Top BEST 150 audio books (5-star audio book list) to read d…

after reading/listening to over 1000 books, here is my (growing!) 5 star favorites list.

I’m very stingy with my ratings/stars.

You are reading: 5 star audible books

If I really (really!) enjoy something, it gets 4 stars (or 4.5 stars).

5 stars are reserved for books that I love so much that I think everyone should read them 😉

I’m not linking to amazon (or anyone else) to avoid making money from this post; it is a public service. i get most of my books from the library (libby or hoopla app), but i also buy from chirp and audible.

if you need an “escape” right now from everything that’s going on, this post is your best friend.

Happy reading!

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need more recommendations?

I have hundreds and hundreds of 4 star books. read my reviews/see my ratings on goodreads. Currently, I average one book every other day and try not to read too many “popular” or “top” books (eg Reese’s Book Club) because I love finding the overlooked gem and giving it love. I usually include summaries with my reviews to help you decide if you’re in or out!

Happy Herbivore 5 Star Audiobook List

all-time favorites

1. harry potter
2. the sun is also a star by nicola yoon (also a movie)
3. me before you by jojo moyes (also a movie)</ li
4. the hate you give (also a movie)
5. comoran strike series by robert galbraith (aka jk rowling) (also a tv series)
6. far from the free by robin benway
7. an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green
8. relatives by octavia butler
9. end us by colleen hoover
10. both they die at the end of adam silvera
11. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor reid
12. you will not have my hate
13. a woman is not a man by etaf rum
14. anything from diane chamberlain
15. jane doe from victoria helen stone

historical fiction

1. lady hardcastle series by te kinsey
2. orphan train by christina baker kline
3. erotic stories for punjabi windows by balli jaswal
4. before that we were yours by lusa wingate
5. the girl of the house by tara conklin
6. the help
7. the alice network
8. pulp by robin talley </li
9. verity by colleen hoover
10. the girl i used to know by tracey garvis-graves
11. alice’s web by kate quinn
12. the nightingale

psychological thriller

1. an anonymous girl
2. these hidden things
3. white lies of lucy dawson
4. lucy dawson’s daughter
5. jane doe by victoria stone
6. sandie jones’s other woman
7. then she left lisa jewell
8. megan miranda’s safest lies
9. behind closed doors of ba paris
10. shari lapena’s next door couple
11. jane doe de victoria stone helen
12. emily’s waiting room bleeker
13. the first time he drowned
14. you & hidden bodies by caroline kepnes (also on netflix)
15. what i knew about gilly macmillian
16. the handmaid’s tale (also a show)
17. the watcher the memory of minka kent
18. is always the husband by michele campbell
19. one of us is lying (already) by karen mcmanus
20. lies she told by cate hellohan
21. black eye-d susans
22. let you go by clare mcintosh
23. the secret child by kerry fisher
24. the lies we told by camilla way
25. what she left behind by ellen marie wiseman
26. the waiting room by emily bleeker
27. all is not forgotten by wendy walker
28. I leave you go for mackintosh, clare
29. the silent patient

police / investigation

1. sandra brown’s mean streak
2. harlan coben’s stranger
3. megan miranda’s all the missing girls
4. everything doesn’t forget wendy walker
5. my sister’s grave by robert dugoni

love story

1. who do you love by jennifer weiner
2. attachments by rainbow rowell
3. all your perfects by colleen hoover
4. hearburn by nora ephron
5. let me from gayle form
6. sally thorne’s hatin game
7. simsion graeme’s rosie project
8. to all the boys i’ve loved before /lara jean series (already) by jenny han
9. who asked you? by terry mcmilan
10. meet me at the museum

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young adult-contemporary

1. four three two one by courtney stevens
2. janie johnson series (5 books)
3. before i fall by lauren oliver (also a movie )
4. all all by nicola yoon
5. tell me three things by julie buxbaum
6. if i stay & where she went by gayle foreman
7. when by victoria laurie
8. greyhound by piper stephen
9. the line between (#1) and a single light by tosca lee
10. pretties (series) by scott westerfield
11. wayward kids (series)

general fiction

1. if you find me by emily murdoch
2. what alice forgot (the only liane moriarty i liked)
3. little mercies by heather gudenkauf
4. everything i never told you by celeste ng
5. big little things by jodi picoult
6. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
7. if i were your girl by meredith russo
8. all the bright places by jenifer niven
9. what he left behind by wiseman, ellen mari

science fiction (light, not heavy) or dystopian

1. the dispatcher
2. birdbox (also a movie)
3. rainbow rowell landline
4. when he woke up
5. la unremarkable heart (short stories) karen massacre
6. uglies by scott westerfeld (great social commentary)
7. flowers for algernon
8. the one by john marrs

nonfiction

1. chain of titles by david dayen
2. a mother’s calculus by sue klebold
3. brain defense by kevin davis
4. educated by tara westover
5. glass castle by jeannette walls
6. catching fire: how cooking made us human by richard wrangham
7. the new crow jim
8. the immortal life of henrietta lacks
9. the pampering of the american mind
10. the moment of elevation: how women’s empowerment changes the world by melinda gates
11. becoming by michelle obama
12. resilience: hard-earned wisdom to live a better life
13. a mime of the american mind: how good intentions and bad ideas are preparing a generation for failure

non-white/little books that opened my eyes (lbgt too)

1. americanah
2. the hate you give
3. queenie de candice carty-williams
4. i’m still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness
5. so you want to talk about race
6. between me and the world
7. born a crime
8. american panda </li
9. i’m not your perfect american daughter
10. love, hate and other filters
11. mustard seed
12. burying what we can’t stand by kristin chen
13. my sister, the serial killer
14. 13 hours of deon meyer
15. internment of samira ahmed
16. with the fire on top of elizabeth acevedo
17. so you want to talk about race by ijeoma oluo
18. ayesha finally by jalaluddin, uzma
19. the girl from the convenience store
20. with him fire on high de acevedo, elizabeth
21. if i were your girl de russo, meredith
22. pulp de talley robin

memoirs or biography

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1. this is just my face – try not to stare
2. something beautiful and terrible by jen waite
3. shrill: notes from a loud woman
4. escape from camp 14: a north korean man’s remarkable odyssey
5. rising out of hate: the awakening of a former white nationalist
6. tina fey’s bossypants
7. unbearable lightness by portia de rossi
8. fish: memories of a boy in a man’s prison
9. this is me: chrissy metz
10. forgotten: the untold story of d-day black heroes
11. a walk in the woods by bill bryson (also a movie)
12. my horizontal life
13. rabbit: autobiography of ms. pat
14. the year of living danishly by helen russel
15. the sociopath next door
16. becoming nicole: the transformation of an american family
17. the body is not an excuse: the power of radical self-love
18. the year of living danishly: my twelve months unearthing the secrets of the happiest country in the world