Best Audiobooks For Road Trips

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Ernest Cline

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Wil Wheaton

Careful Marty! This scifi gem is brimming with enough 1980’s pop culture references to perm your hair. Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One will transport you into a dystopian reality where the only way to live is virtual. Read by none other than Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton, this is everything you need to nerd out and everything you want from a road trip audiobook.

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Cormac McCarthy

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Tom Stechschulte

Okay yes. The title is slightly on the nose. But I did restrain myself. I almost went with Jack Kerouac’s best known tome.,, But back to The Road. This stunning Pulitzer Prize winning work is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece about a father and son bond that survives the end of the world and beyond.

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Robert R. McCammon

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Tom Stechschulte

Let one of the scariest, most gruesome audio books around keep you rearing to go on your road trip. Spend over 34 hours in the grimmest apocalypse possible and join the fight to save the world. I guarantee you won’t be bored for a second.

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Stephen King

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Grover Gardner

If there’s one author who’ll stick with you until the end, it is the king of horror, Mr Stephen King. King’s audiobooks are infamously long and thus ideal for road trips. Especially as quantity doesn’t mean sacrificing on quality. In fact, one of his most popular tomes, The Stand, runs for almost 48 hours. That’ll get you the whole way across the US, coast to coast. But remember, never drive more than the medically recommended number of hours in a day.

One extra note: The longest fiction audiobook I’ve come across is War & Peace at a stonking 61 hours, 6 minutes. Bought it. Tried it. Couldn’t finish it.

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Alma Katsu

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Kristen Potter

Even the best road trips have their tougher moments. When you’re sick of driving and bored at the wheel, it’s good to know that things could be a lot worse. And there are few road trips worse than that of the Donner Party. Alma Katsu’s reimagining of this historic event adds a supernatural twist to this renowned tale.

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Gail Honeyman

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Cathleen McCarron

Unless your road trip is a one way thing, you’ll need something to entertain you both there and back. And that’s where Eleanor Oliphant comes in. This is very much a story of two diverging halves. So you can ride one direction with one mood and a totally different vibe the other.

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David Wong

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Christy Romano

Are you on the hunt for funny audiobooks for road trips? Look no further than the works of David Wong. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits is the first in his Zoey Ashe series, set in a grim future where good and evil are tough to differentiate. It’s outrageous, fast paced and hilarious. What’s more the narration of Christy Romano is phenomenal.

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Bentley Little

Dan Butler

Classic Haunted House Done Well

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Bentley Little

Chris Andrew Ciulla

Chilling, Riveting, How Did I Miss This?

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Sarah Pinsker

Lyssa Browne

Gattaca Meets Age of Miracles

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Joanna Cannon

Lissa Berry

This Year’s Eleanor Oliphant

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Jack Jordan

Lucy Paterson, Sarah Feathers, Jane Collingwood

Tantalisingly Twisted Thriller

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D. J. Molles

Christian Rummel

Morningstar Strain Meets The Martian

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Yahtzee Croshaw

Yahtzee Croshaw

A Religious Experience

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Georgina Cross

Emma Ashton

Twisted Me Round Its Little Finger

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Karen McQuestion

Stacey Glemboski

Refreshingly Different

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Don Roff

Stephen R. Thorne

Loved the Found Footage (or Audio) Feel

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Jacqueline Druga

Vanessa Johansson

A Fantastic Find For A Zombista

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Alice Feeney

Stephanie Racine, Richard Armitage

Thrilling and Creepy With A Killer Twist

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Nita Prose

Lauren Ambrose

The Rosie Project Meets Murder Mystery

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Sequoia Nagamatsu

Jason Culp, Stephanie Komure, Micky Shiloah, Joe Knezevich, Brianna Ishibashi, Kotaro Watanabe, Matthew Bridges, Kurt Kanazawa, Greg Watanabe, Jeanne Sakata, MacLeod Andrews, Keisuke Hoashi, Brian Nishii, Julia Whelan

High Praise for this Darkest of Tales

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Rosie Walsh

Imogen Church, Theo Solomon

Mystery + Love Story + Drama + Thriller = Mind Blown

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Bethany Crandell

Xe Sands

A Sweet, Sardonic, Fruit Throwing Frolic

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Carey Baldwin

Stephanie Cannon

A Game and A Gambit Fit for a Queen

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Stephanie DeCarolis

Norma Butikofer

I Know What You Did Last Summer Meets Gossip Girl

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James Brogden

Matthew Lloyd Davies

Awesomely Creepy

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Mandy Byatt

Melissa Woodbridge

Elements of John Marrs, Rachel Abbott and Adele Parks.

