Convenience of AUDIOBOOKS

In the past I used to listen to music or radio, relatively not long time ago I’ve discovered the beauty of audiobooks.  Finding the opportunity and time to read a paper book can be challenging while listening to an audiobook is very convenient, relaxing, and educational. When listening to an audiobook I can do many things, I can clean, cook, shop, walk, bike, or patiently wait in a line if necessary. That way I don’t feel like I’m wasting time or neglecting my duties.

I often reach for the classic writers. See my list below.

Russian:

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Karamazov Brothers, The Idiot, The Gambler

Nicolai Gogol: Dead Souls, The Government Inspector, The Marriage, The Overcoat, The Nose, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Petersburg Tales, Taras Bulba,

Alexander Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, The Quin of Spades, Dubrovsky, The Captain’s Daughter, Boris Godunov

Anton Chekhov: Kashtanka (a beautiful story for kids), Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita, A Country Doctor's Notebook, The Fatal Eggs, Heart of a Dog

Vladimir Nabokov: Mashenka (1924), King, Queen, Knave (1928), The Defense (1930), Lolita (1955), The Gift (1938), Ada (1969), The Original of Laura (published uncompleted long after his death, 2008) 

British:

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield,  Oliver Twist, Bleak House,  A Christmas Carol 

George Orwell: novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and the autobiographical Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

Joseph Conrad (Joseph Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), a Polish-British writer: Victory (1915), Nostromo (1904), Heart of Darkness (1902), The Shadow-Line (1917), The Secret Agent (1907) Lord Jim (1900), The Secret Sharer (1912), Typhoon (1902)

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, 1 Henry IV, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, King John

Roald Dahl (inventive and extremely funny kids’ books): James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The BFG, Witches, Matilda

Beatrix Potter for the children books with own drawings:  The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901), The Tailor of Gloucester (1903), The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903), and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)

Alan Alexander Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh

Virginia Woolf with her innovative point of view for her lifetime period, extreme feminist

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series

French:

Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame de Paris, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (831;), Les Misérables (1862)

Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1845-1846), Queen Margot (1845), The Black Tulip (1850), The Queen's Necklace (1849-1850), The Two Dianas (1846)

Albert Camus: The Plague (1952), The Stranger (1942), The Fall (1958), The First Man (1958)

American:

Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (19290, For Whom the Bells Talls (1940), The Old Man and The Sea (1952) 

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi, Pudd'nhead Wilson

Other Nationalities

Italian - Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (1980), Foucault's Pendulum (1988), The Island of the Day Before (1994), Baudolino (2000), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004), The Prague Cemetery (2010), Numero Zero (2015), How to Travel with a Salmon (1992)

Czech - Franz Kafka:  The Metamorphosis (1915), The Judgment (1912), The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927), The Great Wall of China (1931)

Brazilian - Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (1988), Veronika Decides to Die (1998), The Pilgrimage (1987), Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Winner Stands Alone (2008), The Devil and Miss Prym (2009), Eleven Minutes (2003), Brida (1990), By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

Canadian - Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables series, Emily trilogy, Pat of Silver Bush, The Story Girl, Stand-alone novels: Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910), The Blue Castle (1926), Magic for Marigold (1929), A Tangled Web (1931), Jane of Lantern Hill (1937) 

Danish: Hans Christian Andersen best remembered for his fairy tales

Finnish - Tove Marika Jansson: Moomin books

Swedish - Astrid Lindgren: best known for several children's book series, Pippi Longstocking, Emil and Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children (Children of Noisy Village in the US) and The Brothers Lionheart (one of the most widely read and beloved books for children in Sweden)

Spanish-language Writers:

Miguel de Cervantes (Spain): Don Quixote of La Mancha

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia): One Hundred Years of Solitude 

Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru): The Time of The Hero

Julio Cortazar (Argentina): Don’t blame anyone and The Continuity of The Parks

Isabel Allende (Chile): The House of Spirits

I also want to recommend three memoirs. 

They left a very strong impression on me:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

Escape from Camp 14 about Shin Dong-hyuk, narrated by Blaine Harden

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls