I got my Yearly Listening Stats report from Audible today, so I thought I’d share!
Here was the summary: “In 2025, you journeyed through 22 titles and averaged 35 min per day. You listened the most on Thursdays and achieved your longest stretch of 1 hrs 59 min on August 8.”
I have no idea what happened on August 8, or why Thursdays were the days I listened most!
My number one favorite audiobook of 2025 was:
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel By: Shelby Van Pelt
Here are the audiobooks I also enjoyed:
In the Time of Five Pumpkins: No 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency, Book 26 by Alexander McCall Smith
Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue: A Novel by Spencer Quinn
Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller
The Beast of Littleton Woods: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 12 by T E Kinsey
Pride and Prejudice full cast performance by Jane Austen, Lulu Raczka
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Cool Bloggers Book Club Pick)
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (Also a Cool Bloggers Book Club Pick)
Now or Never (Stephanie Plum, Book 31) by Janet Evanovich
The Rushworth Family Plot: A Novel (A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney Mystery, Book 4) by Claudia Gray
Agatha Christie: Five Mysteries:
1. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2. The Man in the Brown Suit
3. The Secret Adversary
4. The Mysterioius Affair at Styles
5. The Murder on the Links
Audiobooks I didn’t really enjoy, but finished anyway:
The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett
Audiobooks I re-listened to because I love them so much:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Audiobooks I did not finish:
How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel By: Kristen Perrin
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
I’d say 2025 was a lower-than-usual listening year for me, but I really enjoyed the majority of my listens.
One thing that has cut into my audiobook listening time is my Peloton workouts! And I think that’s a fair and good exchange!
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What a good listening year for you! This year one of my goals is to listen to more audiobooks, I love immersing myself in them while I cook, do house chores and walk around campus on my way to class. From your list I only recognize Jane Austen but full cast performances in audiobooks are my favorite thing!
Alondra, I love full cast performances too. It’s like going to the theater! I also love listening to books when I’m cleaning or cooking. It makes the job more pleasant!
Gnicole is going to be so tickled to see all the Austen reads! I haven’t really enjoyed the Austen books I have read but I wonder if I would enjoy them more on audio. Maybe when I retire I can do an Austen listening experiment.
I am glad you had a wonderful year of reading!!
Lisa, I guess I should admit that I’ve never read any of Jane Austen’s books in writing! I’ve only ever listened to them. I love the ones read by Alison Larkin. I could listen to her voice all day! The stories just make me happy. I’ve re-listened to them several times and I always get something new from them.
What a great listening year, Michelle! And I love that your love of Peloton is what has helped bump that a bit lower. A great exchange (and I think you listen to music while you ride, maybe?, so you’re still consuming enjoyable content!)
I listened to two full audiobooks this year (Heartwood and The Correspondent). I’m not typically a “read with my ears” sort of person, but I think in both cases I enjoyed the book more because I listened to it! There were a lot of different characters/narrators in both those books and it really helped to have accents and different voices to distinguish them.
Elisabeth, I’ve put both Heartwood and The Correspondent on my Audible with list. I love it when the narrators enhance the story like that! I do enjoy the music during my Peloton workouts! You’re right that it’s still consuming enjoyable content!
OMG I love that you relistened to all the Jane Austen books! I’m imagining the narrator with a soothing voice. I don’t listen to audiobooks but I do spend a lot of time listening to podcasts (right now I’m obsessed with a Sweet Valley High podcast, god help us all)
Also – yay for Peloton workouts! Don’t you just love them!
Gnicole, this was probably the fourth time I’ve relistened to them! I love the ones read by Alison Larkin – I could listen to her voice all day! A Sweet Valley High podcast sounds interesting! I do love the Peloton workouts so much – I’m still so surprised at how much I love them!
We have the same favorite audiobook in 2025. How exciting.
I haven’t listened to any of the other books you mentioned.
However I want and will read My Friends by Fredrik Backman. I wonder though why it wasn’t for you. I love how books and the characters he writes.
Tobia, I’m so happy that you loved Remarkably Bright Creatures too! I know there’s a big split between people who love it and those who don’t. My Friends made me cry for the first 45 minutes, and I just couldn’t deal with it! It hit me so hard and I couldn’t continue. If the sadness doesn’t bother you, you’ll probably love it. I’ll look forward to your opinion about it!
You had a good year for books Michelle! I don’t listen to audiobooks but I did love Remarkably Bright Creatures. And I also did not like My Friends but did finish it. And just today I was at Barnes and Noble with my daughter and bought myself Anne of Green Gables which I have never read in all my many years of reading (not even when I was a kid!) I plan to read Pride and Prejudice and Emma this year – I have them both on my bookshelves from my parents’ collection so they are pretty old editions.
Dulcie, I’m so excited that you get to read Anne of Green Gables for the first time! I hope you’ll enjoy it and that it’ll live up to all the hype! Same for Pride and Prejudice and Emma. They’re all three such iconic books. I’m so happy you enjoyed Remarkably Bright Creatures! I wonder what you didn’t like about My Friends? For me, it was so sad and made me cry so much that I couldn’t continue. I’m looking forward to reading anyone’s review of it.
