertisements and other clips are played to the hilt, and absolutely fantastic. It's a bit short however, and really only covers one day of work for you.

I'd also look to see if China Mielville has had any of his work put in audiobook form. Based on what I've read, it seems like an audio version would work well, and Mielville writes fairly long books.

In addition to these, look up Librivox. It's a collection of free audio books, produced in .mp3 format, from the public domain. Narrator quality and such vary highly, but there are some very good narrators (for instance, one of the three versions of Jane Eyre has someone better than most professionals narrating).

I ate through the Wheel of time twice in my time. I can't wait of the next one.

Temeraire by Naomi Novik, beginning with His Majesty's Dragon. The Napoleonic wars ... with dragons. The reader is excellent, the books are mostly excellent, there really isn't enough good stuff to say about this series. The reader really gets into his characters, and does a good job differentiating them from one another, something I've noticed others having trouble with.

Do a search for Nathan Lowell and give his Trader series a try.

I don't know if there's an audiobook for it, but I would highly recommend the Mistborn series. (If there's not an audiobook for it...I'd be HIGHLY surprised.) It's written by Brandon Sanderson. First book is Mistborn, Second is The Well of Ascension and the Third is Hero of Ages.

This is one of those weird places where squirrel-boy and I agree - this really is a very good series.



Full agreement here, too. This series is so good (and so many of us had read it) that the book store I work at actually got its stock replenishment number increased because we hand sold so many copies. Probably the best fantasy of the last decade.

José Phillip Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go and its sequel, The Fabulous Riverboat. Both are amazing high-concept pieces; they're technically science-fiction, but are really just a big What If? story. Remarkable books.

In the same "awesome sci-fi" vein, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. I know for a fact that Audible has audiobooks for all three works, too.