Best equipment to use with Audacity

Probably not the best choice, but maybe you have some overriding reason why you wish to do that.
For portable recording, I’d usually suggest a a portable music recorder, such as:
Zoom H2N
Tascam DR-40
Tascam DR-05
Olympus LS-14
Zoom H1
Roland R-05
or similar.

These all have built-in mics that can do a respectable job provided that the recording environment is quiet and substantially free from echoes and reverberation.
Recordings made in noisy or reverberant environments always turn out bad, though there are usually ways to make it sound less bad - this is where we need to know details of what you want to do.

“Budget” is also a significant factor - (it is pointless suggesting a DPA microphone if your total budget is less than $1000).

To achieve the sound quality of commercial audiobooks requires recording in a silent, echo free space. “On location” recordings could certainly be included in an audiobook, but the main spoken text should be clear, high quality with no distracting noises present, and that requires a “studio” environment (which could be a quiet room in your home that has been appropriately set up for the purpose).