Books have always been a person’s best friend for life. Books influence most of us in many ways during the journey of our lives. The love of reading and gaining knowledge keeps most of us glued to the book. However, what about those who can’t keep up to reading because it’s boring. I have heard this many times from my friends, relatives, and even my husband that every time they open a book, they just doze off. And there you go, you lose all the motivation to read any further and keep the book down.
So here we introduce the audiobooks. Audiobooks are books which are being read to us. (Thank God, some people have the patience to listen). Audiobook is the MAGIC word for people who want to gain knowledge through books but have less interest to delve into the physical pages.
We hereby bring you the list of 50 best audiobooks of all time ranging from best sellers, classics, economic, business, know-how, history, food, thrillers, science, and fiction upcoming and latest titles.
The titles are selected on randomly with no particular ranking or favoritism of any kind. Most of the Audiobooks are available on Google Play Store(Free, inbuilt app-purchase), Audible (Ad free, subscription-based), Librivox(Free, inbuilt app-purchase), Libby(free for Ebook borrow an audiobook, Should have a library card). If you’re just starting with audiobooks I must say start with Amazon Audible it has the highest number of audiobooks plus you can start Audible for Free
50 Best Audiobooks Of All Time
Best Audiobooks: Self-development/Self-help
1. The Greatness Guide(2) by Robin Sharma
Listen on: Audible, Google Play Store, Librivox.
Narrated on Audible: Adam Verner
Run time: 2 hours 40 mins.
Genre: Self-help, Economics, Business
About AudioBook: The Greatness Guide(2) is a sequel to the international bestseller, The Greatness Guide. The author talks about 101 additional ways to make life better and achieve our desired goals based on his proven techniques. The descriptions is apt and to the point. It gives you a path which you can create for yourself to be great. Sharma touches on the topics like time management, family life, goal setting, setting your priorities straight and much more.
Pros: Writing is simple, understandable, apt and illustrative.
Con: The con is just how well you implement these techniques on your own.
Rating:4/5
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end”-Robin Sharma
2. The Power of Habit by Charles, Duhigg
Listen On: Audible, Google play store.
Narrated on Audible: Mike Chamberlain
Run time: 10 hours and 53 minutes
Genre: Psychology, Business, Self-help
About Audiobook: The book is written by Charles Duhigg. His focus stay’s mainly how habits are formed. It tells you how can we change those according to our needs. The author throws light on the fact that people have the freedom and responsibility to create and nurture their habits. The “Power of Habit” is a bible on habits and psychology. People can learn the scientific reasons why a habit is formed. This book can help a lot of people to get rid of bad habits. However, the same framework may not work all the time.
Pros: The best book on habit to date. It’s a classic you can refer to.
Cons: Too many habits cannot be put in one framework. Different situations can create different behaviors in people.
Rating:4.5/5
“Habits are safer than rules. You don’t have to watch them, And you don’t have to keep them either. They keep you”-by Frank Hall Cran”
3.May Cause Miracles by Gabrielle Berstein
Listen on: Audible, Google Play Store
Narrated by: Gabrielle Berstein
Run time: 5 hours and 40 mins
Genre: Self-help
About Audiobook: This audiobook introduces us to the concept of miracles. Having faith and perseverance in the good leads us to miracles. Fear is like a craving, as we crave for sugar. Face your fears upright and the front is what the author says and it will run away. Gabrielle Bernstein is fondly also called the “Mistress of Miracles”. With a few simple shifts that almost everyone can afford to make we can see positive changes in our life. Yes, Miracles do happen if you believe in them and believe in your self.
Pros: Listeners can expect incredible transformation with 40 powerful ways in the audiobook.
Cons: Miracles only happen if we have faith in them.
