A Global Win: PRH Audio Earns Audible’s Audiobook of the Year in Three Territories
Audible has announced their Best of the Year 2025 lists, and we’re thrilled to share that PRH Audio titles brought home Audible’s coveted “Audiobook of the Year” in three major territories: US, UK, and Latin America! Overall, 45 PRH Audio titles were selected.
Additionally, many PRH Audio titles were highlighted in Audible’s overall best of the year list in these territories:
- US: 53 total (nearly 30% of the total picks), including 4 of top 20 (20%)
- UK: 20 total, including 6 of top 20 (30%)
- LATAM: 12 total, including 2 of top 20 (10%)
- CAN: 30 total, including 8 of top 20 (40%)
Warm congratulations to our incredible teams who contributed to the success and impact of these titles!
Learn more about PRH Audio’s recognized titles below!
Audiobook of the Year (Audible US)
From the author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and DAISY JONES & THE SIX comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Audiobook of the Year (Audible UK)
MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME by Arundhati Roy, read by Arundhati Roy (Penguin Audio)
The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS.
Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as ‘my shelter and my storm’.
Audiobook of the Year (Audible Latino)
“Perreo, una revolución” by Cazzu, read by Cazzu (PRH Grupo Editorial Argentina)
Cazzu is one of the most important trappers in Latin America. It is no coincidence she is called La Jefa. It is no coincidence her twerk bothers many, challenges many, and leaves no one indifferent.
For years, Cazzu has faced one question: “How does it feel to succeed in such a misogynistic musical genre?” And as it happens to almost any famous virtuosa, she was asked to explain. But why was she asked more often than men? And above all, is reggaeton really misogynistic? This book was born as an answer to and an exploration of this duality that nests inside the genre: lyrics that sexualize women, but also women who express their desire, who know what they want, how and when.
Explore more of our recognized titles from Random House Audio (RHA), Penguin Audio (PA), Listening Library (LL), and Zando Penguin Audio (ZPA) below!
Top 20 (Audible US)
ATMOSPHERE by Taylor Jenkins Reid, read by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid (RHA) – #1 pick!
THE CORRESPONDENT by Virginia Evans, read by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler and Various (RHA)
STAG DANCE by Torrey Peters, read by Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan and Pyrrha Nicole (RHA)
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm, read by Rebecca Calder (RHA)
Additional Picks (Audible US)
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, read by Andrew Ross Sorkin (PA)
ALCHEMISED by SenLinYu, read by Saskia Maarleveld (RHA)
ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER by Elizabeth Gilbert, read by Elizabeth Gilbert (PA)
BEFORE THEY WERE MEN by Jacob Tobia, read by Jacob Tobia (RHA)
THE BEST MAN by Malcolm D. Lee; with Jayne Allen, read by January LaVoy, Jakobi Diem and Zenzi Williams (RHA)
BUCKEYE by Patrick Ryan, read by Michael Crouch (RHA)
BOOK OF LIVES by Margaret Atwood, read by Margaret Atwood (RHA)
CONFORM by Ariel Sullivan, read by Amanda Leigh Cobb (RHA)
THE DRY SEASON by Melissa Febos, read by Melissa Febos (RHA)
THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong, read by James Aaron Oh (PA)
EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS by John Green, read by John Green (LL)
FRANCINE’S SPECTACULAR CRASH AND BURN by Renee Swindle, read by Bahni Turpin (PA)
GIRL ON GIRL by Sophie Gilbert, read by Sophie Gilbert (PA)
THE GIRLS WHO GREW BIG by Leila Mottley, read by AhDream Smith, Erin Spencer and Khaya Fraites (RHA)
HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn, read by Perdita Weeks (ZPA)
THE INCREDIBLY HUMAN HENSON BLAYZE by Derrick Barnes, read by Miles J. Harvey and Derrick Barnes (LL)
NOBODY’S GIRL by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, read by Thérèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman (RHA)
MATE by Ali Hazelwood, read by Ellie Gossage and Teddy Hamilton (PA)
MATRIARCH by Tina Knowles, read by Tina Knowles, Beyoncé, Solange, Kelly Rowland and Angie Beyincé (RHA)
MEMORIAL DAYS by Geraldine Brooks, read by Geraldine Brooks (PA)
THE MISSING HALF by Ashley Flowers with Alex Kiester, read by Saskia Maarleveld and Ashley Flowers (RHA)
ONCE UPON A TIME IN DOLLYWOOD by Ashley Jordan, read by Matt Haynes, Adenrele Ojo and Ashley Jordan (PA)
ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad, read by Omar El Akkad (RHA)
ONE GOLDEN SUMMER by Carley Fortune, read by AJ Bridel and Carley Fortune (PA)
OPEN, HEAVEN by Seán Hewitt, read by Sebastian Croft (RHA)
PLAY NICE by Rachel Harrison, read by Alex Finke and Natasha Soudek (PA)
THE POISONED KING by Katherine Rundell, read by Sam West (LL)
THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ by Isabel Cañas, read by Carolina Hoyos and Anthony Rey Perez (PA)
REPLACEABLE YOU by Mary Roach, read by Mary Roach (RHA)
SECOND LIFE by Amanda Hess, read by Amanda Hess (RHA)
THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown, read by Paul Michael (RHA)
SILVER ELITE by Dani Francis, read by Amanda Dolan (RHA)
THE SIRENS’ CALL by Chris Hayes, read by Chris Hayes (PA)
SOUNDTRACK by Jason Reynolds, read by Nile Bullock, Mekhi Hewling, Jade Williams, Brandon Miles, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Amir Royale, Jasmin Richardson, Christopher Grant, Khaya Fraites, Nadine Simmons, Robb Moreira, We Ani, Rocky Anicette and Brandiss Seward (LL)
STRONG GROUND by Brené Brown, read by Brené Brown (RHA)
TOURIST SEASON by Brynne Weaver, read by Samantha Brentmoor and Robert Hatchet (ZPA)
WATER MOON by Samantha Sotto Yambao, read by Cindy Kay (RHA)
WE DON’T TALK ABOUT CAROL by Kristen L. Berry, read by Nicole Cash (RHA)
WE SURVIVED THE NIGHT by Julian Brave NoiseCat, read by Julian Brave NoiseCat (RHA)
THE WIDOW by John Grisham, read by Michael Beck (RHA)
WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix, read by Leslie Howard, Hillary Huber and Sara Morsey (PA)
Check out all full category-by-category breakdown and all their 2025 picks here.