Wind in your hair, sun on your face … soul-bearing self-reflection blasting out of the speakers? Trust me on this one. Here are five new books to take with you and immerse yourself in when you have nothing to do for hours but look ahead and listen. Freshly vaccinated and craving such movement, many are now planning their first big road trips in over a year. Rather, I’ve learned that my mind can actually be in two places at once that my imagination thrives in the blankness of forward motion. I’ve come back to audiobooks on every road trip since - and not only because they keep me alert. The story worked like a kind of narrative amphetamine, keeping my eyes open when everything I know of physiology said they should have been shut. Trusting an algorithm to find something to keep me awake, I downloaded “The Lost City of Z,” David Grann’s gripping tale of the obsessive, swashbuckling Victorian explorer Percy Fawcett. But then, around two years ago, I found myself in Chile, exhausted by a string of flight delays and facing a long drive through the night. For the longest time, books seemed too evocative for car rides, too absorbing to serve as mere accompaniment to a scenic journey. It was only recently that I discovered the joy to be found in an audiobook-fueled road trip.
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