About This Collection
Every year has its own flavor, but here at Audible we can always count on every year delivering thousands of new must-hear stories. How do we pick the best? We start with you, the Audible listener. We factor in your ratings and read countless reviews to see what you’ve been loving this year. Then, we listen, and listen some more (and more) before gathering to advocate for our favorites and do some collective soul searching. It’s an annual tradition that begins in January, and that always—eventually!—leads to a list that reflects the very best of the year. Our 2021 list is big and bold—100 titles from across all genres and multiple formats including audiobooks, audio originals, multi-cast and single-voice productions, and a top pick that has thrilled customers and editors alike. We wish you happy browsing and happy listening, and hope you find many stories to love among these top picks.-
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory....
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Required Reading... A Modern Classic
- By The Josephs
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Bewilderment
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- By: Ibram X. Kendi - editor, Keisha N. Blain - editor
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the 400-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present....
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Powerful. Simply powerful
- By G. E. Hallak
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Four Hundred Souls
- A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Deepak Chopra's Mind Body Zone: Living Outside the Box
- By: Deepak Chopra
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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The surest path to self-development is through our vital connection to the world around us...
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Vulnerability:The Way To Self Efficacy
- By KolnitaV@CCC
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Deepak Chopra's Mind Body Zone: Living Outside the Box
- Narrated by: Deepak Chopra
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-16-21
- Language: English
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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- By: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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In this philosophical guide to time and its management, acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman defies superficial efficiency to find joy.
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fresh, much needed perspective
- By Ian
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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-10-21
- Language: English
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Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
- Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
- By: Tabitha Brown
- Narrated by: Tabitha Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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In this life-changing book, Tabitha shares the wisdom she gained from her own journey, showing fans how to make a life for themselves that is rooted in nonjudgmental kindness and love, both for themselves and for others....
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Well Done
- By alona
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Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)
- Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
- Narrated by: Tabitha Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-28-21
- Language: English
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E-Day
- E-Day, Book 1
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Engines. Genetically modified warriors that keep the great Nova Alliance war machine churning against the enemy Coalition. Most days, Engines are all that stand between salvation and chaos....
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Knocked it out of the MegaCity!
- By G. Allen
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Detransition, Baby
- A Novel
- By: Torrey Peters
- Narrated by: Renata Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires....
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Innovative trans narrative, sans transsexual spectacle
- By Ali & Karalyn
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Detransition, Baby
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Renata Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: English
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- By: Angeline Boulley
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....
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Read this book! You will be better for it.
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Firekeeper's Daughter
- Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-16-21
- Language: English
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Fuzz
- When Nature Breaks the Law
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Mary Roach
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Join “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet....
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Informative and interesting
- By Cara
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Fuzz
- When Nature Breaks the Law
- Narrated by: Mary Roach
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-14-21
- Language: English
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin....
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Unputdownable
- By Nina Jacobson
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 04-13-21
- Language: English
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Founding FUBU
- By: Daymond John
- Narrated by: Daymond John
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Do you remember the wild ride that was the '90s? With the decade that brought so many landmark cultural moments came the explosion of hip-hop....
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Love when I learn the background…
- By MARSHAUN OLANIYAN
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Founding FUBU
- Narrated by: Daymond John
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-29-21
- Language: English
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's history.
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Immense
- By Susan L Hardy
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
- By: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
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Jason, a former office-supplies-store manager, battles monsters in a magical realm, wielding powers in search of courage...and pants.
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Story does so much right, but can be quite preachy
- By William Hopman
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He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure
- He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
- Narrated by: Heath Miller
- Series: He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 1
- Length: 28 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside....
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Very interesting read
- By Linda
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem....
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Easy Listening
- By Satisfied Great
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Ray Carney Series, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-14-21
- Language: English
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Iron Widow
- By: Xiran Jay Zhao
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
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When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected - she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed....
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Stunning
- By Mickey Gulick
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Iron Widow
- Narrated by: Rong Fu
- Series: Iron Widow, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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Just as I Am
- A Memoir
- By: Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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At last, Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer Cicely Tyson tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career....
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Beautifully Human; Great Narration
- By tenACEous
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Just as I Am
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-26-21
- Language: English
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Lola Chick
- By: Maria Escobedo
- Narrated by: Susana Lopez Chavarriaga, Lola Suárez, Daniel Marin, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 0 mins
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In this original podcast from Highlights and Audible, excitable chickadee Lola goes on an exciting adventure in each episode, and learns something new with the help of her Abuelita Hen and lots of other friendly neighbors in Chicken Meadow....
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Great music and voice acting!
- By Kindle Customer
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Lola Chick
- Narrated by: Susana Lopez Chavarriaga, Lola Suárez, Daniel Marin, full cast
- Series: Highlights
- Length: 2 hrs and 0 mins
- Release date: 06-03-21
- Language: English
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Hot White Heist
- By: Adam Goldman
- Narrated by: Bowen Yang, Alan Cumming, Cynthia Nixon, Shannon Woodward, Jane Lynch, Bianca Del Rio, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Please note: This podcast is intended for adults only....
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Now THIS is original. More of this please.
- By MatthewFEONeill
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Hot White Heist
- Narrated by: Bowen Yang, Alan Cumming, Cynthia Nixon, Shannon Woodward, Jane Lynch, Bianca Del Rio, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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Great Circle
- A Novel
- By: Maggie Shipstead
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
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The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People)....
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Intriguing characters/great performance
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Great Circle
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Alex McKenna
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-04-21
- Language: English
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