Rating:4.8/5
“Real happiness doesn’t come from getting but from giving.”-Gabrielle Berstein
4 The Magic Of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Listen on: Audible
Narrated by: David J Schwartz
Run time: 4 hours and 9 mins
Genre: Self-help, Self-discipline, Counseling, Inspiration
About Audiobook: This book is narrated by the author himself. This audiobook is regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation. It does offer useful methods. The audiobook will give you the secrets to attain a bigger and happier life. The basic focus of the audiobook is believing in yourself. Awakening the Mr. Triumph in you so you can dream and achieve what you want to. So destroy your fears and use the goals to grow big in life.
Pros: Positive ways of awakening Mr. Triumph in you
Con: Depends on the individual to implement them.
Rating:4.7/5
“Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories” by David Schwartz.
5 Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks, Google play store, Itunes, Kobo,
Narrated on Audible: Tony Roberts, Karen Ziemba, Kenneth Blanchard
Run time: 1 hour and 39 mins
Genre: Self-help, Business
About Audiobook: The audiobook is a parable that reveals the truth. It deals with four characters who live in a maze and hunt for cheese. It shows how situations change and these characters face difficulty in coping through it. However, one character could deal with the change properly and writes the experiences on the maze to discover it for yourself. If you don’t change you become extinct soon. Therefore, one should look for changes coming in life and adapt to it. Happiness and success are guaranteed if you change. New doors are opened with new opportunities.
Pros: It’s amusing and enlightening to see all the four characters hunt for cheese. We hunt for good jobs, better relationships etc.
Con: You will have to discover your own cheese.
Rating:4.8/5
“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.” by Spencer Johnson.
6 Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks, Kobo
Narrated by: Tony Robbins , Alexey Muzhitski(Russian)
Run time: One hour 30 minutes
Genre: Self-help
About Audiobook: This audiobook introduces the concept of awakening the dorment gaint within all of us. No matter where a person stands today, he.she might always want more out of their career, relationships etc. So here you are given certain tools to immediately become the master of your own fate.
Pros: You can become your own unique form of greatness.
Cons: How you act upon it.
Rating:4.7/5
“Every problem is a gift, without problems we would not grow.” by Tony Robbins.
7 The Power Of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks
Run time: 3 hours and 46 minutes
Narrator: Uncredited
Genre: Self-help, motivation
About Audiobook: This audiobook has the concepts of faith and inspiration. Believing in yourself and your actions. Creating new power and energy and also to stop worrying is highlightened by the author. Many practical techniques are outlined in this audiobook, which can energize your life and give direction and ambition to you.
Pros: Well tested and proven techniques.
Con: Keeping faith is the key
Rating:4.8/5
“Shoot the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” by Norman Vincent Peale.
8 The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
Listen on : Audible
Narrator: Stephen R Covey
Run Time: 13 hours and 4 minutes
Genre: Self-help, Self-discipline
About Audiobook: The audiobook is a classic on habits. The audiobook has personal notes added by the author himself as he narrates the book. Makes more sense.
Pros: The authors voice adds more emotion
Con: Proper implementation should be done
Rating 4.8/5
“Begin with the end in mind.” by Steven Covey
9 Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Listen on: Audible
Narrator: Napolen Hill
Run Time: 7 hours and 40 minutes
Genre: Self- help, Self-discipline
About Audiobook: This audiobook is a classic in the print form i.e. the book. The book was originally published in 1937 and is regarded as the best version till date even after so many updated version. That why we always say “Old is Gold”. This book has never been outdated.It has seen all the sun and rain. The audiobook is an extenstion of the same and in this there are 13 steps described to be rich. The universal principles are short and dependable to inspire people to obtain a richer and fuller life.
Pros:Most effective book on for becoming richer.
Con: Money is not always the center of everything.
Rating:4.5/5
“When your desire are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” by Napoleon Hill.
10 Men Are From Mars And Women Are From Venus by John Gray
Listen on : Audiobook, Audible
Run time: One hour 33 mins
Narrator: John Gray
Genre: Self-help, Counselling
About Audiobook: This audiobook , is a version of the book which is considered to be a non-fiction classic of all time. The subject matter in the audiobook is how well can you understand, communicate and get want you want from the opposite sex. So what are you waiting for. Grab your headphones and listen on.
