Long drive ebook suggestions

[satchamo]

I’m headed out to AZ late next month and will be on the road for 23ish hours so I’m looking for some ebook suggestions.

I’m really big into American history - specifically the WW2 era so I’ve pretty well torn that genre apart. So I’m looking for suggestions on early American history including exploration, war, conservation, hunting, adventures…. You know, “man shit”…

Also very open to any other suggestions- I’m an open book - no pun intended.

 

[Shootinsurveyor]

Jack Carr books are entertaining. Dan Carlin (Hardcore History) has some great WW2 episodes and they are really long. All of his other topics are good too.

 

[ODB]

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough. a very listenable, well told, and inspiring book. Read by David so it’s like buttah…

 

[Dos Perros]

Undaunted Courage / Stephen Ambrose
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce / Kent Nerbern

 

[zpearo]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was a great listen on a long road trip for me.

 

[Milestone522]

Recently listened to "Born Again Twice" by Dale Hanson. Vietnam SOG stuff into Laos. It was a very good personal account, and very well done for audio.

"Saving Bravo" by Stephan Talty is really interesting as well. It's the entire Bat 21 incident and rescue, including the other pilots on the ground who were saved, or unfortunately captured or killed.

 

[Noish]

If you can get into post-apocalypse America collapse type books I enjoyed The Borrowed World series. I think this one was terrorist attacks, not zombies or anything crazier. I liked that you could get the box sets so one credit on Audible would get three books for around 28 hours total. There's maybe 8 books in the series.

Open Carry is the first book of Arliss Cutter series about a US Marshall that transfers to Alaska, that series has been pretty good listens also.

 

[TimberRunner]

Empire of the summer moon. About the rise and fall of the commanches.

 

[Ikmclean]

River of doubt by Candice Millard, really enjoyed it on a recent road trip

 

[Camv]

You might give catch 22 by Joseph heller a try.

 

[Wrench]

I think a David goggins book is the perfect listening when going to do something hard. You will find yourself working harder just because he did.

 

[Beendare]

I like stuff that grabs me and is action packed for drives. The Vince Flynn books....or The Gray man series by Mark Greany are all good for that if you haven't read them.

 

[Johnny Tyndall]

Dan Carlin's series' are great and pretty long. His one on WW2 in the Pacific might be up your alley.

I'm listening to Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine right now. Pretty interesting look into the height of the Cold War and nuclear war planning. Not a perfectly written book, but he was right in the middle of things and it's a part of history I didn't know much about.

The Wager really is as good as everyone says it is, and the audiobook narration is quite good. Wild story, but also spins in a lot of detail on what life was actually like on a 19th century warship.

 

[outheretryin]

My ebook for this years archery trip was "Undaunted courage" by Stephen Ambrose.

 

[satchamo]

My ebook for this years archery trip was "Undaunted courage" by Stephen Ambrose.

I’ve had this one on my list and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

 

[Dos Perros]

I've found I can't do fiction on Audible. I think something is missed...considering a fictional book is a work of art where a non-fiction is more of a summary and/or consolidation and presentation of facts. Consider the following exerpt:

“The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.”​

In an ebook setting this passage would just come and go and not really give the listener time to pause and think and get their mind blown.

 

[longhorn8011]

The Joe Pickett series by C.J. Box is entertaining and there are over 20 books to keep you engaged. It's about a good-guy Wyoming Game Warden that gets dragged into all kinds of different situations. Outdoor themed and ties into real world topics such as the WY corner crossing cases.

 

[Navaluk]

Here is history books to consider. some may be outside your stated interest, but close.

1. White Hunters by Brian Herne. Just listened to it again.
2. Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
3. The life of John Wesley Hardin
4. Helmet for my Pillow by R Leckie
5. With the Old Breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa
6 The Filthy 13: from the dustbowl to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Jake McNeice

 

[Keaster]

Empire of the Summer Moon
American Serengeti
Coyote America