I would love some audiobook recommendations. Narrative nonfiction is best for me, I find it hard to follow novels on audio. I especially love stuff about Quirky history, white collar crime, people in extreme geographic places or weather conditions who almost die. I know I’m weird
Extra points, if the narrator has a British, Scottish, or Irish accent. And anything over 20 or so hours is probably a no go.
@TessaDare The Seashell on the Mountaintop. The discovery of geology itself, the birth of empirical science (or one wave of it), religion, and more, all wrapped in a time jumping format (IIRC). Even my kids found it fascinating as tweens when trapped in the car listening to it 😂
@TessaDare You should go look Sharon says so’s book recs on Instagram she has a ton of recommended books that are narrative nonfiction and sound interesting. Some have to be audiobooks!
@TessaDare Greg Jenner, Dead Famous. Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts.
@TessaDare WWII history title that fits "quirky" to a t: OPERATION MINCEMEAT by Ben Macintyre.
@TessaDare Another, a true crime, GREAT story, The Murder Of the Century by Paul Collins. A Gilded Age NYC murder and the competition between 2 major NYC newspaper publishers, and the NYC police, to find the killer.
@TessaDare Admittedly, I read it so I can’t really recommend the audiobook, but I’m sure it is also great, so: Improbable Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger. It’s a little known history of playwright Beaumarchais and how he saved the American Revolution. I loved it.
@TessaDare There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll, about a 1984 IRA assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang, about Catherine de Medici, Elisabeth of Valois and Mary Queen of Scots
@TessaDare Double posting because I forgot “Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap” by David Roberts.