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My number one use of audiobooks is bedtime, and I mostly stick to not-too-complex fantasy novels and series that I probably wouldn't read at all in text. Most science fiction can be a little hard to follow on audio, and anything literary with complex prose is going to be tough. What works best for me are stories with lots of dialogue and action and not a lot of analysis, exposition or contemplation.
My current listen is a bit of a departure: C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series. As audio only it might be hard to follow, just due to all the alien names and words and the narrator's constant mulling over alien politics. I imagine A Song of Ice and Fire would be difficult on audio for the same reasons. Alternating between audio and text, however, both become easier to follow and I find my experience of the story doesn't change much between the two media--I find no difference between passages I've read versus passages I've listened to.
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