Hi PBs, and Happy Labor Day if your country celebrates it today :)

I have a huge pet peeve about bad accents in audiobooks, so much so that I made this whole list about it.

I especially hate bad accents in non-fiction audiobooks, because they usually mean the narrator is reading an actual person's words in a way that feels like a mockery of how that person would talk!

I've been paying more attention to this and I've developed a theory: I think a non-fiction audiobook is less likely to have a bad accent if the author is also the narrator! My theory is that because the author actually spoke to most if not all of the people they're quoting in their book, they would be much more embarrassed to sound like they're mocking that person.

Do you agree? I'm hoping that my fellow non-fiction audiobook aficionados will help me out by keeping their ears peeled for how author-narrators handle the voices of the people they spoke to for their book.

And as always, this thread and my list are a safe space to vent about bad narrators doing embarrassing voices!