Travel bestsellers

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“This book is a freaking wild ride, which I recommend you get on. Yes, there is hot dog information between the unfiltered commentary from the author, who reminds me of a young Anthony Bourdain, while they wander along the road searching for this iconic food. Read more

In the Weeds

Lovelight Farms: Book #2

By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

“This was such a vast improvement from Lovelight Farms. Granted I read Lovelight about 1.5 years ago but I remember feeling like it was pretty mid. It was cute for a holiday time read but it didn’t particularly stand out. Determined to read the series within the intended seasons, I missed In the Weeds last Spring and was pleased to be able to... Read more

Adult Braces

Driving Myself Sane

By: Lindy West
Narrated by: Lindy West
Length: TBA

In her most ambitious memoir yet, bestselling author Lindy West takes listeners on a funny and unfiltered cross-country road trip through the most chaotic period of her life. Exclusive self-recorded voice memos captured on the road give this audiobook a raw, real-time immediacy as she rediscovers herself and reinvents her marriage in the... Read more about Adult Braces

Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara
Narrated by: Will Guidara
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

“It’s not every day a business book has us gasping, screaming, cheering, and laughing! Unreasonable Hospitality is part business memoir, part leadership manifesto, a mix of hospitality and humanism, management and magic. Guidara took a NYC restaurant from struggling to #1 in the world; here he shares the lessons he learned in those 11 years. This... Read more

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

My Cemetery Journeys

By: Mariana Enriquez
Narrated by: Annette Amelia Oliveira
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

“This is my version of a cozy book to curl up with in the colder seasons. It has the right amount of heart and humor, enough new information to keep me engaged, and it gives a peek into the personal life of an author I am now much more interested in. I also feel less alone as a weirdo in this world, knowing that someone enjoys visiting cemeteries... Read more

Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

“Bourdain begrudgingly offers, among other things, a cracked and battered pair of rose-colored glasses through which to view the world. Read more

A Walk in the Park

By: Kevin Fedarko
Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“Wow, buckle up for a wild adventure in the Grand Canyon! Chapter one grabs you right away, and your throat will feel parched through the entire audiobook. From hours spent capturing water with a syringe to the enthralling history of the Indigenous People, A Walk in the Park will keep your interest .... and emotions at high alert the entire time. Read more

Into Thin Air

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

“This is the book that began my fascination with epic disasters in cold, icy places. I guess I wanted to understand why people risk their lives for adventure or exploration, which I admit I still don’t understand after reading dozens of books like this. But I keep reading them, just as drawn into the snowy, freezing landscapes as the mindset of... Read more

World Travel

An Irreverent Guide

By: Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander & Steve Albini
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

“There are not words for how much I miss the voice of Anthony Bourdain. A new collection of his writings put together with Laurie Woolever (his assistant for 10 years) details his favorite places on earth and with notes on how to visit them. As we prepare to travel as safely as possible again, it's comforting to have Bourdain as my companion if... Read more

Tigers Between Empires

The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

By: Jonathan C. Slaght
Narrated by: Jonathan C. Slaght
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

“The frontier of the Russian Far East is a mysterious place inhabited by the Amur Tiger and a fiercely independent people. This book shows how the fall of the Soviet Union and its economic collapse led to a dramatic decline in the Tiger population. However, hardy wildlife conservationists from around the world allied to provide economic support... Read more

Wild

From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

“I’m a bit obsessed with Cheryl Strayed. Much like Gabrielle Hamilton of Blood Bones and Butter, Strayed is an incredible writer with a strong voice that will blow you away. Wild is an account of Strayed’s 1,000-mile solo trek on the Pacific Crest Trail, undertaken at age 26 following the sudden loss of her mother. Despite the blood and bruises... Read more

