Need an audiobook rec

[Zebra]

for a 16 year old, me and DH.    

I'm lost.   It was easier when I could pick out kid lit.

I am trying to pick out something interesting for all of us, but not too inappropriate or graphic.  

FWIW we have been watching "This is Us" as a family.   We have been enjoying it, but it's at the edge of the type of content DH is comfortable with watching with DD.

Any genre.

Any suggestions?  

 

[PrincessMommy]

I just finished listening to "The Coroner's Lunch" and enjoyed it.  It's set in 1970's Laos right after the war.  It is a mystery.  It gave me a little glimpse into another time and culture as well as having interesting characters.  

The Bartimaeus series is good.  I especially liked the first one.  

True Grit.  It is a little gritty but not sexual.   It is really a great book.

The Book Thief 

Far From the Madding Crowd

Persuasian

E=MC 2 (can't make the squared): The Biography of the Worlds most Famous Equation. 

Cry, Beloved County -  great audio.  There's two audio versions.  I can't remember which one is the better narrator.  One narrator isn't so great.

Gilbert Cunningham series by McIntosh - it's a light mystery set in medieval England. 

Anything by Wodehouse - Wooster and Jeeves series. 

 

Can't wait to see what others suggest.  I'm hitting a dry spell right now.

 

Edited June 11, 2020 by PrincessMommy

[Ottakee]

Michelle Obama's Becoming was a great audio book I listened to with my daughter .

Another one great for discussion and thinking is The Coddling of the American Mind.   

 

[Hen]

I am listening to Harley Merlin series right now, it's pretty good, teen/young adult centered, about Magics.   Clean, kind of Harry Potterish.  Interesting characters, more than one point of view starting in book 2, I'm on book 3 right now.

I am also enjoying Breakthrough - think Tom Clancy adventure but with more interesting personable characters that you grow to care for, a bit of romance, but clean, no scenes, dolphins!!! and a small bit of alien life.  You get the Tom Clancy -special forces/ tough guy & intrigue, but also science, space mystery and some romance. It's clean, but there might be some cuss words. I think I'm on book 4 of that series.  I think there is cussing, but not a lot, not enough that it bothered me.

Artemis Fowl series of course! A middle school target audience I think, but my husband loved listening to these, the narrator is incredible!! The movie is about to come out, too. We listened to these on vacation trips as a family.

My youngest daughter and I listened to the Raven boys series together and really enjoyed it. It's probably aimed at teens and a bit more edgy, I think the teens might cuss a lot-enough to not want to listen with young kids in the car, but it's clean romance-wise. It's got fantasy, magic, dark magic, dreams, mystery and characters you love, some old english mythology, Latin!

 

[Kareni]

Assuming that profane language is acceptable, I'd suggest The Martian by Andy Weir. 

Regards,

Kareni

[Garga]

I’m listening to Jurassic Park, free on youtube.  🙂  Even though I’ve seen the movie a bunch of times, it’s still fun to listen to it. 

[Zebra]

Thanks for all the thoughts!