“What are the best Audiobook books released in 2020?” We looked at 85 of the top Audiobook books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 13 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Audiobook” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 50+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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| # | Book | Author | Read By | Lists |
| 14 | ¡VAMOS! LET’S GO EAT | Raúl the Third | Gary Tiedemann | AudioFile |
| 15 | A FOOL’S ERRAND | Lonnie G. Bunch III | JD Jackson | AudioFile |
| 16 | A Promised Land | Barack Obama | Barack Obama | Libro |
| 17 | AFTERLIFE | Julia Alvarez | Alma Cuervo | AudioFile |
| 18 | ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE | Louise Penny | Robert Bathurst | AudioFile |
| 19 | American Dirt | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 20 | American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Us | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 21 | Anxious People | Fredrik Backman | Marin Ireland | Libro |
| 22 | Aurora Burning | Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff | Kim Mai Guest, Johnathan McClain, Lincoln Hoppe, Donnabella Mortel, Jonathan Todd Ross, Erin Spencer, and Steve West | Popsugar |
| 23 | BEFORE THE EVER AFTER | Jacqueline Woodson | Guy Lockard | AudioFile |
| 24 | Blue Screen: How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 25 | BLUE-EYED DEVIL | Lisa Kleypas | Brittany Pressley | AudioFile |
| 26 | BOYFRIEND MATERIAL | Alexis Hall | Joe Jameson | AudioFile |
| 27 | Breasts and Eggs | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 28 | Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 29 | Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 30 | Catch and Kill: Lies and the Conspiracy to Protect Predators | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 31 | Clean: The New Science of Skin | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 32 | Eden | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 33 | FIRE IN PARADISE | Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano | T. Ryder Smith | AudioFile |
| 34 | Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | Matthew McConaughey | Popsugar |
| 35 | HAD I KNOWN | Barbara Ehrenreich | Suzanne Toren | AudioFile |
| 36 | HEADLINERS | Lucy Parker | Billie Fulford-Brown | AudioFile |
| 37 | HI FIVE | Joe Ide | Zeno Robinson | AudioFile |
| 38 | HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON | Jon Meacham, John Lewis [Afterword] | JD Jackson, Jon Meacham | AudioFile |
| 39 | INTIMATIONS | Zadie Smith | Zadie Smith | AudioFile |
| 40 | KENT STATE | Deborah Wiles | Lauren Ezzo, Christopher Gebauer, Christina Delaine, Johnny Heller, Roger Wayne, Korey Jackson, David DeVries | AudioFile |
| 41 | KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES | Kacen Callender | Ron Butler | AudioFile |
| 42 | LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND | Rumaan Alam | Marin Ireland | AudioFile |
| 43 | Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad | Layla F. Saad | Libro |
| 44 | MORE MYSELF | Alicia Keys | Alicia Keys, America Ferrera, Bono, Clive Davis, Craig Cook, DJ Walton, Jay-Z, Krucial, Leigh Blake, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Swizz Beats, Terri Augelo | AudioFile |
| 45 | Mr Wilder and Me | Jonathan Coe | Kristin Atherton | Financial Times |
| 46 | MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON | Elizabeth Strout, Rona Munro [Adapt.] | Laura Linney | AudioFile |
| 47 | ODETTA | Ian Zack | Rosa Howard | AudioFile |
| 48 | ON CORRUPTION IN AMERICA | Sarah Chayes | Sarah Chayes | AudioFile |
| 49 | ONE BY ONE | Ruth Ware | Imogen Church | AudioFile |
| 50 | Open Book | Jessica Simpson | Jessica Simpson | Popsugar |
| 51 | Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women | Christina Lamb | the author and Antonia Beamish | Financial Times |
| 52 | OVERGROUND RAILROAD | Lesa Cline-Ransome | Shayna Small, Dion Graham, Lesa Cline-Ransome | AudioFile |
| 53 | PUNCHING THE AIR | Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam | Ethan Herisse | AudioFile |
| 54 | Rainbow Milk | Paul Mendez | the author | Financial Times |
| 55 | RAYBEARER | Jordan Ifueko | Joniece Abbott-Pratt | AudioFile |
| 56 | Real Life | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 57 | Shadowplay | Joseph O’Connor | Washington Post | |
| 58 | Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | Washington Post | |
| 59 | SIGH, GONE | Phuc Tran | Phuc Tran | AudioFile |
| 60 | THE BLACK FLAMINGO | Dean Atta | Dean Atta | AudioFile |
| 61 | The City in the Middle of the Night | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 62 | THE FRAGILE EARTH | David Remnick, Henry Finder [Eds.] | Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman, Cat Gould | AudioFile |
| 63 | The Glass Hotel | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 64 | THE HAUNTING OF H.G. WELLS | Robert Masello | Steve West | AudioFile |
| 65 | THE HOBBIT | J.R.R. Tolkien | Andy Serkis | AudioFile |
| 66 | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab | Julia Whelan | Libro |
| 67 | THE LAST TOURIST | Olen Steinhauer | David Pittu | AudioFile |
| 68 | THE LAW OF INNOCENCE | Michael Connelly | Peter Giles | AudioFile |
| 69 | The Night Watchman | Louise Erdrich | Washington Post | |
| 70 | THE QUIET AMERICANS | Scott Anderson | Robertson Dean, Scott Anderson | AudioFile |
| 71 | The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping | Samantha Harvey | the author | Financial Times |
| 72 | THE SINNER | J.R. Ward | Jim Frangione | AudioFile |
| 73 | THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE | Erik Larson | John Lee, Erik Larson | AudioFile |
| 74 | The Stubborn Light of Things | Melissa Harrison | the author | Financial Times |
| 75 | The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 76 | THE TROUBLE WITH HATING YOU | Sajni Patel | Soneela Nankani | AudioFile |
| 77 | The Vanished Birds: A Novel | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 78 | The World: A Brief Introduction | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 79 | THE YOSEMITE | John Muir | Nick McArdle | AudioFile |
| 80 | This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and a New America | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 81 | Uncanny Valley | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 82 | Untamed | Glennon Doyle | Glennon Doyle | Libro |
| 83 | WE ARE NOT FROM HERE | Jenny Torres Sanchez | Marisa Blake | AudioFile |
| 84 | Weather | AudioBookReviews | ||
| 85 | WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED | Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed | Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi, Robin Miles, Ifrah Mansour, Bahni Turpin, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Sadeeq Ali, Dominic Hoffman, Christine Avila, Dion Graham, and a Full Cast | AudioFile |
| Source | Article |
| AudioBookReviews | The 20 Best New Audiobooks of 2020 |
| AudioFile | AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2020 |
| Financial Times | Best books of 2020: Audiobooks |
| Five Books | The Best Audiobooks of 2020 |
| Libro | LIBRO.FM ANNOUNCES THE TOP 10 AUDIOBOOKS OF 2020 AT BOOKSTORES |
| Popsugar | Popsugar Entertainment Books POPSUGAR Book Club Awards Nominees 2020 |
| Washington Post | Best audiobooks of 2020 |
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