That is exactly why I didn’t like My Friends. It was hard to read because it was so sad and life was so rough for them as children. It makes me so sad to read about children not having a carefree happy childhood. I do think it was a well written book and I did finish the book, but I prefer more uplifting, positive reads I guess?
Dulcie, I think My Friends was well-written too, but I’m with you on prefering more uplifting, positive reads.
Because of you, I just placed a hold on the audio version of Remarkable Bright Creatures on Libby—23 weeks wait predicted!
I’ve been waiting for a long time for My Friends just because it is Backman, but I had no idea it was super sad. I’ll try it anyway.
It’s interesting that you enjoyed Austen so much. I’ve tried several times but find her writing to be way too many words to say way too little; now half of your readership will probably hate my guts!
Jana, I hope you’ll enjoy RBC in 23 weeks! You might love My Friends – and I’d love to know your thoughts after you have a chance to read it! I’m sure no one will think less of you for not enjoying Jane Austen. There are so many other books to enjoy!
Thats a good year of reading! I am here to cosign on RBC, Caroline, Blue Castle, and Anne of Green Gables.
My New Year’s Resolution is to listen to more fiction on audio, and I made a good start by just finishing a 10 hour audio book. Now I’m going to switch back to my non-fiction audio and catch up on podcasts and I’ll look for another fiction listen.
Birchie, did you write about your 10 hour audiobook on your blog? I’ll have to go look!
Is it not possible to listen to an audio book while doing Peloton? Is that because you have to be able to hear the ‘ride up hill,’ etc. directions? I’m laughing at you wondering what was up with Aug. 8th. I also liked the Bright Creatures book. I think that’s the only book (oh, and The Joy Luck Club and the Blue Castle) that you and I have in common. I’m a few pages away from finishing The Correspondent. Best book I’ve read in a long time. Love it so much.
Ernie, I could listen to an audio book while doing Peloton, but I find the instructions and music more motivating. I’m going to have to check out The Correspondent.
Hi Michelle! I also listened to the Joy Luck Club and oh my, I actually teared up at certain points (leaving the babies and writing a note). I just finished Less by Andrew Sean Greer and loved it so much. The narration was excellent and the story even better.
Daria, the Joy Luck Club made me tear up several times as well. The child who was swept away by the ocean really got me. But I loved the ending so much.
I really want to get into audiobooks—I’ve never tried them! Maybe this is the year.
Stephanie Plum series! I used to LOVE those books. Now those would be so much fun to listen to! All of her characters are hilarious.
Kari, the Stephanie Plum books are mabye a little…tired…after so many installments, but I still get a kick out of them. They’re such fun characters. I love the audio versions of the series.
She’s still writing them???? LOL- I guess I thought she’d stop by now.
I had no idea Audible did these stats, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I had to check my own and I listened to 48 titles and an average of 84 minutes per listening day – the longest stretch being 7 hours on July 15th. I wonder what I was doing that day!
I need to listen to Anne of Green Gables, I haven’t read it for years, but it’s so wonderful! Yay, I love books!
Maria, you had a great listening year! Now I’m so curious about what titles you listened to and what you thought of them! 😁 I love books too, and I hope to read/listen to more this year.
I mostly listen to self-help books, lol, anything that makes me feel like I’m learning and growing. And I LOVE Mary Oliver. 💛
Right now I’m listening to The Relaxed Woman by Nicola Jane Hobbs. I’m really enjoying it, but it’s also made me realise how hard it actually is for me to relax. I told my partner I want to “practice relaxing” and he just laughed and said that was such a contradiction.. 😅
Maria, I love Mary Oliver too, and think I’ll try an audiobook of her poems. I have The Relaxed Woman in my library and plan to listen to it soon. Ha! Ha! I love that you want to “practice relaxing!” ❤️
Haha, I hope you enjoy it. Maybe we can practice together 😂
I always love when these generated stats tell us something like “you listened the most on Thursdays!” and I’m like “ooookay… why? how?” 🙂
You had a great year of listening!
I hope your 2026 is full of only excellent listens/reads! 😀
Rebecca, yes, those stats are so interesting! I hope your 2026 is full of great reading as well!
Well done with those stats, and sorry to hear you didn’t like The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett. Was it the narration or the story itself? I ask because I loved this one. But then, I am British.
Alexandra, there were parts of The Windsor Knot that I really enjoyed, such as any part where the Queen was involved. Those parts were charming, interesting, and fun! But I didn’t love her assistant, and I felt like she got way too much time in the story. I couldn’t connect with her. Also, the murder was…well…yucky! I know it’s a murder mystery, but still, it bothered me.
I love this roundup! And now you have me intrigued to listen to some of the Jane Austen books, especially any full cast productions. That might be the best way for me to enjoy Jane Austen, ha. I also realllllly need to try Anne of Green Gables on audio! That’s my all-time favorite book, but I’ve never listened to the audiobook!