Gathering everyone for quality family entertainment can be as important as sitting down to dinner together. In today’s fast-paced world of hundreds of television channels, millions of Web sites and iPods in every kid’s backpack, sometimes it seems that entertainment is becoming a solitary experience that each family member enjoys alone. One innovative form of family entertainment that is becoming more and more popular with parents is the audiobook — stories the whole family can listen to on CDs, at home and in the car. Particularly popular, these days, are fantasy and magic-oriented tales that can be engaging for both parents and children alike. We all like a good story. It’s no wonder more families are turning to audiobooks, as nothing beats having a great storyteller read one to you. Audiobooks are being used by parents as a great way to get kids to use their imagination, and as innovative tools to get children interested in reading. As many parents can attest, audiobooks make for wonderful diversions on those long family car trips. Some great ideas for enjoying audiobooks with your family: * Schedule regular audiobook nights the way you would a movie night, with snacks. * Treat new audiobook releases the way you would new movies and get the whole family excited for upcoming stories. * Make the car a place for storytelling. Instead of turning on the radio, engage your family’s minds by taking audiobooks on the road.

1. ULYSSES by James Joyce 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner 7. CATCH-22 8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler 9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence 10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck 11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry 12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler 13. 1984 by George Orwell 14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves 15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf 16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser 17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers 18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut 19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison 20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright 21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow 22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara 23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos 24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson 25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster 26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James 27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James 28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald 29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell 30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford 31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell 32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James 33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser 34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh 35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner 36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren 37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder 38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster 39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin 40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene 41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding 42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey 43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell 44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley 45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway 46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad 47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad 48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence 49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence 50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller 51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer 52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth 53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov 54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner 55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac 56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett 57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford 58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton 59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm 60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy 61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather 62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones 63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever 64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger 65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess 66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham 67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad 68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis 69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton 70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell 71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes 72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul 73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West 74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway 75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh 76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark 77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce 78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling 79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster 80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow 82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner 83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul 84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen 85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad 86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow 87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett 88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London 89. LOVING by Henry Green 90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie 91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell 92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy 93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles 94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys 95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch 96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron 97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles 98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain 99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy 100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington