The Top 10 Audiobooks on Audible.Com

The best fiction and nonfiction top 10 audiobooks Audible has to offer!

The Top 10 Fiction Audiobooks on Audible.Com:

1. More Bedtime Stories for Cynics

Written By:

• Kirsten Kearse, Gretchen Enders, Cirocco Dunlap, Aparna Nancherla, Matt Lieb, narrated by Nick Offerman, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Ellen Page, Jane Lynch, Anjelica Huston, Mike Birbiglia, Rachel Dratch, Matt Walsh, Nicole Byer, Aparna Nancherla, Harry Goaz, Gary Anthony Williams (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• Nick Offerman and his posse of high-profile guests present this series of 12 short stories written in the style of classic kid’s tales, but with a decidedly adult approach.

2. The Mystery of Alice

Written By:

• Lee Bacon, narrated by Bryan Kennedy, Jessica Almasy, Josh Hurley, Cassandra Morris, Libby McKnight, Emily Bauer, Michael Crouch (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• On a boring afternoon, Alice spots a chance for adventure when a White Rabbit wearing a coat and pocket watch dashes by her, complaining about the time. After chasing the White Rabbit down into his rabbit hole, Alice encounters an entertaining series of eccentric characters including, The Mad Hatter, The Cheshire Cat, Humpty-Dumpty and The Queen of Hearts. Join Alice as she changes sizes quite indiscriminately, has a madcap tea with an outrageous menagerie and plays croquet with truly cranky royalty.
  

3. A Game of Thrones

Written By:

• George R. R. Martin, narrated by Roy Dotrice (Random House Audio)

Overview

• A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award.

4. Evil Eye

Written By:

• Madhuri Shekar, narrated by Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayaar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, Rita Wolf (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi – and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband.  In Madhuri Shekar’s ingenious Evil Eye, hilarious back-and-forth via phone and social media takes a shocking, supernatural twist when Pallavi meets the perfect man – leading to a climactic showdown that will leave listeners on the edges of their seats.

5. Where the Crawdads Sing

Written By:

• Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (Penguin Audio)

Overview:

• The novel’s main narrative opens in the marshland near the fictional town of Barkley Cove, North Carolina. Seven-year-old Catherine “Kya” Clark lives in a shack in the swamp with her mother, father, and siblings. However, one day, Kya’s mother leaves the shack forever in order to escape the physical abuse inflicted by Kya’s father. Kya’s siblings soon leave on their own as well, leaving only Kya and Pa. Pa spends increasingly more time away from the shack over the years, and when Kya is about ten years old, Pa leaves forever. Kya has become thoroughly self-sufficient by this time, living on the land and occasionally trading in town for necessary supplies.

6. Black Crow, White Snow

Written By:

Michael Livingston, narrated by Janina Edwards (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• In a World Where Women Hold All the Power and Men Have Barely Been an Afterthought, an Intrepid Shipmistress Must Put Aside Everything She Knows If She Is to Save Her People.
• Bela Is at the Helm of the Sandcrow, a Ship Sent From Calm Seas to the Far Frozen North in Search of a Legendary Power That Could Turn the Tide of War. Locked Into Ice, the Sandcrow Is Lost. Now, for the Shipmistress and Her Crew, a Desperate Voyage Becomes a Chilling Struggle for Survival Against Nature, Fear, and Prejudice. If Bela Can Lead Them to Their Ultimate Destination, Will the Magic They Find Be Their Redemption—or Their Destruction?

7. Beneath a Scarlet Sky

Written By:

Mark Sullivan, narrated by Will Damron (Brilliance Audio)

Overview:

• Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Skyis the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
• Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

8. Murder at Archly Manor

Written By:

Sara Rosett, narrated by Elizabeth Klett (Sara Rosett)

Overview:

• London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking into the background of her cousin’s fiancé, Alfred.
• Alfred burst into the upper crust world of London’s high society, but his answers to questions about his past are decidedly vague. Before Olive can gather more than the basics, a murder occurs at a posh party. Suddenly, every Bright Young Person in attendance is a suspect, and Olive must race to find the culprit because a sly murderer is determined to make sure Olive’s first case is her last.

9. A Clash of Kings

Written By:

George R. R. Martin, narrated by Roy Dotrice (Random House Audio)

Overview:

• A Clash of Kings picks up the story where A Game of Thrones leaves off. The Seven Kingdoms are plagued by civil war, the Night’s Watch mounts a reconnaissance force north of the Wall, and in the distant east, Daenerys Targaryen continues her quest to return to the Seven Kingdoms and claim her birthright.

