By Bonnie Newman Davis

Between 2011 and 2023, many of my days were spent driving up and down the East Coast.

Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Lexington, Va., Myrtle Beach, Norfolk, Raleigh, Richmond and Washington, D.C.

My driving companions? Biographies and works of fiction, courtesy of Audible, that included best sellers by Barack and Michelle Obama, Heather McGee, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Maggie Haberman, Clint Smith, Steven A. Smith, Will Smith, Sadeqa Johnson, Tabitha Brown, Isabel Wilkerson and more.

Covid-19, my own book project and a full-time job limited some of my highway travel in the past couple of years. I sighed as I ignored reminders that my Audible credits were piling up. I vowed to escape a world of meaningless chatter in favor of voices guaranteed to feed my mind and soul.

Now that it’s summer and my main commitments involve laundry, the dishwasher and lunch or dinner with friends, my Audible selections once more will keep me company in my car and also in my home. Below are a few titles I recently downloaded to enjoy during the remains of summer.