Ep. 27: Best of 2019: Our Top Picks

Our editors take you through Audible’s Best of the Year, including the Top Ten, category winners, trends, and more.

To see the full Best of the Year list, go to Audible.com/Bestof2019.

Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia, Simon Bruni - translation

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Call Me God by Jim Clemente, Tim Clemente, Peter McDonnell

Twisted by Mary Pilon, Carla Correa

Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis

Metahuman by Deepak Chopra

Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark

Work It Out by Mel Robbins

Foreverywhere by Steve Burns, Steven Drozd, Gabe Soria

Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant by Alan Cumming

Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson

Olio Live by Tyehimba Jess

Latin History for Morons by John Leguizamo

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The Border by Don Winslow

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse

Forward by Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

Underland by Robert Macfarlane

The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec, Andi Arndt

It's Not What It Looks Like by Molly Burke

Find Another Dream by Maysoon Zayid

Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Find Me by André Aciman

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love audicted!

I love the addicted podcast and would rank it is one of my favorite things about audible. This episode 27 was full of great suggestions, but I found that I kept missing the name of the title, or maybe it wouldn't catch my interest until I heard the description, and then the title was never mentioned again. Fortunately i was able to go on my computer and find the list of books from this episode (i cant figure out how to find that on the app on my phone yet!). But my one suggestion would be to say the name of the title at the end of the description/discussion and not only at the beginning. thanks for this great podcast!

Episode 27

I'm intrigued by some of the titles. I always like the best of the year books because it is interesting seeing which books are popular.

Audicted is not for me

Not a regular listener. I'd be delighted to read a transcript, but definitely not for me.

High production value all around, with pleasing voices. Stopped listening to the words and just enjoyed their voices after a bit.

That there isn't a link to the whole best-of lists would seem an obvious oversight. Especially since titles were only mentioned once. When it's the first exposure to a title, then followed by a multi-person review, one expects at least one more mention to make it memorable and searchable.

Would enjoy reading this for the same reason I prefer a written diy over videos - written is easier to repeat, or scan, or pause to secure it in the brain. Also, screen captures for reference.

Also, really felt the generation gap while listening. It's only a decade or 2 we're talking about here (I'm barely 50), but there were a few double takes just in the first 20 minutes. Certainly, podcast productions should cater to they're repeat listeners. But if Audible plans to promote it to everyone, why not make it inclusive for a wider audience?

if your brain is still in top top shape, if you're a millennial, if you either follow all the genres or stick to your comfort zones, give it a try! It has the right ingredients to delight.

Not a good list

Many of the books reviewed are not what I’m interested in. The people in the program where also kind of preachy. Im not interested in there personal or political views i just want to find good books.

U need boomer reviewers.

These people love to hear themselves talk. Less talk and more samples please! Maybe there is a boomer top picks on here that I missed. Wrong generation to be picking for your boomer target audience.