11 Best Audiobooks on Spotify, According to Librarians ...Saudi Arabia

From music and podcasts to videos, Spotify has an endless amount of content to satisfy just about any interest. The digital streaming company also offers a service that many users aren't even aware of: audiobooks. Listening to an audiobook on Spotify is a convenient way to sneak in some reading while you're on the go or traveling, and there are plenty of titles to choose from. Of course, finding the very best audiobooks on Spotify can take a bit of digging, so we polled a few librarians to get their top picks.Whether you want to lose yourself in a beautiful romance, embark on an epic adventure or dabble in some nonfiction, Spotify has audiobook options for every reader. To be exact, Spotify Premium subscribers have access to a library that's filled with over 500,000 audiobook titles. In other words, the odds of you finding the book you're looking for on Spotify are pretty likely, since the catalog contains a plethora of bestsellers and hidden gems.Ready to find your new favorite book? Here are all the 11 best audiobooks on Spotify that the school librarians we polled are loving right now. Plus, we're also sharing some invaluable information to help you navigate Spotify's audiobook platform.Related: The 19 Best Books on Kindle Unlimited Right Now, According to Librarians

All Spotify users can purchase audiobooks by using the Spotify Web Player. When you buy an audiobook on Spotify, you "unlock" access to the book. Here's how it works:

Use the Spotify Web Player to pay for access (aka "unlock") to a particular audiobook with a credit card, debit card or PayPal.Play your unlocked books in the Spotify app and/or download the books to listen to them offline anytime.

Per Spotify's website, customers gain the "right to access the Audiobook content" when they unlock an audiobook. However, the content is not "sold or transferred" to customers in the traditional sense. "Spotify and its partners retain ownership of the Audiobook content even after you unlock or access it," the website reads.Related: 222 Best Books of All Time That Deserve a Spot on Your Bookshelf, With Picks from Bestselling Authors and Indie Booksellers

How Many Hours of Audiobooks Do You Get With Spotify Premium?

In addition to a free subscription option, Spotify also has several paid Premium membership options. The following three paid subscriptions offer users access to audiobooks:

It's important to note that unused listening hours don't carry over to the next month. Also, when you pay to unlock an audiobook, it doesn't count towards your monthly audiobook listening time.Premium subscribers can also score additional hours of audiobooks each month with the following add-ons:

Additionally, Spotify users can opt for the $9.99/month Audiobooks Access plan, which gives subscribers 15 hours of audiobooks from the audiobook subscriber catalog each month while enjoying the free, ad-supported music listening experience. The plan isn't supported on several different devices, including Apple Watch, Samsung Watches, Garmin, Tesla and Car Thing.Related: The 44 Best Greek Mythology Books of All Time, According to Librarians

Whether you're unlocking/purchasing an audiobook or simply listening to it one time, the audiobook will show up in your Library Collection when it is ready. You are then free to play or download it.

On mobile devices, simply click the "play" button.In the "Now Playing" view, control the playback speed by clicking 1x.You can also skip forward or backward 15 seconds.Tap the sleep timer to set a sleep timer.Tap the three horizontal dots (iOS) or the three vertical dots (Android) to rate the audiobook or share it with friends/your social channels.

How to listen to audiobooks on a desktop and a web player

11 Best Audiobooks on Spotify, According to Librarians

1. ‘Delilah Green Doesn’t Care' by Ashley Herring Blake

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Tara Gold, a high school librarian who is known by the TikTok handle @literallytara, counts Ashley Herring Blake among her list of the best romance authors."This book is the first in the Bright Falls trilogy, in which readers get to watch three friends all find their happily ever after. Delilah and Claire were so fun to read about!" she says.In the novel, Delilah Green returns to her childhood town, Bright Falls, to photograph her estranged stepsister Astrid's wedding. While there, she spends time with Astrid's friend, Claire Sutherland, and they have several rocky interactions. With time, it becomes clear that they're totally vibing romantically."It's a little bit of a grumpy/sunshine dynamic that really works, and it’s a little spicy," Gold notes.

2. ‘A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping‘ by Sangu Mandanna

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Annie Harris, a school librarian whose TikTok handle is @schoollibrariannie, describes this book's author as "the queen of cozy.""Her main characters are perfectly imperfect, the kids are messily realistic and the male protagonist is an academic hottie," she says.The book tells the story of Sera Swan, who used to be a powerful witch in Britain. Sadly, she lost most of her magic when she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine. When Sera meets Luke Larsen, a magical historian, she gets a second chance to get her magical powers back.

3. ‘The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches' by Sangu Mandanna

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Harris is also a fan of this other piece of witchy fantasy fiction from Mandanna."A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping and this book can be read independently since it is not a series," she notes. "Each book has a found family, a love story, a sinister villain, life-long friendships and unpredictable magic."The book explores the story of an isolated British witch named Mika Moon, who has to hide her magic. However, she runs an online account where she posts videos of herself pretending to be a witch. When she gets a message from someone asking her to visit Nowhere House to teach young witches how to control their magic, Mika goes and builds connections with the residents. When danger arrives, she has to decide if she's going to risk everything to protect her new family.

