The Top 10 Audiobooks of 2025, According to Booksellers

‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ by John Green

Don’t miss the new nonfiction from the bestselling author John Green, who notably penned The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns — which were both adapted into movies. This one follows a real-life tuberculosis patient named Henry Reider, whom Green met at the Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.

Everything is Tuberculosis tells Henry’s story “woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world — and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis,” according to a synopsis.

‘Great Big Beautiful Life’ by Emily Henry

Great Big Beautiful Life follows two rival writers, Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson who are each given a one-month trial run to write the biography of a reclusive former socialite, Margaret Ives, per a synopsis. But when they arrive on Little Crescent Island to write her story, things start to go awry. There’s the prickly, reticent Margaret — and the crackling chemistry between the two writers who are supposed to be competing.

‘Onyx Storm’ by Rebecca Yarros

The third book in the smash hit Empyrean series that also includes bestsellers Fourth Wing and its follow-up Iron Flame, continues the story of Violet Sorrengail as she attends Basgiath War College. In Onyx Storm, Violet sets off beyond the “failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre” in order to “save what she loves — her dragons, her family, her home and him,” per a synopsis.

‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ by Suzanne Collins

This prequel book delves into the past of Suzanne Collins’ most enigmatic characters — Haymitch Abernathy. Sunrise on the Reaping follows his time in the “Quarter Quell,” which sees twice as many tributes participating in the Reaping as in a normal year. And as in every Hunger Games novel, much heart-pounding drama ensues.

‘Atmosphere’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The latest novel by the author of bestseller like Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo takes readers on a thrilling journey into space — and hearts. It focuses on protagonist Joan Goodwin, who yearns to go to space and joins NASA’s space shuttle program. She begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center in 1980 alongside a group of other “exceptional candidates,” before a mission in December of 1984 changes everything, according to a synopsis.

‘Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil’ by V.E. Schwab

This genre-defying book by bestselling author V. E. Schwab, follows the story of three women across different centuries: María in 1532 Spain, Charlotte in 1827 London, and Alice in 2019 Boston. It weaves the three women’s narratives together to explore different themes including hunger, love and rage — with a deliciously sexy fantasy element.

‘Katabasis’ by R.F. Kuang

The latest novel by R.F. Kuang — who also published Babel and Yellowface — is a dark academia fantasy, which follows two graduate students studying magic who “must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul,” per a synopsis. Fall into Katabasis, as the two students set off on a journey that could cost them everything.

‘Careless People’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams

This memoir by the former Facebook director of public policy Sarah Wynn-Williams “charts her career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet,” per a synopsis. In Careless People, Wynn-Williams gives readers an inside look at “what really goes on among the global elite,” which includes “shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes.”

‘My Friends’ by Fredrik Backman

This novel by Fredrik Backman — who also wrote Bear Town and A Man Called Ove — is an “unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life 25 years later,” a synopsis teases. My Friends follows Louisa as she tries to suss out how a painting depicting three enigmatic figures came to be, and the story she uncovers in the process.

‘A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping’ by Sangu Mandanna

This novel by Sangu Mandanna, also the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, is a “whimsical and heartwarming novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers — and her life — back on track,” per a synopsis. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Inkeeping follows exiled witch Sera Swan as she attempts to restore her power.