Best Audiobooks and Books for Long Commutes and Trips
Discover the best audiobooks and books for long commutes and trips! Our curated list features engaging reads and listens to make your travel time fly by. Perfect for book lovers on the go.
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Point of Impact
by Stephen Hunter
âA harsh, visceral, novel of conspiracy and betrayal . . . a distrubing mix that plays on our sense of history while at the same time it appeals to our darkest fantasies of rough justice.ââChicago Tribune The inspiration for the USA Network series Shooter He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind. But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to perfectionâuntil Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent. Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once moreâbut this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.
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Dirty White Boys
by Stephen Hunter
They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose.... Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him.... Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live... Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar's hands. Now they're about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away....
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The Day Before Midnight
by Stephen Hunter
âA breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happenâgiven the possibility of an atomic âgiven.â A wrap-up you'll never forget.ââRobert Ludlum The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile siteâa top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through itâso they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountainâby defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader . . . . . . while Jack Hummel's torch burns closer and closer to the launch key . . . while the clock ticks closer to midnightâand Armageddon. Praise for The Day Before Midnight âRockets toward a shattering climax like an incoming missile.ââStephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder and Final Flight âNonstop action and mounting tension.ââThe New York Times Book Review âSlam-bang action and relentless suspense.ââThe Washington Post âThe novel crackles and jolts.ââChicago Tribune âThe one to beat this year in the nail-biter class . . . an edge-of-the-seat doomsday countdown thriller.ââDaily News, New York
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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. This time in Australia. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity. Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.
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Map of Bones
by James Rollins
During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world. With the Vatican in turmoil, SIGMA Force leaps into action. An elite team of scientific and Special Forces operatives under the command of Grayson Pierce and accompanied by Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri, they are pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind . . . when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.
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Black Order
by James Rollins
In Copenhagen . . . a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continentsâand into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. In the mountains of Nepal . . . in a remote monastery, Buddhist monks inexplicably turn to cannibalism and tortureâwhile Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, begins to show signs of the same baffling, mind-destroying malady . . . and Lisa Cummings, a dedicated American doctor, becomes the target of a brutal clandestine assassin. Now only Gray Pierce and Sigma Force can save a world suddenly in terrible jeopardy. Because a new order is on the riseâan annihilating nightmare growing at the heart of the greatest mystery of all: the origin of life.
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Subterranean
by James Rollins
Beneath the ice at the bottom of the earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth.
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Prey
by Michael Crichton
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticlesâmicro-robotsâhas escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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Flood Tide
by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes--a madman bent on killing hundreds of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.
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Deal Breaker
by Harlan Coben
Softhearted sports agent Myron Bolitar must unravel a complex mystery involving blackmail and family tragedy when his client, celebrated rookie quarterback Christian Steele, receives a phone call from a supposedly-dead ex-girlfriend. Reissue.
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L.A. Requiem
by Robert Crais
Ex-cop Joe Pike and his partner, private detective Elvis Cole, run afoul of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division when they are hired to monitor the police investigation into the death of Joe's former lover, Karen Garcia.
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The Watchman
by Robert Crais
Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
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The Whole Truth
by David Baldacci
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor
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Lost Light
by Michael Connelly
The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he's ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
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Purple Cane Road
by James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his motherâs legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Daveâs mind. Heâs lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and knows the infinite series of disappointments in her life could not have come to a good end. While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guilloryâs boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Daveâs search for his motherâs killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his motherâs son. Purple Cane Road has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surprises from start to finish.
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Memorial Day
by Vince Flynn
CIA operative Mitch Rapp has one week to derail a terrorist attack on Washington, D.C., during the unveiling of the World War II memorial.
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Killing Floor
by Lee Child
Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers after a series of brutal crimes terrorize tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade.
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Tripwire
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher hunts the hunter in the third novel in Lee Childâs #1 New York Times bestselling series. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Ex military policeman Jack Reacher is enjoying the lazy anonymity of Key West when a stranger shows up asking for him. Heâs got a lot of questions. Reacher does too, especially after the guy turns up dead. The answers lead Reacher on a cold trail back to New York, to the tenuous confidence of an alluring woman, and the dangerous corners of his own past.
