2008 Road Trip: Family Listening for Adults and Young Adults

Audio Books designated (YA = Young Adult) are located on the Mezzanine Level in The Loft.

Fiction

Abrahams, Peter   (YA)
        Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery 

Achebe, Chinua
        Things Fall Apart

Agee, James
        A Death in the Family

Alcott, Louisa May
        Little Women

Alexie, Sherman   (YA)
        The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

Anderson, Laurie Halse   (YA)
        Prom

Bakker, Robert T.
        Raptor Red

Barker, Clive   (YA)
        Abarat
        Days of Magic, Nights of War

Berg, Elizabeth
        Dream When You’re Feeling Blue

Black, Holly   (YA)
        Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Bradbury, Ray
        Fahrenheit 451
        Farewell Summer

Brashares, Ann   (YA)
        Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
       

Brewer, Sonny
        Cormac: The Tale of a Dog Gone Missing

Brooks, Geraldine
        People of the Book

Brooks, Kevin   (YA)
        Kissing the Rain
        Lucas

Buck, Pearl S.
        The Good Earth

Card, Orson Scott
        Ender’s Game

Cather, Willa
        My Ántonia

Chabon, Michael
        Summerland

Chevalier, Tracy
        Burning Bright
        The Girl with the Pearl Earring

Choldenko, Gennifer   (YA)
        Al Capone Does My Shirts

Cohn, Rachel   (YA)
        Shrimp

Cooney, Caroline B.   (YA) 
        Goddess of Yesterday

Cote, Lyn
        Leigh

Craven, Margaret
        I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Crichton, Michael
        Timeline

Crutcher, Chris   (YA)
        Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes

Dallas, Sandra
        Tall Grass

Davidson, Diane Mott
        Catering to Nobody

Defoe, Daniel
        Robinson Crusoe

Desai, Kiran
        The Inheritance of Loss

Dessen, Sarah   (YA)
        Just Listen

Dumas, Alexandre
        The Count of Monte Cristo
        The Man in the Iron Mask

Du Maurier, Daphne
        Rebecca

Early, Tony
        Jim the Boy

Enger, Leif
        Peace Like a River

Esquivel, Laura
        Like Water for Chocolate

Farmer, Nancy   (YA)
        Sea of Trolls

Flagg, Fannie
        Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven
        Standing in the Rainbow

Flake, Sharon   (YA)
        Bang!

Friend, Natasha   (YA)
        Perfect

Gaarder, Jostein
        Sophie’s World

Gaines, Ernest
        A Lesson Before Dying

Gibbons, Kay
        Charms for the Easy Life

Going, K. L.   (YA)
        Saint Iggy

Griffin, Adele   (YA)
        My Almost Epic Summer

Grisham, John
        Painted House

Gunn, Robin Jones   (YA)
        Until Tomorrow

Hay, Sheridan
        The Secret of Lost Things

Hesse, Hermann
        Siddhartha

Hillerman, Tony
        Skinwalkers

Hosseini, Khaled
        The Kite Runner
        A Thousand Splendid Suns

Horowitz, Anthony   (YA)
        Point Blank

Huxley, Aldous
        Brave New World

Johnson, Angela   (YA)
        The First Part Last

Keyes, Daniel
        Flowers for Algernon

King, Stephen
        The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Kingsolver, Barbara
        The Bean Trees

Korman, Gordon   (YA)
        Jake, Reinvented

Lawrence, Iain   (YA)
        The Convicts
        The Lightkeeper’s Daughter
        Lord of the Nutcracker Men

Lee, Harper
        To Kill a Mockingbird

Le Guin, Ursula K.   (YA)
        Gifts

Lenhard, Elizabeth   (YA)   
        Chicks with Sticks: It’s a Purl Thing

Lewis, C. S.
        The Screwtape Letters

Llewellyn, Richard
        How Green Was My Valley

Lockhart, E.   (YA)
        The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrinks Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs, and Me, Ruby Oliver

Lubar, David   (YA)
        Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Mass, Wendy   (YA)
        Leap Day

Mazur, Harry   (YA)
        Last Mission

McCandless, Sarah Grace
        The Girl I Wanted To Be

McCarthy, Cormac
        All the Pretty Horses

McDaniel, Lurlene   (YA)
        Until Angels Close My Eyes

McGhee, Alison   (YA)
        All Rivers Flow to the Sea

Moriarty, Jaclyn   (YA)
        Feeling Sorry for Celia
        The Year of Secret Assignments

Morpurgo, Michael   (YA)
        Private Peaceful

Myers, Walter Dean   (YA)
        Fallen Angels
        Shooter

Nix, Garth   (YA)
        Sabriel

Oates, Joyce Carol   (YA)
        Big Mouth and Ugly Girl

O’Brien, Robert C.   (YA)
        Z for Zachariah

Olmstead, Robert
        Coal Black Horse

Orwell, George
        1984; Animal Farm

Otsuka, Julie
        When the Emperor Was Divine

Paolini, Christopher   (YA)
        Eldest
        Eragon

Paton, Alan
        Cry, the Beloved Country

Patterson, James   (YA)
        Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Perkins, Lynne Rae   (YA)
        Criss Cross

