On the Road

This "regional listening audiography" of travel destination audiobooks was created by Audiofile Magazine .

All-American Road Trips
	Jack Kerouac. Read by Frank Muller. On the Road On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling North America with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road a work of lasting importance. (Unabridged Cassette)
	Charles Kuralt. Read by Charles Kuralt. Charles Kuralt's America Travel with Kuralt to twelve American places and share in the accounts filled with people, stories and experiences. (Unabridged Cassette)
	John Steinbeck. Read by Gary Sinise. Travels with Charley To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light-these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. (Unabridged Cassette)
Northeast
	Sebastian Junger. Read by Stanley Tucci. The Perfect Storm It was the storm of the century -- a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." When it struck in October, 1991, there was virtually no warning. "She's comin' on, boys, and she's comin' on strong," radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gail from off the coast of Nova Scotia. Soon afterward, the boat and its crew of six disappeared without a trace. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller, a stark and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature that leaves listeners with a breathless sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force beyond understanding or control. (Abridged Cassette & CD)
	Richard Russo. Read by Ron McLarty. Empire Falls A profound novel about the social condition of man as seen through the multi-generational trials of a great American family. (Unabridged Cassette)
	E.B. White. Read by E.B. White. Charlottte's Web Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
Southeast/South
	Barbara Kingsolver. Read by Barbara Kingsolver. Prodigal Summer In this collection of three stories of human love, which take place in the mountains of Appalachia, a reclusive wildlife biologist, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors all discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
	Mildred D. Taylor. Read by Lynne Thigpen. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry A black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
	Rebecca Wells. Read by Judith Ivey. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood When theatre director Siddalee Walker inadvertently reveals some of the less-savory facts of her Louisiana childhood to the New York Times, the article brands her morther, Vivi, a "tap-dancing child abuser." Vivi virtually disowns Sidda, but the Ya-Yas sashay in and conspire to bring everybody back together. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
Midwest
	Fannie Flagg. Read by Fannie Flagg. Standing in the Rainbow The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. (Abridged Cassette & CD)
	Garrison Keillor. Read by Garrison Keillor. Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 In the summer of 1956 , a fourteen-year-old Lake Wobegon boy who dreams of becoming a writer is given a typewriter. (Abridged Cassette)
	Patricia MacLachlan. Read by Glenn Close. Sarah, Plain and Tall When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
Southwest
	Tony Hillerman. Read by Tony Hillerman. Seldom Disappointed Seventy-six year-old Hillerman's stunning memoir is a loving tribute to family, a country at war and in depression, and the writing profession. (Unabridged Cassette)
	Cormac McCarthy. Read by Frank Muller. All the Pretty Horses Three young men set off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, in this beautifully crafted story. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)
West Coast
	Stephen E. Ambrose. Read by Cotter Smith. Undaunted Courage High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combines with high romance and personal tradedy to make this outstanding work of scholorship as engaging as any work of fiction. (Abridged Cassette)
	David Guterson. Read by Peter Marinker. Snow Falling on Cedars San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. (Unabridged Cassette)
	John Steinbeck. Read by Dylan Baker. The Grapes of Wrath The novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930's. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)