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Z. A. Recht

Oliver Wyman

Classic pandemic flick Outbreak meets TV’s Fear the Walking Dead.

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Wendy Dranfield

Sarah Borges

Moriarty, Jewell and now Dranfield

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Matt Haig

Carey Mulligan

Mesmerising Story, Powerfully Delivered by Carey Mulligan and with a Kate Atkinson Feel

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Georgina Lees

Meg Travers

Utterly Engrossing Mystery

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Casey Kelleher

Daphne Kouma

This. Gave. Me. Chills.

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Rachel Abbott

Lisa Coleman

DCI Douglas As Gripping As Ever

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Nell Pattison

David Thorpe, Sherry Baines, Alex Wingfield, Nick Biadon, Clare-Louise English, Billy Ashcroft, Beth Eyre

Excellent, Especially the Characters

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Matt Ritter

Matt Ritter

Like Post Apocalyptic Adventure? Sinister Dystopias? A G Riddle? This is for you.

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Stacey Madden

Cherlanda Estrada and Nate Drury

A Satisfying Rummage Through Tangled Minds and Stories

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A.G. Riddle

John Skelley

Riddle Wraps A Mystery Inside An Enigma

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Rebecca Taylor

Libby McKnight

Big Bad Lies

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Matt Boren

Christina Applegate

Bitterness Is Such Sweet Sarcasm

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Heidi Daniele

Lauren Reilly

So Very Powerful and Endearing

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Nick Spalding

Henrietta Meire, Will Watt

Pure Fun

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Nicci French

Olivia Vinall

Heard And Enjoyed

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Megan Cooley Peterson

Melissa Moran

This Felt Searingly Real

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Lisa Jewell

Joanne Froggatt

I “Dug It”…

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Vera Kurian

Brittany Pressley

Aaaaaargh-mazing. Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test meets Alice Feeney’s Sometimes I Lie meets Scream (shout out 1996).

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Shanora Williams

Chante Ellison, Nola Vance

Rich Revenge

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Bella Mackie

Charly Clive, Paul Panting

A Compelling Seduction to The Dark Side

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John Boyne

Richard E. Grant

#loved #5stars #UstymKarmaliuk

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Simon Rich

Fred Berman

Braces yourself for a wild ride

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Ronald Malfi

Joe Hempel

A carefully crafted mystery with echoes of (and I don't bandy this about) Gone Girl

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Charity Norman

Julie Maisey

One cup of Liane Moriarty, one cup Lisa Jewell and a dollop of K.L. Slater.

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Meg Elison

Angela Dawe

As powerful and Inspiring As The Handmaid's Tale

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Liane Moriarty

Caroline Lee

Tangled webs as only Moriarty knows how.

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Jennifer McMahon

Cassandra Campbell

Another gripping masterpiece by McMahon, only enhanced by Cassandra Campbell’s flawless narration.

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Neal Shusterman

Greg Tremblay

An Ode To Death with Tones of The Hunger Games.

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Aldous Huxley

Michael York

A timeless piece about human nature versus nurture.

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Sarah A. Denzil, Anni Taylor

Aimee Horne

Kept Me Guessing To The End

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Sarah Lyons Fleming

Roger Wayne, Teri Schnaubelt, Christian Barillas, Mia Gaskin

If Big Little Lies had zombies in it...

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Graeme Simsion

Dan O'Grady

Sweet, Uplifting Perfection

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Gene Doucette

Erin Bennett, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Juliette Goglia, Zeno Robinson, Will Collyer, Grace Rolek, Farah Merani

Exceptional. Beautifully Written, Brilliantly Read. The TV show Lost, but with a proper ending.

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Max Brooks

Christopher Ragland, Rupert Farley, Nigel Pilkington, Jennifer Woodward, David Thorpe, Adam Sims, Robert Slade

Zombie apocalypse perfection.

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Sophie Mackintosh

Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan, Morfydd Clark

A Sinister Story Cleverly Told