The global audiobook industry is currently worth 2.6 billion dollars and this year close to 37,000 audiobook titles will be available. There are no shortage of titles and sometimes it can be a daunting task in selecting a good book, that has a great audiobook version. Today, we are going to take a look at the top 20 books that have the best audiobook rendition.
- 1984 (by George Orwell; narrated by Simon Prebble)
- The Ghosts of Belfast (by Stuart Neville; narrated by Gerard Doyle)
- A Happy Marriage (by Rafael Yglesias; narrated by Grover Gardner)
- In Cold Blood (by Truman Capote; narrated by Scott Brick)
- Life of Pi (by Yaan Martel; narrated by Jeff Woodman)
- Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (by Karl Marlantes; narrated by Bronson Pinchot)
- The Millennium Trilogy (by Stieg Larsson; narrated by Simon Vance);
- The Sally Lockhart Quatrain (by Philip Pullman; narrated by Anton Lesser)
- Shantaram (by Gregory David Roberts; narrated by Humphrey Bower);
- The Thirteenth Tale (by Diane Setterfield; narrated by Bianca Amato & Jill Tanner)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee; narrated by Sissy Spacek)
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams; narrated by Stephen Fry)
- World War Z (by Max Brooks; narrated by
- American Gods (by Neil Gaiman; narrated by
- Bossypants (by Tina Fey; narrated by Tina Fey)
- Ready Player One (by Ernest Cline; narrated by Wil Wheaton)
- The Poets Corner (by John Lithgow; narrated by
- All the Pretty Horses (by Cormac McCarthy; narrated by
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (by David Foster Wallace; narrated by
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.