2008 Road Trip:
Family Listening for Adults and Young Adults

Audio Books designated (YA = Young Adult) are located on the Mezzanine Level in The Loft.

Key
A = CD audiobook
Ac = Cassette audiobook
P = Playaway
Ea = e-audiobook

Fiction

Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart A

Agee, James
A Death in the Family A, Ea

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women A, Ac, Ea, P

Alexie, Sherman   (YA)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian A, P

Barker, Clive   (YA)
Abarat  A
Days of Magic, Nights of War  A

Berg, Elizabeth
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue  A

Black, Holly   (YA)
Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie  A, Ea

Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine  A, Ea, P

Brewer, Sonny
Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing  A, P

Brooks, Geraldine
People of the Book  A, Ea

Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth  A, Ac, Ea

Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game  A, P

Cather, Willa
My Ántonia  A, Ea

Chabon, Michael
Summerland  A, Ea, P

Chevalier, Tracy
Burning Bright  A
The Girl with the Pearl Earring  A

Cohn, Rachel   (YA)
Shrimp  A

Cote, Lyn
Leigh  A

Craven, Margaret
I Heard the Owl Call My Name  A, Ac

Crichton, Michael
Timeline  Ac

Dallas, Sandra
Tallgrass  A, Ea

Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe  A, Ac, P, Ea

Desai, Kiran
The Inheritance of Loss  A, Ea

Dessen, Sarah   (YA)
Just Listen  A

Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca  A, Ac, Ea

Early, Tony
Jim the Boy  Ac

Enger, Leif
Peace Like a River  A

Esquivel, Laura
Like Water for Chocolate  A

Flagg, Fannie
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven  A, Ea
Standing in the Rainbow  A

Gaarder, Jostein
Sophie’s World  A

Gaines, Ernest
A Lesson Before Dying  A, Ac

Gibbons, Kay
Charms for the Easy Life  A

Grisham, John
Painted House  A

Hay, Sheridan
The Secret of Lost Things  A

Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner  A
A Thousand Splendid Suns  A

Horowitz, Anthony   (YA)
Point Blank  A, P

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World  A, Ea

King, Stephen
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon  A

Kingsolver, Barbara
The Bean Trees  A

Korman, Gordon   (YA)
Jake, Reinvented  A

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird  A

Lenhard, Elizabeth   (YA)   
Chicks with Sticks: It’s a Purl Thing  A

Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters  A

Llewellyn, Richard
How Green Was My Valley  Ac

Lockhart, E.   (YA)
The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrinks Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me,
Ruby Oliver  A

Lubar, David   (YA)
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie  A

McCandless, Sarah Grace
The Girl I Wanted To Be  A

McCarthy, Cormac
All the Pretty Horses  A

Nix, Garth   (YA)
Sabriel  Ea

Orwell, George
1984  A, Ea
Animal Farm  A, Ea

Otsuka, Julie
When the Emperor Was Divine  A

Paolini, Christopher   (YA)
Eragon  A, P, Ea

Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country A

Patterson, James   (YA)
Maximum Ride series; Begins with The Angel Experiment  A, P, Ea

Perkins, Lynne Rae   (YA)
Criss Cross  A

Portis, Charles
True Grit  A

Potok, Chaim   (YA)
The Chosen  A

Pullman, Philip  
The Golden Compass   (A)  A, Ac, P, Ea (first in trilogy)

Rawles, Nancy
My Jim  A

Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front  A, Ac

Reinhardt, Dana   (YA)
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life  A

Rice, Luanne
The Edge of Winter  A, Ea

Richter, Conrad
The Bridge of San Luis Rey  A, Ac, Ea

Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter series; Begins with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone  A, Ac

Sachar, Louis   (YA)
Small Steps  A, Ea

Salzman, Mark
The Soloist  A, Ea

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein  A, Ea

Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  A, Ea

Springer, Nancy   (YA)
Blood Trail  A

Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men  A, Ac

Tashjian, Janet   (YA)
Vote for Larry  Ea

Tolkien J. R. R.
The Hobbit  A, Ac, Ea
The Fellowship of the Ring  A, Ac
The Two Towers  A
The Return of the King  A

Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  A, Ac, Ea

Westerfield, Scott   (YA)
Uglies  A

Wiesel, Elie
Dawn   Ac
Night    A, Ea     

Wister, Owen
The Virginian  A

Wolfman, Mary
Superman Returns  A

Yolen, Jane   (YA)
Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur  P

Zevin, Gabrielle   (YA)
Elsewhere  Ea

Zusak, Markus   (YA)
The Book Thief   A, Ea

Nonfiction

Lewis, C. S.
The Screwtape Letters  
AUDIO BOOK 248.4 LEW  A

Freedom Writers
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them   
AUDIO BOOK 305.235 FRE  A

Griffin, John Howard
Black Like Me
AUDIO BOOK 305.896073 GRI  A

Smardz Frost, Karolyn
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
AUDIO BOOK 306.362092 SMA  Ac

Walls, Jeanette
The Glass Castle
AUDIO BOOK 362.82 WAL  A, Ac

Carson, Rachel
Silent Spring  A
AUDIO BOOK 363.7384 CAR  A

Mortenson, Greg
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations--One School at a Time
AUDIO BOOK 371.822 MOR  A, Ea

Andersen, Hans Christian
Fairy Tales
AUDIO BOOK 398.2 AND  A

Herriott, James
All Creatures Great and Small
AUDIO BOOK 636.089 HER  A, Ac

Katz, Jon
A Good Dog: The Story of Orson Who Changed My Life
AUDIO BOOK 636.7374 KAT  A

Grogan, John
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
AUDIO BOOK 636.7527 GRO  A

Keillor, Garrison
Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon
791.447 KEI  A

Li, Cunxin
Mao’s Last Dancer
AUDIO BOOK 792.8028 LI  A

Hillenbrand, Laura
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
AUDIO BOOK 798.4 HIL  Ac, Ea

Ward, Jay
Fractured Fairy Tales
AUDIO BOOK 813.54 WAR  A

Leonard, Mike
The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
AUDIO BOOK 917.3 LEO  A, Ea

Bryson, Bill
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
AUDIO BOOK 917.4 BRY  A, Ac

Frank, Anne
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
AUDIO BOOK 940.5318 FRA  A

Ten Boom, Corrie
The Hiding Place
AUDIO BOOK 940.53492 TEN  A, Ac, Ea

Raddatz, Martha
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
AUDIO BOOK 956.70443 RAD   A

Beah, Ishmael
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
AUDIO BOOK 966.404 BEA  A, Ea

Horwitz, Tony
A Voyage Long and Strange
AUDIO BOOK 970.01 HOR  A

Egan, Timothy
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
AUDIO BOOK 978.032 EGA  A, Ea

Maraniss, David
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
AUDIO BOOK B CLEMENTE

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