Gabby's Favorite Audiobooks of 2024

The Measure

A Novel

By: Nikki Erlick
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

“I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the premise of this book! While reading I found myself very thought provoked as I imagined if something like this were to occur in real life. The setting of the book is modern time, so it’s easier to relate to. I really enjoyed how the author told the story from eight different characters'... Read more

My Husband

A Novel

By: Maud Ventura
Narrated by: Kiiri Sandy
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

“Our unhinged narrator is completely fixated on her husband-he's all she thinks about and everything she cares about. She'll go to any lengths to create the perfect love and marriage. This darkly funny novel explores themes of gender norms, patriarchy, and anxiety in a captivating way. Read more

Annie Bot

A Novel

By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“A chilling exploration of misogyny and humanity. Annie is a great narrator, made even more captivating by Jennifer Jill Araya's voice! Read more

Margo's Got Money Troubles

A Novel

By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Elle Fanning
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“I really loved this one. It does what readers of Sally Rooney say her books do. (Mind you, still a big fan of Sally Rooney... but she's a bit overhyped). Margo's Got Money Troubles is funny, smart, heartfelt, and deals with the current economic/ social environment for young people (especially women) with courage, wit, and nuance. I loved getting... Read more

Slow Dance

A Novel

By: Rainbow Rowell
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“Old high school pals Shiloh and Cary’s achingly slow burn and poignantly realistic friends to lovers romance reminds us that some of the best love stories take the scenic route to their HEA and some of the greatest romances are ordinary, come with kids, aren’t the first marriage, take time and talking through, and are transcendent and... Read more

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

“A darkly comic novel in which a young woman, bogged down by the daily stresses and grievances of life commits to sleeping for an entire year. Perfect in literally every way. A druggie New York City diva living her best Xanax-fueled life. Brat before Brat was a thing. Drug abuse, bodega coffee, and deep dark bouts of depression abound. Read more

The Memory Police

A Novel

By: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“On a small unnamed island, the government can make things disappear, never to return, lost to both memory and sense. Yet what is lost is never truly forgotten: some still remember, threatening the rule of the draconian Memory Police. This book fills you with a slow burning dread as the disappearances become increasingly sinister. The Memory... Read more

The Most Fun We Ever Had

A Novel

By: Claire Lombardo
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

“Claire Lombardo has written a rich and rewarding novel brimming with the messiness of families. Secrets kept and revealed provide a backdrop for the life-long love affair of Marilyn and David Sorenson as they raise their four daughters. The years are filled with joy, angst, anger, longing, and love as the members of the Sorenson family struggle... Read more

Under the Rainbow

A Novel

By: Celia Laskey
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, Abigail Revasch, Will Damon, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Crouch, Kaleo Griffith, Kristen Sieh, Jonathan Todd Ross, Dani Martineck, Brittany Pressley & Lorna Raver
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize

“Delivered with such conviction and grace … fresh … essential.” —The New York Times Book Review

When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town’s attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed.

Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone seems to know... Read more

Shiver

By: Allie Reynolds
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.

When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she's expecting an intimate... Read more

Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Coco Mellors
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

“If you have sisters (or even if you don't), this book is a great read! Emotional and moving, Blue Sisters follows the lives of three sisters, Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky, who are forced to find themselves and each other after the loss of their fourth sister, Nikki. Coco Mellors captures the ups and downs of sisterhood and creates an ultimately... Read more

Funny Story

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

“Emily Henry is always a good time, and this audiobook proves it! Funny Story may just be Emily's best book yet. Read more

Incidents Around the House

A Novel

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

“The writing style is what makes this a phenomenal horror read. The bounce between perspectives creates tension that leaves you screaming at the characters to pay attention. Read more

The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir
Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

“A fast-paced and terrifying tale of a woman who loses control over her body. Is her uncontrollable sleep walking caused by an undiagnosed medical problem? A mental illness left untreated? The ghost of her drowned sister? Read it and find out. Read more

The Wedding People

A Novel

By: Alison Espach
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

“The Wedding People hits the absolute sweet spot of compulsively fun to read while asking serious questions about life, love, and a lavish destination wedding. Alison Espach’s mix of light and dark makes for deeply authentic characters. Read more

Savor It

A Spunes Novel

Spunes: Book #1

By: Tarah DeWitt
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker & Zachary Webber
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“This hilarious, fun, but also serious RomCom was a flirty and delightful love story. Sage is someone I would pick as a best friend. She was funny, spunky, strong, kind and very positive. Fisher was sweet, charming, open minded and honest. Their banter was perfect! I loved their connection over grief, it really touched me in a special way, it was... Read more

Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher & TJ Klune
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“You might not have known that you needed a Queer Horror Novel set in modern day Hollywood with a homophobic studio, questionable use of AI, and a screenwriter being haunted by his most terrifying creations after being told by his boss he needs to kill off his gay characters...but I’m here to tell you that you do, in fact, need this novel.... Read more

Once There Were Wolves

A Novel

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“Inti has always relied on tough, talkative Aggie, whether they're with one parent surviving in the wilderness of North America or with the other, a tough cop in Australia. Her sense of security, constantly undermined by her rare neurological disorder - a tactile form of synaesthesia, is fragile at best. We can all relate to Inti's growing fears... Read more

FantasticLand

A Novel

By: Mike Bockoven
Narrated by: Angela Dawe & Luke Daniels
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and... Read more

Just for the Summer

By: Abby Jimenez
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber & Abby Jimenez
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“Buckle up and batten down the hatches - Abby’s newest is coming, like a hailstorm through a glass house. You’ll want to bolt things down before your soul is fully unseated. The highs, the lows, the drop - I saw none of it coming. The chaos is beautiful, heartfelt, and so authentic that you will bask in its magic - the realness of it all.... Read more