Travel audiobooks
Unreasonable Hospitality
By: Will Guidara
Narrated by: Will Guidara
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The must-read New York Times bestseller that's redefining hospitality and inspiring readers in every industry.
- Featured in FX's The Bear and Showtime's Billions
- JP Morgan NextList Pick
Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room.... Read more
Raw Dog
By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." —The New York Times
"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." —BookPage
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more
A Walk in the Park
By: Kevin Fedarko
Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth.
A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of... Read more
Four Seasons in Rome
By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Anthony Doerr
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, a "dazzling" (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the... Read more
Kitchen Confidential
By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his... Read more
American Ramble
By: Neil King
Narrated by: Will Tulin
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened... Read more
View audiobookBorn to Run
By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more
The Comfort Crisis
By: Michael Easter
Narrated by: Michael Easter
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Brain.
“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and author of The... Read more
Abroad in Japan
By: Chris Broad
Narrated by: Chris Broad
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?
Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and... Read more
Into the Wild
By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for... Read more
View audiobookTravels with Charley in Search of America
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
With Charley,... Read more
The Salt Path
By: Raynor Winn
Narrated by: Raynor Winn
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS
"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."—Entertainment Weekly
A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey... Read more
Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection
By: Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth,...
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations
In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and... Read more
In the Weeds
By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more
View audiobookThe Wild Silence
By: Raynor Winn
Narrated by: Raynor Winn
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.
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'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer
'A thrill to read. The nature writing is beautiful . . . heartening and... Read more
World Travel
By: Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourd...
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos... Read more
View audiobookThe Bill Bryson BBC Radio Collection
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
An anthology of BBC Radio documentaries featuring the bestselling author
Bill Bryson is the world's funniest travel writer, and a master of comic observation. His hugely popular books, spanning topics from linguistics to Shakespeare to the human body, have sold over 16 million copies and been translated into 30 languages, and his 2003 science book... Read more
Bill Bryson Collector's Edition - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 17 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Notes from a Small Island
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The result is a hilarious social commentary that... Read more
A Season for That
By: Steve Hoffman
Narrated by: Steve Hoffman
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.
Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been... Read more
Forest Walking
By: Peter Wohlleben & Jane Billinghurst
Narrated by: Sean Sonier
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Awaken your senses and make the most out of your next walk in the woods—with Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees.
“This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees.”—Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and How to Read Water
"You'll be changed... Read more
Storm’s Edge
By: Peter Marshall
Narrated by: Kenny Blyth
Length: 22 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR From Peter Marshall, winner of the... Read more
View audiobookThe Shanghai Free Taxi
By: Frank Langfitt
Narrated by: Frank Langfitt
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.
China--America's most important competitor--is at a turning point. With... Read more
Murder at the Grand Raj Palace
By: Vaseem Khan
Narrated by: Madhav Sharma
Length: 11 hours
Abridged: No
In the enchanting new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick go undercover to investigate a murder at Mumbai's grandest hotel.
For a century the iconic Grand Raj Palace Hotel has welcomed the world's elite. From film stars to foreign dignitaries, anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj.
The last thing the... Read more
Following the Equator
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Ian Porter
Length: 23 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic travelogue of one of America's most famous authors, Following the Equator was written when Twain had fallen on hard times. At the time, Twain found himself compelled to take a tour of the British Empire in 1895 and write about it.
This account of that trip, published in 1897, is a classic example of Twain's ever vigilant observational... Read more