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The Most Popular Audiobooks of 2025 You’ll Want to Listen To Right Now
If you’re trying to figure out which titles are worth your time this year, this roundup of the most popular audiobooks of books 2025 is a great place to start. These are the releases readers are talking about and even trending on social media. Whether you want something fast, emotional, or easy to listen to on the go, these 2025 audiobooks are the ones readers can’t stop talking about.
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My Friends Fredrik Backman
My Friends follows Louisa, a young artist who becomes obsessed with a famous painting that hides three small figures on a lonely pier. She sets out to learn who they were, which brings her back to a summer twenty-five years earlier, when four teenagers escaped their hard home lives by spending long days together on that same pier. Their friendship shaped everything that came after, including the painting now in Louisa’s hands. The audiobook is one of my favorites from the list. The narrator brings out the quiet humor and the emotional moments in a way that feels very natural. It’s also one of the best narrated audiobooks of all time. Check out : Best Audiobook Narrators You Won’t Stop Listening To
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love.
Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be placed into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. She embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more nervous she becomes about what she’ll find. Louisa is proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this stunning testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.
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Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back to Panem during the Fiftieth Hunger Games, when the Quarter Quell demands twice the number of tributes. Haymitch Abernathy only wants a normal life with the girl he loves, but the moment his name is called, he’s pulled into a fight he was never meant to survive. As he’s pushed through the Capitol and into the arena with three other District 12 tributes, he realizes the whole event is designed for him to fail yet something in him refuses to give up. The audiobook feels intense and fast because the narrator captures the pressure Haymitch is under from the start.
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.
When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
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The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Correspondent follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman who has spent her life making sense of the world through letters to friends, to family, to authors, and to someone she never sends her letters to. When a message from her past forces her to look at an old wound she’s never healed, Sybil realizes the one letter she’s avoided writing is the one she needs most.
Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcée, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
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The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
The Missing Half centers on Nic Monroe, who has never recovered from her sister Kasey’s disappearance. When Jenna, the sister of another missing girl, shows up with new hope, the two women team up to uncover what happened years ago. Their search pulls them through old pain, dead ends, and dangerous truths they were never prepared to face.
Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only has because her boss is a family friend and feels sorry for her. Everyone has felt sorry for her for the last seven years—since the day her older sister, Kasey, vanished without a trace.
On the night Kasey went missing, her car was found over a hundred miles from home. The driver’s door was open and her purse was untouched in the seat next to it. The only real clue in her disappearance was Jules Connor, another young woman from the same area who disappeared in the same way, two weeks earlier. But with so little for the police to go on, both their cases eventually went cold.
Nic wants nothing more than to move on—from her sister’s disappearance and the state it’s left her in. But then one day, Jules’s sister, Jenna Connor, walks into her life and offers Nic something she hasn’t felt in a long time – hope. What follows is a gripping tale of two sisters who will do anything to find their missing halves, even if it means destroying everything they’ve ever known.
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One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
One Golden Summer follows Alice, a photographer who returns to Barry’s Bay with her grandmother, hoping to relive the peaceful summer she spent there as a teenager. But when Charlie Florek — once a boy in a yellow speedboat, now a charming grown man — reappears, Alice is pulled back into feelings she thought she’d left behind. As they spend long, warm days by the lake, she has to decide whether she’s ready to be truly seen. The audiobook has a calm, summery feel that matches the setting. It’s one of best romance audiobooks to listen to.
Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer there at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life.
Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it.
Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart.
Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.
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The Buffalo Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Buffalo Hunter tells the story of Good Stab, a Blackfeet man whose life stretches across decades of violence and survival. When an old diary from 1912 is found inside a wall, it reveals a chain of events tied to a massacre and Good Stab’s long hunt for justice. His confessions show how history, revenge, and memory twist together on the early Montana frontier. The audiobook has a steady, haunting tone that fits the story’s darker edge.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians comes a tale of the American West, writ in blood.
This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice.
It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits.
This is an American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time, by one of the new masters of literary horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Atmosphere follows Joan Goodwin, a physics professor who has always dreamed of going to space. When NASA opens applications for women scientists in the 1980s, she earns a spot and begins training with a group of talented astronauts who become unexpected friends. As Joan falls in love, pushes her limits, and prepares for her first mission, she starts questioning her place in the universe — until one moment changes everything. It’s one of my favorites audiobooks by Julia Whelan.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
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Wild Dark by Shore Charlotte McConaghy
Wild Dark Shore is set on Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica where Dominic Salt and his children care for a massive seed bank. A violent storm washes Rowan onto their shore, and as she heals, she becomes tangled in the family’s quiet routine. But Rowan and Dominic both carry secrets, and when sabotaged radios and a fresh grave appear, trust becomes dangerous. The audiobook has an atmospheric tone that makes the isolation and tension feel even stronger. It’s one of the engaging audiobooks of 2025.
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late―and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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The Perfect Divorce Jeneva Rose
The Perfect Divorce picks up eleven years after Sarah Morgan defended her husband for murdering his mistress. Sarah has a new life now, but when she catches her new husband cheating and files for divorce, everything shatters again. Fresh DNA evidence pulls her back into Adam’s old case, and when the woman Bob slept with goes missing, Sarah finds herself in a twisting fight where no one plays fair. The audiobook moves quickly, matching the pace of all the back-and-forth mind games. I feel this is a great audiobook to listen to while going running.
The shocking sequel to Jeneva Rose’s multimillion-copy bestselling thriller, The Perfect Marriage.
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted … or is it?
After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former Deputy Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.
But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose’s signature twists and turns, this sequel will have readers wondering, Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be “’til death do us part”?
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Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Mate follows Serena Paris, the first Human-Were hybrid, who has spent her life being hunted rather than accepted. With enemies closing in, she turns to Koen Alexander, the powerful Alpha who has claimed her as his mate, even if she doesn’t return his feelings. As political danger rises and Serena’s past circles back, Koen may be the only one capable of keeping her alive.
A Human hybrid and an Alpha Were claw against the bonds of fate in the highly anticipated companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Bride.
Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her, she has only one option left—if he’ll have her.
As Alpha of the Northwest pack, Koen Alexander commands obedience. His authority is so absolute, only a fool would threaten his mate. It doesn’t matter if Serena doesn’t reciprocate his feelings, nothing will stop him from keeping her safe.
But power-hungry Vampyres and Weres are not the only threats chasing Serena. Sooner or later, her past is bound to catch up with her—and Koen might be the only thing standing between her and total annihilation.
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