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Bookseller Choice Awards

The 2025 Libro.fm Bookseller Choice Awards

For the second year now, we’ve asked our bookselling partners to vote on their favorite audiobooks of the year. What better way to find our next read than by a list the experts recommend? Just like when we visit our favorite bookshop in person, we know booksellers will never steer us wrong. 

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Libro.fm’s Top 10 Audiobooks of 2025

Let’s take a look back at 2025’s greatest hits, based on sales from our 4,000+ bookselling partners

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Easily Send Gifts to All the Book Lovers in Your Life: Libro.fm Introduces Multiple Recipient Gifting!

Just in time for the holiday season, we’re excited to share that Libro.fm customers can now purchase multiple audiobook gifts at once, making the season for giving all the easier. 

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Libro.fm’s Most Anticipated Upcoming Book Releases: October-December 2025

Check out these forthcoming audiobooks releasing October, November, and December 2025. (And, if you preorder them, they’ll appear in your library on release day!) 

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Libro.fm vs. Audible

The Audible alternative that supports independent bookshops with every audiobook purchase Over the past decade, the audiobook market has soared, with revenue in the United States alone hitting $9 billion in 2023—an increase in 9% from the previous year. With this surge in popularity, more readers are looking for audiobooks and often automatically turn to Amazon-owned […]

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Libro.fm’s 2025 Audiobook Listening Challenge

Looking for a fun way to read more in 2025? We’ve put together 24 prompts to help you broaden your audiobook listening, discover new favorites, and support your local bookshop! Psst: You can also join the challenge on The StoryGraph! Challenge 1: Read a bookseller-recommended audiobook. Discover audiobooks loved by our bookselling partners from across […]

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Bookseller Audiobook Picks for Every Reader

We’ve got picks for athletes, environmentalists, history buffs, and more in this audiobook guide for every reader!

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The Best Historical Fiction Audiobooks for Immersive Listening

Here’s a list of 16 great historical fiction audiobooks to explore, as selected by our bookselling partners at over 4,000 indie bookshops across the globe.

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Beyond the Red Carpet: Unveiling the Reading Habits of Your Favorite Celebrities

Here are some of the books that celebs have been spotted toting around, and the bookshops they’re frequenting. 

2026 Audiobook Listening Challenge

Libro.fm’s 2026 Audiobook Listening Challenge

Whether you’re a seasoned audiobook listener or you’re giving it a try for the first time, we’ve put together a list of 24 prompts to challenge you to shake up your listening habits in 2026.

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The Best Audiobooks of 2025 by Genre

From award winning literary fiction to exciting mysteries full of suspense, here are some of Libro.fm’s bestselling audiobooks of 2025 by genre!

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The Best Historical Romance Audiobooks

Audiobooks truly bring the alluring accents and forbidden chemistry to life. Here are 16 historical romance audiobooks for lovelorn listeners.

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Audiobooks to Start the Year Strong

These audiobooks go beyond just positive thinking, providing practical advice to help make positive change, invest in your well being and lead an authentic life.

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Five Spanish Language Bookstores to Support

We’re proud to partner with a number of Spanish language bookshops that you can support with your audiobook purchases! 

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Donate to These Book Organizations, Get a Thank You Gift from Libro.fm

We’ve partnered with Authors Against Book Bans, Binc, We Need Diverse Books, Put It in a Book, and The Word: Storytelling Sanctuary to help them reach their year-end goals.

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Panic-Free Gifting: Thoughtful Ideas That Deliver Instantly

We’ve got you covered with some last minute gift ideas, including Libro.fm audiobooks, of course!

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The Thoughtful Gift Guide: Bookish Finds for Every Reader 

We’ve rounded up gifts for book lovers of all genres to help your gifting go above and beyond this holiday season.

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