Con: There might be certain cultural and individual differences.
Pros: Classic work of non-fiction. Helpful to many people around the globe.
Rating:4/5
“Mental chemistry creates interest, emotional chemistry generates affection, physical chemistry generates desire and spiritual chemistry creates love. A soulmate includes all four…..and I will not settle for anything less.” by John Gray.
11 Rich Dad And Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Listen on: Audible
Run Time: varies on different mediums
Narrator: Tim Wheeler
Genre: Self-help, Economics
About Audiobook: The author talks about two dads, his dad and his best friends dad. There are two different viewpoints mentioned in this audiobook. Poor dad placed emphasis on work for money whereas Rich dad emphasized on learning about how money works and letting money work for you. Find out more by listening to the audiobook.
Pros: The mindset regarding money is enlightening.
Con: However, there is no particular stepwise technique mentioned.
Rating:4/5
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn , we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fall down, we would never walk.” by Robert. Kiyosaki.
12 The Five Second Rule by Mel Robbins
Listen on : Audible
Run time: 7 hours and 35 mins
Narrator: Mel Robbins
Genre: Self-help
About Audiobook: The audiobook deals with just one basic rule, The five second rule. You are just five second away from becoming more confident, breaking self doubt, worrying. The TedEx talk by the author has been used by organizers all over the world to achieve great results. Listen on and discover the five second rule for yourself.
Pros: The five second rule, just takes five second.
Con: Believing in the five second rule is the key.
Rating:4/5
“Start before you’re ready. Don’t prepare, begin.” by Mel Robbins
13 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson
Listen on : Audible, Audiobooks
Run Time: 15 hours and 39 mins
Narrator: Jordan Peterson
Genre: Self-help
About Audiobook:This audiobook is in a story form , self-help style. It beautifully touches history, religion, science and philosophy showing us how to live life fully as a human being. It discusses the antidotes for choas in life. Keep your ears open to find our more while listening to this audiobook.
Pros: A story like style about the antidotes for chaos in life
Con: Mixed views on the God description.
Rating:4.2/5
“Rule4: Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” by Jordan Peterson.
Best Audiobooks on Autobiography, Biography, Memoirs
14 Becoming by Michelle Obama
Listen On: Audiobooks, Audible
Run time: 19 hours and 4 mins
Narrator: Michelle Obama
Genre: Memoir, Biography
About Audiobook: This audiobook is a memoir about the first Afro-American first lady ever, Michelle Obama. It’s her life story and she proudly owns it. The experiences which shaped her childhood, her college years and her days a mother and lastly the First lady of United States of America are worth listening. It’s inspirational and not preachy at the same time.
Pros: Inspirational
Con: Cultural and individualistic differences
Rating: 4.2/5
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. Trust your instincts, good relationships feel good, they feel right, they don’t hurt.” by Michelle Obama
15 Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
Listen on: Audible
Run Time: 9 hours
Narrator: Trevor Noah
Genre: Biography, Humor
Pros: Stories are hilarious, dramatic and keep you glued to your earphones(Winner of AudioFile earphones award)
About Audiobook: Trevor, the character of the boy in the audiobook was born to a white swiss father and black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. This story is about a man whose birth was a crime and he was kept mostly indoor so the government officials won’t take him away. To find our more about his journey where he has reached today, listen on to the audiobook.
Rating:5/5
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.” by Trevor Noah.
16 Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Listen on: Audiobooks, Audible
Narrator: Dylan Baker
Run time 24 hours and 30 mins
Genre: Biography, Memoir
About Audiobook: This audiobook is based on the 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over 2 years. It also has inputs from friends , family, competitors, advertisers. Jobs passion for perfection revolutionized six industries which are personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet, computing and digital publishing. His tale is filled with lessons about innovation, leadership, values etc. Listen on to find out more about a man who revolutionized six industries.
Pros: Lessons on innovation, character, leadership
Rating:4.8/5
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
by Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs.
17 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shutterly
Listen on: Audiobooks, Audible(for young readers)
Run time: 10 hours and 48 mins
Narrator: Bahni Turpin(Audible), Robin Miles(Audiobook)
Genre: Biography, History
About Audiobook: This audiobook speaks to the listeners about the true story of African-American female mathematicians who helped fuel America’s greatest achievements in space. These ladies with their intellect changed the face of NASA for America. Listen on to find out more on the same.
Pros: Inspiring for young listeners.
Rating:4.7/5
“Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status- none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.” by Margot Lee Shetterly.
18 Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Listen on : Audible, www.harpercollins.com
Run time: 13 hours and 23 mins
Narrator: Fred Sanders
Genre: Biography
About Audiobook: This audiobook sheds light on South African born Elon Musk who is a renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind Paypal, Space X, Tesla, and Solar City. His childhood years went through bullying and abuse from his father. Still, it didn’t break his spirits. He was still a bright child and found the way to Pennsylvania University. Discover the man who is regarded as the present and future Steve Jobs.
Rating:4.7/5
“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.” by Ashlee Vance
19 The Story Of My Life by Hellen Keller
Listen on: Audible, Audiobook and Librivox
Narrator: Flo Gibson
Runtime: varies on all mediums
Genre: Autobiography, Biography,Motivation
About Audiobook: The story of my life is the audiobook version of the same book. It throws light on Hellen Keller’s 22 years of life right from her childhood to her college days in Radcliffe college. It mentions her unbreakable spirit to go to college in spite of all the odds. Listeners are sure to have a dose of motivation through this audiobooks.
Pros: Motivational, Inspiring. Still read in any schools for motivation.
Rating: 4.8/5
” Do not think of today’s failure but of success that may come tomorrow.” by Hellen Keller
20 Autobiography Of A Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Listen on :Audible
Run time: 21 hours and 33mins
Narrator: Swami Kriyananda
Genre: Autobiography, Spirituality
About Audiobook: The audiobook is an extension of the book first written in 1946. It is still regarded as one of the “Rare Account” books on spirituality or even the wisdom of the East. The audio features academy award winner Ben Kinsley’s voice which is a masterpiece in itself. Here in the audiobook the Yogi talks about the modern saints of India, philosophy, and yoga. Come and unleash the spiritual journey for yourself.
Rating:5/5
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself” by Yogananda
21 Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden
Listen on: Audiobook, Audible
Run Time: 3 hours
Narrator: Elaina Erika Davis
Genre:Memoir, Historical Fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about a nine year old girl named Sayuri who is sold to a Geisha house because of poverty. After World War II the Geisha houses were shut down and Sayuri reinvents herself. Listen on to find out how her story unfolds.
Rating:3.8/5
“We can never flee the misery that is within us” by Arthur Golden.
Best Audiobooks For Road Trip
22 Hunger by Roxane Gay
Listen on: Audible, Harpercollins.com
Run time: 5 hours and 58 minutes
Narrator: Roxane Gay
Genre: Memoir
About audiobook: This audiobook is about the author’s personal experiences with food and her body. It’s a true story about triumph over weight loss. Living with weight and cut opening her own body to tell her story is certainly courageous.
Rating:4.2/5
“It is a powerful lie to equate thiness with self-worth” by Roxane Gay
23 The End Of Affair by Graham Greene
Listen on: Audible, soundcloud.com, brillanceaudio.com
Run time: 6 hours and 28 mins
Narrator: Colin Firth
Genre: Fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook depicts the love of self, the love of another and also the love of God. It is english classic adapted and translated for stage show, screen(movie) and also opera house. The story is about two characters Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles affair. The affair comes to an end after a heated argument.Listen on to find out more analysis on the situation by the author.
