Best audiobooks for road trips
Hitting the road for Labor Day trip or one last summer swing? Few things help the miles fly by like being engaged in a good book. Audiobooks.com, a leading seller of spoken-word recordings, put together the following list of recommended titles for drives from less than an hour to a 16-hour sojourn.
0-50 miles, 50 minutes to 1 hour
The Shell Game , by Janet Evanovich
50-150 miles, 1-2.5 hours
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul , by Jeff Kinney
Drunken Fireworks , by Stephen King
150-250 miles, 3-4 hours
The Slow Regard of Silent Things , by Patrick Rothfuss
Coraline , by Neil Gaiman
I Hate Myselfie , by Shane Dawson
James and the Giant Peach , by Roald Dahl
250-500 miles, 4-8 hours
Modern Romance , by Aziz Ansari
Go Set a Watchman , by Harper Lee
What If? , by Randall Munroe
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl , by Jesse Andrews
When to Rob a Bank , by Steven J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
500-1000 miles, 9-16 hours
Luckiest Girl Alive , by Jessica Knoll
The Rumor , by Elin Hilderbrand
Jurassic Park , by Michael Crichton
In the Unlikely Event , by Judy Blume
Memory Man , by David Baldacci
Dead Wake , by Erik Larson