Peters, Elizabeth
        Children of the Storm

Portis, Charles
        True Grit

Potok, Chaim   (YA)
        The Chosen

Pullman, Philip  
        The Golden Compass   (A)
        The Subtle Knife   (YA)
        The Amber Spyglass   (A)
       

Rawles, Nancy  
        My Jim

Remarque, Erich Maria
        All Quiet on the Western Front

Reinhardt, Dana   (YA)
        A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life

Rice, Luanne
        The Edge of Winter

Richter, Conrad
        The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Rowling, J. K.
        Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
        Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
        Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
        Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
        Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  
        Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
        Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
       

Sachar, Louis   (YA)
        Small Steps

Salzman, Mark
        The Soloist

Shelley, Mary
        Frankenstein

Sitomer, Alan Lawrence   (YA)
        The Hoopster

Smith, Betty
        A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Soto, Gary   (YA)
        The Afterlife

Springer, Nancy   (YA)
        Blood Trail

Steinbeck, John
        Of Mice and Men
        The Pearl

Tashjian, Janet   (YA)
        Vote for Larry

Taylor, G. P.   (YA)
        Wormwood

Tolkien J. R. R.
        The Hobbit
        The Fellowship of the Ring
        The Two Towers
        The Return of the King

Tolstoy, Leo
        The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Master Man

Trueman, Terry   (YA)
        Cruise Control

Twain, Mark
        The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wells, H. G.   (A and YA)
        The Time Machine

Werlin, Nancy   (YA)
        Double Helix

Westerfield, Scott   (YA)
        Uglies

Wiesel, Elie
        Dawn             
        Night             
        The Forgotten

Wister, Owen
        The Virginian

Wolfman, Mary
        Superman Returns

Yolen, Jane   (YA)
        Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur

Zevin, Gabrielle   (YA)
        Elsewhere

Zusak, Markus   (YA)
        The Book Thief  

Nonfiction

Jones, Lloyd
        Everything You Need to Know About the World
        Audio Book031.02 JON

Lewis, C. S.
        The Screwtape Letters
        Audio Book 248.4 LEW

Freedom Writers
        The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
        Audio Book 305.235 FRE

Griffin, John Howard
        Black Like Me
        Audio Book 305.896073 GRI

Smardz Frost, Karolyn
        I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
        Audio Book 306.362092 SMA

Walls, Jeanette
        The Glass Castle
        Audio Book 362.82092 WAL

Carson, Rachel
        Silent Spring
        Audio Book 363.7384 CAR

Mortenson, Greg
        Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations--One School at a Time          
        Audio Book 371.822 MOR

Andersen, Hans Christian 
        Fairy Tales
        Audio Book 398.2 AND

Oshinsky, David M.
        Polio: An American Story
        Audio Book 614.549 OSH

Herriott, James
        All Creatures Great and Small
        Audio Book 630.089 HER

Katz, Jon
        A Good Dog: The Story of Orson Who Changed My Life
        Audio Book 636.7374 KAT

Grogan, John
        Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
        Audio Book 636.7527 GRO

Keillor, Garrison
        Home on the Prairie:  Stories from Lake Wobegon
        791.447 KEI

Maraniss, David
        Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero
        Audio Book 796.357092 MAR

Hillenbrand, Laura
        Seabiscuit: An American Legend           
        Audio Book 798.4 HIL

Ward, Jay
        Fractured Fairy Tales
       Audio Book 813.54 WAR
        The Classic Hundred Poems
       Audio Book 821.008 CLA
        Beowulf
        Audio Book 829.3 BEO

Virgil
        Aeneid
        Audio Book 873.01 VIR

Homer
        The Essential Homer
        Audio Book 883.01 HOM
        The Essential Iliad
        Audio Book 883.01 HOM

Leonard, Mike
        The Ride of Our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family
        Audio Book 917.3 LEO

Bryson, Bill
        A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
        Audio Book 917.4 BRY

Frank, Anne
        Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
        Audio Book 940.5318092 FRA

Ten Boom, Corrie
        The Hiding Place
        Audio Book 940.53492 TEN

Filipovic, Zlata
        Zlata’s Diary
        Audio Book 949.742 FIL

Raddatz, Martha
        The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family
        Audio Book 956.70443092 RAD   (On Order)

Beah, Ishmael
        A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
        Audio Book 966.404 BEA

Horwitz, Tony
        A Voyage Long and Strange
        Audio Book 970.01 HOR
        Confederates in the Attic
        Audio Book 973.7 HOR

Egan, Timothy
        The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
        Audio Book 978.032 EGA

Li, Cunxin
        Mao’s Last Dancer
        Audio Book B LI

Author List

Maya Angelou  
Jane Austen
M.C. Beaton
Lilian Jackson Braun
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Philip Gulley
Ernest Hemingway
Jan Karon
Larry McMurtry
Patrick O’Brian
Anne Perry
William Shakespeare

Audio books designated (YA) are located on the Mezzanine in the YOUNG ADULT LOFT. Audio books on this list may be available in various formats including downloadable, Playaway, cassette and compact disc.  Please come to the Readers Services or Information Services Desk for assistance.