What are some of your favorite, most captivating audio books?

My two absolute favorites are David Sedaris - any of his books - and Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife." Both are really fantastic books and have good narrators (Sedaris narrates his own).

I really liked Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow on audiobook - the voice actors are very good, and the story is fast and exciting. Even though I'd read the books already, the audiobooks added a lot, in my opinion.

I also liked Inkheart on audio book, but it kind of takes some of the magic away from the book, since the story is all about the written word, and written books... It's like something got lost in translation, in terms of the story.

I really really loved Memoirs of a Geisha on audiobook! I could listen to it over and over again. The voice actress is perfect, and the story is so unique.

I never would have read the book 1984, but the audiobook made it easier for me to understand the language and the awkward "newspeak" - same with Eragon and the awkward language there... though I HATE the way that the dragons speak in a low, grumbly voice in the audiobook version... In my head, while I'm reading, they speak normally.

I almost couldn't stand The Host audiobook. The actress doing the voices had the dumbest voices for the men... it was like someone told her "make the men sound stupider, more unintelligent". But, I was hooked to the story, so it's definitely entertaining.

Most Captivating Books

I really loved "The Time Traveler's Wife" and "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." I thought the narrators were wonderful! Some audio books are hard to listen to, but these two were better than reading by myself.

Good luck on your trip!

It's an excellent question

dave sedaris, he's fantastic in audio-book form

bill bryson, those two are my favorite audio travel companions

Interesting question!

the lovely bones

the memory keeper's daughter

the Vampire chronicles were good, especially since they were well read.

"I am America and so Can You" by Stephen Colbert

Very funny :)