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Best Audiobooks For Your Road Trips

Here are the best AudioBooks for an awesome road trip in 2019. These books will definitely make your journey comfortable and worth a sweet memory to hold on to.

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Best Audiobooks For Your Road Trips

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Planning your next vacation or just a small getaway? What's in your mind this time? Let me guess, hitting the roads for a long odyssey! You might be packing your essentials, foodstuff, your favorite playlists and books. Wait a minute! How about sharing your favorite book with your co-riders just like sharing your favorite music on your next road trip?

Moreover, for some of you like me, concentrating on a page while in a moving car could lead to extreme sickness feelings. For all those bookaholics who correlate, audiobooks are a bliss. Perhaps you would like to be advised some of the best audiobooks for your next long drive. Let's take a glance over a few:

The Lost Girls of Paris

Words: Pam Jenoff

Voice: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire, Candace Thaxton

The story portraying the audacity and valor of the women during the war is sure to put you all on your toes during your entire journey. This incredibly flat-out novel will take you to the era of World War 2 where a war widow Grace Healy accidentally approaches a suitcase with photographs of 12 women inside at the Grand Central station.

The photos actually belonged to the women sent to the occupied Europe area as radio operators but had been lost since then. Here, the interest begins! With a perfect flow of suspense and storyline that how Grace meets Eleanor Trigg, the leader of the network of female secret agents and how she gets attracted towards young mother turned agent Maria, the book is extremely engaging for a thrilling road trip.

The Hunting Party

Words: Lucy Foley

Voice: Elle Newlands, Imogen Church, Morag Sims, Gary Furlong, Moira Quirk

Nothing can be more bewitching on a road trip than listening to a potboiler murder mystery. Lucy Foley is back with yet another galvanizing story about old school friends who have reunited for a short-term getaway in the Scottish highlands. They have been doing such jaunts consistently from the past 10 years.

But wait! There's something, unlike this time. All of them have been stuck in a hunting lodge due to snow and one of them has been found dead. Now one among the rest is the culprit. Find it out on your way to your destination.

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace

Words: David Lipsky

Voice: Danny Campbell, Mike Chamberlain

This is an enthralling encounter between two consciences, David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace during the latter's Infinite Jest tour. A ride through Lipsky's life that how those 5 days transformed Lipsky from initially envying to finally loving Wallace. Lipsky's descriptive passages provide a delightful insight into Wallace's personality.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Words: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Voice: Neil deGrasse Tyson

This is an ideal option for your next brief escape from your busy schedule. Enjoy the roads, enjoy the backdrop, enjoy the nature and enjoy Neil deGrasse Tyson's voice connecting you to the universe. This is a perfect audiobook that will bring you out of your comfort zone, minimize the ego within you and will make you one with the universe. Give it a try.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Words: Robin Sharma

Voice: Robin Sharma

While on your journey, experience the journey of Julian Mantle, a lawyer living a disproportionate life. Its all about how he finds wisdom in ancient culture and becomes fortunate enough to balance his life with courage and exaltation. The narration of Robin Sharma himself adds icing to the cake and induces the listeners to rejoice the journey more than the destination.

Neverwhere

Words: Neil Gaiman

Voice: Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Natalie Dormer, David Hardwood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Head

The radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Bestseller novel is a must to listen in a lifetime. The spellbinding story, the first-rate narration of superb cast keeps the listener's ears totally glued to the headsets. The renowned drama revolves around the undisclosed life under the London grounds in the sewers and abandoned tube stations where Richard Mayhew encounters a series of trials and tribulations. The sequel of this books, seven sisters is also a must-read if you are looking for the options in the same genre. The book is featured on Vowelor best books to read category.

Driven: The Never-Give-up Roadmap to Massive Success

Words: Manny Khoshbin

Voice: Jonathan Todd Ross

The next on our list is an uncanny way to get motivated towards your goals while on your way to your destination. Manny Khoshbin unveils his own life experiences, his challenges, his failures and his efforts that lead to his success as an entrepreneur. Ride on with Jonathan Todd Ross depicting Manny's words towards dreaming big and accomplishing big.

I Will Be Gone In The Dark

Words: Michelle McNamara

Voice: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn- introduction, Patton Oswalt- afterword

Yet another crime suspense we have on our list to keep you engrossed during your drive. The exceptional jewel that McNamara created at the time of her sudden death added the everlasting feather to her cap. The story revolves around the so-called "Golden State Killer" the mysterious rapists and murderer and how a determined journalist lost hold of her life while investigating the case. Shhh! I am not going to reveal anything further. Go unleash yourself till you reach your journey's end.

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