asking for recs

Silly people.

You can’t just recommend audiobooks without giving specific recs. That’s just cruel. So recommend me something?

This would be entirely different than the books I use for erging. Don’t need action. Do need absorbing. Complicated is fine, but I’m avoiding anything like The Hunt For Red October (which my husband keeps telling me to read) because I know I’d always be wanting to flip back a few pages to check on all those Russian names, which is difficult and annoying with audiobooks.

Anything I can get on Librivox or Audible is fine. Classics, mysteries, SF, fantasy…. maybe something like a good new historical mystery?

Books I’m considering include Hardy’s Return of the Native (should be available on Librivox), anything Librivox has by Wodehouse (Adrian_turtle mentioned him and I think he would work well – unlike on the erg, funny is good – though I’ve read all the Jeeves stories, all the golf stories and a few others), Ysabeau Wilce’s Flora Dare (if Audible.com has it, because it’s not available for Kindle). Austen is out due to too many rereads. Tey is out due to being too recently read. (I think I’ve only got Privateer left to go of hers.)

Nonfiction might also be OK. I’ve recently read and enjoyed Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and I have a book or two of Jared Diamond’s (the guy who wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I enjoyed a lot) on the Kindle ready to be read. So not those, but something of their ilk might be good.

Ideas?