July Theme: From point A to point B, the old fashion way.

[Eric]

In other words, a journey.
As a club formed by travel company employees, it took us a while to come to this topic. To be fair, travel usually isn't much of a big deal in sci-fi.
But we are not seeking for speed in this book selection. If this is a sci-fi, we'd like to see some wear-and-tear of the travel (like expecting several generations born and die along the way).
If this is a fantasy book, I say catapults is out of the question.
In short, some book that let its characters wander, explore, suffer(?) and grow.

[Robert]

Top of my list would be There and Back Again by Pat Murphy. It's an homage to The Hobbit or There and Back Again and The Hunting of the Snark, set in outer space. The author described it as "both an enormous joke and a serious meta-fictional experiment, " and it has some magnificent twists and turns. (Unfortunately, this book has neither Kindle or Audible versions, because it was suppressed by the Tolkein estate, which outrages me.)

Another solid option is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, which is a character-driven novel that is all about the journey.

Also possible is This Alien Shore, about a young girl fleeing unknown corporate forces, attacks on the guild that controls star flight, and several characters' paths to self-discovery. So, while not a planned journey to a known destination, it has a lot of emphasis on the path, the places, and the growth of all concerned through travel.

In fantasy, there is Sailing to Sarantium in which the journey is the focus: both the physical journey from a parallel Ravenna in the time of the Ostrogoths to a like analog of Byzantium under Justinian and the metaphorical journey of the protagonist changing his life utterly.

And from my "to be read" pile is Picnic on Paradise. Sadly, none of Joanna Russ's books seem to have audiobooks; although, there is a Kindle edition of this and a few others.

[Eric]

Nice.
I also heard a lot of good words about the second book in the Wayfarers series, A Closed and Common Orbit

[Robert]

Eric wrote: "Nice.
I also heard a lot of good words about the second book in the Wayfarers series, A Closed and Common Orbit"

I'm DNF on both that and the third book, Record of a Spaceborn Few, which is up for the Hugo this year. I want to get through them, but I don't think either matches the Journey theme as well as the first book.

A couple of other options that I'd rank lower:
Journey to the Center of the Earth -- a classic, but dated.
Damnation Alley -- although the novella was better than the full novel.