Best Audiobooks That Are Better Than The Book | Your Complete Audiobook Guide

The best audiobooks we've ever listened to, the ones that hit harder than the physical book, and the narrators living rent free in our heads. We're settling the "do audiobooks count as reading" debate once and for all, then getting into our full audiobook guide: gateway picks, books that are better on audio, graphic audio (and whether it's a little too graphic), and the voice actors we'd follow anywhere. Whether you're a die hard audiobook listener or you've never pressed play, this one's your guide. Drop your favorite narrators in the comments and let us know which audiobook lives rent free in your head. Chapters: 00:00 Do audiobooks count as reading? 02:46 Where we actually get our audiobooks 05:30 The audiobook gateway drug: Project Hail Mary 10:30 Books that are better on audio than on the page 15:30 Can a narrator make or break a book? 18:00 Taylor Jenkins Reid and the ensemble cast magic 21:30 Audiobooks that completely surprised us 27:00 Narrators we're obsessed with (hi, Julia Whalen) 33:00 The audiobooks we couldn't put down 38:30 Graphic audio: immersive or too much? 42:30 Final takes + next week's June TBR Books and narrators in this episode: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones and the Six, Atmosphere), The Favorites by Layne Fargo, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Allie Hazelwood (Mate, Problematic Summer Romance), Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli, Duskbound by Greenwich and Lennox, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Catch Me If You Can, Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, and narrator Julia Whalen. #audiobooks #bookpodcast #booktube #audiobooks #bookpodcast #booktube #bookrecommendations #audiobookrecommendations #romantasy #romancebooks #booktok #bookish #bookcommunity #booklover #whattoread #audible #julianwhalen #projecthailmary