Travel bestsellers

A Walk in the Park

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

“The lifelong obsession of the Grand Canyon led to Kevin Fedarko’s memoir. It is about him and his bestfriend Pete McBride’s journey along the length ofthe Grand Canyon, a 750 mile path. This was a grand adventure of survival. They had limited access to water and no through trail. They were very unprepared with little hiking experience and they... Read more

Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara
Narrated by: Will Guidara
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“What does it take to run the best restaurant in the world? You might think it’s all about the food, but Will Guidara, the former general manager of Eleven Madison Park, decided to try a different approach when the restaurant was first gunning for their coveted Michelin stars. Guidara’s hospitality philosophy is that by going above and beyond... Read more

Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

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

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

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

Stow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments, misadventures, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail.

In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he... 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 11 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

Into Thin Air

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

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

A Walk in the Woods

Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 43 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

A Season for That

Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

By: Steve Hoffman
Narrated by: Steve Hoffman
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong.
 
Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been... Read more

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace
Narrated by: Paul Garcia
Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity,... Read more

The Comfort Crisis

Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self

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

Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Brain.

“If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and author of The... 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 1 minute

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.
 
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon... Read more

Custodians of Wonder

Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

By: Eliot Stein
Narrated by: Danny Hughes
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the... Read more

The Peregrine

By: J. A. Baker
Narrated by: David Attenborough & Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

David Attenborough reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing. The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine. J. A. Baker’s classic of British nature writing was first published in... 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

Spying on the South

An Odyssey Across the American Divide

By: Tony Horwitz
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Tony Horwitz
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
 
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law... Read more

The Lost City of Z

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 10 hours 3 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

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol
Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

“A delight, the literary equivalent of a long catch-up with a brilliant friend.” —New York Times

“One of the most talked-about books of the year.” —Gayle King

When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie?

Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of... Read more

Travels with Charley in Search of America

Penguin Audio Classics

By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
 
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley,... Read more

In Open Contempt

Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space

By: Irvin Weathersby Jr.
Narrated by: Irvin Weathersby Jr.
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

“An awe-striking masterpiece of love.”
—Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The sentences alone in In Open Contempt make it one of the most memorable books of the decade. But it’s the unexpected lingering and genius crafting of consequential action that makes this one of the freshest explorations of space I’ve ever read. Irvin... Read more

Zion Gold Rush

The Campground Kids

By: C.R. Fulton
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

When Isaiah’s dad is hired to print 3D dinosaur bones, his family is invited to join him. On this trip, the kids are glamping—enjoying the luxury of an RV instead of camping in tents. Attending a park-sponsored stargazing event, Isaiah, Sadie, and Ethan overhear a ranger tell his favorite legend of a gold mine hidden in Zion. While exploring... Read more

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

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 20 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

Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass

By: Isak Dinesen
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 16 hours 34 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

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 55 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 Copper Canyons of... Read more

A Thousand Feasts

Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts

By: Nigel Slater
Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with... Read more

Rambling Man

My Life on the Road

By: Billy Connolly
Narrated by: Billy Connolly
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

The hilarious new book from the nation's favourite comedian, Billy Connolly.

A book of global adventures with Billy Connolly - an unconventional travel memoir that crisscrosses the world, encapsulating a lifetime of incredible journeys and hundreds of fascinating encounters.

Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I... Read more

See You in the Piazza

New Places to Discover in Italy

By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Frances Mayes
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Bestselling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine

The Roman Forum, the Leaning Tower, the Piazza San Marco: these are the sights synonymous with Italy. But such landmarks only scratch the surface... Read more

The Women I Think About at Night

Traveling the Paths of My Heroes

By: Mia Kankimäki
Narrated by: Lisa Negron
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue" (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.



What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia... Read more

Wander Woman

How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World, Solo

By: Beth Santos
Narrated by: Beth Santos
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“The ideal companion for the solo traveler, both before and during her trip.” — Pauline Frommer  
Achieve your solo female travel dreams with this empowering guide for women who want to see the world—perfect for anyone who has felt the tug of wanderlust after reading Wild, Eat Pray Love, or What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding.

