It’s a great story to make your road trip fly by.If you love listening to books while you’re on the road, then we’ve got you covered. Oyinkan Braithwaite’s 2018 debut is dark, funny, and well worth your time. For the third time in a row, Ayoola has had to kill her boyfriend “in self-defense.” Her sister, Korede, is certainly suspicious though. In Lagos, Nigeria, Ayoola keeps stabbing her boyfriends to death. If you haven’t gotten to this one yet, get on it now for your next road trip. It’s all the drama of a doomed romance and all the drama of a thrilling mystery, and everywhere in between is tremendous and deeply felt prose. Owens’ novel bends a few different genres together. Beatty’s work is often thought-provoking and always hilarious.Īnother recent bestseller stunner was Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing. A great place to start would be The White Boy Shuffle, Beatty’s debut novel about a young Black outcast turned basketball star turned savior of the downtrodden. If you’re looking for something that’s a little lighter and funnier but still sharp and cutting, you need to start looking into Paul Beatty’s work. In elegant, sprawling prose, Woolf’s novel of winding descriptions may not make for the most uplifting road trip fare, but it’s certainly one you won’t soon forget. Ferrante’s books are deeply compelling and tender, and My Brilliant Friend is only the beginning.Īnother classic novel for you to revisit or take in for the first time, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse is completely entrancing from start to finish. Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels follow Lenu and Lila over the course of nearly their whole lives. On your next road trip, you should take in the first novel in the most notable contemporary epic series. From Baltimore to San Francisco, Waters makes his way across America with all that he needs, namely his cardboard sign that reads “I’M NOT CRAZY.” John Waters is fully and famously John Waters in the early 2010s when he sets off to travel the U.S. If you liked On The Road, here’s an even more nonfictional version from one of America’s strangest and most beloved artists.
#Good audio book for road trip movie
While Matt Damon’s movie was an extremely fun watch, the book is even better because it gives you every single thought - good or bad, triumphant or failing - the lost astronaut has on his journey to survive and escape the red planet. Meanwhile, if you enjoy the intense step-by-step problem-solving, Andy Weir’s novel The Martian gives you that and more. The kinds of questions where you have to skip over the immediate response of “that doesn’t make sense.” For example, when asked “What if you hit a baseball that was pitched at 90% of the speed of light?” Munroe, through some “back of the envelope” calculation, concludes that you would probably cause a large explosion (and the umpire would call that a hit by pitch - take your base). In his book, Randall Munroe takes you step by step through intense and often silly problem-solving.
What If? is almost made for long car rides. – What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions If your speed is more nonfiction, Chuck Klosterman’s books are a great place to start, and my personal favorite would be But What If We’re Wrong? Klosterman doesn’t just seek to examine why certain things rise to popularity, but he tries to identify what aspects of our current popular culture will stick in hundreds of years. Less is the story of a writer traveling all over the world, dealing with aging, writing, fatigue, success, and lost love. On a weeklong trip with just a couple hours of listening every day, it’s a great choice for life on the highway.Īndrew Sean Greer’s satirical novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2018, which is reason enough to read it.
At just under 12 hours, the audiobook is a completely manageable length. A natural choice for when you yourself are on the road, Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel follows the story of a man in the 1950s hitchhiking his way across the country and the grand and extraordinary cast of characters he meets along the way.
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