

We have fiction and several nonfiction categories: biography, history, culture and memoir. That’s the top priority.įor people looking for audiobooks to listen to, can you say which categories you’ve chosen best of 2020 lists for? There are lots of books and lots of lists at this time of year and we try to find the ones that are guaranteed to be great listening. We want to make sure that each book is a brilliant listening experience. Sometimes there are titles that we look at that for one reason or another might not have won an Earphones Award, but we think have a particular special quality that warrants them being considered for our best of the year lists. If a book is given an Earphones Award it means it’s exceptional. We pay attention to our Earphones Awards, which are ongoing and given by reviewers as books are reviewed. It’s quite a process to go through, prioritizing titles that we want to select as the best. When we sit down at this time of year, we try to select five or six books in every subject category. Were you basically picking the best audiobooks among the 2000+ reviews that you’ve done this year?

Just in terms of the selection process, I know that at AudioFile you review around 50 audiobooks every week. We’re talking about your recommendations of the best audiobooks of 2020.
