Footnote:

Audible is great; I don't particularly think it's equivalent to reading, but it's something. For the deadheads and fiction to pass the hours, there's nothing better.

Best advice: Listen to the "sample" first. A top notch narrator can make a huge difference.

Good narrators will narrate literally hundreds of books. Make them come alive.

If you follow a series (Mystery, Military fiction, History, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, etc.), you'd be surprised how much swapping out the narrator makes a difference.

It's like tv/movies that switch out the actor for the series. WTF just happened?

(For an Audible rec: Derek Perkins....the historical stuff, not the bodice rippers. Your interests may vary. Not here to judge. On this thread, anyway.)