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Hit the Road with These Reader-Recommended Audiobooks

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky.

A couple weeks ago, we put out the call for audiobook recommendations for a Riot reader who is planning to make the drive from California to Calgary this summer with her mom (who loves Game of Thrones) and her 23-year-old sister (who loves The Hunger Games). What could they listen to that would make them all happy? We asked, you answered. Here are your suggestions from the comments, Facebook, and Twitter.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

The Taker by Alma Katsu

Bossypants by Tina Fey

anything read by Jim Dale

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich

anything by David Sedaris

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Rainmaker by Sandra Brown

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Gunslinger series by Stephen King

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, narrated by Jeremy Irons

A Sunburned Country, A Walk in the Woods, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson