The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next series, book 1), by Jasper Fforde; crime, fantasy; 384 pages (about 8 hours, listening)
I missed this book when it first came out (to be fair, I wasn't in LibraryLand yet), and I've been meaning to come back to it for some time. Of course, now that I've read it, I'm hooked. Fforde's world is unique, and I've loved Jane Eyre for years, so the combination of altered physics, time travel, literature, and a machine to let people enter books makes this a great read. There's also the subplot about the authorship of Shakespeare's works that plays out beautifully at the end. I listened to this on CD, and I thought the reader did a great job: she's British, so her accent was good match, but she also handled the other accents in the book really well. I hope she continues in the rest of the series.
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