Rating:4.8/5
“The sense of unhappiness is much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism. This pain of mine is individual, this nerve that wines belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.” Graham Greece.
24 Naked money by Charles Wheelan
Listen on:Audible
Run time: 13 hours and 11 mins
Narrator:Jonathan Davis
Genre: Non-fiction, Economics
About audiobook: This audiobook asks lot of questions about the green paper(money). Why does most of Europe share a common currency, and why has that arrangement caused so much trouble, will the payment apps like bitcoin and other render this moot. He takes us to the banking and monetary system and how does it work. Words like inflation, deflation, liquidity are discussed.
Rating:4/5
“Two percent who care deeply about something are a mere potent political force then the 98 percent who feel the opposite but aren’t motivated enough to do anything about it.
25 The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam
Listen on: Audible
Run time: N/A
Narrator: Joseph Passaro
Genre: Psychology, Social psychology
About Audiobook: In this audiobook Shankar Vedantam takes us through the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psychology and behavioral science to uncover the darkest corners of our mind. It gives interesting insights into our brian. Listen and find out more about the common tool(brain) that we all have.
Rating:4.2/5
” Good people are not those who lack flaws, the brave are not those who feel no fear, and the generous are not those who feel selfish. Extraordinary people are not extraordinary because they are invulnerable to unconsciuos bias. They are extraordinary because they choose to do something about it.” by Shankar Vedantam.
26 Fantastic Beast by J.K. Rowling
Listen on: Audible, Kobo.com
Run time: 1 hour and 54 minutes
Narrator: Eddie Redmayne
Genre: Fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook is an introduction to the magical beasts of the wizardly world. Some of the beasts will be familiar to the readers of The Harry Potter series. This has also adapted to screen. Listen to find out more about the audiobook.
Rating:4/5
Best Audiobooks Fiction
27 The Complete Sherlock Holmes: The Heirloom collection by Arthur Canon Doyle
Listen on: Audible, booktopia.com
Run time: 58 hours and 4 mins
Narrator: Simon Vance
Genre: Fiction
About Audiobook: The audiobook puts light on the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Four full-length novels plus forty short stories are included in the audiobook. It is a must listen for all Sherlock Holmes fans.
Rating:5/5
28 Emma by Jane Austen
Listen on: Audible
Run time: 14 hours and 35 mins
Narrator: Moira Fogarty
Genre: Fiction, Classic
About Audiobook: This audiobook takes through the life of Emma. She is single, rich and clever and in no need of love or marriage. However, she interfiers in other’s romantic lives which gives her immense delight. But things get unmanagable whe she tries to match make between two people. Listen on and find out more. This work of Jane Austen is till date one of her best.
Rating:4.8/5
29 The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Listen on: Audible
Run Time:16 hours and 52 mins
Narrator: Julian Rhind Tutt
Genre: Fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook describes that devil comes to Moscow, but is not all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption. The audio is multilayered with satire and fantasy. Listen on to find out more. It is one of the world’s great novels.
Rating:4.5/5
30 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Listen on: Audiobooks, Audible
Run time: 4 hours and 1 min
Narrator: Jeremy Irons
Genre: Adventure fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook tells about a boy named Santiago, who is a shepherd boy and travels in search of world’s extravagant treasure. The audiobook takes us through the struggles and beliefs Santiago goes along his journey of discovering the treasure. This story tells you to believe in your heart.
Rating:4.2/5
31 “The Martian” by Andy Weir
Listen on: Audible, Itunes
Run time: 10 hours and 53 mins
Narrator: R.C. Bray
Genre: Science fiction
Note: Winner of 2015 Audie Award in category science fiction.
Winner of 2015 Audie Award for narration male.
About audiobook: This audiobook will take your breath away. Its smart, funny and intense. It tells about Mark Watney who was the first person to walk on Mars. Now stuck there with no communication with his teammates , he will be the first person to die on Mars. Listen on to find out the mystery.
