Books that work so well as audiobooks 🎧

Amy Hunt
Mar 15, 2023
2 min read

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again :

✨audiobooks count as reading ✨

Just because you’re not using your eyes to process the information doesn’t mean it’s a completely different thing. Sure, your brain has to process the words in a different way, but listening to audiobooks has lots of great benefits for your brain (attention, comprehension and vocabulary…) just like reading physical books. Audiobooks allow me to continue to read even when I have visual stress, migraines, and when I can’t seem to read words off a page. I seem to be able to process the information a lot more easily when it’s read to me sometimes, and audiobooks have gotten me out of so many reading slumps!

That being said, not all audiobooks are great. Sometimes the editing isn’t well done, or you don’t get on with the narrators voice, the book content doesn’t work well for audio format, or it hasn’t got rid of those mouth noises (I cannot cope with this last one), and these things can make listening a little unbearable. Also, audiobooks aren’t for everyone, don’t feel alone if you can’t concentrate or follow a story through an audiobook- so many people I know can’t stand this format so if reading (with your eyes) works for you that’s brilliant!

Hopefully here are some suggestions of books that just seem to be right for audiobook format, and maybe some of you will enjoy them!

Sadie, by Courtney Summers