Audiobook Appreciation Month: Great Audiobooks for Road Trips

Taking road trips with the family is a time-honored summer tradition. What better way to engage the whole family while beating that “Are We There Yet” boredom than by listening to an audiobook together? June is Audiobook Appreciation Month, and whether you’re a new listener or an audiophile, we have an extensive, fun-filled audiobook collection to keep you entertained for miles. Read on to learn more about the joys of audiobooks, and to discover some of our favorite audiobooks from the library’s collection.

Listening to an audiobook as a family is a great way to get everyone interested in reading. Plus, listening to audiobooks can count toward your summer reading goals! In addition to our large collection of audiobooks on CD, with a library card you automatically have access to Libby, an app that allows you to borrow eBooks and audiobooks for free. Check out up to 25 items at a time, and stock up for those summer road trips now! For even more free audiobooks — as well as ebooks, music, movies, and television — try browsing Hoopla. Visit our Downloads and Streaming page to learn more about each platform and how to get started.

Below are just a few of our favorite audiobooks:

Fun for the whole family:

• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson

For Teens:

• Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Paper Towns by John Green
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Nonfiction for Adults:

• American Radical by Tamer Elnoury
• An Immense World by Ed Yong
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• Educated by Tara Westover

Fiction for Adults:

• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Books narrated by the author:

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Calypso and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Good Talk by Mira Jacob