You know what, I’m going to bite the bullet and say it. We’re all thinking it. The Australian accent situation in Three Holidays and a Wedding was not ideal

This is a hilarious list.

Pucking Strong by Emily Rath features the worst Swedish accent I have ever heard.

haven’t listened myself but i’ve heard that ilya’s russian accent is atrocious in the heated rivalry audiobook

I want to say, I’m super loving my current Robin Hobb trilogy (starting with Fool’s Errand) but the audiobook narrator is rough. All his female characters are awful and I think maybe he can only do a a French and Scottish accent so those are what he defaults to constantly even when it makes not sense at all. Also he’s constantly mispronouncing simple words. Like crochet (cro-shay) is not pronounced crochit 😮‍💨

i personally thought that the danish accent in The Princess Trap was done badly and gave me second hand embarrassment

If Heated Rivalry is on here, Game Changer should be too because Kip's accent is ten times worse 😂 but up to you of course 🫡

HAHAHAHA this is the funniest list 😂 Katabasis by R F Kuang - the narrator has a very nebulous and shifting American accent for the main character

I laughed so hard at this list title/description.

I literally cringe to think on this too much, but there’s this book called Coyote America by Dan Flores (non-fiction!), and in the audiobook the narrator tells Native American stories with a cartoon, racist Native American accent. It’s… really bad. It was hard to get through those stories. They should have stopped it in production. Atrocious.

Bunny by Mona Awad needs to be here. There was a bizarre attempt at a Scottish accent. Possibly the worst I've ever heard!

This list is so good and so necessary! Unfortunately Ronan Farrow does a ton of bad accents in Catch and Kill as well.

I started listening to the audiobook for River of Teeth (American Hippo 1) and immediately stopped. Not great southern accent.

Omg incredible concept. Literally yesterday my partner and I had friends over, and one of them treated us to the experience of Kip's accent in Game Changer. Cue bafflement and horror all around.

The narrator for The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner does a heinous French accent that starts out like a bad Indian accent, becomes a bad Russian accent, then finally settles into something French-like but also still kind of Russian and Indian. She also pronounced chemise like "sheh-mize" and psychic as "physic." That last one almost made me ragequit but it was in the afterword. The book overall I thought was astonishingly bad even aside from the narrator, but she really elevated the experience /derogatory.

Until the Melody Ends By Gillian Eliza West. I believe the audiobook recently released and maybe it's because it's not a duet, but the accent for the MMC is so bad (crying). I do believe he's a vampire and they went for a dracula kind of accent and it's just so cringe to me lol

May I suggest The Vampire Lestat? That sure...was an accent! Yep!

Oof. I unfortunately could not read Guava Flavored Lies for this reason

The Spanish accent in Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is certainly…something.

Also in Atlas Six, Gideon is meant to be Acadian and he sounds like vaguely Eastern European for some random reason it killed me. Istg the narrator probably asked “where is Acadia” and someone was like “idk somewhere in Europe” THEY WERE SO FAR OFF. This man has never heard of chiac

This is hilarious. I will have to go back and look through some of my old reads. I know there were some interesting takes.

I may low key read some of these for a wild swing.

all of the ROTE audiobooks switching the Fool’s accent and then pronunciation of different names i could hardly keep up 😭😭 this list is so funny

Ooooomg. The Circle by Dave Eggers was so bad for this

Thank you to everyone who has given such great fiction suggestions! I mostly do non-fic with my ears so you are helping me round out my list :)