Editors Select: September 2025
16 new releases you can't miss—from memoir and fiction to mysteries and thrillers. Check out our most-anticipated listens of the month.
Nonfiction
Garrett M. Graff calls the craft of oral history a "process of subtraction”
The award-winning author’s latest, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, marks the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of WWII.
Jacob Tobia offers a roadmap to being better people
In “Before They Were Men,” the author and activist explains that it’s possible to harness everything that men love about themselves—including their anger—for good.
Troubled waters: the best disaster-at-sea nonfiction
These wild-but-true tales loom large in the annals of maritime history and survival stories.
Editors Select: August 2025
15 new releases you can't miss—from fantasy to fiction to memoir. Check out our most anticipated listens of the month.
Survival stories help me manage my anxiety
When thoughtfully mixed into my self-care toolkit, apocalyptic tales and other life-or-death sagas can be strangely soothing.
These listens get real about artificial intelligence
Stay up-to-date on the ever-growing field of AI with these exceptional nonfic audiobooks and podcasts.
Unlocking the secrets of the world’s weirdest psychedelic drug
With “Death by Astonishment,” scientist and psychonaut Andrew R. Gallimore delivers a mind-bending history of DMT.
Editors Select: July 2025
12 new releases you can't miss—from romance to thrillers to nonfiction. Check out our most anticipated listens of the month.
“Murderland” investigates serial killing and asks, what’s lead got to do with it?
Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser probes the mysterious proliferation of murder in her native Pacific Northwest.
The best trans and nonbinary listens
Explore this list of essential audiobooks from trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer authors.
Best of the year (so far)
Our midyear roundup of the best listens of 2025 (so far) marks an annual labor of love we, the Audible Editors, absolutely obsess about.