It could be July and not Nationwide Audiobook month however I nonetheless needed to complete up the deliberate audiobook posts I needed to rejoice final month — ya know, earlier than summer season hooked its claws into me and I ghosted my laptop computer.
A lot of my prime audiobook suggestions are full solid audiobooks. As quickly as I see audiobooks with a full solid, it’s virtually an prompt hear for me as a result of I do know it’s doubtless going to be an enticing efficiency and hear.
Particularly if its an ensamble of a few of my prime audiobook narrators or if I do know a efficiency is a full solid with sound results (just like the audio of Illuminae) or that the format is exclusive and made for a listening expertise (Daisy Jones, Sadie, and many others).
Perhaps you stumbled upon this put up and you might be like, what’s a full solid audiobook precisely in any case?
Merely put, a full solid audiobook has a number of narrators in comparison with the standard single narrator or twin narration. It’s an immersive and fascinating expertise thanks to those voice actors. Generally the manufacturing of a full solid audiobook contains sound results and the like.
What I’ve seen is that full solid audiobooks work properly for books with many characters (actually helps with holding them straight versus one narrator doing all of them), distinctive codecs (issues with interviews, letters, and many others.), or dialogue-heavy books the place it might get arduous and complicated with solely a single narrator.
A superb full solid audiobook will truthfully really feel like a film in your head in my expertise. ( Actually, typically I think about that is what it will really feel wish to have been listening to radio productions/dramas earlier than televisions).
Anyhow, I’m certain there are extra nuances to what a full solid audiobook technically is however that’s what it’s to me, in my very own expertise, as somebody who has been an avid audiobook listener for 10+ years.
So if you’re seeking to attempt an audiobook with a full solid or already a fan of them and in search of some standout full solid audiobooks, this checklist is stuffed with my favorites and the most effective experiences I’ve had.
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Finest Full Solid Audiobooks To Hear To
The Return Of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
At A Look: suspense/thriller, crime, lacking teen ladies, captivity, trauma, character examine
In the event you love an excellent suspenseful and thrilling learn, the narration solid on this one will simply up the depth for you with this one as you hear alongside to seek out out what occurred as you navigate by numerous twists and turns.
It’s about one detectives battle, in honor of her sister, to seek out lacking ladies and the story of a younger woman who has reappeared after lacking for 2 years and brings together with her an entire lot extra thriller than solutions for the detective to untangle.
A really great solid brings this one to life!!
Narrators embody Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, Nicole Lewis, Rebecca Lowman, Pleasure Osmanski, Angel Pean, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Erin Ruth Walker & CJ Wilson
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
At A Look: historic fiction, 1970’s, rock and roll, band, “behind the music” interview format
Positively probably the most fashionable full solid audiobooks on the market and for GOOD motive – the format of this books (a Behind the Music-esque oral historical past) makes it extremely suited to a listening expertise in addition to the very fact the solid is STACKED with unbelievable voices.
Not solely do you’ve gotten some television/film stars on the narration workforce however you even have a few of the finest audiobook narrators within the sport like Julia Whelan and January LaVoy.
Listening to this makes you’re feeling like you might be within the room listening in on this gritty tell-all that chronicles the rise and fall of a (fictional) band within the 1970’s.
This audiobook is truthfully so good I want two arms to let you know the quantity of individuals I personally know who initially didn’t like or put this e-book down and who LOVED it with listening to it.
Narrators embody Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber, Fred Berman, Julia Whelan, January LaVoy, Ari Fliakos, Robinne Lee, Jonathan Davis, Henry Leyva, Oliver Wyman, Nancy Wu, Arthur Bishop, P.J. Ochlan, Holter Graham, Brendan Wayne, Pete Larkin, Alex Jenkins Reid, Robert Petkoff, Sara Arrington
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A Good Lady’s Information To Homicide by Holly Jackson
At A Look: younger grownup, thriller/thriller, true crime vibes, homicide
This story grew to become much more participating because of the total solid audiobook expertise and the way in which it introduced components like interviews, case notes and different logs to life.
Generally a full solid audiobook encompasses a bunch of narrators I’ve loved however this manufacturing, aside from Michael Crouch, had been all ones I wasn’t that acquainted with. However they had been a implausible bunch!
You’ll really feel immersed on this story of a teen woman digging into and re-examining an area homicide of a highschool scholar for a college mission — particularly as she reveals some secrets and techniques and indicators main her to consider that the conclusion of the closed case was flawed.
Narrators embody Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny
The Passengers by John Marrs
At A Look: thriller, speculative fiction, techno-thriller, Black Mirror-esque
You can be giving your self extra time on the treadmill or clear your entire home listening to this one — let me let you know. Onerous to place down and so thought-provoking (one of many causes it made it on my checklist of finest e-book membership books!)
