Best Audiobooks

If you're looking for audiobooks that will make a good book even better, AudioFile magazine's best of the year lists are a great place to start. Here's their list of best audiobooks for 2025 in the science fiction and fantasy genres—from retellings of mythical tales to the hell of dark academia.

When you're listening to a 'multi-voice' audiobook, it can feel as if you're right there, in the middle of the action, like a movie. Here are five of the best multi-voice audiobooks of 2025, recommended by audiobook experts AudioFile magazine.

From in-depth accounts of the lives of literary giants to the ups and downs of an American frozen food dynasty, some notable biographies of 2025 have been turned into outstanding audiobooks. AudioFile magazine’s best audiobooks of the year also include heartfelt, bestselling memoirs—narrated by the authors themselves.

With their built-in suspense, mystery and crime novels are ideal for audiobooks. To help identify standout listens this year, we turned to the audiobook experts at AudioFile magazine for their recommendations. Here are their top mystery and suspense audiobooks of 2025.

Picking out quality audiobooks is important. With an accomplished narrator, a good novel can be transformed into an even more moving or enjoyable experience—while a lackluster performance can ruin it. Fortunately, there's AudioFile magazine, whose editors pick out standout audiobooks throughout the year. These are their picks for the best novels of 2025.

Editors at AudioFile magazine, who reviewed more than 2,000 books in 2025, pick out their favourites in the 'history and nonfiction' category—from the American struggle for independence to the ruminations of a food celebrity.

There are few things more fun than listening to entertaining and emotion-filled love stories read by talented narrators. These are the best romance audiobooks of 2025, as chosen by editors of AudioFile magazine and including romantasy, enemies-to-lovers, and new takes on beloved classics.

If anything can get a teen or young adult off their phone and immersed in a story, it's a good audiobook. Here, we present the best audiobooks for young adults of 2025, as recommended by the dedicated editors of AudioFile magazine, the best place for audiobook recommendations on the web.

There are many ways to approach narrating an audiobook, says award-winning narrator Ray Porter, but whatever the narrator’s method, they must bring conviction to the fantastical tales of sci fi. He introduces his top five choices: sci fi classics and award-winning contemporary novels, read for you by the giants of sci fi narration.

The quality and range of audiobooks has exploded in recent years and books with 'multi-voice' performances—where it can feel as if you're right here, in the middle of the action—are amongst the most exciting. Here are six of the best multi-voice audiobooks of 2024, recommended by audiobook experts AudioFile magazine.