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I have an audible credit I'd like to burn but don't want to waste it on a book I won't finish

I mostly listen to nonfiction books on there but am open to literally any suggestions

Are there any good ones on there you'd recommend?

>> No.20005535

>>20005483
IIRC Green eggs and ham by Dr. Seuss is read by Jason Alexander.
I'm not even joking, that's gotta be worth a look.

>> No.20005707

>>20005535
Great thanks, this one and only recommendation I've received is worse than I could've possibly imagined

>> No.20006677

All around good thread

>> No.20006874

>>20005483
monte cristo, it’s very plot focused and that’s a lot of bang for your buck .

>> No.20006884

>>20005483
I really enjoyed listening to Waterland by Graham Swift

>> No.20006890

>>20005483
Any of those books that should really just be an extended op-ed or magazine article. Like Malcolm Gladwell or Nassim Taleb type books.

>> No.20007400

>>20005483
denial of death

>> No.20007407

>>20007400
>>20006884
Ty

>> No.20007438

>>20005483
alain de botton how proust can change your life

thank me later

>> No.20007508

Can you narrow it down some? What type of nonfiction do you read?

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20007523

>>20005483
This thread sucks.

Get yourself an expensive one cheap with the credit. Rig Veda was $60, but it's taken me a year to get close to finishing. I finished a lot of medical books like Grain Brain shortly.
Salt Fat Acid Heat was hard to follow because I was learning so much so I just read it instead.
The Advent of the Algorithm was the most didactic but painful and poorly written.

>> No.20007551

Hows about you read a whole bunch of shitcoin books

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20007589

If you like scifi this is 85 hours long. Worth a credit I think.

>> No.20007605

>>20005483
Find a good book you like by a narrator you can enjoy on librivox for free and then find the same book on audible and spend your credit there

>> No.20007642

>>20007589
I'm more of a fan of the sci-fi masterpieces of the In the Black trilogy by Patrick S. Tomlinson

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20007873

I like dry political nonfiction so maybe try something like picrel

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20007879

>>20005483
I'm not usually a fan of audiobooks, but picrel was riveting.

>> No.20007950

>>20007879
Is hamms

>> No.20007955

>>20007873
Wow it's 66 hours