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If you’re tuning in to all of the “best of the year” lists, here’s another one to dive into. Audible has announced their Best Audiobooks of the Year for 2025. It’s broken into several genre and thematic categories, as well as one big overall best list.
Here’s a peek at some of Audible’s top 20 audiobooks of the year:
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, performed by Julia Whelan and Kristen DiMercurio
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, performed by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, and Owen Teale
- Someday, Now: A Memoir of Family, Reclaiming Possibility, and One Sicilian Summer written and performed by Tembi Locke
- King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby, performed by Adam Lazarre-White
- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar, performed by Gem Carmella
- There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, performed by Rebecca Calder
You can check out the full roster of picks here, alongside editor insight as to why the title landed on Audible’s “Best Of.”
Some other “Best of 2025” audiobooks you can find in Audible’s genre and category lists include:
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- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, performed by the author
- At Last She Stood by Erin Entrada Kelly, performed by Ferdelle Capistrano
- Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, performed by Perdita Weeks
- Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds, performed by a full cast
- When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley, performed by Lee Osorio and Joel de la Fuente
You can check out Audible’s picks for best of 2025 in Bios & Memoirs, Celebrity Memoirs, Fiction, Horror, Kids & Family, Mysteries & Thrillers, Nonfiction, Romance, Romantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Well-Being, and Young Adult.
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