Remember the good old days when your parents would read you a fantastical book before bedtime? They’d even do all the voices!

Here, culled from the many thousands of audiobooks released this year, are 10 of the very best of 2024: a broad range of novels and histories narrated by some of the world’s great voices.

10. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, narrated by Dion Graham (Random House Audio) 1. The Primal Hunter 11 by Zogarth, narrated by Travis Baldree (Aethon Audio) 2. Quicksilver by Callie Hart, ...

The Institute: A Novel by Stephen King, narrated by Santino Fontana (Simon & Schuster Audio) 10. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (Penguin Audio) 3. Blowout: ...

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D. Robb, narrated by Susan Ericksen (Macmillan Audio) 9. Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic by Nick Carr, narrated by William Jackson Harper (Audible Original) 10. The Secrets We Keep: A Novel by Lara ...

2. The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell by Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell, narrated by the authors (Audible Originals) 5. The House of My Mother by Shari Franke, narrated ...

10. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, narrated by Sean Pratt and the author (Penguin Audio) Fiction 1. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros, narrated by Jasmin Walker, Justis Bolding, Teddy Hamilton ...

Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. Sound Therapy: Bliss (396Hz) by Audible Sleep and Audio up, narrated by Scarlett Burke (Audible ...

Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. The Unusual Suspects with Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell by Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell ...