I present to you these unofficial lists of some of the bestselling audiobooks of all time, separated into fiction and nonfiction. With no official all-time data, we can make up our own lists by compiling all the official lists into one. Audiobooks like Becoming by Michelle Obama, Bossypants by Tina Fey, and Born a Crime by Trevor Noah are not likely to be leaving these lists anytime soon. Often, celebrity memoirs-narrated by the author-sit on audiobook bestseller lists for a long time. In November, Donald Trump Jr.’s book made it on the nonfiction list after a series of bulk purchases by Trump and those in his circles. But let’s not forget how this list-while it is the list-is manipulatable. The New York Times has two monthly audiobook bestseller lists: Fiction and Nonfiction. Google Play, Kobo, and Nook also have their own bestseller lists for audiobooks. But retailers focus on newer releases: Audible’s bestseller list has new Audible exclusives at the top of their list, Libro.FM’s bestseller list is all recent releases, and Scribd’s list sprinkles in old titles among newer ones.
Libraries (like Overdrive and Hoopla) and community lists (like any of these on Goodreads) cover every book that’s ever been published. The interesting thing about bestseller lists is that it depends on the source. For audiobooks, our sources are limited: we have retailer lists that can be controlled by advertising, we have the monthly New York Times lists, and we have user-generated lists. There aren’t official lists with all-time data, like we have for the usual weekly print lists.
Audiobooks have been on the upswing for years, and you may be wondering: What are the bestselling audiobooks of all time? The answer is a bit tricky to pin down.
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