I really like John Darnielle's three novels–reads his own audiobooks w/ a great cadence, all about people attempting to come to terms with trauma and terror and history, the latest also a kind of extended meditation on true crime and landlordism.
i was really enjoying the audiobook for braiding sweetgrass, but also small game by blair braverman, fifteen dogs, and my heart is a chainsaw... watership down was great to revisit. stephen king is very listenable, too. & i rec criminal if you want a "true crime" podcast that isn't true crimey
And my only rec for fiction podcasts is The Silt Verses, which is like a new-weird religious horror pilgrimage thing. There are crabs and war crimes. I’ve never known how to describe it but I love it to bits.
Behind the Bastards, Cool People who did Cool Stuff, and Sixteenth Minute (of fame) with Jaimie Loftus (any of her shows tbh) are my regular non-fiction/current event/pop culture rotations
these all sound great, and i love behind the bastards! i usually do nonfiction audiobooks and forget i can just...listen to the fiction i keep meaning to get to
The King James Virgin is an old abandoned podcast where two raised-Christian friends tell Bible stories to their raised-atheist friend who has never heard them. It’s incredibly funny and highlights the absurdity of the book.
Ursula K Le Guin’s The Dispossessed is easier to digest as an audiobook bc it’s such a chewy text to begin with. Gideon the Ninth works great because the dialogue is very snappy. Robert Evans’ After the Revolution is read by himself and has music and sound effects and is just lovely.
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