Before January is over, I wanted to post my favorite audiobooks from 2025!
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson (2024)
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (2000)
People Person by Candice Carty-Williams (2022)
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (2019)
The Favorites by Layne Fargo (2025)
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2025)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik (2024)
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (2024)
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (2019)
I listened to a fair amount of recently published books. The Blind Assassin was actually a print/audiobook combination, but the audio was so good, I included it in my list of favorites. Links go to the publisher’s pages, but some of these I have written about in 2025 posts.
Currently Reading
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Elle, Christian Science Monitor, She Reads
So many bloggers listed The Correspondent in their favorites of 2025 or had chosen it for their First Book of the Year that I bumped it up on my TBR list. It’s an epistolary novel, a book about books and authors, and a reflection on the past by a woman in her 70s confronting her own mortality and grief.
Recently Read
Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger
“The best kind of novel: compelling, warm, funny, and complicated, full of kick-ass women in tangled relationships, spanning generations and coming of age again and again. Susan Rieger tackles my favorite subjects: writing, family, and the conditions of unconditional love.”— Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of Family Family
Currently Listening To
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
“Imagine if The Time Traveler’s Wife had an affair with A Gentleman in Moscow…Readers, I envy you: There’s a smart, witty novel in your future.” — Ron Charles, The Washington Post
This post is linked up to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, hosted by The Book Date. It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a place to meet up and share what you have been and are currently reading each week. Visit the link-up for more books to add to your groaning TBR pile.
Good list of audios. I’ll check out the audio of The Blind Assassin – thanks. And I particularly like the narrator for Elizabeth Strout’s book(s) – Kimberly Farr. She’s excellent!
I’m hoping to read The Correspondent next week.
wishing you a lovely reading week
I’m reading the Correspondent and find the letters interesting enough to continue the book. Bloggers also sold me on choosing the book.
Nice looking assortment of books. I hope you enjoy the ones you’ve chosen for this week. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
Love your list of books and I am trying to remember if I read that Margaret Attwood book… Hope life is going well with you and yours
I enjoyed The Correspondent so much that I recommended it to my book club. The Ministry of Time was a book I enjoyed, too.
Thanks for sharing your list of favorite audiobooks of 2025.
I also liked The Favorites and Have Tell Me Everything on my pile to read this month.
Yes, all is well, thanks! Our third grandchild (first boy) was born on Christmas Day, three weeks early and he is just an hour away from us so that’s very nice!
Funny, because I had always thought I had read The Handmaid’s Tale, but I had forgotten so many of the details that I wondered if I really had, or just had heard so much about it that it felt like I had!
I haven’t yet read any of your top audios! Kevin Wilson’s novels are always fun, and I would definitely like to read more from both Kate Atkinson and Margaret Atwood.
I, too, have been hearing so many rave reviews of The Correspondent! On my never-ending TBR list 🙂
Hope you enjoy your books this week –
Sue
http://bookbybook.blogspot.com
I really liked the Nothing to See Here audiobook a couple of years ago as well. The Correspondent sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing what you think of it.
The Correspondent looks interesting. I have it on hold with the library so will take forever to get …
sherry
Yes, that’s the downside with getting books from the library. At our library, we’re putting a lot of funds towards reducing wait times for the most popular ebooks and downloadable audiobooks, but then there are fewer copies of less popular titles, so it’s hard to know what’s best. 🙁
Horowitz is great! I have also enjoyed his YA series
I liked his YA books on audio a lot! There was one SFF series (Power of Five series, starting with Raven’s Gate) I was listening to years ago, but had trouble finding the fourth and fifth books on audio, as I recall. Now I probably could get them easily, but would have to start the whole series over!