Rating: 4.8/5
32 Ready Player One by Ernest Clive
Listen on: Audible, archive.org
Run time: 15 hours and 40 mins
Narrator: Wil Wheaton
Genre: Science fiction
About audiobook: This audiobook takes us to 2044 where the real world has become an ugly place. Famine, poverty has hit hard. People start living in the virtual world of OASIS. The thrill begins when the OASIS massive fortune will go to the person who solves all the riddles that has been scattered throughout creation.
Rating:4.7/5
Best Audiobooks For Non-Fiction
33 The Future Of Mind by Michio Kaku
Listen on: Audiobooks, Audible
Run time: 15 hours and 40 mins
Narrater: Feodar Chin
Genre: Science, personal development
About audiobook: In this audiobook, the author takes us through world’s various laboratories to meet scientists who are revolutioning the way think about brain. Mind reading, Video taping our dreams, mind control , telekinisis are all possible through the scientific studies and technology.
Rating: 4.5/5
34 Women And Weight Loss Tamasha By Rujuta Diwekar
Listen on : Audible
Run time: 11 hours and 38 mins
Narrator: Rujuta Diwekar, Kareena Kapoor
Genre: Health and fitness, Women
About audiobook: The author brings four strategies, Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Relationships in a women’s life. She further discuses about the myths regarding food, hormones and workouts. She tells us that it is easy to remain healthy just by eating right.
Rating: 4.8/5
35 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know by John Bridges and Bryan Curtis
Listen on: Audible, Google Play store
Run time: 2 hours and 44 mins
Narrator: Bryan Curtis
Genre: Etiquettes, Grooming, Self-help
About audiobook: This audiobook is a young man’s guide to becoming a man whom everybody respects. It’s a exercise on defining ettiquetes, social interaction and personel discipline. It all begind here.
Rating:4/5.
36 The Hidden Life Of Animals by Peter Wohllenben
Listen on: Audible
Run time: 7 hours and 33 minutes
Narrator: Mike Grady
Genre: Non-fiction, Zoology, Life sciences
About audiobook: This audiobook tells us about the animals feelings, emotions. How they communicate, live and survive. This book opens door of animal kingdom right from microscopic level to largest mammal on earth. Come and listen for yourself.
Rating:4.2/5
More nonfiction audiobook
Best Audiobooks For Kids
37 How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Listen on: Audible, bookdepositary.com(CD-format)
Run time:N/A
Narrator: David Tenmant
Genre: Children’s literature
About audiobook: The story of Hiccup Horrendous HaddockIII rise to fame, through his dragon-training exploits. Hiccups was also known as the Dragon Whisperer, a great sword fighter but it was like that always. This audiobook is hit both with kids and adults.
Rating:4.5/5
38 Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks
Run time:N/A
Narrator: Tim Federle
Genre: Children’s fiction
About audiobook: This audio book is about a child Nate who has a dream to perform in a broadway show. He gets stuck in Penselvynia with one of his pal Libby with whom he plan to go to new york and make his dream come true. Listen on to find out more about his adventure.
Rating:4.3/5
39 See You In Cosmos by Jack Cheng
Listen on : Audiobooks, Audible
Run time: 6 hours and 10 mins
Narrator:Brittany Pressley
Genre: Children fiction
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about an 11-year-old Alex Petroski who is obsessed about space and rockets. He wants to launch his iPod into space. Listen on and find out his adventure.
Rating:4.7/5
40 Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Listen on : Google play store, Audible
Run time: 8 hours and 33 mins
Narrator: Jim Dale
Genre: Fiction-children, Adventure fiction
About audiobook: This audiobook is about a boy Harry Potter. An envelop drops over the doormat of Harry Potter sealed in purple wax. On his 11th birthday it is known that Harry Potter is a wizard and has a place at the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Listen on as the story unfolds.
