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My Favorite Audiobooks From 2024

A few weeks ago, I did my annual post of my favorite books of the 2024 (you can see that post here!).

Then someone asked if I could do a post about the best audiobooks I listened to in 2024 and I was ONLY too happy to oblige!

Here are my top 2024 audiobook picks:

best audiobooks 2024

The Best Audiobooks 2024

the outlaw noble salt

The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon
DANG did I love this book. I knew basically nothing about Butch Cassidy and this made me want to know ALL the things. It’s a re-imagining of his life, so it’s not all that historically accurate but that’s part of the fun. What MIGHT have happened if he’d decided to go straight after a life of crime and then fell in love? The audiobook is absolutely TERRIFIC – I could listen to Rob Shapiro read a phone book.

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
This was such a fun audiobook listen because the whole thing is like listening to a true crime podcast. This one got so much buzz and I listened to it this fall and was completely absorbed by it.

be ready when the luck happens

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
I love a memoir read by the author and Ina Garten is just such a delight to listen to and a wonderful storyteller. I blew through this on a plane flight and it made the hours fly by.

The Women

The Women by Kristin Hannah
I’ve always been fascinated with the Vietnam War so I was inclined toward this story from page one and this might be my favorite of her books so far. Like many of her books, the audio is read by Julia Whelan who is beloved for a reason. I think she is just a perfect voice for Hannah’s stories!

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
This was one of my last listens of 2024 and it was such a high note to end on! Funny, terrific banter, and two narrators? Sign me up! (I also LOVED the audiobook of her romance mystery The Blonde Identity!).

And here are my team’s picks for their best audiobook listens of 2024!

Analese

darling girls book

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
Truth be told, I’m 90% audiobook listener and 10% paper copy, which fits my season of life really well right now. So almost all of my favorites from last year were audiobooks and Darling Girls topped the charts. Three foster sisters, all raised together by Miss Fairchild, are now adults and finding themselves as witnesses when a body is found under the home they grew up in. This one was perfect parts mystery and spooky (I don’t love anything too scary). I loved it!

Kelsey

The Rom-Commers

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
I blew through this one in just a few days over the summer and it was everything I needed in a romcom. When her screenwriting idol begins writing a romantic comedy, AND she gets invited to fly out and help write it with him, Emma Wheeler is on cloud nine! But you can’t have a romantic comedy without a little real romance…right?

Jennifer

Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
I don’t read many suspense books because I’m a wimp and have an overactive imagination at night. But I really enjoyed this Ruth Ware novel about a nanny who takes a job at a supposedly haunted house in the Scottish Highlands.

Kristin

a gentleman in moscow book

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
I read this book years ago but last year I decided to revisit it with the audio version. It’s set in 1922 Russia and tells the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who is sentenced to house arrest in the upscale Metropol hotel. In the ensuing decades, he discovers deep friendships and a life of purpose despite his circumstances. Such a lovely story (I loved it even more the second time around) and the audio was fantastic.

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3 Comments

  1. How “spicy” were Ally Carter’s adult books? I started Blonde Identity (Gallagher Girls is one of my all-time favorite books series) and was very quickly turned off by the language. I am a good PG-13 read, but much more than that, I don’t love. I would love to read more of her books, but don’t want to be disappointed and feel the need to put it down.

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