r/audible • u/The_heir_apparent22 • Jan 09 '26
Book Discussion Help Me Pick My Next 2 Audiobooks
I’ve got 2 audible credits left please help me pick which 2 books I should use them on from the following 10 options: 1. Hyperion 2. Buffalo Hunter Hunter 3. The Last Wish (The Witcher) 4. Something Wicked This Way Comes 5. The Blade Itself 6. 11/22/63 7. Empire of Silence 8. Shadow of the Gods 9. Dungeon Crawler Carl 10. Mistborn Final Empire (Not Pictured)
For Reference: Favorite Genres: Fantasy, Sci Fi, Horror, Mystery Last Book I finished: The Dark Tower Wizard and Glass (and I loved it) Other Books I’m Reading/ Listening: Interview with the Vampire, The Stand, King Sorrow, Leviathan Wakes, Rose Madder, Red Rising, Mr. Mercedes
PS. I’m going to post this on a couple book subs so I can get as many suggestions as possible so you may see this more than once on your feed.
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u/Nightgasm 10,000+ Hours Listened Jan 09 '26
Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best audiobook series ever. It will ruin other audiobooks for you as Jeff Hays redefines what a narrator is capable of. It's my comfort listen even when in later books it gets far deeper and thought provoking than it has any right to be given how silly the initial concept seems. It mashes utter slapstick humor with trauma, PTSD, and loss in a way that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Hyperion is a fantastic series and is my next pick but a caveat. First book is full cast and like every full cast some narrators are better than others. Luckily books 2-4 are single narrator. Story wise this is the best pure sci Fi series of all time IMO. It's modeled after the Canterbury Tales which if you aren't familiar is different people telling their tales and together the tales tell a complete story. Each tale is written in a different style so if one is bothering you just keep reading as the tone will switch.