Audiobook suggestions for a family road trip?

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Just looking for some fresh ideas for audiobooks for a family road trip. Previously we've enjoyed Michael Morpurgo and classics like Treasure Island, The Borrowers, Stig of the Dump but open to anything - maybe something more contemporary? Especially now the DC are older.

DC are aged between 15-12 years.

Thanks

Placemarking! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

I loved audio drama at that age- really got into listening to so many with my parents and I’ve revisited many of them recently:

The Eagle of the Ninth
Out of the Hitler Time (Judith Kerr, includes When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit)
Poirot audio dramas (especially Murder on the Orient Express- there’s the BBC one and also an Audible original which I like as well with actors and is narrated well too),
39 Steps (and the other Richard Hannay books- John Buchan)
Dark Materials audio play (recently added as a trilogy)
Sherlock Holmes (Clive Morrison ones my favourite as audio drama, but Stephen Fry
reading will give you ~70 hours!)
Treasure Island/ Kidnapped are good as plays as well
Chronicles of Narnia
Jeeves and Wooster- good plays or Stephen Fry reading is good too.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy- great suggestion, so many series! We listened recently and our 7 year old got engrossed, and more confused as to what was happening (but enjoyed hugely!).

Slightly left field suggestion, but I loved the Lee Hall dramas- I remember hearing “Spoonface Steinburg” on the radio, crying my eyes out (it is brilliant) and it’s probably the most impactful piece of drama I remember. It’s relatively short, but I was 14 or 15 when it was on the radio but it was good! There are a couple of his other plays (“I luv you Jimmy Spud”) which are great too…

I still prefer a drama to being read too- I’m very fussy about the narrator!

@User4873628 - I’ve added to my wish list, sounds fascinating…

Truckers - Terry Pratchett
My Family & Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
Hitchhikers' Guide - Douglas Adams
Holes - Luis Sachar
Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
Noughts & Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

I second Terry Pratchett. Alan Garner’s The weirdstone of Brisingamen also went down well. A surprising hit was Agatha Christie, although the Miss Marple ones were damned as “Too talky.”

YY to Anthony Horowitz
Also the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham.

Lord of the rings?

Endurance - all about the Endurance/Shackleton. My kids were fascinated.

Definitely Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :)

Was going to say Cabin Pressure but you are already a fan.
Words of one syllable can while away a good chunk of a journey.

Also Yellow Car :D

The Explorer
and cabin pressure…!

I'm just listening to Samuel West reading Brighton Rock but maybe a bit too gritty? He reads it really well.

Or my go to recommendation Rebecca read by Anna Massey.

Just shown this list to my 13 DS. He has reserved a huge list on the borrowbox library app. Thank you all! Looking forward to some peace and quiet as he wanders around the house with his headphones on!

Simon Callow reading The Twits, by Roald Dahl. My friend is a literature academic, and he reckons this is the greatest audiobook of all time.

Anything read by Stephen Fry is a must. (He has recorded both P. G. Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes.)

Anything by Roald Dahl will hook them.

C. S. Lewis: The Voyage the Dawntreader. It's one of the Narnia books. Had me spellbound from start to finish.

Tolkien: The Hobbit

Douglas Adams: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (read by Stephen Fry)

M. R. James: Ghost Stories

Conan Doyle: The Lost World

H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds

Philip Pullman: Northern Lights (read by the author)

Mortal Engines and the sequels and prequels by Philip Reeve.