The Best New Audiobooks to Listen to as a Family This Month

by Janssen Bradshaw

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As a book lover, there’s nothing I love more than audiobooks.

For all the years I spent commuting to school and work, I lived for those books on CD that made the miles fly by.

Now audiobooks keep me entertained while I fold laundry or make dinner at home.

And best of all, my children LOVE listening to audiobooks, so you can almost always find one playing in our car as we drive to gymnastics, the grocery store, or school pick up.

If you’re looking for great new audiobooks for your kids to listen to this month, I’ve picked some in several age categories, plus a bonus one for grown-ups to make your driving/laundry-folding/hiding-in-the-bathroom-to-listen-to-one-more-chapter a little more fun.

  • Grown-Ups

  • The Great Alone

    by Kristin Hannah, narrated by Julia Whelan

    When the woman who wrote The Nightingale comes out with a new book, you don’t wait to pick it up. This one is about a Vietnam War POW who comes home and can’t seem to manage regular life anymore. After another job loss, the whole family moves to Alaska to live off the grid, but of course, things do not go as planned. As the winter darkness approaches, the family begins to fall apart and it becomes clear that they are completely on their own to save themselves.

What great audiobooks has your family listened to recently? Share with us in the comments below.