Most Popular Literature & Fiction Audiobooks

The most-read literature & fiction audiobooks ranked by total number of reader reviews — a measure of how widely each title has been discovered and discussed.

Unlike our top-rated list, which ranks by star rating, this page ranks by sheer readership. These are the literature & fiction audiobooks that the most people have actually listened to and reviewed — the titles you're most likely to find recommended in forums, book clubs, and "where do I start?" threads.

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    The Hunger Games cover

    The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games • Book 1

    by Suzanne Collins

    Narrated by Tatiana Maslany

    4.89 ABR Score (10.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (10.0M) ★ 4.89 Audible (16.9K)
    10h 35m listening time • Released 2018

    Collins reinvented YA dystopia with a heroine who never stops fighting — propulsive, politically sharp, and impossible to put down.

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

    To Kill a Mockingbird • Book 1

    by Harper Lee

    Narrated by Sissy Spacek

    4.82 ABR Score (7.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (7.0M) ★ 4.8 Audible (49.0K)
    12h 17m listening time • Released 2014

    Sissy Spacek's narration captures Scout's voice with such immediacy and warmth that the injustice of the story hits harder—you're not just reading about the South's moral reckoning, you're living it through a child's dawning understanding.

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    The Great Gatsby cover

    The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward - introduction

    Narrated by Seth Numrich, Eleanor Lanahan, James L. W. West III

    4.05 ABR Score (6.0M ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (6.0M) ★ 4.62 Audible (47)
    5h 59m listening time • Released 2025

    Seth Numrich's narration captures Fitzgerald's prose with understated elegance, making this the definitive audio version of a novel that demands to be heard, not just read.

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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban cover

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter • Book 3

    by J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 ABR Score (5.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (4.9M) ★ 4.94 Audible (130.7K)
    11h 49m listening time • Released 2015

    Jim Dale's narration transforms this into the series' emotional turning point, giving each character distinct life while building genuine dread alongside the mystery. His performance alone justifies the nearly 12-hour listen.

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    Animal Farm

    by George Orwell

    Narrated by Ralph Cosham

    4.67 ABR Score (4.7M ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (4.6M) ★ 4.74 Audible (43.5K)
    3h 11m listening time • Released 1999

    Orwell's deceptively simple fable about a farm revolution that mirrors the Soviet Union remains one of the most efficient and devastating political allegories ever written.

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    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter • Book 4

    by J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 ABR Score (4.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (4.2M) ★ 4.94 Audible (125.6K)
    20h 36m listening time • Released 2015

    Jim Dale's performance transforms this darker turn into something almost unbearably gripping—his voices for the Triwizard Tournament's chaos and Voldemort's return will haunt you long after the 20+ hours end.

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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix cover

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    Harry Potter • Book 5

    by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 ABR Score (3.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)
    26h 28m listening time • Released 2015

    Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Harry Potter • Book 6

    by J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 ABR Score (3.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (3.7M) ★ 4.95 Audible (109.4K)
    18h 32m listening time • Released 2015

    Jim Dale's performance reaches its peak here, giving each character such distinct voice and energy that the darker, more complex storytelling lands with real weight. The emotional gut-punches hit harder when you're hearing them delivered this well.

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    Lord Of The Flies

    by Raymond Wilson

    Narrated by William Golding

    4.10 ABR Score (3.2M ratings)
    ★ 3.7 Goodreads (3.2M) ★ 4.28 Audible (11.0K)
    6h 35m listening time • Released 2003
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    The Giver cover

    The Giver

    Giver Quartet • Book 1

    by Lois Lowry

    Narrated by Ron Rifkin

    4.41 ABR Score (2.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (2.8M) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.4K)
    4h 47m listening time • Released 2003

    The quiet novel that radicalized a generation of children — a deceptively simple story about memory, choice, and the cost of a 'perfect' society.

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    The Lovely Bones

    by Alice Sebold

    Narrated by Alice Sebold

    3.89 ABR Score (2.5M ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (2.5M) ★ 4.01 Audible (2.2K)
    10h 53m listening time • Released 2007

    Sebold's debut is narrated by a murdered girl watching her family grieve from heaven — devastating, strangely beautiful, and unlike anything else in crime fiction.

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    Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë Collection 1)

    Jane Eyre • Book 1

    by Charlotte Brontë

    Narrated by Thandiwe Newton

    4.72 ABR Score (2.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.3M) ★ 4.8 Audible (21.8K)
    19h 10m listening time • Released 2016
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    Wuthering Heights cover

    Wuthering Heights

    by Emily Brontë, Jennifer Donnelly

    Narrated by Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction

    4.27 ABR Score (2.2M ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (2.2M) ★ 4.42 Audible (8.4K)
    12h 32m listening time • Released 2017
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    The Picture of Dorian Gray Novel

    by Oscar Wilde

    Narrated by Ben Barnes

    4.41 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.73 Audible (577)
    8h 25m listening time • Released 2019
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    Daisy Jones and The Six

    Reidverse

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber

    4.63 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.64 Audible (41.7K)
    9h 3m listening time • Released 2019

    Full-cast narration transforms this into a rock documentary you can't pause. One of the rare books genuinely better as an audiobook.

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    Lessons in Chemistry

    by Bonnie Garmus

    Narrated by Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes

    4.68 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.67 Audible (38.4K)
    11h 55m listening time • Released 2022
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    Looking for Alaska

    by John Green

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    4.39 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.64 Audible (2.4K)
    6h 40m listening time • Released 2019

    Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw vulnerability of adolescence so perfectly that you'll feel like you're living in the dorm room alongside Pudge—and when the emotional gut-punch lands, it hits harder through audio.

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    A Thousand Splendid Suns

    by Khaled Hosseini

    Narrated by Atossa Leoni

    4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.61 Audible (15.2K)
    11h 43m listening time • Released 2007
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    Slaughterhouse-Five cover

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    by Kurt Vonnegut

    Narrated by James Franco

    4.29 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.31 Audible (19.8K)
    5h 13m listening time • Released 2015

    Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece unstuck in time — funny, sad, and devastatingly wise about humanity's capacity for both destruction and endurance.

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    The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

    Narrated by Ralph Cosham

    4.04 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.18 Audible (3.6K)
    2h 3m listening time • Released 2011
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    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    by Gabrielle Zevin

    Narrated by Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi

    4.35 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (1.4M) ★ 4.39 Audible (16.9K)
    13h 52m listening time • Released 2022
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    Remarkably Bright Creatures cover

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    by Shelby Van Pelt

    Narrated by Marin Ireland, Michael Urie

    4.83 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.79 Audible (62.8K)
    11h 16m listening time • Released 2022

    Marin Ireland and Michael Urie elevate this widow-and-octopus story into something genuinely moving, their dual narration making the emotional reckoning feel earned rather than sentimental.

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    The Great Alone cover

    The Great Alone

    by Kristin Hannah

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.79 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)
    15h 3m listening time • Released 2018

    Julia Whelan's narration captures the suffocating intensity of a family unraveling in 1970s Alaska, making this survival story feel dangerously intimate and impossible to abandon.

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    The Odyssey cover

    The Odyssey

    Iliad & Odyssey • Book 2

    by Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox

    Narrated by Dan Stevens

    4.35 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (1.6K)
    10h 15m listening time • Released 2014
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    Sunrise on the Reaping cover

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger Games

    by Suzanne Collins

    Narrated by Jefferson White

    4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)
    12h 48m listening time • Released 2025

    Jefferson White's narration transforms this prequel into something unexpectedly intimate—he finds the quiet devastation in Haymitch before the legend, making every loss feel like your own.

How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

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