Audiobook recommendations for 10 hr ride trip

[Anonymous]

Looking for audiobook recommendations for a long car trip. Actually 2 trips — one trip with two adults and the other with two teens. Trip is about 10+ hours each way.

No preference between fiction/ non-fiction. Something engaging but not too heavy. A great narrator would be a bonus.

Thanks for any ideas.

[Anonymous]

Remarkably Bright Creatures.
It is about the friendship between a 70 year old woman and an octopus.
There is a death involved, but other than that there is nothing gory or super sexy. So the book is pretty much suitable for all audiences over the age of 10,
It is 11 hours long.

[Anonymous]

Opal and Nev

[Anonymous]

Project Hail Mary.
1968

[Anonymous]

Born a Crime. (Trevor Noah's childhood)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remarkably Bright Creatures.
It is about the friendship between a 70 year old woman and an octopus.
There is a death involved, but other than that there is nothing gory or super sexy. So the book is pretty much suitable for all audiences over the age of 10,
It is 11 hours long.

+1
This is the book that came to mind for me, too.
I couldn’t get through project Hail Mary although so many people loved it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remarkably Bright Creatures.
It is about the friendship between a 70 year old woman and an octopus.
There is a death involved, but other than that there is nothing gory or super sexy. So the book is pretty much suitable for all audiences over the age of 10,
It is 11 hours long.

But super boring. Most of the book is about literally nothing at all and irrelevant to the story line. I fear you will fall asleep at the wheel.

[Anonymous]

A Gentleman in Moscow. Incredible book, and the narrator is outstanding. It's 17 hours - but perhaps the trip is round-trip?

[Anonymous]

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

I recommend this because I recall that when I was a surly teen (yes, kids, even Mom was young once), I vociferously objected to this audiobook during my family's 1990's car trip and announced that I was sure it would be super "lame." But it was seriously so compelling that I remember it 30 years & about 500+ subsequent audiobooks later...

(Note: I am sure there are many renditions of the story that are good. This is just the one I recall.)

[Anonymous]

All the Light We Cannot See was sooooo great as an audiobook.

Also, A Gentleman in Moscow is about the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to.

[Anonymous]

World War Z
Ready Player One

[Anonymous]

I know it's crazy to suggest something other than adult fiction, but two middle grade audiobooks by the same author are my favorites. Both have extraordinarily good narrators, and both are by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley:

The War That Saved My Life
Fighting Words

I've recommended them to at least a dozen adults and countless children and all I get are raves about them. One longtime friend even got a tattoo after listening to the second (you'd have to read it to understand why.)

[Anonymous]

Vera Wong’s guide to Murder.

[Anonymous]

Just finished atmosphere which was super good.

[Anonymous]

For the adults, Wealth of Shadows, by Graham Moore is good historical fiction re US espionage and economic strategy in WWII. Way more interesting than it may sound - I liked it a lot on audio.