This one is ready in a future the place automobiles are absolutely self driving and a hacker will get into the methods of eight self-driving automobiles and tells the passengers all of them — besides one — are going to die.
All of this being broadcasted to the general public, all of the whereas the passengers secrets and techniques have gotten uncovered, and the general public is requested to vote on which one might be spared.
It’s action-packed and the audiobook is a implausible full solid thriller audiobook!
Narrators embody Clare Corbett, Roy McMillan, Tom Bateman, Shaheen Khan, Kristin Atherton & Endurance Tomlinson Zeller
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
At A Look: younger grownup, sci-fi, house opera, thriller, plague/virus, AI, romance, collection, blended media
I discussed this one in my checklist of finest YA audiobooks as a result of it’s an absolute standout. The blended media nature of this one was NOT misplaced (the bodily e-book is fairly cool wanting) on this manufacturing.
There are even sound results and it looks like this was made to be on audiobook fairly truthfully.
Even if you happen to aren’t usually a sci-fi reader, you may be on the sting of your seat listening to this thrilling house journey about two exes, on the run and being pursued by a hostile warship, who should discover the larger hidden reality occurring when their planet is attacked and their survival can also be being threatened by a sweeping plague and possibly even their very own spaceship AI.
Narrators embody Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Donnabella Mortel, Matthew Frow, Ryan Gesell, Sile Bermingham, Beata Pozniak, Jolene Kim, Emma Bering
The place do you get your audiobooks from?
My absolute FAVORITE audiobook service is LibroFM — a implausible various to Amazon that’s comparative in value and choice however the bonus is I get to assist native/small bookshops with my membership. In addition they have a implausible sale section that all the time has one thing I need! Take a look at my evaluate of LibroFM right here.
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
At A Look: mild suspense/thriller e-book, nation music scene, mysterious previous, aspiring singer
I wouldn’t say that is my regular sort of learn however I had heard such raves about it and I’m a Dolly Parton devotee so I gave it a attempt on audiobook figuring as a minimum it will be a decently light and straightforward e-book to take heed to whereas I did some chores.
It was precisely that and the narrators had been implausible — together with Dolly herself in addition to Kelsea Ballerini. Positively misplaced monitor of time listening to this frivolously suspenseful/mysterious story a couple of proficient woman — on the run from her previous — making an attempt to interrupt into the nation music scene in Nashville.
That facet — the nation music scene — was a standout a part of the novel to get misplaced in because of Dolly. I cherished her narration because the retired nation singer character who helps the principle character!
Narrators embody Dolly Parton, Kelsea Ballerini, James Fouhey, Kevin T. Collins, Peter Ganim, Luis Moreno, Soneela Nankani, Ronald Peet, Robert Petkoff, Ella Turenne, Emily Woo Zeller
Sadie by Courtney Summers
At A Look: younger grownup, thriller/thriller, revenge, true crime, crime podcast, street journey
Among the finest full solid audiobooks on this checklist — an ensemble of one thing like 30 narrators (I didn’t depend them however it’s loads) lead by two narrators I really like an entire lot in Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner.
The podcast format chapters work so properly in audiobook format and Rebecca Soler has you behind the wheel proper alongside Sadie as she hunts for solutions and justice in her sister’s murders.
Narrators embody Dan Bittner, Rebecca Soler, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman and extra!
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One Of Us Is Lifeless by Jeneva Rose
At A Look: thriller, scandal, revenge, Determined Housewives-esque, Wealthy Individuals Behaving Badly
In the event you love soapy thrillers or loved Huge Little Lies/Determined Housewives, it is a must-listen. Tremendous addictive and nice solid!
It facilities round a gaggle of wealthy ladies within the ultra-wealthy neighborhood of Buckhead (plus proprietor of the preferred salon on the town) when the unofficial Queen of Buckhead falls from grace when her politician husband dumps her for a youthful girl – an act that has her plotting out revenge.
The story unfolds by the attitude of some ladies — the taken down queen bee, the youthful girl, the lady who has been ready for the queen bee’s downfall and would do no matter it takes to get to the highest and a salon proprietor who holds everybody’s secrets and techniques — and by the tip somebody might be useless.
Narrators embody Elizabeth Evans, Brittany Pressley, Cassandra Campbell, Andi Arndt & Hillary Huber
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The Remaining Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
At A Look: historic fiction, oral historical past format, music, Afropunk, 1970’s
I used to be each craving one thing just like Daisy Jones and the Six but in addition nervous that it will really feel like a gimmick or too just like Daisy with the identical “oral historical past/Behind the Music” format.
Let me let you know — I’m glad I made a decision to choose this one up as a result of it satiated that eager for one thing comparable with not one of the issues I used to be nervous about. Positively take heed to this one on audiobook for a similar causes — the total solid and the format actually work.
You’ll simply want Opal was an actual reside musician and slip proper into the gritty music scene that she inhabits however as a Black girl. Numerous issues to consider along with being tremendous entertained.
Narrators embody Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, André De Shields, Dennis Boutsikaris, Steve West, Gabra Zackman
The Solely Airplane within the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
At A Look: non-fiction, 9/11/, oral historical past
Oof — this e-book broke me truthfully and listening to it much more so.
I used to be actually reluctant to learn/take heed to this e-book since I keep in mind that day very clearly and its been seared into my mind much more within the years to come back with footage and tales and such.
It’s a solid of 45 folks taking us by the day (from all angles) because it unfolded — informed from begin to end by folks’s firsthand tales who lived it — and utilizing some never-before-published paperwork, transcripts, interviews, and many others.
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
At A Look: younger grownup, homicide thriller, prep faculty setting, darkish academia vibes, system racism, privilege
I flew by this one — partly because of the compelling thriller unfolding however an enormous half because of the fantastically participating full solid expertise from the narrators to the sound results!
I can not suggest this on audiobook sufficient — even if you happen to don’t usually go for YA books. It’s quick and also you’ll fly by this thriller. Considered one of my favourite YA audiobooks for teenagers or adults.
It’s about three teen boys who should come collectively to analyze the homicide of their principal at their elite (and really strict) prep faculty to be able to clear their names as they’ve been pinned because the three greatest suspects.
Narrators embody: Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Christopher Hampton, Eliana Marianes, Hannah Church, Henriette Zoutomou, Jaime Lincoln Smith, Maria Liatis, Renier Cortes, Suehyla El-Attar & Xenia Willacey
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The Visitor Checklist by Lucy Foley
At A Look: homicide thriller, distant setting, marriage ceremony, locked room thriller trope (however on an island!!)
If you’re in search of a homicide thriller, I actually loved this audiobook expertise with a full solid (stuffed with great Irish accents!).
The alternating views and revelations every POV convey work so properly with the ensemble of narrators and made it a tough take heed to press pause — I couldn’t assist however get swept up within the environment of the island and the suspense because the thriller unfolded when a useless physique exhibits up at a weekend marriage ceremony on a distant island off coast of Eire.
Narrators embody Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens & Wealthy Keeble
Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
At A Look: brief story assortment, Indigenous Latinx Ladies centered, American West
I’m not a brief story assortment woman — I’ve to be upfront about this — however this assortment is without doubt one of the few that I actually cherished. I can not suggest this assortment sufficient — the narrators for every story are implausible and it actually fits having a full solid of narrators for the tales.
Heartbreaking, lovely, highly effective — only a nice assortment of tales about (largely) working class ladies, household, trauma, connection and extra!
Narrators embody Almarie Guerra, Roxana Ortega, Alma Cuervo, Ana Isabel, Kyla Garcia, Marisol Ramirez
The Quiet Tenant by Clemence Michallon
At A Look: gradual burn psychological thriller, serial killer, captivity, small city setting
I had this one on my checklist to learn this 12 months when it got here out however I grew to become much more thinking about it when somebody described it “if Luke from Gilmore Ladies was a serial killer and Lorelei was a bar proprietor/bartender” and I stated IMMEDIATELY YES.
The story is informed from the attitude of a number of feminine narrators — three ladies in his life presently and a brief perspective of all his victims he’s killed.
The construction of how this story unfolds makes the suspense and pulse-pounding moments rise with a quickness — much more so on audiobook with a full solid.
Positively try this gripping and darkish story a couple of serial killer (who simply occurs to be the image good household man elevating a daughter after his spouse dies) and the three ladies orbiting closest to him — his teen daughter, the lady he’s held captive for a few years who’s making an attempt to outlive and an area girl who has been crushing on him.
Narrators embody Gilli Messer, Elena Rey, Valerie Rose Lohman, Amber Battaglia, Reba Buhr, Clémence Michallon, Jess Nahikian, Aure Nash, Milly Sanders, Sara Sheckells & Yu-Li Alice Shen
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Look Each Methods by Jason Reynolds
At A Look: center grade, up to date, reasonable fiction
I’m not a giant reader of center grade fiction however I AM an enormous fan of Jason Reynolds. I’m so glad I listened to this brief but memorable center grade fiction novel.
