Escape with Audiobooks for Memorial Day Weekend
5 Audiobook Escapes for the Weekend

You don’t need to go anywhere to go everywhere. Bring the beach to your back porch, the city to your kitchen, or the 1st century desert to your living room with 5 audiobooks that offer the perfect weekend escape from here, all the way to there.

Author: John Grisham
Read By: Michael Beck

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane. Read by award-winning narrator Michael Beck, sit back and let #1 bestselling author John Grisham sweep you away to paradise for a little sun, sand, mystery, and mayhem.

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Author: Bill Buford
Read By: Bill Buford

Parlez vous Francais? A hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author’s adventures, in the world of French haute cuisine, for anyone whose ever found joy in cooking and eating food with their family—from the author of the best-selling, widely acclaimed Heat.

Author: Emily Henry
Read By: Julia Whelan

Beach bunny, you say? Summer romance gets meta with this witty and swoontastic listen. Just peer over your sunglasses at this: a romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. You’d be wise to swipe right on this one.

Escape into a world of glamour, intrigue, and drop-dead style. From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this revealing memoir by legendary style icon André Leon Talley captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.

Calling all historical fiction lovers: get ready to be transported to the 1st century in this extraordinary story about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.

“Mozhan Marnò evokes life in the ancient Holy Lands in a raspy voice that evokes stories from the Old Testament and the Torah.”—AudioFile

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