2025 Audie Award Finalists
Audie Awards recognize the best books in audiobook form, often elevating the written word by the audio performance. Check out a selection of the finalists for 2025, with the full list available at https://www.audiopub.org/2025audies! Annotations from AudioFile, unless otherwise attributed.
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Lights Out
ROMANCE The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride? (NoveList Plus)
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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Love You A Latke
ROMANCE Kelli Tager narrates this holiday romance set partially in small-town Vermont and partially in big-city Manhattan. As the only Jew in town, grumpy café owner Abby Cohen gets “volun-told” to organize a Hanukkah Festival to save the locale’s quaint shops. This is how she finds herself fake dating her least favorite customer in exchange for his vendor contacts and a visit to his parents’ home in Manhattan.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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The Rom-commers
ROMANCE Patti Murin captures the wit and warmth of this uplifting romance. Emma Wheeler, an aspiring screenwriter, receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when her manager asks her to rewrite a disastrous rom-com by her idol, Charlie Yates. Charlie, an acclaimed action-adventure screenwriter, is taken aback by Emma's sudden appearance at his home to "assist" him in reworking his script.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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The Starter Ex Audiobook
ROMANCE True love begins with a terrible ex in this steamy rom-com by USA Today best-selling author Mia Sosa. (Audible description)
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This Could Be Us
ROMANCE Inés del Castillo and Jakobi Diem captivate listeners in this heartfelt contemporary romance. Soledad Barnes is a planner with many talents who loves her three daughters unconditionally. When disaster strikes and shakes up her entire life due to her husband's deceit and lies, Soledad rediscovers her self-worth and confidence with the help of the admirable Judah Cross.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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The Book of Doors
SCIENCE FICTION Miranda Raison performs this magical adventure set on an alternative Earth, where a collection of mysterious books gives special powers to those who possess one of its volumes.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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Frontier
SCIENCE FICTION Aven Shore does it again, this time offering a deft, versatile, immersive performance of a genre-bending queer sci-fi Western. The Stranger's ship crashes on a cold and broken Earth; thus begins her long journey to reunite with her love.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Lake of Souls
SCIENCE FICTION Adjoa Andoh narrates a short story collection by Ann Leckie that includes 18 works set in the worlds of the Imperial Radch and the Raven Tower, as well as several stand-alone pieces.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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Mal Goes to War
SCIENCE FICTION Ashton shrewdly injects satire into a dystopian thriller helmed by Mal, an AI (though he prefers to be called a Silico-American). In the near future, debate around technological human augmentations has led to civil war. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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System Collapse
SCIENCE FICTION What happens when Murderbot has a mental breakdown and can no longer reliably perform its duties? Kevin R. Free narrates the latest installment in the Murderbot Diaries. In a story taking place immediately after NETWORK EFFECT, Murderbot, ART, and their associated humans continue to assist colonists on a planet marked for corporate salvage.
Format: Downloadable Audiobook
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