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Ask HN: Best audiobooks you've listened to recently? (Cosmic horror/non-fiction)
I have a long flight coming up and I’m looking for audiobook recommendations — fiction or non-fiction. If it’s fiction would be interested in cosmic horror or sci fi genres.
- blinded 1y agoI recently finished book 4 of Red Rising series. Its great! The author is finishing the last book and it should be out early next year.
- riffraff 1y ago"greatest hits", a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison. Should be available on many platforms, I listened to it on audible. Mostly sci-fi, some great, some good. Most are read by the author himself, who has a peculiar style ("over the top" perhaps is the best way to describe it). Some of the stories are classic, so I think it's worth reading/listening to. Some are just boring and/or confusing for me, ymmv.
- romanhn 1y agoI really enjoyed listening to the Silo series by Hugh Howey recently. I also went through a Stephen King binge years ago and I specifically recall Frank Muller did a great job with the narration on many of the books (sadly he passed away before finishing the Dark Tower series).
- blinded 1y agoSecond this! Will be interesting to see how the apple tv show adapts book two.
- DantesKite 1y agoI really enjoyed the Edward Herrman narration of the "At the Mountains of Madness" when I listened to it years ago. What struck me is how it still feels haunting even decades later; it aged quite well. I couldn't help shake the creepy feeling there was something unearthly at the edges of our world.
- markus_zhang 1y agoThanks. I need to listen to this. HPL has a distinct "smell" that none of his contemporaries can match. Somehow his stories sometimes give me shivers.
- LarsLarson 1y agoThe Bobiverse series is a top notch sci-fi audiobook with great narration. https://audiobookdb.net/series/3B5S2xAj https://audiobookdb.net/series/3B5S2xAj or if you want a single audiobook you have to listen to Project Hail Mary from the author of the Martian https://audiobookdb.net/audiobooks/Vg0f71nk https://audiobookdb.net/audiobooks/Vg0f71nk hope you enjoy these
- cpach 1y agoI’ve been listening to The Road to Serfdom by FA Hayek. It’s quite interesting.
- ktallett 1y agoBeyond the Wall was a really interesting listen about the DDR.
- msh 1y agoFor cosmic horror “a colder war” by Charlie stross is great.
- jelicicm 1y agoHaruki Murakami's What I talk about when I talk about running was a nice listen. For bonus points, listen while running obviously.
- ivape 1y agoThe Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill.
- paulcole 1y agoNo super recent but I listened to Devolution by Max Brooks (World War Z author) while trail running in the PNW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(Brooks_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution_(Brooks_novel) It's read by Judy Greer (among others) and I liked it a lot.