The perfect books to listen to on every type of commute
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We tend to underestimate how miserable commuting can make us. Being squished in a crowded train car or stuck in gridlock traffic is probably even more awful than it sounds.
If moving closer to your office (or teleportation) isn't possible right now, we get it. Below, we've rounded up a series of audiobook recommendations from Audible that can transform your daily travels into a — dare we say it? — pleasant experience.
Below, you'll find nine audiobooks perfect for different length commutes, along with a clip and an abridged publisher's summary. The books — from popular novels to memoirs — were curated by Audible based on factors including customers' reviews and editors' recommendations.
By the time you get to work, you'll be smarter and more relaxed than everyone who spent their commute clenching their fists and wishing it were over.
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15 to 30 minute commute: 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Eddie Redmayne
Length: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Publisher's summary:
A set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world.
Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance. Some of the beasts will be familiar to readers of the Harry Potter books — the Hippogriff, the Basilisk, the Hungarian Horntail ... others will surprise even the most ardent amateur Magizoologist.
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15 to 30 minute commute: 'The Dispatcher' by John Scalzi, narrated by Zachary Quinto
Length: 2 hours and 19 minutes
Publisher's summary:
One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone — 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.
Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher — a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.
It's a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it's too late ... before not even a Dispatcher can save him.
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15 to 30 minute commute: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' by Truman Capote, narrated by Michael C. Hall
Publisher's summary:
Holly — a World War II-era society girl in her late teens — survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist, who eventually gets tossed away as her deepening character emerges.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's," Truman Capote's most beloved work of fiction, introduced an independent and complex character who challenged audiences, revived Audrey Hepburn's flagging career in the 1961 film version, and whose name and style has remained in the national idiom since publication. Hall uses his diligent attention to character to bring our unnamed narrator’s emotional vulnerability to the forefront of this American classic.
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