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The 5th Annual Tournament of Audiobooks

Below are the 32 contenders in our 5th Annual Tournament of Audiobooks. The selection process was no easy task, but we believe that these 32 performances represent the best audiobooks from the past year and meet a standard of excellence that will make this one of our most competitive—and exciting—tournaments ever.

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  • Bossypants
    By Tina Fey
    Narrated by Tina Fey
    4.40  (8271 ratings)
    Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told....
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  • Steve Jobs
    By Walter Isaacson
    Narrated by Dylan Baker
    4.50  (5300 ratings)
    Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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  • 11-22-63: A Novel
    By Stephen King
    Narrated by Craig Wasson
    4.50  (7667 ratings)
    On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
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  • The Fifth Witness
    By Michael Connelly
    Narrated by Peter Giles
    4.20  (2896 ratings)
    Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too - and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.
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  • The Litigators
    By John Grisham
    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris
    4.00  (2364 ratings)
    The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book". Maybe that's why, after more than 20 years of consecutive number-one New York Times best sellers, a new novel by America's favorite storyteller is still a major publishing event.
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  • A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5
    By George R. R. Martin
    Narrated by Roy Dotrice
    4.20  (3271 ratings)
    Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the number-one New York Times best-selling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series - as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.
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  • Against All Enemies
    By Tom Clancy, Peter Telep
    Narrated by Steven Weber
    3.90  (1240 ratings)
    For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then...news of a potentially devastating coalition: What if two of the greatest threats to the security of the United States were to form an unholy alliance?
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  • Dead Reckoning: Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #11
    By Charlaine Harris
    Narrated by Johanna Parker
    4.20  (2465 ratings)
    With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child", Pam, are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot - which is much more complicated than she knows.
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  • The Wise Man's Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2
    By Patrick Rothfuss
    Narrated by Nick Podehl
    4.60  (3195 ratings)
    "My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep...."
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  • A Discovery of Witches
    By Deborah Harkness
    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda
    4.10  (3608 ratings)
    Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library.
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  • Ready Player One
    By Ernest Cline
    Narrated by Wil Wheaton
    4.60  (2948 ratings)
    At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
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  • The Night Circus
    By Erin Morgenstern
    Narrated by Jim Dale
    4.10  (3180 ratings)
    The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
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  • The Fiery Cross
    By Diana Gabaldon
    Narrated by Davina Porter
    4.60  (950 ratings)
    The year is 1771. Claire Randall is still an outlander, out of place and out of time. But now she is linked by love to her only anchor: Jamie Fraser. They have crossed oceans and centuries to build a life together in North Carolina. But tensions, both ancient and recent, threaten members of their clan. Knowing that his wife has the gift of prophecy, James must believe Claire, though he would prefer not to. Claire has shared a dreadful truth: there will, without a doubt, be a war.
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  • How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf
    By Molly Harper
    Narrated by Amanda Ronconi
    4.20  (2068 ratings)
    Even in Grundy, Alaska, its unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem.
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  • Relic: Pendergast, Book 1
    By Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
    Narrated by David Colacci
    3.90  (1955 ratings)
    Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who - or what - is doing the killing.
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  • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    By Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
    Narrated by Scott Brick
    4.40  (467 ratings)
    Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the 20th century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Now available for the first time in unabridged audio, the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime is brought to life by acclaimed narrator Scott Brick.
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  • Just Kids
    By Patti Smith
    Narrated by Patti Smith
    4.30  (298 ratings)
    Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 60s and 70s and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.
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  • State of Wonder: A Novel
    By Ann Patchett
    Narrated by Hope Davis
    4.00  (2315 ratings)
    Research scientist Dr. Marina Singh is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have disappeared in the Amazon while working on an extremely valuable new drug. The last person who was sent to find her died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infested jungle in hopes of finding answers to the questions about her friend's death, her company's future, and her own past.
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  • Rules of Civility: A Novel
    By Amor Towles
    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman
    4.10  (903 ratings)
    Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising 25-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.
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  • Solaris: The Definitive Edition
    By Stanislaw Lem, Bill Johnston (translator)
    Narrated by Alessandro Juliani
    3.80  (944 ratings)
    At last, one of the world’s greatest works of science fiction is available - just as author Stanislaw Lem intended it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Solaris, Audible, in cooperation with the Lem Estate, has commissioned a brand-new translation - complete for the first time, and the first ever directly from the original Polish to English. Beautifully narrated by Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica), Lem’s provocative novel comes alive for a new generation.
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