Do You Like Listening to Authors Narrate Their Own Books?

As many of my longtime blog followers already know, I love listening to audiobooks! 

I love listening to audiobooks for a variety of reasons. Audiobooks are great to listen to while commuting medium distances or during longer trips too. I enjoy listening to audiobooks while doing other activities like while I'm taking walks alone, eating meals alone, or doing other simple activities that do not require a lot of attention. Also, as I've grown older small print is more difficult to read due to aging eyes even with progressive lenses in my prescription eyeglasses... Additionally, I have an ongoing issue in my left eye that causes some issues occasionally in terms being able to read clearly. 

So, audiobooks have become my 'go to' way of reading these days the majority of the time. It just makes life easier and I've also come to enjoy the audiobook format immensely. In fact, everything I've read this year (so far!!) has been in audiobook format. I've listened to 12 books this year already.

Narrators are one of the key factors that make for a great experience when it comes to listening to audiobooks. There are some great narrators out there whom I love listening to when it comes to audiobooks. But today, I'm not going to focus on the topic of professional audiobook narrators. Instead, I am going to focus on authors whom have chosen to narrate their own books. 

Personally, I've discovered that not all authors make good narrators! However, I have had some great experiences with listening to authors narrator their own books. 

Below is a shortlist of audiobooks I've listened to over the years that have been well narrated by the author themselves. I am sure there are many other audiobooks narrated by the authors themselves I've enjoyed, but decided to stick with a shorter list of books vs a longer list of books!

The Seas by Samantha Hunt

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson

The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal

Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

The Professor & the Madman by Simon Winchester

Share with me in the comment section which audiobooks narrated by the author have you enjoyed listening too!!