I finished Ivanhoe and loved it. issybird, I can especially see why you were annoyed with that pronunciation since it's probably the most-mentioned name in the book.
Next, I listened to The American Senator by Anthony Trollope and narrated by Flo Gibson. She wasn't my first or even tenth choice as narrator, but she was my only choice. I won't recommend her narration as it's perfunctory, but while not a glowing compliment the steady gait of it at least lets one focus on the story as long as one can overlook some atrocious character accents. Upon a little investigation into why she was the only choice, I found that she dedicated decades to narrate books that many of which were previously unrecorded. So for that I'm grateful as it did give me the ability to listen to this in audiobook. I had previously listened to her narrate Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and her voice was perfect for that, but even then I noticed the flat narration.
Now I'm onto Saki. First up is The Chronicles of Clovis which I'm currently almost finished listening to as narrated by Ian Richardson, star of the original UK House of Cards among other credits. I'm enjoying his extremely florid narration of this.
Next up will be another Saki, Beasts and Super-Beasts. I would go with Richardson again as narrator if such a thing existed but it doesn't seem to. So it will be with Cathy Dobson whom I don't think I've listened to before, but I like the sample of her narration too. This may be a first for me as it will be interesting listening to (and comparing and contrasting) two different narrations of the same author back to back.
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
You should try Tana French. This series has excellent writing. I have read pbook/ebook formats. I haven’t tried the audiobooks so can’t comment on the narration quality.
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All right, I'll have to move French up my tbr!