Any super engaging books(audio) to recommend for a long drive with my 17yo daughter this weekend? Any genre including comedy, thriller, suspense, detective. No self-help. Thanks!
“Call Your Daughter Home” by Deb Spera. 3 alternating first person POV’s that run in tandem and are masterfully done by 3 different narrators.
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“The Eyes and the Impossible,” by Dave Eggers. This has become my favorite (audio)/book of ALL TIME! The audiobook is narrated by the main character; a talking dog. He and his friends, seagulls, racoons, bison, goats, horses, birds of other kinds, squirrels and other land, sea and air animals and fo wl live in a huge parcel of park/forest suttounded by a body of water, face everyday challenges. One day the dog concocts an almost impossible plan. Will he succeed? I’m not telling.
“The Last Bookaneer,” by Mathew Pearl. This is an historical fiction taking place in the late 1890s-early 1900s. It is a story about three bookaneers, manuscript thieves, who are frenemies. Each has their eye on Robert Louis Stevenson’s current work in progress. Unfortunately, Stevenson has left Britian and is currently living in Samoa where he is writing his last novel. These London based bookaneers not only have to get themselves to Samoa, everyone there has aligned themselvrs with Stevenson and his family. The locals are NOT about to let anyone near the family, especially not the bookaneers. What each has to do finagle their way within stealing distance of the manuscript is really, but this is not intended to be a funny book. It’s a great read!
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“When Crickets Cry” by Charles Martin.
“Call Your Daughter Home” by Deb Spera. 3 alternating first person POV’s that run in tandem and are masterfully done by 3 different narrators.
“The Eyes and the Impossible,” by Dave Eggers. This has become my favorite (audio)/book of ALL TIME! The audiobook is narrated by the main character; a talking dog. He and his friends, seagulls, racoons, bison, goats, horses, birds of other kinds, squirrels and other land, sea and air animals and fo wl live in a huge parcel of park/forest suttounded by a body of water, face everyday challenges. One day the dog concocts an almost impossible plan. Will he succeed? I’m not telling.
“The Last Bookaneer,” by Mathew Pearl. This is an historical fiction taking place in the late 1890s-early 1900s. It is a story about three bookaneers, manuscript thieves, who are frenemies. Each has their eye on Robert Louis Stevenson’s current work in progress. Unfortunately, Stevenson has left Britian and is currently living in Samoa where he is writing his last novel. These London based bookaneers not only have to get themselves to Samoa, everyone there has aligned themselvrs with Stevenson and his family. The locals are NOT about to let anyone near the family, especially not the bookaneers. What each has to do finagle their way within stealing distance of the manuscript is really, but this is not intended to be a funny book. It’s a great read!
*My Brilliant Friend* – Ellena Ferrante
*A Sudden Light* – Garth Stein
*On the Road* – Jack Kerouac
*One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* – Ken Kesey
*The Martian* – Andy Weir