1. Les Miserables -- read by Bill Homewood, after this will move on to Mr. Homewood's recordings for The Count of Monte Cristo and then Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, the funniest book I know of.
2. Our Oriental Heritage -- read by Robin Field, followed briskly with the next in this series The Story of Greece and so on, there's 11 volumes here I must get through by the end of this year with 6 full months left, these can be pretty lengthy too!! 17 hrs left as of May 15 afternoon at 1.7x Robin's narration needs to be sped up.
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy read by Peter Wickham, who also does many other great stuff, but his Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler will be the follow up.
4. Plutarch's Moralia read by Matthew Lloyd Davies, people usually like his biographies, but I tend to like these applicable essays better.
5. Augustine's City of God read by Mark Meadows, followed by other classic Christian works.
6. Swann's Way read by Neville Jason followed by the rest of Marcel Proust's great work Remembrance of Things Past.
7. Don Quixote read by George Guidall for some reason I can only listen to it on the app, on these rare occasions audible removes books you purchased, I don't want to make a big deal out of it though, this is such a great listen, it's actually funny and is a strong contender to Rabelais for the funny awards, but it's so much more than comedy, it's a masterpiece of characterizations, how characters grow together, you get such a palpable sense of them.
8. Salem's Lot read by Ron McLarty, almost done this but don't want to rush it, followed by other big hits by Stephen King, but more or less just the good recordings of his most classic hits.
9. The Shards read by the author Bret Easton Ellis, followed by all his other books.
10. The Woman in White read by Ian Holm, Wilkie Collins smash breakthrough from a subscription freebie, I must needs be listening to at least one of those per month to make my subscription fee worth it, focusing mostly on these classic 19th century novels.
June predictions
Clarissa -- a mammoth epistolary classic in 3 long volumes!!
