• The Best Audiobooks of 2023 - The Late Americans: A Novel by Brandon Taylor & Kevin R. Free (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2023 - Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2023 - Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2023 - Poverty, by America by Dion Graham (narrator) & Matthew Desmond
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2023 - 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall & Will Watt (narrator)

The Best Audiobooks of 2023, recommended by Laura Sackton

AudioFile magazine is one of the best places on the web for audiobook reviews. At the end of every year, its editors compile lists that highlight the best audiobooks across a range of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, biography and mystery. Laura Sackton, a contributor at AudioFile, talks us through some of her favourites from their best of 2023 lists—and explains how she got the bug for listening to books as well as reading them.

  • The Best Audiobooks of 2021 - Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (editors)
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2021 - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2021 - The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2021 - Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro (with Patricia Weiss Levy)
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2021 - The Night Gate by Peter May

The Best Audiobooks of 2021, recommended by Robin Whitten

In 2021, as in previous years, AudioFile magazine picks out the very best audiobooks of the year, books that make great listening and where outstanding narration brings additional pleasure over and above reading the book in print with your eyes. Here, AudioFile editor and founder Robin Whitten picks out the best audiobooks of 2021 for us—out of the 2,300 books that she and her team listened to and reviewed.

  • The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards - The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards - The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin & Robin Miles (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid & Nicole Lewis (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards - More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys

The Best Audiobooks: the 2021 Audie Awards, recommended by Michele Cobb

There are so many fantastic audiobooks being produced at the moment, across so many genres, that it’s hard to know where to start listening. Fortunately, every year, the judges of the Audie Awards pick out some of the very best. Here, Michele Cobb, Executive Director of the Audio Publishers Association, talks us through some of the 2021 winners, including the ‘audiobook of the year.’

  • The Best Audiobooks of 2020 - Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald (author and narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2020 - The Sandman by Dirk Maggs (audiobook adaptation), Full Cast & Neil Gaiman
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2020 - The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue & Emma Lowe (narrator)
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2020 - The Searcher: A Novel by Roger Clark (narrator) & Tana French
  • The Best Audiobooks of 2020 - A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Adam Lazarre-White (narrator) & Arshay Cooper

The Best Audiobooks of 2020, recommended by Robin Whitten

With most people carrying smartphones these days, entering the world of audiobooks has never been easier. Some are straightforward narrations of a book, but when an audiobook is done well, it can be an extraordinary, all-encompassing experience. Here Robin Whitten, editor of AudioFile magazine—the best resource for finding good quality audiobooks on the web, in our view—talks us through her picks for the best audiobooks of 2020, chosen from the hundreds they’ve reviewed over the course of the year.

  • The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance - 200 Women: Who Will Change The Way You See The World by Geoff Blackwell, Kieran Scott, Marianne Lassandro, Ruth Hobday & Sharon Gelman
  • The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance - Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars) by Cavan Scott
  • The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance - Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
  • The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett Graff

The 2020 Audie Awards: Best Multi-Voiced Performance, recommended by Mary Burkey & Robin Whitten

If your idea of an audiobook is a single narrator reading a book out loud, think again. These days many audiobooks are created as dramatic performances with a cast of dozens. Veteran audiobook reviewers Robin Whitten and Mary Burkey talk us through the finalists of the 2020 Audie Awards’ ‘multi-voiced performance’ category—and the books that have been brought to life by dedicated teams of actors, editors and producers.