Rating: 4.8/5
41 Ramona Quimby Collection by Beverly Cleary
Listen on: Audible, Kobo, Google play store
Run time: 18 hours 57 mins
Narrator: Stockard Channing
Genre: Fiction-children, Adventure fiction
About audiobook: This audiobook is a collection of the adventures of Ramona. She lives with her mother, father and elder sister. She is not afraid of anything and is always upto something. Listen on to uncover her wacky adventures.
Rating:4.8/5
Best Audiobooks For Teens
42 Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Listen on Audiobooks, Audible
Run time: 10 hours and 7 mins
Narrator: Rebecca Soler
Genre: Teen, Fairy tale, folklore
About Audiobook: This audiobook is a retelling of the classic fairy tale “Cinderella”. A deadly plague ravages the population. Cinder is a gifted mechanic. Her secrets of the past has to be uncovered to save the future. Listen on to find out more.
Rating: 4.3/5
43 Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks
Run time: 8 hours and 57 mins
Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra
Genre: Teen Romance, Romance
About audiobook: This audiobook talks about first love. During the year 1986, two star crossed misfits, Eleonar and Park fall for each other. They are smart and know this might not last for ever. However, they are brave and desperate enough to give it a try. Listen on to find out more.
Rating: 4.5/5
44 I am Malala by Malala Yousafzi
Listen on: Audible, Audiobook, Kobo
Run time: 10 hours
Narrator: Archie Panjabi
Genre: Biography, Memoir, Inspirational
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about a fifteen-year-old girl who fought for the right to education. In 2012, the Taliban took control of Swat valley in Pakistan. Malala was shot in the head at point blank range while returning back home from the bus. Few expected her to survive. One year later, after her miraculous recovery, she is seen in the halls of the United Nations in New York. She is the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Note: Truly inspirational, True story
45 Brandon Sanderson by Steelheart
Listen on: Audible
Run time: 12 hours
Narrator: Macleod Andrews
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about a calamity that struck ten years ago. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. With power there came a desire to rule. So there rose Epics (extraordinary humans) and Reckoners( ordinary humans) who are pitted against each other. Listen on to uncover the adventure.
Rating:4.5/5
47 Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Listen on: Audible, audiobooks, kobo
Run time: 14 hours
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
Genre: Biography, Memoir
About audiobook: This audiobook is a survival story of a Army Air Force bomber. His plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared , leaving spray of debris, slick of oil, gasoline and blood. Now he is left thousand of miles open in Ocean. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy is suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Listen to find out more.
Rating: 4.8/5
Best Audiobooks For Beginners
48 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Listen on: Audible, soundcloud
Run time: 5 hours and 51 mins
Narrator: Stephen Fry
Genre: Novel
About audiobook: This audiobook is a Science fiction classic. The Narrator is a British comedian Stephen Fry and he adds his talents to this audiobook. One Thursday lunchtime, the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arther Dent this is too much to handle.
Rating: 4.5/5
49 The Cuckoo Calling by Robert Galbraith
Listen on : Audiobooks, Audible
Run time:15 hours and 57 mins
Genre: Mystery, thriller, horror
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about a supermodels suicide and investigation. Detective Cormoran Strike investigates the cuckoo suicide. Strike has just broken up with his girlfriend and living alone in his office. John, the supermodel(Cuckoo) brother asks Strike to find out about his sisters death. Here Strike witnesses the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boy friends and desperate designer’s world. Listen on to find out more.
Rating:4.5/5
50 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Listen on: Audible, Audiobooks, kobo
Run time: 7 hours and 44 mins
Narrator: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Fairy tale and folklore
About Audiobook: This audiobook is about Nobody Owens who is known to his friends as Bod. He is a normal boy. Bod is being raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for him. If Bod leaves the graveyard then he will face the attack of Jack who has already killed Bod’s family. The audiobook is sure to take our listening experience to a higher level.
Note: The only novel ever to win the Newbery Award and The Carnegie Medal. The Hugo Award for best novel, The Locus Award for young adult and the Audiobook of the year. So what are you waiting for? Come and listen on.
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