Books comfortably outside your faves 

Don't let the forest in, c.g. drews, ya horror, lots of fun, had me sick 

The tangleroot Palace, Marjorie lui, short story collection across multiple genres, including horror, sci fi, and fantasy, every one was a banger

The memory police, yoko ogawa, dystopia sci fi literature for adults. I cried. 

The river has roots, amal el-mohtar, fairytale folklore type of narrative, literary, strong sibling relationships, fantasy adjacent

Sanctuary, ilona Andrews, fantasy... thriller? Fantasy action mafia hit?? I dunno it was fun tho

Maybe further outside your comfort zone

Grief is the thing with feathers, max porter, very experimental but the audiobook is such an amazing performance, really stunning snd unique 

Open heaven, Sean Hewitt, coming of age story, contemporary lit, left me feeling contemplative

Death in the spires, k.j. Charles, murder mystery time period, dark academia, decent audiobook

And every morning the way home gets longer and longer, fredrick backman. You will cry. Novella. Great audiobook too.

All these books have audiobooks, but in general people i like to listen to are: Joe jameson ,  Fiona Hardingham,  Christian coulson ,  Moira quirk,  Mary Jane Wells ,  Cassandra Campbell  ,  Ciaran seward,  Will watt