Thanks for the suggestions! I’d listened to Dune earlier and just read a Jane Austen book and didn’t want another one. I ended up listening to Anne of Green Gables (narrated by Rachel McAdams), a Wizard of Earthsea and am in the middle of the Thursday Murder Club.

How about Remarkably Bright Creatures?

Great in audiobook format - great reader. Enjoyed it a lot.

I recently listened to Dune and enjoyed it. It was the dramatized version with a full cast instead of just a narrator.

Or any Jane Austin?

Anxious people

What about The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder? It's not graphic, although the subject is kind of grim. It's non fiction.

Where are you driving too? It can be fun to pick a book that has something to do with the destination.

From that list, I’ve enjoyed East of Eden, but it deals with psychopathy and prostitution. But not in a graphic way.

Definitely not East of Eden. Very dark parts and explicit in places.

What about The Martian? Some swearing but otherwise fine.

Colleen Hoover

Fredrick Backman books are "clean".
JoJo Moyes books are "clean".

Debbie Macomber has written about 80 romance novels. Most only mention kissing. A few mention a nipple getting kissed. It doesn't get any "dirtier" than that.

I don’t censor books. Children read (listen) but they can only visualize what they are consuming within the limitations of their actual knowledge. If they don’t know about what they are hearing (about sex, for example) their minds can’t visualize it or understand it to the level WE can.

Look at the Bloody Jack series. They are fantastic. Lonesome Dove has some dark parts. Pillars of the Earth may bore them to sleep even if I loved it but people move from one place to another a lot.

Audible has some cool Sherlock Holmes remakes that are fun. East of Eden does have a working prostitute in it. And I'm pretty sure AK...comes to a very dark end. Does she have depression?

Bloody jack starts off sort of dark but it's really fund after Jack gets on the first vote.

We have a road trip coming up for spring break. I'm looking for a longish audiobook to listen to on the trip that will be appropriate for my 10 and 15 year old kids to hear. They won't be paying attention to the book, so it doesn't have to be geared to them; just looking for a book that I can listen to that doesn't deal with drugs, sex, etc. in an overt way.

Examples of books that have worked for this purpose on prior road trips - Project Hail Mary, the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit.

For this trip, I've thought of - Lonesome Dove, Pillars of the Earth, Anna Karenina, East of Eden, Sherlock Holmes. I know Sherlock Holmes will be fine to listen to in front of my kids, and assume East of Eden and Anna Karenina would be as well. Are Lonesome Dove and Pillars of the Earth also PG ish?

Any other recommendations?