Over the years, and with much trial and error, my family members have become quite the audiobook connoisseurs. After a particularly ill-fated trip sometime around 2006, my mom put the kibosh on road trips longer than five hours (the drive time to our most distant grandparents), but five hours is still plenty of listening time. While it is a bit early in the traveling season, here are some of our top audiobook recommendations for your upcoming trips, whatever form of locomotion you use.
But first, to forestall any questions: No, Hank the Cowdog and subsequent recordings of the series are not included on this list. We (apparently) tried to listen to one of these audiobooks years ago, but it induced such annoyance and outrage in my mom that we’ve never attempted it since. Usually, audiobooks we’ve tried and disliked are skipped through and forgotten, but for some completely unknown reason, the mere mention of this title brings angry grumbles and mutterings from the maternal unit.
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