The first audiobook I ever listened to all the way through was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I'm a nurse in Leicester, originally from Kerala, and I listened to it last winter while commuting to the hospital.
My journey is about forty minutes each way by bus, and I used to just scroll on my phone. My colleague Grace suggested audiobooks, and since I'd always felt guilty that I'd never read this famous English classic, I downloaded it from the library app for free. It took me about three weeks of journeys, plus a few evenings while cooking.
The story is set in rural England around two hundred years ago. It follows Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters whose mother is desperate to find them rich husbands. Elizabeth meets a wealthy man called Mr Darcy, and at first she thinks he's unbearably proud, while he thinks her family is embarrassing. Gradually, both of them realise they've misjudged each other. It's really about first impressions and being honest about your own faults.
I think listening worked better for me than reading would have. I'd tried the paper book at college in India, and I found the old-fashioned language heavy going, so I gave up after a few chapters. But the narrator was brilliant. She gave every character a slightly different voice, and her tone made the humour obvious, especially with the silly mother, so I understood jokes I'd missed on the page. On the other hand, it's harder to go back if you lose concentration, and once or twice I realised I'd missed a whole conversation. Overall, though, it turned dead time on the bus into something I looked forward to.