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Persuader
by Lee Child
Jack Reacher takes an undercover assignment to investigate the disappearance of a federal agent from the home of a notorious drug dealer, but Reacher soon discovers that the dealer has ties to a man from Reacher's own past, one that Reacher supposedly killed. Reprint.
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A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The master of the legal thriller probes the savage depths of racial violence in this searing courtroom drama featuring the beloved Jake Brigance. âJohn Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today.ââThe Philadelphia Inquirer The life of a ten-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless white men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crimeâuntil the girlâs father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his clientâs lifeâand then his own. Donât miss John Grishamâs new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
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Master of the Game
by Sidney Sheldon
Three generations of Blackwell women--each endowed with passion, ambition, and tormenting secrets--gather at Dark Harbor, Maine, to pay homage to Kate Blackwell, ninety-year-old head of the world's largest conglomerate. Reissue.
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A Dangerous Fortune
by Ken Follett
A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives. From the exclusive menâs clubs and brothels that cater to every dark desire of Londonâs upper class to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the worldâs wealth, one family is splintered by a shared legacy. But greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boyâs death, must be stopped, or the dreams of a nation will die. Praise for A Dangerous Fortune âA terrific page-turner.ââLos Angeles Times âPolitical and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises . . . old-fashioned entertainment.ââSan Francisco Chronicle âBreathlessly plotted . . . relentlessly suspenseful.ââThe New York Times âGripping, complex plot . . . sexual intrigue . . . fascinating characters . . . You wonât be able to put down this exciting page-turner.ââLexington Herald-Leader âFollett [builds] to a dramatic climax with the same masterful control that guided Eye of the Needle and The Pillars of the Earth.ââPlayboy âI donât usually enjoy historical thrillers but admit to being totally captivated by Ken Follettâs A Dangerous Fortune.ââChicago Tribune âHighly entertaining . . . Follettâs characters are drawn with broad, realistic strokes . . . this story of greed and retribution should win Follett new fans.ââPublishers Weekly âRich, complex, thrilling, suspenseful, well plotted . . . A Dangerous Fortune is dangerous reading. You wonât be able to put it down.ââAuthors and Critics
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A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follettâs turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisersâall propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever.
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Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! The President is dead. Now, the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryanâs shoulders in this extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller from Tom Clancy. At the climax of Debt of Honor, the most devastating terrorist act in the history of the world left the President, the Joint Chiefs, the Supreme Court, and nearly all of Congress dead. Only Jack Ryan, confirmed Vice President mere minutes before, survived to take the reins of a shaken and leaderless country. Now he must rebuild a government, comfort a grieving nation, and become a true leader. Meanwhile, he is surrounded by enemiesâboth inside the White House and around the worldâall of them plotting to destroy an untested President. And bring an already wounded country to its knees....
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Debt of Honor
by Tom Clancy
Don't Miss the Original Series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Starring John Krasinski! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK RYAN NOVEL âA harrowing taleâŚClancy keeps you riveted with political intrigue and military maneuvering [and] sends you rushing headlong to the bookâs stunning conclusion.ââUSA Today Bestselling author Tom Clancy takes a bold, incisive look at what our nationâs leaders are calling âthe new world order.â The time and place: a world at peace, where yesterdayâs enemies are tomorrowâs allies. The players: Jack Ryan as the new U.S. Presidentâs National Security Advisor, and his CIA colleagues, John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The crisis: a shocking chain of events in which the wages of peace are as fully complexâand devastatingâas those of war. â[Debt of Honor] traces the financial, political, military, and personal machinations that drive America into the next major global warâŚA SHOCKER.ââEntertainment Weekly
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Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley's bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. Come and savor Ray Bradbury's priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
A New York Times BestsellerAdapted into the movie HolesInterest Level: Middle/High School Reading Grade Level: 3rd & 4th Lexile Level: 660L Theme: Belonging/Sense of SelfAn Accelerated Reader(r) title