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Stories From The Passenger’s Seat
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items Riveting audiobooks that kept me awake on road trips!
Documentary style audiobook loosely based on the story of Fleetwood Mac. Music, chemistry, a great plot, and characters you actually care about.
Daisy Jones & The Six
Perfect for a full or winter road trip—A haunted hotel, a family snowed in, and so many thrills to make the miles melt away.
The Shining Audiobook on Libro.fm
This is one to listen to in the car with your family. Not only is it PG rated, but it helps you understand other people’s behavior (and your own.) You’ll start laughing and pointing at each other – in a good way.
Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
There’s a reason this was so popular. It’s a solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail on foot. Raw, beautiful, and written with such honesty that every moment lands in your chest. She makes you feel the blisters, the grief, and the sheer grit of hauli...
Wild Audiobook on Libro.fm
Buckle up—Jenifer Lewis doesn’t hold back— and you’d better spell her name with one N. She sings and delivers her life story with the same fire she brings to every Broadway scene, mixing laugh-out-loud shade with gut-punch honesty. One minute she’s s...
The Mother of Black Hollywood
Emily Gimore/Kelly Bishop brings comedy, Broadway stories, and zero BS to her book. She spills the tea—from being part of the original Broadway performers who helped birth A Chorus Line to playing Lorelei’s witty mother on Gilmore Girls. Think of it ...
The Third Gilmore Girl Audiobook on Libro.fm
A very British, cozy mystery with hilarity and low stakes. Agatha Raisin, whose favorite breakfast is a cup of coffee and two cigarettes, retires from her busy life in London to the quaint countryside. She tries to get friends by entering a quiche ba...
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
This book wraps around you like heat off blacktop. Set in the 1930s South, Janie Crawford refuses to live by anyone else’s script. From life as a small-town mayor’s wife to her fierce, messy love with Tea Cake in the steamy, adventurous Everglades, t...
Their Eyes Were Watching God Audiobook on Libro.fm
The Texas sun is merciless, the dirt is endless, and every day Stanley Yelnats has to dig a hole exactly five feet deep. He’s sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn’t commit—but this isn’t just punishment, it’s a puzzle. What secrets are buried ...
Holes
This one is actually a true story . In June 1944, Hartford’s circus tent caught fire, and this book takes you under that big top: the screams, the smoke, the whole story written almost in novel form. It’s dark, fascinating, and redemptive. It’s a pie...
The Circus Fire Audiobook on Libro.fm
A western full of cowboy wisdom, dry wit, adventure, and grumpy old men saying stuff that belongs on a T-shirt, like "Women are always on the lookout for the perfect man. Might as well look for a chicken with three legs"
All Editions of Lonesome Dove | ThriftBooks
This is the true story that inspired the series. Piper was living a normal life years after a long ago crime when she was informed she would have to serve time. This takes you behind the bars of the US prison system and never stop being fascinating.
Orange Is the New Black
A better legacy for Lady Jane Grey—and sometimes people in the book turn into animals! The narrators are outstanding bringing out the humor, conspiracies, and relationships in this book. I couldn’t stop listening!
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This is my favorite travel memoir ever. A young woman and her husband bicycle around the world in the 1970s. Her travelogue is so well written, it’s like a novel. Everyone I’ve recommended this to has absolutely loved it.
Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure
Richard is every bit as good of a storyteller in his book as he is in his songs. This is a funny, endearing, tea-spilling memoir that never once lost my interest. Also, I’d like to borrow his confidence for at least a day.
Stories to Tell
“Hi, my name is Matthew… My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.” I read this a year before he died, and just wanted to hug him.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Imagine you’re a 14-yr old babysitter for a therapist in the 1970s— and the therapist is treating a very famous rock star. This book was loaded with so much summer fun that I could practically see the outfits and hear the guitar chords.
Mary Jane