# Recommend some stuff from Audible.com
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 20, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155 "2002-06-20T22:56:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/1 "2002-06-20T22:56:17Z")
I have a membership there that lets me download 2 audio books per month, but I never know what to pick.
I prefer fiction, hate romance, hate westerns…
(btw, they have a pretty cool deal–if you sign up for a year you get a free mp3 player that will play your audio books 😃 I’d post the link that gives me a commission for this but I think I’d get in trubble. Heh. Anyway, it’s a good deal, I got my player about 4 days after signing up!)
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### Author:  [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/2 "2002-06-21T01:59:07Z")
I’d go with “The Day of the Jackal” by Frederick Forsyth.
I would have picked Harry Turtledove’s alternate-history novels, but they don’t have any. ☹
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### Author:  [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/3 "2002-06-21T03:36:03Z")
Are you familiar with [**This American Life**](http://www.thislife.org/pages/audible.html)? It’s a weekly public radio show that’s addictively entertaining. Each show has a mixture of fiction & non-fiction stories on the same theme. I know you said you were mainly interested in fiction, but this show has such compelling stories that even the true-life stories come across like a well-written story.
I’m not sure if **TAL** is covered under your 2-free per month deal. But if you aren’t already a regular listener to the radio show, download a couple & give it a try!
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### Author:  [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/4 "2002-06-21T04:34:54Z")
I second This American Life. It’s frankly the only reason I own an audible.com-ready device. The show’s just incredible.
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### Author:  [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/5 "2002-06-21T04:38:27Z")
actually, specific eps to look out for:
“Christmas and Commerce” - I think that’s the one, anyway. It has incredibly funny stories by David Sedaris (The Santaland Diaries) and David Rakoff (Christmas Freud).
“The Friendly Man” - all segments are by Scott Carrier in this ep. They tend to be of the more sobering type, rather than the lighthearted humor of my other suggestion, but it’s a great ep and Carrier’s book – Running After Antelope – is, right now, my favorite book; this episode contains probably a third to a half of the stories from that book.
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### Author:  [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-stuff-from-audible-com/115155/6 "2002-06-21T13:11:29Z")
If you like political satire, check out _Why Not Me?_ by Al Franken. Very funny. 🙂