10. Strange Practice

Written By:

Vivian Shaw, narrated by Susanna Hampton (Hachette Audio)

Overview: 

• Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family’s highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies.
• It’s a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice – and her life.

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The Top 10 NonFiction Audiobooks on Audible.Com:

The best nonfiction audiobooks Audible has to offer!

1. The 3-Day Effect

Written By:

Florence Williams, narrated by Florence Williams (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• The 3-Day Effect Is a Look at the Science Behind Why Being in the Wild Can Make Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative. Whether It’s Rafting Down Utah’s Green River, Backpacking in Arizona’s Wilderness or Walking Through Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., Scientists Are Finding That the More Exposure Humans Have to Nature, the More They Will Benefit From Reduced Anxiety, Enhanced Creativity and Overall Well-Being. Trek With Science Journalist Florence Williams as She Guides Former Iraqi War Veterans, Sex Trafficking Survivors, and Even a Nature Hater, on Three-Day Nature Excursions, to See How the Outdoors Offers Something Like a Miracle Cure for an Array of Extreme and Everyday Ailments.

2. The Path Made Clear

Written By:

Oprah Winfrey, narrated by Oprah Winfrey & full cast (Macmillan Audio)

Overview:

• In her latest book, The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book’s ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to self-discovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life’s detours are there to teach us.

3. Unfreedom of the Press

Written By:

Mark R. Levin, narrated  by Jeremy Lowell, Mark R. Levin – introduction and epilogue (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Overview:

• Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.

4. The Wild Heart of Stevie Nicks

Written By:

Rob Sheffield, narrated by Rob Sheffield (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as “Rhiannon” and “Gypsy”. With her recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (the only female artist to be honored for both her group and solo work), Nicks, who turns 70 this month, is being celebrated for living the seasons of her life with ferocious wit, fierce honesty, unstoppable talent, and a lot of rock & roll.

5. Good Leaders Ask Great Questions

Written By:

John C. Maxwell, narrated by John C. Maxwell (Hachette Audio)

Overview:

• John Maxwell, America’s #1 leadership authority, has mastered the art of asking questions, using them to learn and grow, connect with people, challenge himself, improve his team, and develop better ideas. Questions have literally changed Maxwell’s life. In GOOD LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, he shows how they can change yours, teaching why questions are so important, what questions you should ask yourself as a leader, and what questions you should be asking your team.

6. Becoming

Written By:

Michelle Obama, narrated by Michelle Obama (Random House Audio)

Overview:

• In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.

7. Educated: A Memoir

Written By:

Tara Westover, narrated by Julia Whelan (Random House Audio)

Overview:

• Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far if there was still a way home.

8. The Mueller Report

Written By:

• Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel’s Office U.S. Department of Justice, narrated by Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett, Victor Bevine (Audible Studios)

Overview:

• In the future, The Mueller Report may be judged as the most important document of our time. And no matter where you reside on the American political spectrum, you will probably agree that it will have far-reaching implications for the balance of power among the three coequal branches of government that create, administer, and apply the laws of our republic. With forewords by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (Ret.), and the Hon. Dan Boren, both former congressmen who served on opposite sides of the aisle while Robert Mueller served as director of the FBI, they hold insight into the leadership of the organization created expressly to investigate the questions answered by this report.

9. Unfu*k Yourself

Written By:

Gary John Bishop, narrated by Gary John Bishop (HarperAudio)

Overview:

• Joining the ranks of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, You Are a Badas*, and F*ck Feelings comes this refreshing, BS-free, self-empowerment guide that offers an honest, no-nonsense, tough-love approach to help you move past self-imposed limitations.
• Are you tired of feeling fu*ked up? If you are, Gary John Bishop has the answer. In this straightforward handbook, he gives you the tools and advice you need to demolish the slag weighing you down and become the truly unfu*ked version of yourself. ”Wake up to the miracle you are,” he directs. ”Here’s what you’ve forgotten: You’re a fu*king miracle of being.” It isn’t other people that are standing in your way, it isn’t even your circumstances that are blocking your ability to thrive, it’s yourself and the negative self-talk you keep telling yourself.

10. Girl, Stop Apologizing (Audible Exclusive Edition)

Written By:

Rachel Hollis, narrated by Rachel Hollis (HarperCollins Leadership)

Overview:

• Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough.
• In Girl, Stop Apologizing, number-one New York Timesbest-selling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company, Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people – whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee – instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.