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Excellent road trip audiobook ideas?

43 replies

Roadtripppp · 22/11/2022 22:51

So far, DH and I have enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club books, Lessons in Chemistry, and the Paper Palace, and others.

Can anyone recommend some excellent audiobooks for road trips along these veins? Page-turner story, engaging narrator, - something to help make the time in the car pass happily!

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Paq · 24/11/2022 20:55

Entirely different but amazing - Barak Obama's memoir.

Detective series - Sarah Bailey's Gemma Woodstock series.

Paq · 24/11/2022 20:56

Whitegrenache · 23/11/2022 20:25

What is the best app to download audio
Books on a pay as you go basis - i don't want to subscribe

Join your local library and use their free service.

ZombieKettle · 24/11/2022 20:56

Another vote for Project Hail Mary. Superb.

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frozengoose · 24/11/2022 21:47

Brogues · 23/11/2022 22:37

Rivers of London for some supernatural lite.

I do also really like this series.

devildeepbluesea · 24/11/2022 21:52

Second the Galbraith Strike series - also his Welsh accent is “generic valleys” and not that great.

also I second the Serrailler series - really good. And Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.

How about Elly Griffiths’s Dr Ruth Galloway series?

Anthony Horowitz Magpie Murder Series?

katscamel · 24/11/2022 22:00

Rivers of London, the narrators voice is simply gorgeous.Michael Palin is good as well, have recently finished his travels in Iraq one and his E.Europ one

Trying81 · 24/11/2022 22:37

The Handmaids tale, and the follow up The Testaments

Elisabeth Moss is the narrator for THT and is excellent, and Ann Dowd is one of the narrators of the testaments

MakingNBaking · 24/11/2022 22:40

I'd second 13 Minutes to the Moon, fascinating.

One of my other favourites is How to Train Your Dragon read by David Tennant.

SpotTheCat · 24/11/2022 22:51

Great thread, making notes for future reads.
I have recently listened to The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, really intriguing and gripping, perfect if a rainy road trip.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan - much lighter but listened to it as often as I could.
Both on BorrowBox.

GordonShakespearedoesChristmas · 24/11/2022 23:17

Harlan Coben books are great!

lightgreyandpalepink · 24/11/2022 23:24

If you like biographies then I'd highly recommend Matthew McConaughey's Greenlight. I was very pleasantly surprised by it and often couldn't wait to get back in the car to listen again! He's a great story teller too Smile

PumpkinSpiceLatay · 24/11/2022 23:37

I just finished How To Disappear by Gillian McAllister and I was hooked. Narration from different POVs, and I loved the twists and turns

Eve · 25/11/2022 07:14

Whitegrenache · 23/11/2022 20:25

What is the best app to download audio
Books on a pay as you go basis - i don't want to subscribe

BorrowBox is great

RightOnTheEdge · 25/11/2022 07:39

I also came here to say the Strike series. I think Robert Glenister does a great job at narrating them.

BastardtheCat · 25/11/2022 08:10

Jeeves and Worcester BBC collected Radio dramas. About 9 of the novels were recorded for radio/audio and they're bloody hilarious. Really recommend them.

mum2jakie · 26/11/2022 23:03

Richard Osman's books. The first two are beautifully read by Lesley Manville. I'm on the waiting list for the third in the series.

determinedtomakethiswork · 26/11/2022 23:14

Have you read Rachel's holiday? Rachel again is the following book and Marian Keyes is the narrator. I really loved it. It wouldn't make much sense without having read or listened to Rachel's holiday though. I'm pretty certain I heard that Marianne is the narrator for Rachel's holiday as well now. That is such a fantastic book.

Dublingirrl · 27/11/2022 08:59

I loved all the strike books on audio. Also Michelle Obama’s autobiography ‘becoming’.

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