Listening to audiobooks while doing exercises is very popular in modern society, making life more efficient and healthy. On average, people spend an hour running every day, during which they will probably listen to audiobooks while running. What kind of audiobooks are they listening to? This post will list top 10 audiobooks for running and give a brief introduction to each of them.

Part 1. 10 Recommended Audiobooks for Running

1. The Great Gatsby

During running, it is probably better to listen to some medium-and short-length story, the Great Gatsby is the right choice in this category. It explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

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2. Life of Pi

Listening to audiobooks while running is a good habit, and Life of Pi is one of the best audiobooks for running. This book has been filmed and you may sync the images in movies when you listen to the audiobook while running. It is so much of fun. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

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3. Harry Potter

If you are a middle or high school student, it is a good choice to listen to Harry Potter as it will make your running more fun and even magical to some extent. It is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic, and subjugate all wizards and muggles, a reference term that means non-magical people.

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4. The Little Prince

Ranking top in the world literature, the Little Prince, the novella is one of the most-translated books in the world and has been voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The Little Prince is a poetic tale, with watercolour illustrations by the author, in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince visiting Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes social criticism of the adult world.

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5. The Collector

If you prefer romance story, the Collector will be the best choice. The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall and collects butterflies in his spare time. The story is divided into three parts, narrated by Clegg, Miranda who Clegg admires, and Clegg respectively. Though the story ended up a tragedy, it reveals some natural characteristics deep in human mind, which are dark and unfriendly.

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6. Beautiful Ruins

If you are interested in reality things, Beautiful Ruins may be your choice to listen to for running. In part, the novel is an epistolary novel, relying heavily on excerpts of letters, screenplays and novels being written by the characters, in order to demonstrate different parts of their characters, and highlight the absurdity of their ideas. The novel is a social satire critiquing Hollywood culture.

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7. The Inevitable

To master the most advanced and trending technology in the coming years, listening to audiobook while running with the Inevitable will allow you to stay tuned for that. The Inevitable is a 2016 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly that forecasts the twelve technological forces that will shape the next thirty years.

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8. What Happened

It is the sixth memoir by Hillary Clinton. It is worth your time to listen to her views on a lot of things around her and her campaign. According to New York Times, the stated aim of the book was to offer an intimate view of what it was like for Clinton to run as the first female presidential candidate from a major party in United States history, in an often vicious and turbulent campaign.

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9. To Kill a Mocking Bird

If you are a fan of traditional literature, To Kill a Mocking Bird is the right choice for you to listen to while running. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The story is told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch.

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10. Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen, written as part of National Novel Writing Month. The story is told as a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski, a 93-year-old man who lives in a nursing home, whose father was a veterinarian and Jacob had planned to join his practice. As the memories begin, Jacob is a 23-year-old Polish American preparing for his final exams as a Cornell University veterinary student when he receives the devastating news that his parents died in a car accident.

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Part 2. Extension: How to listen to iTunes audiobooks while running

To tell the truth, the 10 recommended audiobooks for running listed above are mostly from iTunes but if you are using Android or Google or any other devices or systems and want to sync the audiobooks on devices other than Apple devices, it is necessary to remove DRM from iTunes audiobooks first and then freely listen to the audiobook while running. In general, this is because all the stuff on iTunes are protected by a kind of FairPlay system called Digital Rights Protection (DRM) and allow no other devices to use iTunes media contents. As a result of that, a DRM removal tool is quite demanded. Here I will recommend Leawo TunesCopy Ultiamte to you as this professional DRM removal tool is the most widely acknowledged tool for legally getting rid of DRM from iTunes media contents without hurting the output file quality. For example, if you need to strip DRM off from iTunes audiobook in order to transfer these audiobook files to your Android phone for playing, you can easily achieve that with the help of Leawo Prof. DRM.

   

It is handy to use even for beginners and the user interface is extremely neat with three independent modules placed on top of the home interface for users to choose from iTunes videos, audiobooks, and music respectively.

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Now you may probably know what kind of audiobooks people are listening to while running. Do not hesitate to try the above top 10 audiobooks for running. By the way, if iTunes audiobooks are not compatible with your Android or other devices, do remember to make use of Leawo Prof. DRM to help erasing DRM from iTunes audiobook before playing iTunes audiobook on your Android devices.