{"id":35190,"count":43,"description":"It was the Greek philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/socrates\/\">Socrates<\/a> who warned of the dangers of the written word. He'd doubtless be pleased that, a few millennia later, we're moving back to authors speaking directly to their audiences, albeit via a smartphone or other listening device. Who knows, maybe in 100 years, authors will be able, as Socrates thought should be the case, to tailor their message specifically for each listener.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, we have a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/audiobooks\/\">audiobooks<\/a> on all sorts of subjects, even math, narrated by their authors. These are all books that have either been recommended on Five Books, or have been narrated by Five Books interviewees or other highly recommended authors.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/audiobooks\/great-books-narrated-by-their-author\/","name":"Great Audiobooks Narrated by Their Authors","slug":"great-books-narrated-by-their-author","taxonomy":"category","parent":31765,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/35190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/31765"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=35190"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=35190"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=35190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}