8 Celebrity Audiobooks for Your Thanksgiving Travels

The spirited Anne Shirley has been capturing hearts with quirk and puffed sleeves since 1908, but this fiery redhead shines even brighter through Rachel McAdams’s stirring modern rendition ($25; audible.com). Laughter and tears, friendship and young love, bad dye jobs and baking mishaps, seriously ya’ll, this story has it all. We recommend pre-ordering before the Nov. 22 release.  

Zachary Quinto is a certified sci-fi icon, having cut his teeth in two of the genre’s biggest franchises, Heroes and Star Trek. Now, he’s lending his silky drawl to the character of Tom Valdez in John Scalzi’s thrilling new mystery ($15; audible.com) about a world where murder is no longer possible…or is it? 

Diane Guerrero’s story begins on the worst day of her life. At only fourteen, she returned home from school to find her parents detained and deported to Colombia, their status as undocumented immigrants having been discovered. From this nightmare, Guerrero would eventually emerge a star of two hit shows, Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin. But in this poignant political memoir, the struggle – for love, for belonging, for justice, for survival – is achingly immediate ($20; audible.com). 

We swoon for Trevor Noah, from his dreamy accent to his keen sense of humor. In his forthcoming book of personal essays available November 15, the Daily Show host dishes on coming of age in apartheid South Africa, the trials of high school dating, and his early love for Christian karaoke ($20; audible.com). 

Dark secrets and shadowy forces collide in this atmospheric, slow-burning Gothic romance, which chronicles the life of a young orphan as she comes of age, falls in love, and rails against the limits of a rigid society ($35; audible.com). Jane Eyre’s path is never easy, never simple, and (trust us) never boring, especially when versatile Westworld actress Thandie Newton is commanding the mic. 

Perhaps the finest of all Russian novels, Tolstoy’s twisted romance comes with all the hallmarks of juicy read: Adultery! Gossipy aristocrats! Political turmoil! Opulent wealth! Set amid the throws of nineteenth century Russia, Anna Karenina ($40; audible.com) is a novel as complex as it is long. But with Maggie Gyllenhaal narrating, a thousand pages feels like a breeze. 

Mark Twain’s classic boyhood trickster tale ($20; audible.com) comes alive when voiced by comedian and manly Midwestern woodworker Nick Offerman, best known for his role as Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation. 

Few can deliver a performance more haunting than Emma Thompson and her reading of this eerie Victorian ghost tale is no exception ($15; audible.com). So light a candle, roam a dark corridor, and keep your wits about you. With this ghoulish masterpiece, you’ll certainly need them.