Summer is roadtrip season, and just like for readathon, audiobooks are the perfect companion. In fact several readathon-ers are participating in this weekend’s ‘thon almost entirely in the car. I love a good roadtrip and whether you’re doing it solo or with one person or a whole carload, the opportunities for some good bookish shenanigans are multitude. Which books will you listen to? Which bookstores or literary sights will you see? How many fights over which Hogwarts house is better will you have?
So for our next challenge, in the comments, tell me either: 1) which three audiobooks you’d recommend for a roadtrip and why, OR 2) if you could take a roadtrip to any three bookish locations, what would they be? And because, books are magic, your destinations don’t obviously have to make sense within the confines of space and time. Want to roadtrip with Jamie to Lallybroch (from Outlander), the city of Sky (from The Inheritance Trilogy), and Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s Camp for Hardcore Lady Types (from Lumberjanes)? Go for it.
We’ll be announcing winners for this challenge at Hour 18 in six hours. And now for the winners of the Hour Six Shelfie challenge:
Jennifer S. (@robothugs on Litsy)
Ilse Matus (@matusilse on Twitter)
Kavita R. (@kavitathereader on Instagram)
Jenna Morrison Campbell (@sheridan4369 on Twitter)
Steph Auteri (@stephauteri on Twitter)
Sarah VInka (@sarahbussing on Instagram)
Gemma (@bookworm54 on Litsy)
Casey Rose (@caseyrosereads on Instagram)
Laura Brauman (@lauralovebooks1 on Litsy)
Katie H. (@skateanddonate on Twitter)
Winners, go hit up the prize page now! See you fine readers back here in three hours for more prizes.
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If I could go any bookish location I would go the night circus, to see all the magic and tricks. I’m not a huge fan of circus but this is one is completely different. I would go just to feel the magic
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2) if you could take a roadtrip to any three bookish locations, what would they be? UM wonderland because it would be fun, Neverland from Peter Pan because it would be a great experience and I have always wished I could go there and finally maybe New York but the Shadowhunters parts.
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So many audiobooks to choose from, but I would pick:
1) Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
2) Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling
3) Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
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Best audiobooks: Illuminae, Gemina, and Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue!
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If I could take a road trip to any three bookish locations… that’d have to be Hogsmede, the TARDIS (hehe), and Scotland (from Outlander). I want to listen to more audiobooks, so I’m looking forward to recommendations! 😄
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I would Recommend Harry Potter is and obvious one but I like the Gregor audiobook by Suzanne Collins, Shatter me is a really good audiobook series is great too.
❤ Alicia
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1. I love a good long audiobook on a Roa Trip! I love a Billy Bryson book if I’m travelling with my husband, we listen together and discuss what he’s talking about & possibly visit places he’s going!
2. I’d love to visit the east coast features in Julie Cohen’s Together. I’d love to visit Dash & Lily’s New a york from Book of Dares & I’d love to visit the Italian villages from Adriana Trigiani’s novels-because Italian food is yum!
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1. Jim Dale does a great job narrating the HP series
2. Fangirl
3. Eleanor and Park
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2) if you could take a roadtrip to any three bookish locations, what would they be?
I’d go to Prague because of the Daighter of Smoke and Bone trilogy being set there
I’d go to London so I could follow the map in the infernal devices- or similarly New York/Los Angles for TMi and TDA
Lastly I’d visit wales but not because it’s based on a place in the books I read but because I think it could inspire me to write more as I love the atmosphere wales has
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The three audiobooks I would recommend for a road trip would be Pride and Prejudice (because I’ve listened to it and that’s the best way to go), Poison Study (because I listened to the second one and it helped me so much), and The Sun is Also a Star (because although I haven’t read this one, I plan on listening to it during this readathon, I’ve heard nothing but good things, and I loved Everything Everything)!
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Three books (actually series) we have enjoyed thoroughly on road trips are… The Chronicles of Narnia, Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan series, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…. I would also throw in the Lord of the Rings Series. Many hours spent listening to these great audio versions with our four children.
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Three audiobooks I’d recommend for a road trip are:
– The Clancys of Queens
– What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
– I’m a Stranger Here Myself
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Lallybroch with Jamie would be a dream haha.
I’d love to travel to the different Londons with Kell (A Darker Shade of Magic), tour the major cities of Tortall (Tamora Pierce books), and visit the many dimensions connected to the Library with Irene and Kai (The Invisible Library)!
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I would go to:
– the Capitol of Panem (not during dangerous times obv.)
– Nangiyala of the Brothers Lionheart
– Night Vale (although this is originally a podcast location, they also wrote a novel, so I’m counting it as a bookish location!)
