Best of the Year is here! In our annual recap of the year in listening, Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor chat with Editor Tricia Ford about the best audio experiences of 2021. Featuring a lively discussion with the Audible editors about their favorite listens of the year, this episode shares behind-the-scenes details and passionate recommendations on the 2021 listens you have to hear.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Stand-In by Lily Chu

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Back in the Burbs by Avery Flynn, Tracy Wolff

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Fuzz by Mary Roach

Death by Unknown Event by Danielle Elliot

The Murder of Robert Wone by AYR Media

Bath Haus by P. J. Vernon

Be Well by Dr. Jessica Clemons

You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Trejo by Danny Trejo, Donal Logue

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs

Playing Burton by Mark Jenkins

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

Men's Health by Daniel Goldfarb

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr

Yearbook by Seth Rogen

You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn

Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey - foreword

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia, Simon Bruni - translator

Lola Chick by Maria Escobedo

The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter, Edoardo Ballerini

The Push by Ashley Audrain

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

Please Miss by Grace Lavery

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, Sean Wilsey

Middlespace by Paul Lieberstein

Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar

Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

This Land Is Their Land by David J. Silverman

There, There by Tommy Orange

Tokitae by Bonnie Swift

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays

Getting Real by Emma Chase

The Brick Slayer by Harold Schechter

Native Son by Richard Wright

Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor explore the many facets of nonfiction in conversation with Audible Editor Michael Collina. Featuring an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Jessica Clemons.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Death by Unknown Event by Skybound

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

A Grown-up Guide to Planet Earth by Prof. Christopher Jackson

Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy by Emily Levesque

Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

On Animals by Susan Orlean

Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy

The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins

Finding Balance in a Digital World by Doreen Dodgen-Magee

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Be Well by Dr. Jessica Clemons

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

10 Minute Murder by Joe Kuner

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Defiance by Michael Johnson

Aack Cast! by Jamie Loftus

No Night Is Too Long by Barbara Vine

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee

Self Care by the Moon by Valerie Tejeda

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Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor lean into this spookiest of seasons by sharing some of their favorite literary monsters from recent listens. Featuring an interview with best-selling author Jonathan Maberry.

What the Hex by Alexis Daria

The Between by Tananarive Due

Inside the Exorcist by Wondery

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Another Name for the Devil by Mason Deaver

The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

We Are the Water People by Troy Onyango

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

The Werewolf’s 15 Minutes by Jonathan Maberry

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Wolfman by Jonathan Maberry

The Call of Cthulu by H.P. Lovecraft

Dracula by Bram Stoker

V Wars edited by Jonathan Maberry

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Ghost Stories by M.R. James

The Mist by Stephen King

Whispers by Dean Koontz

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Devil of Black Creek by Victor Methos

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor discuss some of the most iconic characters in literature and the performers who give voice to them. Featuring an interview with Simon Vance.

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Claudia and the New Girl by Ann M. Martin

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay

Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Dune by Frank Herbert

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor enter the Dreaming as they discuss Neil Gaiman’s Audible Original The Sandman. Featuring an interview with Dirk Maggs.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel by A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

The Cartel by Don Winslow

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Audible Editor Michael Collina joins Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor to discuss the most anticipated new releases of the fall. For the full Fall Preview list, visit audible.com/fall2021.

Fuzz by Mary Roach

Be Well by Jess Clemons

The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

The Guilty by James Patterson

Mind Body Zone by Deepak Chopra

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton

No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

Pax by Sara Pennypacker

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

After more than a year spent close to home, the Audible Editors are heading back to the beach, and we’re loading up our libraries with the best summer listening to get us in the mood. Join us as we unpack the slippery definition of the term “beach read,” identify our quintessential seaside listens (and snacks!), and revseal our top titles for summer 2021, including a peek at Pride listening.

Calypso by David Sedaris

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams

That Summer by Jennifer Weiner

Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

The Stand-In by Lily Chu

Highlights Mystery Theater by Dennis Haley and Marcy Brown

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

Hot White Heist by Adam Goldman

Tan France’s Queer History by Tan France

Sunset Springs by Kacen Callender

Owning It by Nikki Levy and Alexandra Billings

Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin

Billie Eilish: In Her Own Words by Billie Eilish

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry