In the next couple of weeks I’ll be driving seven hours to visit family, and while normally I would listen to music or podcasts I’m in the mood for an audiobook/s.
Please recommend some audiobooks I can get completely lost in, and distract me from the mind-numbingly boring drive!
by Always_The_Cute_One
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*Braiding Sweetgrass* by Robin Wall Kimmerer
*Horizon* by Barry Lopez
*How far the light reaches* by Sabrina Imbler
*This is your mind on plants* by Michael Pollan
All fantastic books with particularly good audiobook performances.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
It seems kinda weird and not something I thought I’d be into, but “Elements of Eloquence” is one that I keep finding myself coming back to on long drives.
It sounds dry as hell, basically a breakdown of the elements of rhetoric, but lol, it’s written so well and the voice actor is just perfect.
It’s not a nerd book by any means. I’ve never been to college or had the slightest inclination of being a writer, but I find it absolutely fascinating.
The author cites everything from the bible to the movie Apocalypse Now to Disco Inferno to multiple Beatles songs and explains why they were written the way they were and what makes them special.
And it’s not something like a story that you have to follow sequentially. You can just pop into any random chapter and do just fine.
10/10 would recommend for road trips.
The Goldfinch. Incredible book, fantastic audio performance
The Martian has a phenomenal audiobook.