Travel as a Political Act

Rick Steves

By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

“You know Rick Steves from his PBS travel documentaries, where he's a goofy, lighthearted tourist sharing Europe's finest sights. In this book, his approach is more serious as he discusses the way his travels (outside cozy Western Europe) have informed his politics. Updated to reflect recent political trends in the US and abroad, this book looks... Read more

A Walk in the Woods

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more about A Walk in the Woods

From Scratch

A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

By: Tembi Locke
Narrated by: Tembi Locke
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

“I just finished wiping away my last tear as I close the curtain on From Scratch, a brilliant, compelling memoir. Tembi Locke lost her larger-than-life Italian chef husband at an early age to cancer. The book is a love letter to him as well as to enchanting Sicily and its aromatic, tantalizing food. But more than anything, it is the most... Read more

Planetwalker

22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.

By: John Francis, Ph. D.
Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand: he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades and two continents, the young man took a vow... Read more about Planetwalker

The Comfort Crisis

Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

By: Michael Easter
Narrated by: Michael Easter
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

“Are you eager to be more present in your life? Is too much of your life taken over by screens? This book can be your portal, from the lens of physical challenge, time in nature, and embracing discomfort in many ways. Its one of those self-help books that actually help you change your perspective and your habits. A great gift for people wanting... Read more

Lands of Lost Borders

A Journey on the Silk Road

By: Kate Harris
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

“This special memoir is really a travelogue of bicycling the Silk Roads. Enjoy Harris' fascinating anecdotes and historical references, as well as tales of the people who help them along the way when food is scarce or it's dangerous to sleep outdoors. Kate and her friend endure extreme weather, road conditions, handling paperwork and police... Read more

I Regret Almost Everything

By: Keith McNally
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“This is a great glimpse into the NYC of before-- in the restaurant heyday , and a look into the man who created so much. The lush experiences Keith McNally shares with us, personal and professional, and read by the wonderful Richard E. Grant, make for great entertainment. The duo of Keith and his first wife Lynn Wagenknecht is especially... Read more

In Other Words

A Memoir

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“Lahiri traces the origins, tribulations, and tiny victories that have fueled her decades-long courtship with the Italian language in a bilingual memoir that reads more like an intimate diary. The chapters and short stories offer a vivid timeline of Lahiri's turbulent relationship with language, bouncing around from English to Bengali during her... Read more

The Far Traveler

Voyages of a Viking Woman

By: Nancy Marie Brown
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of... Read more about The Far Traveler

Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. Take a... Read more about Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay

By: Sean Dietrich
Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

“This is such an incredible story. Sean Dietrich communicates and writes very beautifully about overcoming circumstances and never quitting in life. This book will break your heart, make you laugh, and be hopeful about tomorrow. Read more

The Geography of Genius

A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

Creative Lessons in History

By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

“In his latest quest, acclaimed travel writer Weiner takes readers on a journey to discover creative places that inspire and cultivate geniuses. Time-traveling from ancient Athens to modern Silicon Valley with Hangzhou, Florence, Edinburgh, Calcutta, and Vienna as stops along the way, Weiner conducts a grand tour of those places thought to be... Read more

The Arctic Cruise

By: Caroline James
Narrated by: Simone McIntyre
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Pack your bags for the adventure of a lifetime… From the #1 bestselling author of The Cruise, embark on an unforgettable journey and sail through Norway’s winter wonderland to see the spectacular Northern Lights. 'A wonderful, emotional and heartwarming story of lost love and second chances in an out... Read more about The Arctic Cruise

Bicycling with Butterflies

My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

By: Sara Dykman
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award

Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration—a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on a bike cobbled together from used parts. Her... Read more about Bicycling with Butterflies

The Lost City of Z

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.

After stumbling... Read more about The Lost City of Z

Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single... Read more about Living Planet

Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass

By: Isak Dinesen
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Out of Africa:
In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who... Read more about Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass

Arctic Dreams

National Book Award Winner

By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Winner of the National Book Award

This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far... Read more about Arctic Dreams

In the Weeds

Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

By: Tom Vitale
Narrated by: Tom Vitale
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.
 