If you’ve... Read more

Just Go

A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime

By: Drew Binsky
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Travel YouTuber Drew Binsky, who has visited every country in the world, shares everything you need to know to go anywhere you want.

In 2021, Drew Binsky completed his 10-year journey to travel to every country in the world—all 197 of them. Now, for the first time, Drew reveals his wildest stories and best moments, even from places the United... Read more

My Roman History

A Memoir

By: Alizah Holstein
Narrated by: Alizah Holstein
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and... Read more

Spanish Dialogues for Beginners Book 2: Over 100 Daily Used Phrases and Short Stories to Learn Spanish in Your Car. Have Fun and Grow Your Vocabulary with Crazy Effective Language Learning Lessons

By: Learn Like A Native
Narrated by: John E. Martinez & Orlena Cain
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

EASILY LEARN CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH IN JUST A FEW DAYS WITH THE HELP OF EVERYDAY SPANISH DIALOGUES FOR BEGINNERS LIKE YOU!

Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages today and opens up the door to a plethora of new opportunities to view and experience the world. Not only will learning Spanish increase your ability to converse with... Read more

Epic Continent

Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe

By: Nicholas Jubber
Narrated by: Luke Thompson
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2020

Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe.

Journeying... Read more

Essential Mandarin Chinese in 2 hours with Paul Noble

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

By: Paul Noble & Kai-Ti Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 2 hours 23 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. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

In the Weeds

Lovelight Farms: Book #2

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

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more

The Salt Path

A Memoir

By: Raynor Winn
Narrated by: Raynor Winn
Length: 9 hours

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS

"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."—Entertainment Weekly

A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey... Read more

From Scratch

A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

By: Tembi Locke
Narrated by: Tembi Locke
Length: 10 hours 17 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

Born to Run

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“This pasty nerd never thought she’d be hanging on to every word about long distance running! That’s how riveting, joyful, meaningful, and fun this book about racing, community, physiology, prehistory, and, greatest runners in the world, the indigenous Tarahumara, is. A modern classic published 15 years ago, the science here may be dated... Read more

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, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves,... Read more

Northerners

A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day

By: Brian Groom
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. ‘Entertaining’ The Times ‘Definitive’ The Mirror ‘Highly readable’... 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

Into the Wild

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for... Read more

Vacationland

True Stories from Painful Beaches

By: John Hodgman
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

“If you're already a fan of John Hodgman, then you know what to expect from Vacationland: wit that veers from gentle to biting, poignancy and hilarity, clear-eyed self-examination, peevishness and compassion. If you're new to his work, then you're in for a treat. Hodgman's newest book, based on material from his comedy tour of the same name, is... Read more

The Stranger in the Woods

The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

“This is one heck of a very strange true story. When Christopher Knight was just 20 years old, he drove his car north towards Maine. When the car gave out, he began walking, carrying a tent and a few belongings, hiding in the woods, then finding a place that he liked in between some boulders. He made a camp, where he lived for almost three... Read more

Moby Dyke

An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

“I was expecting an in depth history on all the lesbian bars in the US, or maybe a travel guide with menus and reviews, but what I got was a delightful travel memoir full of queer joy and community. This book made me cry more than once, especially as our 'Dyke-ass Mother', Krista, spoke about her struggles to be loved and accepted by her family.... Read more

Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

A transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion—the massive bestseller from the author of The Signature of All Things

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the... Read more

How to Win at Travel

By: Brian Kelly
Narrated by: Brian Kelly
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Turn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy—the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs—with this ultimate resource for everything from leveraging airline and credit card points to planning your dream itinerary.

In How to Win at Travel, Brian Kelly shares... Read more

Erebus

One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time

By: Michael Palin
Narrated by: Michael Palin
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” —Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the Northwest Passage.Michael Palin brings the fascinating... Read more

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“The brilliant and engaging writing in this memoir belies the author's young age. Braverman offers a taut and honest recounting of a young woman fiercely chasing down her dream and confronting myriad dangers -- both natural and man-made -- with intelligence and grit. This white-knuckle read left me in awe of Braverman's conviction, and her... Read more