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?
Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie. One the gimmicks in the book is that reader doesn’t know genders of the heroes. It not a main point of the book, but it will be subpar experience anyway.
Ooh this is a cool answer, it could give work to people with interesting voices though!