True Epics Over 15 Hours
Oh, the Journey! Plenty o’ stops to look at the view(s).
—WOW! Here are audiobooks from authors with a LOT to say! Guaranteed to razzle with dazzle… or to juuuust miss the mark. Lemme help a good Accomplice out with some Choice(s) guaranteed to While Away Huuuuge chunks o’ time.
Amazon Classics Edition
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Translated By: Constance Garnett / Narrated By: James Anderson Foster
Length: 34 hrs and 18 mins
Soooo worth the time! Might I shout a mighty Huzzah?! but NOT for this translation…?
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
Overwhelming… Familiar…
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
A time long past with lush prose that skirts on flowery, but dude! was our hero a creep, or what?!
By: Charlotte Brontë / Narrated By: Davina Porter
Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
Loved it, but Lucy Snowe ain’t no Jane Eyre…
The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
By: James D. Hornfischer / Narrated By: Barrett Whitener
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
I. Am. GUTTED…
Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
By: James M. Scott / Narrated By: LJ Ganser
Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
AWEsome! Breathtaking! Riveting! Holy cow! …and I could go on and on and on!!!
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
By: Adam Hochschild / Narrated By: Arthur Morey
Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
AWESOME! Soooo awesome I barely noticed Arthur Morey
A Novel
By: Amor Towles / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
If you’re willing to spend decades in the life of a man, do expect a jolly listen! If you’re not, however…?
By: Miguel de Cervantes / Translated By: Edith Grossman / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 39 hrs and 37 mins
Almost 40 hours went by so very fast!
The Story of 9/11
Written and Foreword By: Mitchell Zuckoff / Narrated By: Sean Pratt
Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
An instant “classic” that tells us sooo many stories, of loss, of course, but also of those living their haunted survival
Series: Zamonia, Book 1
By: Walter Moers / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
I can see where this might be tedious in print—but in audio? Pinchot knocks this outta the park!
By: Stephen King / Narrated By: Grover Gardner
Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
THE Pandemic book! But, dude—yeh yeh yeh: Budgetary reasons for the edit, but those edits were fine and dandy…!
A Novel
By: Helen Simonson / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
First listen? Tickled pink! Second listen? Holy cow, the narration really killed it for me…!
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson / Narrated By: John Lee / Epilogue By: Erik Larson
Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
WOW! Can chaos and carnage and political machinations be good ol’ rollicking fun? YES!!!
Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
By: Sheri Fink / Narrated By: Kirsten Potter
Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
WOW! Kinda sorta leaves ya feeling like you were slugged in the gut
Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 1
By: Connie Willis / Narrated By: Jenny Sterlin
Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
THE best book ever! AND it turns out, it’s an extraordinary audiobook also!
By: Tom Wolfe / Narrated By: Dennis Quaid
Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
Uhm, whooo has the right stuff? Try Wolfe, try Quaid!!!
By: James Baldwin / Narrated By: Dion Graham
Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
Where’s an ice pick to your brain when you need one?!?
By: Guy Sajer / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
My All Time FAVORITE memoir of the war viewed from the other side!!!
By: Sarah Bird / Narrated By: Bahni Turpin
Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
The most beautiful pairing of Bird and Turpin!