I can recommend "The Realm of the Elderlings" audiobooks. James Langton has a British accent and it's just wonderful to listen to. He does voices for other characters fairly well too. Great book series too.
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Pretty much all major books are published as audiobooks as well. Even ones that have computer code written in them, which is not something that you'd ever expect to have read out loud.
It used to be that books would be "narrated for the blind" where not a lot of attention would be put into the audio. Nowadays, there tends to be a lot more effort put into them. I suppose that's because they don't need to be packaged as 12 to 20 cassette tapes or CDs any longer.
There's the added element that a narrator can ruin or improve things. The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is a wonderful book, but the narrator displays an unprofessionally slim knowledge of physics.
Then there's World War Z. I'm not sure that there's a better way to tell that story than the audio book. It's the exact interview style that the author intended.
Orson Scott Card really likes audio books, so the Ender's Game series is really good.
Discworld is my go-to these days. Goes well with cross stitching
In contrast I would never want to listen to a Terry Pratchett book while doing something else
Ah well. Sarah J. Maas was also a fun experience. It's so bad it's good. I went with A court of thorns and roses but I hear her other series follow a similar vein. It's hard to miss the important details. Look for the Graphic Audio releases.
Pratchett has the highest rate of "that whole paragraph was great so I'm going to read it again now" and "that's such a clever remark I'm now taking 5 minutes to think about it" out of any other authors I've ever read.
And you can do cross stiching whilst listening to it? I'm jealous. Thanks for the other recommendation, I'll look into it :)
What other authors have high clever-remark ratings, in your experience? Because I find myself near the end of the Discworld series and want to continue with something similarly engaging. Basically, the opposite of what you requested :)
Ah, I feel for you, but unfortunately I don't know of anyone else as engaging in a similar way. He really is an outlier.
Have you ever read anything by Joe Abercrombie? I've enjoyed the Last Argument of Kings trilogy, it's not humorous, it's not as thought provoking, but it's definitely engaging enough I couldn't divide my attention to work while listening.
I always recommend Diskworld