Best of the Year is here! In our annual recap of the year in listening, Audicted hosts Kat Johnson and Katie O’Connor chat with Editor Tricia Ford about the best audio experiences of 2021. Featuring a lively discussion with the Audible editors about their favorite listens of the year, this episode shares behind-the-scenes details and passionate recommendations on the 2021 listens you have to hear.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Stand-In by Lily Chu

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Back in the Burbs by Avery Flynn, Tracy Wolff

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

Fuzz by Mary Roach

Death by Unknown Event by Danielle Elliot

The Murder of Robert Wone by AYR Media

Bath Haus by P. J. Vernon

Be Well by Dr. Jessica Clemons

You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Trejo by Danny Trejo, Donal Logue

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs

Playing Burton by Mark Jenkins

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

Men's Health by Daniel Goldfarb

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr

Yearbook by Seth Rogen

You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn

Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey - foreword

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia, Simon Bruni - translator

Lola Chick by Maria Escobedo

The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter, Edoardo Ballerini

The Push by Ashley Audrain

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

Please Miss by Grace Lavery

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

Hello, Molly! by Molly Shannon, Sean Wilsey