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There's not a day that I don't listen to at least a half-hour of audio books (short commute). I get them all through iTunes but I think they have most of the ones from audible. I also listen to movies, documentaries, etc. on my iphone/ipod as well. I have a 3500 mile road trip next month and I'll be listening to Ken Burn's Baseball again (all 11 innings, about 21 hours).
I listen most to historical fiction and in the past couple of years, listened to Michener's Chesapeake, Alaska and Source (my three favorites),
Rutherfurd (New York, Princes of Ireland),
Martin (Lost Constitution and City of Dreams, both by my favorite narrator - Phil Gigante),
Jack Finney.
Plus I saw they have John Jakes' Civil War trilogy, which I don't have yet.
Other looonnng books include:
McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom (45 hours or something like that),
Lord of the Rings (unabridged),
The Great Deluge (Douglas Brinkley),
Great Influenze (John Barr)
and my favorite travel/history writer, Tony Horwitz (Voyage Long and Strange, Confederates in the Attic).
One of these days I'll start listening to Malcolm Gladwell, more from David McCoullough and Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers.
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