In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His... Read more about In the Weeds

Provence, 1970

M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in... Read more about Provence, 1970

America the Beautiful?

One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Travelled

By: Blythe Roberson
Narrated by: Kendra Hoffman
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Selected by New York Times Book Review as one of their “Great Road Trip Books”NATIONAL BESTSELLER Best Book of the Year —NPR, Vulture, Book Riot, B&N""America the Beautiful? is so funny and special and illuminating that it makes even me, a person who cannot tolerate trees or weather, wish I could've tagged along in the back... Read more about America the Beautiful?

Confederates in the Attic

Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Arthur Addison
Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to... Read more about Confederates in the Attic

Ladybird Language Stories: My First Words in Spanish

By: Ladybird
Narrated by: David John
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Brought to you by Ladybird.

We are going to Spain on holiday! Imagine all the things we will see, the people we will meet and the new words we can learn. Get your passport and suitcase ready, because we are going on an adventure!

This interactive adventure is written to help young children confidently learn new language skills, while having some... Read more about Ladybird Language Stories: My First Words in Spanish

Blue Highways

A Journey into America

By: William Least Heat-Moon
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a... Read more about Blue Highways

On Trails

An Exploration

By: Robert Moor
Narrated by: Robert Moor
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club

From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a... Read more about On Trails

Underland

A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019
WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020

'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century

From the... Read more about Underland

The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846,... Read more about The Indifferent Stars Above

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Penguin Audio Classics

By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Read more about The Log from the Sea of Cortez

The Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“A fascinating true crime book, The Feather Thief recounts the theft of more than 200 bird skins from a museum in England. Along the way, Johnson also covers Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace's travels to acquire birds of paradise, the theory of evolution, and the decimation of bird species in the name of fashion. It is a book about... Read more

Volga Blues

A Journey into the Heart of Russia

By: Marzio G. Mian
Narrated by: Rich Miller
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Winner of the Estense Prize A risky undercover reporting trip along Russia’s great mother-river, the Volga, reveals the tortuous history and frightening current fantasies of a nation. Since the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet... Read more about Volga Blues

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

By: Daniel L. Everett
Narrated by: Daniel Everett
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for... Read more about Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

On the Hippie Trail

Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

By: Rick Steves
Narrated by: Rick Steves
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

“Even travel writers had to stay home during the pandemic, lucky for us, Rick Steves decided to use the downtime to bring together this memoir of his overland trip from Europe to India in his early twenties. As charming as you'd expect, this memoir is full of hope in humanity, awe in travel, and so many vintage photos. Perfect for the armchair... Read more

Africa Is Not A Country

Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa

By: Dipo Faloyin
Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Africa Is Not A Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa, that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.

You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In... Read more about Africa Is Not A Country

The Silk Roads

A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 25 hours 7 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, read by Mike Grady.

The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it... Read more about The Silk Roads

The Braindead Megaphone

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"--not to mention an official "Genius"--his first nonfiction... Read more about The Braindead Megaphone

Natural Born Heroes

How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere. 

After running an ultramarathon through the... Read more about Natural Born Heroes

Melt With You

By: Jennifer Dugan
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

From the author of Some Girls Do and Hot Dog Girl comes a sweet and salty queer YA rom-com about two girls on a summer road trip in an ice cream truck.

Fallon is Type A, looks before she leaps, and always has a plan (and a backup plan).
 
Chloe is happy-go-lucky, flies by the seat of her pants, and always follows her bliss.
 
The two girls... Read more about Melt With You

The Anthony Bourdain Reader

New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: TBD
Length: TBA

The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first timeAnthony Bourdain represented many things to many people—and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more longlasting, than that of a writer. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is a collection of his best and... Read more about The Anthony Bourdain Reader

The Best of Me

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume.

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving... Read more about The Best of Me