Audio Book Recommendations

This should keep you out of trouble for a while

The Gulag Archipelago Audiobook by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  1/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zTwS1Xy0EM
  2/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoJu1izRHU
  3/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kF7PEqZFso
  4/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsWuC8qv_Q
  5/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6HeqUyjx60
  6/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz8a03M11Bw
  7/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjGvPu2H3b8
  7.5/7.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lvztF9MVQ

As with other questions of book recommendations:

- What are you reading and why?

- Do you have an goals in reading, or is it merely entertainment / distraction?

- In the latter case, the Cheshire Cat's advice to Alice is appropriate. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-VI.html

- I'd strongly recommend keeping a reading diary or log, which includes not just book read, but books recommended or suggested, either by others or your own past reading. This can include incidental mentions within books (occasional in fiction) or footnoted or bibliographic references (nonfiction).

- Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book concludes with a list of 137 classics. Most of those should have public-domain audio versions. (His book itself is recommended reading, and an HN perennial.)

- Podcasts are another alternative to audiobooks. There are podcasts of book reviews themselves. I'm more familiar with academic ones including the New Books Network, and reviews from the LSE, Yale University, Princeton University Press, etc. Author interviews can be amongst the best available, though production quality (notably for NBN) can vary greatly.

- Long-running podcast series such as the History of Philosophy (now in Western, Indian, and African traditions, with a Chinese tradition forthcoming), or histories of Rome, Byzantium, or China, can also be illuminating. There are years-long back catalogs.

- If you have a visual or reading disability, or live with someone who does, the US Library of Congress's BARD is exceptional, and free.

- The Internet Archive, Open Library, and Libre Vox have numerous audio presentations available for download.

- You can create a library of YouTube content through downloaders such as youbtube-dl, or by streaming directly via mpv. (Both work on numerous other audio/video sites as well.)

The Murderbot Diaries is a recent series I enjoyed listening to.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diarie...

If you can stomach it, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror is a great audiobook. It is a pretty heavy listen but I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Without more parameters of your listening preferences there's no way of giving you accurate and valuable recommendations.

- Sapiens - Thinking in Systems