Bloody brilliant! I ended up listening to things I would never have picked up off the shelf in book form, the narrator can bring a book to life and I don’t remember being disappointed by any particular narrators, one does develop a preference for particular voices though.
And to illustrate how varied and wide the books I listened to were:
The Alchemist ~ Paul Coelho (by Jeremy Irons)
The Fall – Simon Mawer
Diary of an Ordinary Woman – Margaret Forster
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
The Shooting Party – Isabel Colegate
My Left Foot – Christy Brown
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
Regeneration – Pat Barker
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Border Crossing – Pat Barker
Mr. Golightly’s Holiday – Sally Vickers
Tulip Fever – Deborah Moggach
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Part of the Furniture – Mary Wesley
Coromandel Sea Change – Rumer Godden
About A Boy – Nick Hornby
A Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden
The Turning – Tim Winton
**All these audio books were sourced from a local library, at no cost (NZ).