Audiobook

An audiobook is a recording of text. Audiobooks are available in a variety of lengths and formats, most popularly through digital download, which allows people to listen on any smart device.

Spoken audio was first made available in the 1930s on vinyl records and has seen a resurgence in recent years with the proliferation of smartphones and other portable devices. As the medium has gained listeners—with people looking to read while driving, exercising, cleaning house and more—it has expanded past recordings of published books to work crafted exclusively for audio.

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Such a Perfect Family
George Falls Through Time
Enchanting the Fae Queen (Queens of Villainy, #2)
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
Fire Sword and Sea
16 Forever
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
The Flower Bearers: A Memoir
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
The Starseekers
We Inherit the Fire
Winterbourne
A Sea Monster Conundrum (The Misfits)
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
The Disappearance
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Dear Debbie
Woman Down
The Correspondent
Accidentally Yours
The Intruder
Reminders of Him
The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
Half His Age
The Boyfriend
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
Project Hail Mary
My Husband's Wife
The Women
Heart the Lover
The Help by Kathryn StockettHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingReady Player One by Ernest ClineBossypants by Tina Fey
Best Audiobooks
1,572 books — 1,127 voters
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakI Am the Messenger by Markus ZusakThe Sea of Tranquility by Katja MillayThe Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks
YALSA 2014 Best of the Best
85 books — 34 voters

The Land by Aleron KongCatharsis by Travis BagwellReady Player One by Ernest ClineDungeon Born by Dakota KroutOpening Moves by Cosimo Yap
LitRPG audiobooks
283 books — 218 voters
Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara PascoePericles and Aspasia by Yvonne KorshakFire Prayers by John RamirezBanker's Holiday by Gary ClemenceauI'm Just Saying by Milan Kordestani
Most excellent Audiobooks/Narration
602 books — 117 voters

Harry Potter Audio Collection by J.K. RowlingThe Help by Kathryn StockettOutlander by Diana GabaldonReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Best Audio Narration
1,562 books — 1,072 voters
Fire Prayers by John RamirezPericles and Aspasia by Yvonne KorshakThe Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion by Simone CollinsThe Polymorph by Max NowazI'm Just Saying by Milan Kordestani
incredible Audiobooks
540 books — 97 voters

I’m Glad My Mom Died
Daisy Jones & The Six
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Project Hail Mary
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Becoming
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
The Woman in Me
Deyth Banger
Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!? - The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience. ...more
Deyth Banger

Oliver Sacks
But there is a fundamental difference between reading and being read to. When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydream in the middle of a sentence―one reads in one's own time. Being read to, listening to an audiobook, is a more passive experience, subject to the vagaries of another's voice and largely unfolding in the narrator's own time. ...more
Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

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