This one isn’t a lot a novel however separate vignettes — that weave collectively superbly on the finish – because it follows 10 center faculty college students and a block of their stroll house as soon as faculty lets out.
An awesome little hear — would make a pleasant street journey audiobook when you’ve got children on this age vary but in addition wish to take heed to one thing GREAT that you just as an grownup will take pleasure in.
Narrators embody Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin, Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Man Lockard, January LaVoy, Jason Reynolds, Adenrele Ojo & David Sadzin
Full Solid Audios In My Queue To Hear To
These books aren’t one I’ve personally listened to but however that I’ve added to my very own audiobook queue to take heed to in some unspecified time in the future due to good issues I’ve heard.
There, There by Tommy Orange
At A Look: literary fiction, Indigenous characters, vignette storytelling, character-driven
This one has been on my TBR for some time however it was listening to reward for Wandering Stars (half prequel, half sequel to this e-book) and its full solid made me add this to my checklist after seeing it additionally had a pleasant solid of narrators.
It follows twelve characters from completely different Native communities — all coping with their very own issues and trying to find one thing — as they journey to the Huge Oakland Powwow the place they’ll discover themselves related in methods they didn’t anticipate.
Narrators embody Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo & Kyla Garcia
Lincoln within the Bardo by George Saunders
At A Look: historic fiction, literary fiction, father/son relationship, loss, grief
A completely star-studded audio manufacturing so I’ve little question it’s great expertise to take heed to. There’s one thing like 150 narrators on this one which is sensible when you realize the setup of the e-book.
It’s about Abraham Lincoln and him grieving the lack of his younger son — with a refrain of narrators which are ghosts within the graveyard which are interspersed with historic accounts associated to the connection between the daddy/son in addition to the time round his loss of life.
Narrators embody George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Lena Dunham, Invoice Hader, Kirby Heyborne, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller , Rainn Wilson, Jeffrey Tambor, Kat Dennings and extra!
Florence Adler Swims Perpetually by Rachel Beanland
At A Look: historic fiction, household drama, character pushed
I really like an excellent household drama and I’ve heard such great issues about this one — particularly the audiobook.
“Over the course of 1 summer season that begins with a stunning tragedy, three generations of the Adler household grapple with heartbreak, romance, and the burden of household secrets and techniques.”
Narrators embody Jonathan Davis, Tim Paige, Carly Robins, Jonathan Todd Ross, Tara Sands, Jesse Vilinsky, Gabra Zackman & Rachel Beanland
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The Chilly Hundreds of thousands by Jess Walter
At A Look: literary fiction, historic, brothers, early 1900’s, labor rights
It’s about vagabond two brothers who, on the flip of the century, are in search of work and discover themselves caught up in a battle for change.
Narrators embody Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Eire, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortego, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston & Frankie Corzo
Lovely Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
At A Look: historic fiction, The Nice Gatsby retelling, feminist
A contemporary, feminist retelling of The Nice Gatsby from the attitude of three ladies – Daisy, Jordan and Catherine. Most everybody accepts that Jay Gatsby’s loss of life was a murder-suicide aside from one detective who finds a diamond hairpin by the pool.
The story provides us extra to every part that occurred main as much as that summer season plus the investigation after his homicide.
Plus 3 of my most beloved narrators — Julia Whelan, Cassandra Campbell and Brittany Pressley.
Narrators embody Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan, Elizabeth Evans, Brittany Pressley & George Newbern
How Excessive We Go In The Darkish by Sequoia Nagamatsu
At A Look: science fiction, literary fiction, plague/virus, for followers of Station Eleven
This was on my radar as a result of it touted “for followers of Station Eleven”, which is certainly one of my favourite books ever, and different readers have stated it lives as much as that declare fairly properly!
It chronicles the aftermath, by the tales of various folks affected, of an historical virus that will get unleashed on the world when a workforce of Arctic researches makes a discovery within the melting permafrost.
Narrators embody Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, MacLeod Andrews, Jeanne Sakata, Greg Watanabe, Kurt Kanazawa, Matthew Bridges, Kotaro Watanabe, Brianna Ishibashi, Joe Knezevich, Micky Shiloah, Stephanie Komure & Jason Culp
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
At A Look: fantasy, magic, books, underground universe, secret societies
In the event you like books about books/readers and love immersive fantastical experiences, test this one out!
After stumbling upon a mysterious e-book that mirrors his life, a grad college students searches for solutions to how his story grew to become recorded. Clues lead him on an journey that leads him to a secret society and an entire new underground world (and goal).
Narrators embody Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Bahni Turpin, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Corduner, Jorjeana Marie
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