Audiobooks For Travel
19 Audiobooks That Are PERFECT For Travel
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Whether you're taking a road trip across the states or boarding a two-hour flight, you're going to need some travel entertainment. Reading in the car can make you sick, and some plane rides are just too chaotic to focus on text (the toddler in row five just will not stop crying). The solution is simple: audiobooks. Cheap, awesome audiobooks with solid audience ratings that you can completely lose yourself in during your voyage. We've listed them from shortest to lengthiest, ranging from under 60 minutes to 10 hours long. Plug in your headphones, recline the seat, and enjoy these reads.
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1 The Productivity Blueprint
The all-encompassing self-development guide, The Productivity Blueprint breaks down the best ways to be productive.
Time length: 58 minutes
2 How to Win an Election
Take a cue from the Romans: How to Win an Election outlines the ancient guide for campaigning, as modern as any political course you might take today.
Time length: 1 hour and 5 minutes
3 The Dip
You know when you took on that huge new project at work, and at first it was fun — and then it was difficult, demanding, and no fun at all? The Dip tackles how to overcome the stressful stage of any major task and push to the finish line.
Time length: 1 hour and 33 minutes
4 UR
English instructor Wesley Smith buys an ebook reader, only to discover he can see into unimaginable realities in Stephen King's UR.
Time length: 2 hours and 20 minutes
5 Anthem
A classic dystopian novel about a unified, faceless society (nobody has names!), Anthem centers on one individual who chooses to love a woman and seek out truth.
Time length: 2 hours and 25 minutes
6 Here We Go Again: My Life in Television
Emmy winner Betty White first appeared on the small screen in 1949, and now she's one of the biggest (and most beloved) TV stars ever. Here We Go Again: My Life in Television just reaffirms our adoration for the comedic cutie.
Time length: 2 hours and 56 minutes
7 Outling Your Novel
Outlines can be intimidating to any writer, but if utilized properly, they can serve as the vehicle for a stellar novel. Aspiring authors: Outlining Your Novel is a must.
Time length: 4 hours and 25 minutes
8 Happy Is the New Healthy
In the digital age, our time is preoccupied by emails, tweets, texts, status updates — no wonder it can be hard to find joy. Happy Is the New Healthy discusses quick, simple ways to rediscover it.
Time length: 4 hours and 35 minutes
9 The Myth of You and Me
Cameron and Sonia have a friendship as passionate as any romance in The Myth of You and Me, which explores the lasting nostalgia and heartbreak after the end of a major friendship.
Time length: 4 hours and 59 minutes
10 The Language Hoax
Does the language we speak shape the way we perceive the world? Linguist John H. McWhorter doesn't think so. He addresses — and refutes — the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in The Language Hoax.
Time length: 5 hours and 23 minutes
11 The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
If you're in the mood for giggles, The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is your new best friend. Author Patrick F. McManus tells tales from his childhood, everyday life, and the great outdoors with exaggerated commentary that'll keep you laughing for five hours straight.
Time length: 5 hours and 41 minutes
12 In Real Life
You're probably familiar with personable YouTube sensation Joey Graceffa. But Joey wasn't always so sure of himself — check out In Real Life, detailing the road to his success.
Time length: 6 hours and 32 minutes
13 An Apple a Day
Author Emma Woolf hadn't touched chocolate for more than 10 years; now she's unwrapping a Kit Kat at 32 years old. A touching memoir on recovering from anorexia, An Apple a Day tells the story of overcoming one of the greatest obstacles.
Time length: 7 hours and 54 minutes
14 Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex
Exactly what it sounds like, these short stories are every bit as delicious and sexy as you'd think. Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex explores BDSM, threesomes, public sex, fetishes, and more. Eeee!
Time length: 7 hours and 59 minutes
15 My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Teen rebel Angel Crawford, stuck in the swamps of Louisiana with her hillbilly father, is a high school dropout addicted to drugs and alcohol in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. When she becomes a zombie after a car crash, her addictions vanish and her focus turns to staying "alive."
Time length: 8 hours and 44 minutes
16 The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Throughout med school, author Matt McCarthy had high hopes of becoming an exceptional doctor — one who could reach the "unreachable" patients. But his first night on call, a patient in the critical care unit almost dies. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly explores McCarthy's taxing first year of hospital life.
Time length: 8 hours and 45 minutes
17 The Princess Affair
In The Princess Affair, Rhodes scholar Kerry Donovan arrives at Oxford to begin her classes, and she's determined to do well. But then she meets Her Royal Highness Princess Sasha, who's second in line to the British throne, and Kerry's blindsided by an intense attraction.
Time length: 9 hours and 4 minutes
18 Okay For Now
The coming-of-age novel Okay For Now follows the storyline of 14-year-old Doug Swieteck, who's just moved to a new town and has all the odds against him. Doug struggles to prove that he's more than the string-bean hooligan everyone thinks him to be.
Time length: 9 hours and 16 minutes
19 Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You tells the story of Lydia Lee, the favored child of a Chinese-American family living in rural Ohio in the 1970s. But when Lydia's found dead in the local lake, the Lee family begins to unravel at the seams.
Time length: 10 hours and 1 minute
