I _really_ liked the series of A Song of Ice and Fire (the books on which Game of Thrones is based). Martin does a great job at building a fantasy world while k

I _really_ liked the series of A Song of Ice and Fire (the books on which Game of Thrones is based). Martin does a great job at building a fantasy world while keeping humans true to their human nature. The combination of morally ambiguous characters that follow their own motivations with the fog-of-war (in the sense of making decisions with incomplete information) sets the motion for a really intriguing plot. In addition, although not a book, I would strongly recommend the podcast Hardcore History. In particular, the series on WWI (Blueprint for Armageddon) is the best audio content I've ever heard, and it is long enough to be considered an audio book (~23 hours of content broken into 6 chapters).