In celebration of Audiobook Month, we’re highlighting all the ways that audiobooks make our lives better. From providing entertainment to enhancing our listening experience with soundtracks, audiobooks offer auditory thrills that simply cannot be enjoyed any other way.
For many of us, audiobooks are a great way to enjoy something fun or interesting while doing something that is neither of those things, like going to the gym or commuting. For others, it’s a great activity that helps us relax while on the beach, or just before going to bed.
Check out our amazing recommendations below for all the ways audiobooks can provide entertainment while you’re going about your day! Don’t forget to visit our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts, and use the hashtag #IListenFor to let us know why you love audiobooks. Lastly, don’t forget to enter our contest for a chance to win the ultimate audiobook lovers prize pack!
Perfect Beach Listens
Is there anything better than relaxing on the beach? Yes! Relaxing on the beach listening to an amazing audiobook! Just don’t get your phone wet.
Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank, narrated by Shannon McManus
The queen of beach reads is back with another book! Queen Bee is warm, wise, and hilarious, with a whodunit added for good measure! In her twentieth novel, Dorothea Benton Frank brings us back to her beloved island with an unforgettable story where the Lowcountry magic of the natural world collides with the beat of the human heart.
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The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion, narrated by Dan O’Grady
Don and Rosie are back in Melbourne after a decade in New York, and they’re about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isn’t fitting in with the other kids. This third and final book in the Rosie Project series centers in on Don’s family life, and that challenges that they bring.
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The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren, narrated by Cynthia Farrell
If you love a good rom-com, then this is for you! Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. Her identical twin sister Amy, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. However, when Amy’s wedding is ruined by a food poisoning incident, Olive is given the chance to go on Amy’s honeymoon in her place. The catch? She has to pretend to be a couple with her arch nemesis, Ethan.
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Commuting Listens
Ugh. Commuting. If you’re not stuck in traffic and watching your life slowly ebb away among the exhaust fumes, you’re on the subway crushed against the wall, and wishing that people wore stronger deodorant. Instead of listening to another passenger’s 50-minute phone call about their foot fungus, why not listen to one of these great books? You’ll wish your commute was longer with these riveting listens!
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman, narrated by Catherine Steadman
Catherine Steadman’s enthralling voice shines throughout this spellbinding debut novel. With piercing insight and fascinating twists, Something in the Water challenges you to confront the hopes we desperately cling to, the ideals we’re tempted to abandon, and the perfect lies we tell ourselves.
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Supermarket by Bobby Hall, narrated by Bobby Hall
Flynn is stuck—depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom’s house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job and a steady check. Work isn’t work when it’s saving you from yourself. But, things aren’t quite as they seem in these aisles.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, narrated by Adepero Oduye
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead….
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Fitness Favorites
Unless you really love ’90s techno, or hearing how much the guy next to you can bench-press (DUDE!), you’ll want to listen to something else while you’re at the gym. Whether you love your time on the treadmill or dread every second of it, these enthralling listens will transport you into a story you won’t want to leave—and before you know it, an hour will have passed, or two, or four…oops…
Redemption by David Baldacci, narrated by Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy
Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
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Red Rising by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
Darrow, the main character of Red Rising, is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in a color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable, which will result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. He discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class….
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Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple, narrated by Kathleen Wilhoite
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom. When Bernadette goes missing, Bee makes it her life’s mission to figure out where and why she’s gone, which results in a series of interesting adventures.
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