4. ‘My Heart is a Chainsaw' by Stephen Graham Jones

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Gold calls this book "a love letter to classic horror movies." "It’s about a girl who knows enough about horror movies to understand that her town is about to experience a similar horror, and she wants to prepare for what’s coming," she explains. "This story is gory and intense, but also an incredibly unique addition to the genre."The book, which is the first of three in the Indian Lake trilogy, follows Jade Daniels, a woman who finds comfort in horror movies as she deals with an absent mother and an abusive father. When violence strikes her town, Jade predicts "exactly how the plot will unfold," per the book description, and "drags us into her dark fever dream."Related: The 32 Best Romantasy Books of All Time

5. ‘Legendborn' by Tracy Deonn

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This young adult novel is also a hit with adults, according to Gold. The book tells the story of Bree Matthews, a 16-year-old whose mother dies in an accident. Afterwards, she escapes to UNC-Chapel Hill to take part in a residential program for high schoolers and sees a magical attack when she arrives on campus. When a teenage mage tries to erase Bree's memory, he unlocks her magic, and she suddenly remembers that another magical being was at the hospital the night her mother died.As she searches for answers, Bree teams up with Nick, a self-exiled member of a secret society called "Legendborn.""Bree’s story is filled with adventure, emotion, mythology, self-discovery and, yes, a love triangle. The combination of the college setting and Arthurian legend makes for a complex but fast-paced fantasy story that definitely kept me on my toes," Gold says.

6. ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' by Gabrielle Zevin

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Harris says this is a book that "appeals to lots of different readers" and "rips your heart out.""I think what is so great about it is how messy and messed up the characters and their relationships are. There's so much to sink your teeth into," she says.The novel's protagonists, Sam and Sadie, are friends who end up working together in the video game design field. The story follows the pair over the course of 30 years as they experience fame, tragedy, joy and duplicity.

7. ‘Anxious People' by Fredrik Backman

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Harris is a huge fan of this author and enjoyed this piece of realistic fiction."Backman is a master of writing slightly loony, but ultimately recognizable and relatable, characters. I enjoy the cast of characters in Anxious People, the mystery-esque plot and the 'I didn't see that coming' ending," she shares. "This book is one that stays with you after you are done because you will want to think through all the details to see if you could have figured out the end on your own."In the book, a criminal invades an apartment open house and takes several strangers hostage. The scary scenario leads the group to "reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next," per the book's description.

8. ‘The God of the Woods' by Liz Moore

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Fans of thriller fiction will enjoy this book, per Harris. "As a librarian, I think a lot about what genre a book is in, so I can catalog and shelve it in a place [where] the right readers will find it. I think The God of the Woods defies categorization," she states. "It definitely needs to be on the mystery shelf, but also in literary fiction. Then I might also put it in a coming-of-age or family drama section. It is definitely thriller/suspense, but would also count as historical fiction."The plot revolves around a search for a summer camper who is missing in the woods."It has family secrets, grief, motherhood, fatherhood, abuse, summer camp, the Adirondacks and I almost forgot about the serial killer," she shares. "It sounds like too much, but it isn't. You'll be captivated by the changing storytellers and the evolving mysteries and secrets."Related: Taylor Swift Documentary Unveils the 2024 Thriller Audiobook She’s Obsessed With

9. ‘Mexican Gothic' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Gold says this book has so many twists and turns that she had to write out a family tree while listening to it. Still, it had her "locked in" with all the excitement."This is a haunted house story that goes a completely different direction than expected, and I still can’t stop thinking about it. It’s not for the squeamish, that’s for sure!" she enthuses.Per the book description, protagonist Noemí Taboada visits Mexico to check on her newlywed cousin, who sent her a letter "begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom." She soon discovers that there are plenty of secrets in her cousin's house as she begins to get visions of "blood and doom" in her dreams.

10. ‘Our Moon‘ by Rebecca Boyle

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Harris read this nonfiction book—its official title is Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are—when it was a candidate for the National Book Award."I wanted a nonfiction book that was outside of my normal histories and biographies," she explains. "It did break me out of my comfort zone, and yet it really reads like a biography of the moon and a history of the human relationship with the moon."She enjoyed the author's ability to "make complex scientific concepts understandable and fascinating.""What blew my mind was how many lifetimes of people have looked up at the very same moon and found both practical and spiritual meaning there," she shares.

11. ‘Everything is Tuberculosis' by John Green

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All the nonfiction fans will appreciate this book that highlights the fight to eliminate tuberculosis, one of the most infectious diseases. John Green tells the real story of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient whom he met in 2019. He also incorporates scientific and social information about the disease."John Green is a great writer, that is a given. But this book is so different than any he has written before," Harris explains. "It is nonfiction to start with, but also tells a story [that 's] personal to the author. What I love about the audiobook is that it is read by the author. You can hear his true admiration for the people he introduces and his frustration with the state of modern medicine's inability to eradicate a deadly yet treatable disease."Gold is also a fan of the book and says Green "manages to make the content interesting and relevant."Up Next:

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