Travel audiobooks
Dirt
By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
By: Sean Dietrich
Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the unlikely hope that you're gonna be alright.Sean Dietrich was twelve years old when he scattered his father's ashes from the mountain range. His father was a man who lived for baseball, a steel worker with a ready... Read more
View audiobookA Month in Siena
By: Hisham Matar
Narrated by: Hisham Matar
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD
After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read more
The Sun Is a Compass
By: Caroline Van Hemert
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to... Read more
View audiobookChesapeake Requiem
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus ""BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND... Read more
View audiobookMariam Sharma Hits the Road
By: Sheba Karim
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala and religious but closeted... Read more
View audiobookTravel as a Political Act
By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.
With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's... Read more
Vacationland
By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon Stewart
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.
Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only... Read more
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman confronting her fears and finding home in the North.Blair Braverman fell in love with the North at an early age: By the time she was nineteen, she had left her home in California, moved to Norway to learn how to drive sled dogs, and worked as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska.By turns funny and... Read more
View audiobookIn Other Words
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:... Read more
The Geography of Genius
By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Weiner travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times.
In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all... Read more
The Oregon Trail
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Rinker Buck
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award
“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —Ian Frazier, The New York... Read more
Over the Edge of the World - Abridged
By: Laurence Bergreen
Narrated by: Laurence Bergreen
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A majestic tale of discovery thatchanged many long-held views about the world In 1519 Magellan and his fleet of five ships set sail from Seville, Spain, to discover a water route to the fabled Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Three years later, a handful of survivors... Read more
View audiobookThe Orchid Thief
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more
La Cité perdue de Z
By: David Grann
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Sur les rives de l'Amazone, la jungle s'étend indéfiniment et partout le danger guette. À l'aube du XXe siècle le colonel Fawcett s'enfonce dans cet enfer vert, en quête d'un mystérieux royaume, d'une civilisation riche et oubliée. Prêt à tout risquer pour entrer dans l'Histoire, l'aventurier affronte animaux sauvages et tribus indigènes. Mais,... Read more
View audiobookCats of the World
By: Hannah Shaw & Andrew Marttila
Narrated by: Hannah Shaw
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Hannah “Kitten Lady” Shaw and professional cat photographer Andrew Marttila journey to thirty countries to bring you hundreds of photos and stories of cats from every corner of the world.
Wife and husband team Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila have made cats their lives' work: they rescue and rehabilitate neonatal kittens, educate the public on... Read more
Lucy, Uncensored
By: Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond
Narrated by: Nicky Endres, Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A road trip through gender identity, self-expression, and the thorny process of figuring out where you fit after high school as an out-and-proud transgender teen.
Lucy imagines college as more than a chance to party with other drama nerds and be roommates with her best friend Callie. College will be her fresh start. For the first time, she'll be... Read more
Subpar Planet
By: Amber Share
Narrated by: Gina Daniels
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Subpar Parks Amber Share takes us around the globe to celebrate the world’s greatest wonders alongside hysterical reviews from their harshest critics.
In this follow-up to Subpar Parks, which featured one-star reviews of US National Parks, Subpar Planet takes us from continent to continent... Read more
Kokoro
By: Beth Kempton
Narrated by: Beth Kempton
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This book invites you to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom.
Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro–which mysteriously translates as... Read more
Haunted World
By: Theresa Cheung
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Paranormal expert Theresa Cheung shares 101 of the most mysterious and spooky true stories of hauntings from around the world together with the latest afterlife science and research, providing fascinating insight into our never-ending love affair with ghosts. Belief in ghosts is surprisingly common worldwide. Mysterious glowing orbs, unexplained... Read more
View audiobookKosciuszko
By: Anthony Sharwood
Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents. Bestselling author Anthony Sharwood finds out why he's the hero the world needs right... Read more
View audiobookThrilling Cities
By: Ian Fleming
Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BONDIan Fleming’s world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world’s most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling... Read more
View audiobookA Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop
By: Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz
Narrated by: Christine Schiefer & Em Schulz
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Grab your beverage of choice, we’re going back on the road! Bringing you A Haunted Road Atlas: Next Stop, from the New York Times Bestselling authors of true crime/supernatural podcast And That’s Why We Drink!
From the truest crimes to the spookiest supernaturals, this guide will have even more illustrated stories, beverage pit stops, and ice... Read more
The Ultimate Guide to Dollywood
By: Erin Browne
Narrated by: Amanda Stribling
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A must-have for Dolly Parton fans everywhere, this unofficial guide features 100 of the must-try restaurants, iconic rides and attractions, and important landmarks at Dollywood and its sister parks.
Dollywood is a unique and incredible theme park that’s best known for its amusement park thrills, traditional Smoky Mountain inspiration, and, of... Read more