Our 2024 Road Trip Audiobook Library

Joseph Campbell, Leigh Montville, Ann Patchett, Dr. Michael Greger, Willa Cather, etc.

From Cape Cod’s Nauset Beach to Neskowin, Oregon.

(Consider this Part 2 of yesterday’s “November’s What Are You Reading Post?” This is going out to all subscribers, but this weekend’s letters will be exclusively for paying subscribers.)

Our latest coddiwomple will have us on the road from New Year’s Day through early May. That’s a ton of time behind the steering wheel, and I’ll be counting my blessings for the gift of audiobooks.

My audiobook strategy is typically to only listen to what has been read and enjoyed enough to revisit.

All but two of these are much-loved reads. Dr. Michael Greger’s latest, How Not to Age, will be published in December. While Amor Towles's latest will drop in April.

Topping off the list is Douglas Brinkley’s trio of environmental history books focusing on how leaders from the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Johnson, and, yes, even Nixon, paid attention to the likes of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Rachael Carson to play out-sized roles in preserving public lands and…