Essential Audiobooks

[...]because top fiction authors often have many bestselling titles, votes were split among those titles. [...]there was less consensus about which title to include in the case of an author deemed essential. Essential Fiction The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans, read by Peter Coyote, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47478-6) The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, read by Derek Jacobi, Penguin Audiobooks (ISBN 0-45300774-0) The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, read by Derek Jacobi, Penguin Audiobooks (ISBN 0-14086430-X) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, read by Roses Prichard, Audio Partners (ISBN 1-572-70036-X) Runaway Jury by John Grisham, abridged read by Michael Beck, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47282-8) and unabridged read by Frank Muller, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-502069) The Partner by John Grisham, abridged read by Michael Beck, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47283-6) and unabridged read by Frank Muller, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-50207-7) The Street Lawyer by John Grisham, abridged read by Michael Beck, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47918-0) and unabridged read by Frank Muller, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-50212-3) Gone but Not Forgotten by Phillip M. Margolin, read by Michael Russotto, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47218-6) Day After Tomorrow by Alan Folsom, read by Edward Herrmann, BDD Audio (ISBN 0-553-47231-3) Vertical Run by Joseph Garber, read by Stephen Lang, BDD Audio (ISBN 0553-47407-3) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons, Random House Audiobooks (ISBN 0-679-45786-0) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, read by Joanna David, Penguin Audiobooks (ISBN 0-14-086060-6), and BBC Radio dramatization, with a cast led by Patricia Hodge, BDD Audio (ISBN 0553-47396-4) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, read by Edward Herrmann, HighBridge (ISBN 1-565-11127-3) The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield, read by Jesse Corti, Time Warner AudioBooks (ISBN 1-570-42104-8) A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, read by Judy Kaye, Random House Audiobooks (ISBN 0394-57977-1) and "the latest Sue Grafton title" (as many respondents put it). The Green Mile boxed set by Stephen King, read by Frank Muller, Penguin Audiobooks (ISBN 0-14-771135-5) Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, read by F. Murray Abraham, Random House Audiobooks (ISBN 0-67944764-4) and The Vampire Chronicles boxed set, consisting of Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, read by various readers, Random House Audiobooks (ISBN 0-679-41050-3) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, BBC Radio multi-cast dr