Most Popular Audio Books You Should Listen To Right Now
While we all love reading, sometimes life can make this a hard hobby to keep up with. You can’t read pages of a book while you’re working, driving, or cooking for your family. But do you know what you can do during all of those tasks? Listen to an audiobook!
Whether you’re an avid audiobook-listener or you’ve never strayed into auditory literature, this list of audiobooks should be at the top of your ‘next reads’ list.
Don't Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper
From the creator and star of the BBC Three series This Country, this is an honest and hilarious book. It’s told by Cooper herself and details her life as a poor girl from Gloucester, moving to London, and then finally ending up right back at home.
And Away... by Bob Mortimer
Comedian Bob Mortimer has put together this funny yet honest and engrossing memoir of his twenties and all of the circumstances he found himself in during those years.
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
This book dives into the effects of the Great Recession and those who had little choice but to live in cars and vans.
What White People Can Do Next by Emma Dabiri
For those who wonder how they can help and be allies, this book dives into - quite literally - what white people can do next.
Beyond by Stephen Walker
Listen to the spectacular life and cosmic adventures of Yuri Gagarin, as told by Stephen Walker.
Later by Stephen King
An eight-year-old who can speak to - and question - the dead for a week after they’ve died, and the FBI who need this ability. This is a riveting story.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a Sci-Fi novel that explores artificially intelligent machines, gifted teens, and the human world through unfamiliar eyes.
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Open Water follows two young Black artists as they fall in love and find their places in worlds where they don’t feel they belong.
We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
Known as a sort of “ security agency of the people,” Bellingcat is a group of amateur sleuths that have taken on massive investigations of the world. This is their true story.
Luster by Ravel Leilani
Leilani’s more mature novel follows young Black Edie as she gets entangled in the sort-of-open marriage of a middle-aged white archivist.
Soul Tourists by Bernardine Evaristo
On a road trip across Europe, a bored banker and his new fiery female friend meet the ghosts of some of the great Black Europeans and embark on a whole different kind of journey.
Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Either you love him, or you hate him, but Shakespeare undoubtedly shaped a lot of our modern literature. So if you need an endless audiobook to keep you company as you travel (or clean the house, whatever works), this 99-hour-long compilation is sure to do the job.