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1. Dark Matter
2. Anne of Green Gable
3. Gone Girl
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My three bookish locations to travel to would be
1. Hogwarts – this one is just a given
2. The setting of my current read, Serafina and the Black Cloak. It is only fitting that I’m in Asheville reading it! I think it would be awesome to see Asheville in 1899.
3. The Walking Dead would be fun to peek in on as long as I don’t have to stay!
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I would recommend these 3 audiobooks
1. Yes Please by Amy Poehler. Because I have done a road trip with this book and it was perfect.
2. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. Because if you’re traveling with other people, there’s lots to talk about.
3. Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Because this is one of the best book/narrator combinations I’ve listened to lately.
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Hey there!
Three audiobooks I would recommend for a road trip; “Behind Closed Doors”-B.A. Paris
“Rock Chick”-Kristin Ashley
“American Gods”-Neil Gaiman.
All three have wonderful narrators and the story just pulls you in from the start.
The three places I would visit from my books;
3. I would love to be a Rock Chick..I already live in Denver so I would just to find Indy and make her love me.
2. Wonderland. I would travel around with Alice and make trouble with her.
1. HOGWARTS! DUUUHHHHHHHH
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I’m listening to Kevin Hart’s I Can’t Make This Up Life Lessons today while I do necessary things like shower and cook. It’s my first pick because I love books by comedians and I love audiobooks read by the author. My other two audiobook picks: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron and Yes Please by Amy Poehler. You won’t want to leave the car.
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Bookish locations:
1. Forks, WA from Twilight, because I’ve never been to Washington but love the idea of a gloomy setting for a very low-key vacation.
2. Hogwarts from Harry Potter because magic.
3. Xanth from Piers Anthony’s Xanth series because see #2.
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If I could road trip to any 3 bookish location.
This is actually really easy and I’ve had them picked for years! They’re my 3 favorite places.
1) Narnia
2) Middle Earth
3) Hogwarts
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Bookish places: English author tour in England, vague but could cover so much ground! Cincinnati where Rachel Morgan and The hallows is set. And lastly… Mulbery Street.
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Roadtrip audiobooks! I would recommend:
The Martian by Andy Weir. It’s escapist and engrossing and the narrator *nails* it. So, so, so good. Also, it’s really funny and gripping in equal measure, so it will hold your attention. Not all fiction holds up to the audiobook treatment for me, but this one does.
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi. It’s about her father’s gender transition and it’s such a complicated story, but the audio is very well done and it would definitely absorb a long car ride.
Zealot by Reza Asian. He narrates it and his voice is magical, but also the history of Jesus as a historical versus religious figure was totally fascinating to me as an atheist. I like to learn a lot on a long car ride, and this would fit the bill.
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I feel like road trips are primetime for memoirs. Easy to leave off and pick up, and no minor plot details to remember.
I recommend:
1. Bossypants- Tina Fey
2. Choose Your Own Autobiography- Neil Patrick Harris
3. Scrappy Little Nobody- Anna Kendrick
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I haven’t listened to too many audiobooks yet (I bought one though, “Finding Focus in a Busy World” by Joshua Seth) … so if I could take a bookish roadtrip, I would go to:
– Angeles (from The Selection series, to visit Maxon Schreave!)
– Orlando (home of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios!)
– Chicago (dystopian version, because it’d be cool to see the setting of Divergent!)
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Three audio books for a road trip? I’d choose The Night Circus (because Jim Dale), One Summer by Bill Bryson, and American Kingpin by Nick Bilton.
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1.Narnia so I could meet Aslan, Lucy, Mr Tumnus and Reepeecheep.
2. Southern Italy to meet the characters eat the food and soak up the sun in Nicky Pellegrino’s books.
3. London in the swinging 60s as featured in Simon Michael’s Charles Holborn series.
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Road trip anywhere. I would love to see the town in Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson, it has that small town vibe and I can go back to real life at the end of the summer, or to Luna from the Lunar Chronicles, get to see all the crazy stuff the lunars wear and all the ‘beautiful” faces, or to the Area 51 sight in the Southern Reach trilogy to see for myself what is going on there since it was NOT explained in the last book.
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The 3 audiobooks I’d recommend are Daughter of Smoke and Bone, because the narrator is absolutely amazing, Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology because he could read anything and I’d listen- but his take on the myths is great, and The Martian because it’s hilarious and heartbreaking and so well read.
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If I could go to any three bookish locations it would be Inkworld from Inkheart, Isla Nublar from Jurassic Park, and Hogwarts from Harry Potter.
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1. Dirty Daddy
2. Running With Scissors
3. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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I would recommend the following audiobooks for long car rides 🙂
1) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, read by the author
2) Any of the Harry Potter books read by Stephen Fry
3) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, read by the author
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If I could roadtrip to any bookish location, one would definitely be Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley or Hogwarts. Either one, I wouldn’t mind. Obviously the Night Court would be another especially Velaris. The last place I would love to road trip to would be the Haven Institute from Replica.
