Great Audiobooks for Travelling from PDX Airport

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

“Sy Montgomery takes us on a fascinating journey that's enjoyable, humorous and educational and I definitely learned a lot! I had no idea that chickens were so intelligent and complex. Apparently they know us humans far better than we know them. All of the specific details she shared were quite interesting. They can make up to 24 sounds each... Read more

A Magical Girl Retires

A Novel

By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

“Did you grow up watching shows like Sailor Moon, wishing you too could be essentially a highly fashionable superhero, and now you find yourself constantly anxious about the environment and your credit card debt? This book is here for us. It's a fun and quick read that will re-awaken that sparkly, magical transformation-fueled wish for escapism,... Read more

Gender Queer

A Memoir

By: Maia Kobabe
Narrated by: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, Phoebe Kobabe, Jeremy Carlisle Parker & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“Perfect for fans of Kimmerer’s previous work and those looking to dip their toes in for the first time, this is a short book with a lasting impact! From a single plant the concepts of abundance, gratitude, and reciprocity in a world built on scarcity burst forth: framed as limitless vessels for change, alongside community as a source of strength.... Read more

New Nigeria County

By: Clare Brown
Narrated by: Clare Brown, Ayanna Dookie, Korey Jackson, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Brittany Pressley, Emana Rachelle, Malika Samuel, Heather Alicia Simms, Diana Bustelo, Tyla Collier, Alejandra Reynoso, David Sadzin, André Santana & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

“I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It listens much like a radio play with a talented cast of voice actors, sound effects, background sound etc. The story absolutely drips with irony and exposes all sorts of ways our thinking is shaped by societal norms as it flips the script not only on racial stereotypes, but gender, classism, etc. Very much... Read more

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

A Novel

By: Satoshi Yagisawa
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 5 hours

“I feel like this book is perfect for the (somewhat nice) group of people who walk around bookshops hoping it'll solve their problems. In all seriousness, if you have an affinity for the bookshops setting and - like me - believe books fix a lot of issues, you'll love this story. Read more

Everybody Is a Liar

A Random House Audiobook Original

By: Liv Constantine
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Saskia Maarleveld, Shayr Guthrie, Jennifer Jill Araya, Dallis Seeker & Danny Campbell
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

“This is a fast paced murder mystery great for getting back into books or trying audiobooks for the first time. Read more

Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos & Michael Obiora
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

“Feels like running into someone you used to know, or learning secrets about strangers. Lahiri has a gift for communicating humanity and what it desires, fears, and survives. Read more

The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

“A lovely little horror novella about mermaids...with teeth. I have never read a story that so beautifully describes viscera and entrails. I devoured this book in one sitting...kind of like the mermaids do with an entire kingdom. Read more

How to Loiter In a Turf War

A Novel

By: Coco Solid
Narrated by: Coco Solid
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Like nothing you've heard before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa's most versatile artists, read by the author herself. It's a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the... Read more

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

A Memoir

By: Baek Sehee
Narrated by: Jully Lee
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

“I truly enjoyed reading this book! Baek Sehee's use of conversations with her psychiatrist made me feel as if I was there with her in the office, learning about her mental health. Each chapter is a recording of her and her psychiatrist's actual conversations as well as an analysis of what she learned from that session. I think this is a great... Read more

The Vulnerables

A Novel

By: Sigrid Nunez
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

“Set during the pandemic, a single woman in her sixties grapples with the complexity of life as she cares for a friend’s parrot and learns to get along with an unexpected housemate. Nunez’s literary references are brilliant, as are her observations of contemporary life. Read more

#CrimeTime

An Audio Original

By: Jeneva Rose & Drew Pyne
Narrated by: Abelardo Campuzano, Jennifer Damiano, Phil Thron, Gary Tiedemann, Peter Berkrot, P.J. Ochlan, Nancy Linari,, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Piper Goodeve, Kevin R. Free & Samantha Desz
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

“This is a modern, madcap mystery and best-of-the-best addition to the emerging audio original genre.” —Booklist

The first audio original from Jeneva Rose, the author of blockbuster bestseller The Perfect Marriage, #CrimeTime is a full-cast mystery written with her husband, Drew Pyne, perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building and Finlay... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“A succinct discussion of the causes, effects, and potential changes required to eradicate poverty in the United States. Read more

In the Dream House

A Memoir

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“This is a spellbinding memoir that will stand the test of time. Carmen Maria Machado has crafted a memoir that turns the form on its head, that creates a stunning, chilling and winding narrative that stays true to the nature of human beings: complex and nuanced. The LGBTQ archive of intimate-partner violence needed this and helped pave a way for... Read more

Two Can Play

By: Ali Hazelwood
Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

“This was classic Ali Hazelwood and I truly ate it up. Cute, cheesy, and extremely fun! Viola was sweet and sunshiny and Jesse was just simply enamored and a little pathetic about it (in the best way). It was super easy for me to fly through this and I loved the characters so much I wish I could see even more of them. Loved the narrators, they... Read more

The Creative Act

A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin
Narrated by: Rick Rubin
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“Legendary music producer Rick Rubin has written a book on creativity that will take its place among the best of its kind. This is like bottle inspiration for leading a creative life! Rubin's advice on creativity is inspired by eastern/Buddhist tinged philosophy and his long career mentoring some of the modern era's most influential musical... Read more

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“There is so much to say about this little book. This little book carries the weight of lifetimes. Written as a letter to his Howard University students, The Message is, in many ways, a comprehensive thesis of Coates’ career. As he retraces the well-worn paths of his life’s story, he embarks on a physical journey to parts hitherto unknown to... Read more

The Vegetarian

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A KIRKUS... Read more

This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“This book was beautifully written in love letter style. While it was slightly confusing for the first few chapters once I sunk into the plot I couldn't stop until it was finished. It was beautifully complex while still simple. 10/10 recommend. Read more