I have recently been getting back into audiobooks and was discussing them with a friend when this question came up. Obviously picture/comic books, manga and the like would not work in the format, but what other kind of books would not work in an audio format?
I was thinking House of Leaves for the obvious reasons, but is there a book you can think of that narratively or otherwise would not be well translated to audiobook?
OR a book that would need to be read in a certain way in order for an audio format to work?
S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams. Apart from the physical gimmicks, the book has a conversation of other readers with “hand written notes” on its pages, which are made at different times.
Anything footnote-heavy:
Some essays by David Foster Wallace, in particular the one on the radio show business.
Those parts of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series where footnoterphones are used frequently.
Came here to say this. It barely worked as a book!