11 books that are better as audiobooks

There are SO many books that are fantastic but end up being better when you listen to the audiobook. Here are 10 books that are SO much better if you listen to the audiobook.

Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. Danforth

In 1902, 2 students at the Brookhants School for Girls are madly in love and obsessed with the memoir of a scandalous young writer. A few months later, they’re found dead after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. After 3 more deaths on the property, the school is closed for good.

Over a century later, a controversial horror film about the events at the school is being filmed at the crumbling and supposedly cursed school starring Hollywood lesbian ‘it girl’ Harper Harper.

Penance – Eliza Clark

It’s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of a 16-year-old girl rocked a small seaside town and for the first time, the story of what happened is being published in a book.

Alec Z. Carelli, a journalist, has constructed what he calls the ‘definitive account’ of the murder and everything that led to it. He spent countless hours investigating and interviewing everyone involved. The only question is: how much of it is true?

FantasticLand – Mike Bockoven

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where ‘Fun is Guaranteed!’ But when a hurriacane ravages the Florida coast and isolates every staff member stuck at the park. 

5 weeks after everyone is trapped, the authories finally make it to the park to rescue the survivors where they find a horrific scene – heads are on spikes, bodies litter the park.

The book is told as if it’s a true crime book about all of the horrific things that happened during the horrible experience.

True Crime Story – Joseph Knox

Told as though it’s a true crime novel, this book tells the story of Zoe Nolan, a 19-year-old Manchester University student who walked out of a party at her shared accommodation and was never seen again. 7 years later, 2 writers discuss what happened to her and, through interviews with her friends and family, attempt to piece together what actually happened to her.

I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jeanette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy, of iClarly and Sam & Cat fame, details her life as a child actor. It was her mother’s dream for her to be an actor and she got her first audition at just 6 years old. She discusses the restricted diets she was put on, how she was thrust into fame after being cast on iCarly, the problems that occurred on the set of Sam & Cat, and finally to her quitting acting and starting therapy.

Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

At the height of their popularity, Daisy Jones and the Six broke up and no one knows the real reason… until now. For the first time ever the band has agreed to be interviewed about their rise to fame and everything leading up to their devastating ending.

Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo

Told in-verse, Camino lives for the summers when her father visitors her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on, the day that his plane was supposed to land, she arrives at the airport to see crowds of people crying,

In New York City, Yahaira has just been called to the principle’s office where she is told that her dad has died in a plane crash.

Separated by distance, 2 girls are forced to face the new reality where their father is dead and their lives are altered forever.

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson

17-year-old Andie Bell disappeared and everyone knows that her boyfriend, Sal Singh, killed her. After all, he was found dead in the woods a few days later.

But 5 years later, Pippa isn’t so sure. When she’s given the chance to choose her final year project she decides to re-investigate this crime with Sal’s younger brother.

The Summer I Turned Pretty – Jenny Han

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good that happens in her life happens between the months of June and August where she spends her time living with her mother, brother, and her mother’s best friend and her sons. 

She has known Conrad and Jeremiah since she was a kid and this is the first summer that any of them has truly noticed her…

Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir

Ryland Grace has just woken up on a space ship millions of miles away from Earth and he has no idea what his mission is. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very long time and the rest of his crew died a long time ago.

What he doesn’t know is that he is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, planet Earth will be destroyed.

Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey

Vera’s mother calls her back and, in spite of their long estrangement, she returns to the childhood home where her serial killer father killed and buried his victims.

Coming home is hard for Vera and it’s made even worse when she finds that a parasitic artists has moved into the guest house and someone is leaving notes around the house in her dad’s handwriting.