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Best Audiobooks of 2020

The 109 audiobooks our editors picked as a monthly top ten in 2020, in the order they ranked them. For this month's ten, see the top 10 right now.

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January 2020

ZED

Joanna Kavenna (Author), Guy Mott (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 5 mins

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488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct

Kitty Flanagan (Author), Kitty Flanagan (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 42 mins

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Seven Worlds One Planet

Jonny Keeling, Scott Alexander (Author), Jonny Keeling, Scott Alexander (Narrator)

Audiobook · 4 hrs

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After

Anna Todd (Author), Elizabeth Louise, Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 51 mins

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February 2020

Cleanness

Garth Greenwell (Author), Garth Greenwell (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 11 mins

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Don't Hold My Head Down

Lucy-Anne Holmes (Author), Lucy-Anne Holmes (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 53 mins

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You’re Not Listening: The lost art that can change your life

Kate Murphy (Author), Kate Murphy (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 31 mins

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The Hopes and Triumphs of the Amir Sisters

Nadiya Hussain (Author), Avaita Jay (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 14 mins

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Mr Nobody

Catherine Steadman (Author), Catherine Steadman (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 32 mins

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Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel

Tessa Bailey (Author), Charlotte North (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 41 mins

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The Bear and The Nightingale: (Winternight Trilogy)

Katherine Arden (Author), Kathleen Gati (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 48 mins

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March 2020

The Scent Keeper: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister (Author), Gabra Zackman (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 2 mins

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight (Author), Norbert Leo Butz (Narrator)

Audiobook · 13 hrs 21 mins

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Saving Missy

Beth Morrey (Author), Harriet Walter (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 58 mins

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Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Jennie Allen (Author), Jennie Allen (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 29 mins

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The Guest List

Lucy Foley (Author), Aoife Mcmahon, Chloe Massey, Jot Davies, Olivia Dowd, Rich Keeble, Sarah Ovens (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 54 mins

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More Than Want You

Shayla Black (Author), Christian Fox (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 49 mins

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April 2020

Into the Fire

Gregg Hurwitz (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 58 mins

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Sea Witch

Sarah Henning (Author), Billie Fulford-Brown (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 25 mins

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The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Book

Sophy Roberts (Author), Catherine Bailey (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 9 mins

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The Chase

Jenna Jacob, Shayla Black (Author), Christian Fox (Narrator)

Audiobook · 13 hrs 18 mins

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May 2020

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix (Author), Bahni Turpin (Narrator)

Audiobook · 13 hrs 49 mins

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My Lies, Your Lies

Susan Lewis (Author), Anna Bentinck, Sophie Bentinck (Narrator)

Audiobook · 12 hrs 20 mins

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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Deborah Feldman (Author), Rachel Botchan (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 40 mins

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The Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel (Author), Ben Miles (Narrator)

Audiobook · 38 hrs 16 mins

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Vengeance

Zane (Author), Jewel Rubenstein (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs

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June 2020

Codename Villanelle: Killing Eve, Book 1

Luke Jennings (Author), Laura Kirman (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 48 mins

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Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter

Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Author), Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 16 mins

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Just My Luck

Adele Parks (Author), Kristin Atherton, Louise Brealey (Narrator)

Audiobook · 12 hrs 50 mins

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My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell (Author), Grace Gummer (Narrator)

Audiobook · 15 hrs 35 mins

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Naughty & Nasty

Sabrina B. Scales (Author), Jakobi Diem, Wesleigh Siobhan (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs

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July 2020

Hello, Summer: A Novel

Mary Kay Andrews (Author), Kathleen Mcinerney (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 15 mins

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The Court of Miracles

Kester Grant (Author), Kristin Atherton (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 45 mins

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)

Suzanne Collins (Author), Santino Fontana (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 16 mins

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Whiskey Beach

Nora Roberts (Author), Luke Daniels (Narrator)

Audiobook · 14 hrs 57 mins

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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

John Bolton (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)

Audiobook · 21 hrs 36 mins

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 35 mins

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July 2020

The Sin Eater

Megan Campisi (Author), Shiromi Arserio (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs

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Near Dark: A Thriller

Brad Thor (Author), Thomas Weichler (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 20 mins

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Coming Home to Island House

Erica James (Author), Jenny Funnell (Narrator)

Audiobook · 16 hrs 39 mins

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Outsider: A Novel of Suspense

Linda Castillo (Author), Kathleen Mcinerney (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 37 mins

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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho (Author), Jeremy Irons (Narrator)

Audiobook · 4 hrs

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Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

Michael Todd (Author), Ameen Gaines (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 51 mins

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Tempt Me

K. A. Tucker (Author), Avery Reid (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 57 mins

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September 2020

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

Viv Groskop (Author), Viv Groskop (Narrator)

Audiobook · 5 hrs 6 mins

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Narrator)

Audiobook · 3 hrs 35 mins

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The Gates of Athens: Book One in the Athenian series

Conn Iggulden (Author), George Blagden (Narrator)

Audiobook · 14 hrs 4 mins

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The Last Widow

Karin Slaughter (Author), Laurence Bouvard (Narrator)

Audiobook · 17 hrs 38 mins

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Daughters of Cornwall

Fern Britton (Author), Fern Britton (Narrator)

Audiobook · 9 hrs 37 mins

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The Facilitator

Tracie Podger (Author), India Rose (Narrator)

Audiobook · 8 hrs 10 mins

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The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante (Author), Marisa Tomei (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 21 mins

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October 2020

People of Abandoned Character

Clare Whitfield (Author), Tuppence Middleton (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 19 mins

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A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis

Louise Curtis (Author), Louise Curtis (Narrator)

Audiobook · 6 hrs 48 mins

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Grown-Ups

Marian Keyes (Author), Marian Keyes (Narrator)

Audiobook · 17 hrs 4 mins

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November 2020

Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

Stephen Fry (Author), Stephen Fry (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 10 mins

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I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

Milly Johnson (Author), Colleen Prendergast (Narrator)

Audiobook · 10 hrs 22 mins

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Ghosts

David A. Robertson (Author), Malcolm Sparrow-Crawford (Narrator)

Audiobook · 7 hrs 29 mins

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Rag-and-Bone Christmas

Dilly Court (Author), Annie Aldington (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 3 mins

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December 2020

Sweet Sorrow

David Nicholls (Author), Rory Kinnear (Narrator)

Audiobook · 13 hrs 6 mins

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The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho (Author), Jeremy Irons (Narrator)

Audiobook · 4 hrs

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Fire In His Blood

Ruby Dixon (Author), Jeremy York, Noelle Bridges (Narrator)

Audiobook · 11 hrs 29 mins

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