My wife and I joke that we’ll listen to anything read by Scott Brick. He mostly does sci-fi. I also enjoy Simon Vance — he has done a bunch of the Aubrey-Maturin and then did the Temeraire books, which are a similar story but with dragons. It felt great to hear it all in the Queen’s English.
When I started with audiobooks, I thought I would only listen to memoirs read by their authors. And those were good experiences — Maya Angelou, Obama. But… as I’ve tried to listen to more genres, “read by author” has sometimes been a dealbreaker. Some people just don’t have the skills and others have voices that grate over time.
Yeah, I usually just say I read them. I don’t listen to anything that requires intense concentration or footnotes. It’s been an experiment over time. I’m honestly still a little embarrassed by it all but it helps me read so many books that I wouldn’t have had time to read otherwise… so I can’t say I regret it.