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I would start out with taking a trip to The Night Court to visit Feyre and Rhys, and then I would visit Hogsmeade for a dinner break at the Three Broomsticks, and finish with a trip to Camp Half-blood!
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I would go to Watford – Carry on, the world in Nimona (whatever it’s called) and off course Hogwarts. Obviously I just want magic in my life.
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Audiobooks for roadtrips: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Heartsick by Chelsea Cain, and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Because they are all fantastic!
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I couldn’t go on a roadtrip without my three favorite audiobooks – WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE by Samantha Irby (for lolz), PRIESTDADDY by Patricia Lockwood (for her impressions), and Betty White’s memoir HERE WE GO AGAIN (because she’s f*cking Betty White and she narrates it).
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I’d recommend the following for a road trip:
– The Diviners by Libba Bray, narrated by January LaVoy (YA, historical fiction and Paranormal suspense – and damn spooky at that!)
– A Hero’s Guide To Saving The Kingdom by Christopher Healy, narrated by Bronson Pinchot (Middle Grade fairy tale spoof – hilarious!)
– Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, I can’t remember the dual narrators but they’re excellent. Historical suspense, WII era, YA
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I have to combine the questions! Too good!
I’d visit Rivendell and Lothlorien, of course. I’d also like to see New York through the eyes of Oskar from “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” On the trips over, I’d need a story that’s better in audio than in print (or movie!). Paula Hawkins fits that bill perfectly. 😏
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A road trip to my dream destination
1) Iceland (from Burial Rites by Hannah Kent)
2) Beckford and the drowning pool (from Into the water by Paula Hawkins)
3) Cross country drive in Japan (from Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami)
P.S – I just remembered another destination so I have to add it too, Barcelona to visit the cemetery of forgotten books (from Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
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“If you could take a roadtrip to any three bookish locations, where would it be?”
Firstly, i’d roadtrip from home (Galway, Ireland!) to Hogwarts! From Hogwarts, i’d proceed to Ketterdam, to meet with Kaz and the crows. My third destination…. Maybe Alaegasia because i’m currently reading brisingr and I have no idea what the dragons look like!
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If I could take a road trip to any three bookish locations it would have to be:
1. Madia from “Arrows of Rain” by Okey Ndibe
2. Addis Ababa from “Cutting For Stone” by Dr. Abraham Verghese And
3. The Academy from “The Suicide Academy” by Daniel Stern.
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The top 3 bookish locations I would love to take a road trip to:
1. Fillory from The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossnan since everything seems to be possible there. Plus, talking animals.
2. Since I’m reading Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire, I’m curious about what would be on the other side of my very own doorway.
3. Key House from the Locke & Key graphic novels by Joe Hill. So many magical keys and mysterious doors to explore.
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I like funny or fantastical for audiobooks on road trips, so I’d go with:
1. this is just my face by Gabourey Sidibe
2. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (because I’ve already read the first book)
3. The Clancys of Queens by Tara Clancy
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I love a good audiobook and I love them on road trips! Here are three to enjoy.
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters.
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Three audiobooks:
* HUNGER by Roxane Gay, because you’ll cry & laugh in equal, beautiful measures
* OCTAVIA’S BROOD edited by Adrienne Maree Brown & Walidah Imarisha, because you get s bunch of varied shorts, you’ll learn something & be entertained at the same time
* HALF RESURRECTION BLUES by Daniel José Older, for a bit of intersectional action adventure
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As far as bookish locations, I hope one day to visit the Cotswolds where Beatrix Potter lived and wrote. Here in the U.S. though, I discovered there is a replica of Dorothy’s farm from The Wizard of Oz in Kansas. We passed signs for it on a road trip last summer, but needed to reach a particular location that day, so didn’t have time to stop.
On that same road trip we listened to Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith while driving through corn fields in Minnesota. That was an appropriately creepy location for that book, so there’s my recommendation for an audiobook. Also, you can’t go wrong with anything narrated by Jim Dale or Barbara Rosenblatt.
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, 2am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino, and The Hobbit by Tolkien.
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I recently listened to the Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, which was strange, and heart wrenchingly beautiful. So I would definitely recommend it to a roadtrip, alongside Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix (which is at its best when narrated by Stephen Fry!) and Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. That would mean there is a book for every mood!
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I recommend
1- Ready Player One, because the narrative is excellent and it’s an engaging and incredibly fun book!
2- In the Country We Love, because it’s a well written look at what America does to immigrants, and the author’s perseverance in living her dream.
3- Slow Regard of Silent Things, because the beautiful language will make you swoon, and fall absolutely in love with the main character (and with Patrick Rothfuss’ writing)!
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