Monthly Audiobook Bestsellers

Libro.fm is proud to present our monthly audiobook bestseller list that captures what’s selling in independent bookstores.

Fiction top 10

#1

The Vanishing Half

By Brit Bennett • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

Brit Bennett’s second novel broke my heart. She doesn’t shy away from the sadness inherent in each character’s life, yet she left me feeling better for having met all of them. I read The Vanishing Half with a sense of hope, despite my dread that terrible things might befall the characters.

Jamie, Women & Children First
#2

The City We Became

By N. K. Jemisin • Published by Hachette Audio

“This story is filled with tension, humor, and great characters, with a guest appearance near and dear to me. While this book is the beginning of a trilogy, it is completely satisfying as a stand-alone novel. Read it and be happy.”

Doug, Powell’s Books
#3

Such a Fun Age

By Kiley Reid • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“A racial comedy of manners for the digital age, Such a Fun Age is a hilarious and cringe-inducing look at white people trying to do the right thing: badly, and for all the wrong reasons.”

Rachel, The Book Table
#4

The Guest List

By Lucy Foley • Published by HarperAudio

“When all the guests arrive for a seemingly idyllic wedding, numerous audio narrators quickly reveal that the skeletons in the bride’s and groom’s pasts–infidelities, betrayals, and flagrant abuse of societal privilege–present serious obstacles to wedded bliss. This patchwork of revelations build to a stunning crescendo complete with a raging storm and subsequent power outage.”

Kelly, Raven Book Store
#5

Clap When You Land

By Elizabeth Acevedo • Published by Quill Tree Books

“Lyrically written with precise clarity and beautiful turn of phrase, National Book Award-winner Elizabeth Acevedo shares a poignant story of loss, identity, and family.”

Tina, Leaves Book and Tea Shop
#6

Beach Read

By Emily Henry • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“This title says it all—Beach Read is the perfect romantic beach read book and not just because of the romance. Emily Henry has given us complex characters in a solid story line while keeping the sexual tension at a perfect, steamy temperature. Beach Read is the perfect beach read; but it is also the perfect vacation read, staycation read, quarantine read, and escape read. Queue it up, pop in your ear buds, and the hours will disappear.”

Mary, Anderson’s Bookshop
#7

The Hate U Give

By Angie Thomas • Published by Balzer + Bray

“This bestselling, powerful young adult novel about social justice and one teen girl’s effort to fight for what is right, will leave you breathless. The narration by Bahni Turpin is hands down the best I’ve ever heard. This is such an important book it should be required reading for life in general. Or listening. Definitely listening.”

Kristen, Tattered Cover
#8

You Should See Me in a Crown

By Leah Johnson • Published by Scholastic Audio

Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it’s okay—Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

#9

Parable of the Sower

By Octavia E. Butler • Published by Recorded Books, Inc.

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future.

#10

The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club)

By Ta-Nehisi Coates • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“Ta-Nehisi Coates understands something big and he understands it better than anyone else right now. The Water Dancer led me on a journey up and down the landscape of American slavery with a narrative that feels like The Book of Exodus meets, well, Ta-Nehisi Coates.”

Norris, Lemuria Bookstore

Non-fiction top 10

#1

How to Be an Antiracist

By Ibram X. Kendi • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”

The New York Times
#2

White Fragility

By Michael Eric Dyson & Robin DiAngelo • Published by Beacon Press

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

#3

Stamped from the Beginning

By Ibram X. Kendi • Published by Novel Audio

Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America–more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.

#4

So You Want to Talk about Race

By Ijeoma Oluo • Published by Blackstone Publishing

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.

#5

Me and White Supremacy

By Layla F. Saad • Published by Blackstone Publishing

“Want to learn how to be a good ancestor? Need to address your privilege and feel uncomfortable about talking about racism? You need to read and work through Me and White Supremacy.”

Rachel, Avid Bookshop
#6

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By Ibram X. Kendi & Jason Reynolds • Published by Hachette Audio

“What an amazing, passionate and fast-paced take on Kendi’s original Stamped from the Beginning! It takes you on a journey of racist ideas from then to now, the how and why it still lingers on. Reynolds’s engaging way with words will connect with young adults, and everyone else too. This is a book for everyone to read, so that we all can do better in identifying and stamping out racist thoughts.”

Anne, Newtonville Books
#7

Between the World and Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.

#8

The New Jim Crow

By Michelle Alexander • Published by Recorded Books, Inc.

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexanders The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

#9

Hood Feminism

By Mikki Kendall • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“If Hood Feminism is a searing indictment of mainstream feminism, it is also an invitation. . . . [Kendall] offers guidance for how we can all do better.”

NPR.org
#10

I’m Still Here

By Austin Channing Brown • Published by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open hearts and minds.”

Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

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