Podcasts & audiobooks for the commute

Another year and a 3x/week commute to the office. I spend anywhere from 2-3 hours (avg 2.5, max 4) each day I have to drive work.

I have managed to polish off quite a few audiobooks since the beginning of the year:

Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 1 (BBC)

The New One Minute Manager (1 hr)

A Blink of the Screen by Terry Pratchet (fiction)

Even More Laughs (standup comedy compilation)

Comedy, Volume 2 (standup comedy compilation)

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher (fiction)

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews (fiction, #2 in series)

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews (fiction, #1 in series)

The Law by Jim Butcher (fiction, #17.5 in series)

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (fiction, #3 in series)

Wingfeather Tales by Andrew Peterson (fiction)

The Institute by Stephen King (fiction)

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (fiction, #1 in series)

The Original by Brandon Sanderson (fiction)

Food for Thought by Alton Brown (autobiography)

Legion by Brandon Sanderson (fiction, 1-3 in series)

Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix (fiction, #6 in series)

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samrin Nosrat (nonfiction, cooking methodology)

Podcasts

The regular channels

  • Marketplace
  • Freakonomics Radio
  • Unexplainable by Vox Media
  • Gastropod
  • Table Read

New in 2026:

  • Once We Were Spacemen w/ Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk
  • Voices from DARPA

Newly subscribed fictional podcasts:

  • Incoming
  • The Lovecraft Investigations
  • Kakos Industries
  • Mirror Falls (fictional Canadian slice of life)
  • The Bardic Hearth
  • Last Dance