Warm up to the biggest audiobooks of spring 2026

Actress and LGBTQIA+ icon Laverne Cox recalls the journey to stardom, vulnerably sharing thoughts on trauma, identity, body image, and acceptance.

Sara Nović, a novelist, translator, and deaf-rights activist who stunned with 2022’s True Biz, turns inward with this memoir of community as a means of survival.

For a dollar, name an audio-exclusive memoir from a comedian well known for his talents behind the mic. Billy on Billy promises plenty of laughs and no shortage of heart.

Bestselling humorist David Sedaris is back, following up 2022’s Happy-Go-Lucky with this collection of sharply observed essays on life and connection.

Whistler is exactly the book we want Ann Patchett to read to us. It’s a story about bravery, memory, and the often small yet consequential moments that define our lives.

Andrew Sean Greer's witty new novel follows a young man working for a charismatic baronessa at her crumbling villa. Edoardo Ballerini perfectly narrates this Italian-set tale.

Beautifully narrated by Isabel Adomakoh Young, Love by the Book is a funny, moving celebration of platonic love and female friendship that will make you want to call your best friend.

Tom Perrotta’s Ghost Town reveals how the past haunts the present. It’s a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, immaculately performed by Robert Petkoff.

Nick Cutter is cementing his status as a virtuoso of horror writing, taking listeners on a ferocious journey of survival through the Canadian wilderness in The Dorians.

Don’t let the pretty cover fool you, this one gets dark quick! Kylie Lee Baker blurs the lines between past and present in this gothic tale, interwoven with Japanese mythology.

The main protagonist in this chilling story by Clay McLeod Chapman must atone for the skeletons (and bodies) in his closet, as they return for vengeance and an old-fashioned haunting.

Nat Cassidy's I Know a Place features an ensnaring set of original short stories, both new and old, that will leave listeners exhilarated by these terrifying tales, long after they finish.

From the author of the smash Warriors series comes a brand-new adventure about two orphaned cat sisters whose discovery of a secret group of animals they can communicate with unlocks magic within themselves.

This novel-in-verse from Newbery Award-winning author Katherine Applegate is a deeply moving tale of Wombat, a dog who survived a devastating fire, but is left waiting for their person. Actress Mara Wilson narrates this beautiful story of resiliency.

Perfect for fans of The Wild Robot, two-time Newbery Award winner Erin Entrada Kelly's latest novel is a stand-alone survival story about the surprising and heartwarming relationship between 12-year-old Zuzu and her robot named Snap.

The final battle must begin. This brand-new production of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows offers captivating performances from A-list actors, original music, stunning scoring, and real-world sound capture.

In this highly anticipated prequel to Caroline Kepnes's You series, we meet 17-year-old Joe Goldberg and finally learn what makes him tick. Better yet, what makes him tick in the fast-paced, unforgiving dating scene of the Big Apple.

Expect lots of twists from Catherine Adel West's ode to the Windy City, which investigates one woman's disappearance, and whether or not it's connected to a string of other missing Black women throughout Chicago.

Will Damron, a new inductee into our Narrator Hall of Fame, works his vocal magic in this continuation of the Catalina series, which begins on an airstrip in the middle of the night where the plane, then the story, takes off.

Liane Moriarty delivers a short and not-so-sweet thriller, featuring a heated get-together between one widow and a couple of ex-wives. This story is included in The Deadly Ambition collection.

Beloved entertainer and inimitable voice Stephen Fry regales listeners with a four-billion-year history of the planet in this mind-expanding audio documentary.

From the author of Fire Island, this infectious investigation of flamboyance, from Judy Garland to Lil Nas X, is as exuberant and multilayered as its subject demands.

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, renowned scholar and authorrator Eddie S. Glaude delivers an impassioned diagnosis of the country’s unresolved race problem.

This bloody gem of frontier history tells the brutal saga of the Harp brothers, early serial killers whose crimes still echo in a troubling strain of violence today.

The long-awaited follow-up to Kennedy Ryan's Reel follows the screenwriter and music director of the epic Harlem Renaissance biopic that was first introduced in book 1 of the series.

Carley Fortune returns with a slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance set against the stunning backdrop of Tofino, where childhood best friends get one week to figure out if their friendship is really just the world’s longest love story.

A mob boss’s daughter hiding in witness protection is given one reason to come out—and one very compelling reason to stay—in this Audible Original, performed by Sean Masters and Christine Lakin.

Victoria Wilder kicks off a steamy new series, this time whiskey-based, where a woman hiding from her past finds that secrets have a way of surfacing, especially when a charming jeweler with too many questions refuses to leave her alone.

Performed in duet by Vanessa Moyen and Anthony Palmini, Alex Aster's adult romantasy debut follows an orphaned blacksmith’s apprentice who enters a deadly competition for vengeance—and claims far more than just a sword.

The heart-pounding sequel to Silver Elite finds Wren Darlington caught between two wars—one for the fate of her home and another for the fate of her heart, as loyalties fracture and long-buried secrets threaten everything she’s been fighting for.

The queen of dark mafia romance returns with a scorching Beauty and the Beast retelling, where a woman sold to the highest bidder discovers that the monster who bought her may be hiding far more than just his face.

Veronica Roth launches a gripping new series, featuring multicast narration, where a soldier summoned to hear a prophecy finds her fate dangerously entangled with her deadliest enemy.

TJ Klune’s latest follows two husbands on a monthlong, end-of-the-world road trip after 40 years of marriage. We're preparing ourselves for the ugliest of ugly cries.

This Arabfuturist debut, in which a revolution breaks out on a ship halfway through its 400-year journey away from the ruins of Earth, marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in science fiction.

In one of the most anticipated debuts of the season, a young woman returns to South Korea for a family funeral, finally confronting the doppelgänger of herself she, like all immigrants, left behind.

A barbarian undertakes a vengeful quest to kill the wizards who wronged him by (ugh) posing as one himself in this delightfully funny Pratchett-esque fantasy.

What if the secret to boundless creativity was operating with constraints? Bestselling author David Epstein explores the paradoxical theory that having fewer options can lead to more breakthroughs.

For many women, that critical inner voice might not be their own. Geneen Roth untangles the link between mother-daughter relationships and body image in a compelling argument for self-liberation.

In this refreshing framework, emotional design researcher Pamela Pavliscak dares to answer the question: How can technology improve our emotional and mental well-being?

Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine guides listeners through the ins and outs of various attachment styles, and presents the revolutionary concept that your approach to relationships can evolve.

We're fascinated by the promise of The Secret World of Briar Rose, a queer Sleeping Beauty retelling imagined by YouTube star Cindy Pham.

After a seven-year hiatus, YA author Sarah Dessen, whom we love for her novels about the messiness and wonders of growing up and falling in love, returns with a found-family-rich story, performed by longtime YA narrator Mirai.

This fun mystery is sure to be the next popcorn listen in our libraries, as we follow five teen geniuses solving their father’s murder. Glittering ballrooms, shady suspects, and a large inheritance on the line—it’s all there.

Jane Austen, but set in Korea? Yes, please. At a time in Korea’s history when book banning was rampant, an illicit fiction writer and a transcriber find themselves orbiting closer and closer—and neither of them knows the other’s secret.