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2025 Audie Award Finalists

The Audie Awards® are the most prestigious award in audiobook and spoken-word entertainment. Here are the 2025 finalists that are available to purchase through your local, independent bookshop! Winners will be unveiled on March 4.

My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand
Narrated by: Barbra Streisand
Length: 48 hours 7 minutes

“This is SUCH a beautiful book! It's like you're sitting down with Barbra in a coffee shop (for hours) listening to her life story and then the song clips really are the icing on the cake! Yes, the print book has the photos and the smell of the book pages, but there is just something about listening to this story in Barbra's voice. Give yourself... Read more

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Poor Deer

A Novel

By: Claire Oshetsky
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Poor Deer is a fantastic reminder that only we can see the burdens we carry. Oshetsky writes about the way we shape our memories of trauma, guilt, and loss in order to cope an earnest, heartfelt way. This book will linger in the corners of my mind. Read more

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The Sing Sing Files

One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian
Narrated by: Dan Slepian
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

“Bristling with urgency, empathy, and determination…this is investigative journalism at its best and most necessary.”—AudioFile

The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival sound recordings from Sing Sing maximum-security prison,...
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Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff
Narrated by: James Callis, Josh Cole, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Tobias Echeverria, Adam Godley, Ian Ogilvy, Darren Richardson, Simon Templeman & Matthew Wolf
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

It’s March 1918, and World War I is raging in Europe. In the trenches in northern France, a group of British officers, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope, ready themselves for a major German attack while facing their worst fears. R.C. Sherriff drew on his own experiences in World War One to create the play, which premiered in 1928 and is now... Read more

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In My Time of Dying

How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger
Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.


For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to... Read more

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Knife

Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

“Markedly human and open. Rushdie reads us vulnerably into his experience and ponders about our broken and somehow beautiful world. Read more

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The Third Gilmore Girl

A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop
Narrated by: Kelly Bishop
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

“This is such a fabulous listen! Kelly Bishop is a treasure and I’m so glad that she wrote this book. An exploration of her intriguing and inspiring life this book is much more than her experience on Gilmore Girls. For anyone is a fan of strong, funny, frank, and independent women. Read more

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James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“Let's return to the time of Huckleberry Finn; the time of active slavery; the time of lazy summer days floating away down quiet rivers. Oh, I know, I know... you've heard this story before. Most people have. But this time, we're going to hear the story as told by Jim - enslaved but full of feeling and friendship and love for life. We'll get on... Read more

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The Women

A Novel

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kristin Hannah
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

“Hannah’s best yet! You’ll care deeply about these characters as you revisit the chaotic 1960’s. When a young American woman with no realistic concept of war joins the Army Nurse Corps she lands on the battlefields of Vietnam and is transformed. She survives by developing deep relationships at the front and shoulders enormous responsibilities... Read more

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

A Novel

By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Elle Fanning
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“A freshman in college decides to have the baby. Her father, an ex pro-wrestler, moves in. She starts an Only Fans account. This is a SUPERB, fun, dynamic, revelatory novel. I devoured it and was so won over by Margo and her money troubles. Highly recommended for fans of Catherine Newman and Miranda July. Read more

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The Briar Club

A Novel

By: Kate Quinn
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the... Read more

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Candy Darling

Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr
Narrated by: Justin Vivian Bond
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

This program is read by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond.

A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook

“[A] monumental biography.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker

“A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer...
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The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, THE NEW YORKER, THE SMITHSONIAN, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and...
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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

“Fun return to the Tipping Point. The audio version is great and includes some interesting interviews. Read more

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Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner & Michelle Burford
Narrated by: Andia Winslow & Brittney Griner
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“Brittney Griner writes with honesty and bravery. The story of how a simple mistake turned into a nine-month-long fight for freedom is only a small piece of her larger story. Brittney talks in-depth about the people who kept her going while imprisoned, and what it was like to return to the country that fought so hard for her release. Her story... Read more

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Come Together

The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.

“Emily Nagoski is a national treasure—helping us all understand how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives.”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

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And Then We Rise

A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self

By: Common
Narrated by: Common
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

From the multi-award-winning performer, author, and activist, a comprehensive program for addressing mental and physical health—and encouraging communities to do the same—featuring a conversation between the author and Lauren Von Der Pool, “…one of the people who has played an important part in my journey,” and original music transitions created... Read more

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Fluke

Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas
Narrated by: Brian Klaas
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

This “captivating illustration of the follies of trying to model and forecast the unpredictable world” (Financial Times) is both “empowering” (The New Statesman, UK) and “compelling” (New Scientist) as it challenges our most fundamental assumptions—by social scientist and Atlantic writer Brian Klaas, whom Prospect magazine has named one of the... Read more

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Humans Who Teach

A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools

By: Shamari Reid
Narrated by: Shamari Reid
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Love. Love now. Love always. Time and lives are wasting.
All of the humans in schools—kids and adults—deserve joy. Yet, our experiences in schools, and the experiences of our students, are often far from joyful. 
Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to... Read more

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Women Money Power

The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

By: Josie Cox
Narrated by: Josie Cox
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

A narrative history of women fighting for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality

For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. Even well into the twentieth century, women could not take out loans or open bank accounts without a man’s... Read more

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