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.

Numerous best-selling writers
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No God but Us
Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crocodile
All Us Saints
The Lustrous Dark
The Hanging Bones
The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
This Could All Go Bad
Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings
The Saw Mouth
How Queer Bookshops Changed the World
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money
Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams
Necrovet. Hodowla istot chimerycznych (Necrovet, #5)
Yesteryear
The Divorce
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Project Hail Mary
The Correspondent
Dear Debbie
Theo of Golden
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Every Summer After
Our Perfect Storm
The Night We Met (Say You'll Remember Me, #2)
The Calamity Club
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
My Husband's Wife
Whistler
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Help by Kathryn StockettHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. RowlingReady Player One by Ernest ClineBossypants by Tina Fey
Best Audiobooks
1,633 books — 1,162 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska OrczyDracula by Bram StokerJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
LibriVox Audiobooks
176 books — 65 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Lover's Dictionary by David LevithanMatched by Ally Condie
YALSA 2012 Best of the Best
83 books — 64 voters
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliTurtles All the Way Down by John  GreenThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
What We've Read So Far in 2018
6,514 books — 757 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonShadowfever by Karen Marie MoningDreamfever by Karen Marie MoningMatch Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth PhillipsDark Lover by J.R. Ward
Best Romance Audiobooks
695 books — 252 voters
Just Three Words by Melissa BraydenKiss the Girl by Melissa BraydenReady or Not by Melissa BraydenThe Warrior's Path by Catherine M. WilsonWho'd Have Thought by G. Benson
Best Lesbian Books Available On Audible
298 books — 66 voters

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Project Hail Mary
Daisy Jones & The Six
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Becoming
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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

Joyce Rachelle
I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf. ...more
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