Travel bestsellers

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

A Walk in the Park

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

“This story of Fedarko's and McBride's multiple attempts at the canyon that 'will kill you', as people like to say, is like sitting down in camp after a long day hiking, or on the river, and listening to one of the best raconteurs ever. Fedarko just writes that way....like you could be right next to him while he tells you about his bleeding feet... 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

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

“The Feather Thief is true crime at its best — a tale starting with the Amazonian explorations of Darwin-era naturalists, rooted in the eccentric sensibilities of Victorian collectors, fueled by the obscure cult of fly-fishing tying, and culminating with a shocking 2009 British Museum heist by a shy American flautist. All of these elements are... 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

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

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

Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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

“It’s not every day a business book has us gasping, screaming, cheering, and laughing! Unreasonable Hospitality is part business memoir, part leadership manifesto, a mix of hospitality and humanism, management and magic. Guidara took a NYC restaurant from struggling to #1 in the world; here he shares the lessons he learned in those 11 years. This... 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

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“I know you've never actively wanted to know the history of the hot dog, but you should. Using the comfort food as a lens, Jamie Loftus examines all sorts of niche elements of societies and neighborhoods around the US and makes it eye opening, informative, and simply hilarious. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Winter Pasture

One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders

By: Li Juan
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their thirty boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the... 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

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

Istanbul

Memories and the City

By: Orhan Pamuk
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.  

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World

A... 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

“Follow author Krista Burton as she embarks on a pilgrimage to the last remaining lesbian bars in the country. Part memoir, part travel essays, part social history of why lesbian bars are important, this book is both enlightening and delightful (and will make you want to sing Goodbye Earl at your next queer karaoke night). Read more

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance®

By: Robert M. Pirsig & Peter Flannery
Narrated by: James Purefoy & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974. A powerful examination of how we live, as well as a... Read more

A Race to the Bottom of Crazy

Dispatches from Arizona

By: Richard Grant
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

The bestselling author of Dispatches from Pluto and The Deepest South of All turns his sharp wit and observational powers on the epicenter of America’s most divisive issues: Arizona.

When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love... Read more

Eating to Extinction

The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino
Narrated by: Dan Saladino
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

This audiobook is read by the author.

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six... Read more

We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay

(tips, tales, travels)

By: Gary Janetti
Narrated by: Gary Janetti
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICKA Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024!One of Vulture's Best New Audiobooks of 2024.""A delightful and sharp-witted tour through a lifetime’s worth of travel exploits and misadventures. . . . Readers are bound to catch the travel bug.""—Publishers WeeklyIn this hilarious... Read more

Chasing the Thrill

Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt

By: Daniel Barbarisi
Narrated by: Daniel Barbarisi
Length: 11 hours

“This book makes you feel like you’re on an adventure! More than just a saga about one eccentric millionaire’s treasure hunt, Chasing the Thrill is a nuanced and highly addictive story about Forest Fenn, his now infamous hidden treasure, and all of the controversies, joys, and tragedies that ended up being irrevocably intertwined with it.... Read more

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

By: David Lipsky
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain & Danny Campbell
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT

An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour
 
In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in... Read more

Quit Like a Millionaire

No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

By: Kristy Shen & Bryce Leung
Narrated by: Kristy Shen & JL Collins
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence

A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms

Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and... Read more

3 Hours to Learn French for Travel

Fast, Easy, and Simple Beginner Language Lessons You Can Memorize for Vacations with Common Phrases, Questions, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Culture & Etiquette

By: Bennett Ashford
Narrated by: Maya Belgnaoui
Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Did You Know French is the 6th Most Spoken Language in The World?Are You Aware 29% of English Vocabulary Comes From French? Learning French is Easier Than You Think, Taking About 3 Hours to Learn The Basics For Travel! 
Hello, my name is Bennett, and welcome to 3 Hours to Learn French for Travel, where you will learn French quickly, easily, and... Read more

The Solace of Open Spaces

By: Gretel Ehrlich
Narrated by: Gretel Ehrlich
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

A collection of transcendent, lyrical essays on life in the American West, the classic companion to Gretel Ehrlich’s new book, Unsolaced

“Wyoming has found its Whitman.” —Annie Dillard

Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she... Read more

The Great Railway Bazaar

By Train Through Asia

By: Paul Theroux
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail through Asia. Filled with evocative names of legendary train routes; the Direct-Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Delhi Mail from Jaipur, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Hikari Super Express to Kyoto and the Trans-Siberian Express; it describes the many... Read more

I Hate Men

By: Pauline Harmange
Narrated by: Emily Lucienne
Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

The feminist book they tried to ban in France ‘A delightful book’ Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men,... Read more

Underground

A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

By: Will Hunt
Narrated by: Will Hunt
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

“[A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places” (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

When Will... 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

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

Love Is an Ex-Country

By: Randa Jarrar
Narrated by: Randa Jarrar
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“Randa Jarrar’s intimate memoir is nothing short of monumental. Intelligent, tender, and lacerating in equal measure, Love Is an Ex-Country takes readers on a journey across the U.S., probing what it means to live fully in a hostile environment and contemplate survival in the face of erasure. Jarrar navigates the profound with a light touch and... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Chesapeake Requiem

A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

“I was so impressed with this story of Tangier, an exploration of science, history, religion, and culture driven by emotionally salient commentary from people who live there today. I thought it was particularly interesting to learn that the community is conservative both religiously and politically, but their home is being swept away by rising... 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

In Other Words

A Memoir

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

“Lahiri traces the origins, tribulations, and tiny victories that have fueled her decades-long courtship with the Italian language in a bilingual memoir that reads more like an intimate diary. The chapters and short stories offer a vivid timeline of Lahiri's turbulent relationship with language, bouncing around from English to Bengali during her... Read more

Your Table Is Ready

Tales of a New York City Maître D'

By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

"Trained in acting and a lifer in the restaurant business, Michael Cecchi-Azzolina doles out opinions in the tone of an authentic New Yorker. He narrates with a good pace and rhythm. The inner workings of the restaurant world as revealed are exhilarating but often sordid and salacious....this is an entertaining and insightful audiobook."-... Read more

The Sun Is a Compass

A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“The Sun is a Compass is a biologist’s candid journey of self discovery complete with aggressive bears, playful humpback whales, feisty hummingbirds and scolding chickadees. Heading into the most remote areas of Alaska and Canada, Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat rowed, rafted, hiked, skied and canoed 4000 miles from Bellingham, Washington... 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

Airplane Mode

An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib
Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence



The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.



The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history... Read more

The Orchid Thief

A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

“I can’t believe I haven’t read The Orchid Thief before now - this is the quintessential Florida book by one of my very favorite non-fiction writers! It’s all here: the history, the geology, the botany, the zoology, the sociology. Orlean is masterful in her ability to capture the essence of a place or a person in vivid and accessible prose. Her... Read more