Libro.fm and AudioFile revealed their lists of the top audiobooks of 2024, with Percival Everett and Ta-Nehisi Coates honored by both the audiobook app and the magazine.
Libro.fm, the audiobook retailer, announced the winners of its Bookseller Choice Awards, which are voted on by employees at more than 3,000 independent booksellers.
Everett’s James, which won the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award, was named audiobook of the year; it is narrated by Dominic Hoffman. Coates’ The Message, narrated by the author, also made Libro.fm’s list, as did Funny Story, written by Emily Henry and narrated by Julia Whelan; The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, written by P. Djèlí Clark and narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman; and The Third Gilmore Girl, written and narrated by Kelly Bishop.
Everett’s novel was one of the fiction books honored by AudioFile, while Coates’ book made the magazine’s nonfiction list.
Other fiction titles to make AudioFile’s lists include Kristin Hannah’s The Women, narrated by Hannah and Whelan, and Here One Moment, written by Liane Moriarty and narrated by Caroline Lee and Geraldine Hakewill. Other nonfiction winners are There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, written and narrated by Hanif Abdurraqib, and Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV, written by Emily Nussbaum and narrated by Gabra Zackman.
A full list of AudioFile’s winners is available at the magazine’s website.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
