With so many audio books available for download, it can be difficult to know which audio book you should listen to next. The below list of recommended audio books are my personal favorites. Each audio book is available for download from Audible, the world’s largest provider of digital audio books. I feel confident recommending these audio books because not only did I love them, but they have excellent reviews and ratings on Audible.
Recommended Audio Books – Fiction
A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore
Duma Key – Stephen King
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
The Green Mile – Stephen King
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Kill Alex Cross – James Patterson
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
Under the Dome – Stephen King
Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen
World Without End – Ken Follett
Recommended Audio Books – Non-Fiction
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction – David Sheff
Bossypants – Tina Fey
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis
Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion – Gary Vaynerchuk
Freakonomics: Revised Edition – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Ghost in the Wires – Kevin Mitnick
The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain
Life – Keith Richards
Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Stones Into Schools – Greg Mortenson
Stories I Only Tell My Friends – Rob Lowe
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures – Malcolm Gladwell
When You Are Engulfed In Flames – David Sedaris
If you do decide to download any of the above audio books from Audible, be sure to look into the Audible Gold Membership. This membership plan is a very economical way to listen to audio books, and currently has two special introductory offers: either you can download one free audio books as part of a free 14-day trial, or you can download an audio book for $7.49 per month for the first three months.