![]() ![]() The list also includes sound samples from each of the listed titles, short episodes of AudioFile's Behind the Mic podcast on a number of the titles, narrator interviews, and more. That audiobook, Whitten said, “may well signal a new trend in audio programs.” “We look at the narrators as the ones who make the magic of an audiobook, so they are celebrated in our lists,” and “variety of style in the audio program is also an important criterion.” Whitten noted that, this year, the editors chose to include “a program that is not a traditional audiobook at all”: Inside Voice by Lake Bell, which i ncludes interactive exercises and games alongside other ancillary material. “AudioFile’s list might share many of the same categories as other ‘best’ lists, but our list is all about audio performance and listening experiences,” Whitten said. To put it together, AudioFile founder and editor Robin Whitten said, the magazine's editors sat down with a list of the 2,500 audiobooks the magazine reviewed in 2022, highlighting winners of the magazine's Earphones Award-which recognizes exceptional audio-and whittling down the list to roughly 250 titles before winnowing further and breaking out titles into categories. ![]() ![]() The list, selected by AudioFile editors each year, recognizes audiobooks in nine categories: fiction, nonfiction and culture, mystery and suspense, memoir, biography and history, science fiction and fantasy, romance, young adult, and children and family listening. AudioFile, the 30-year-old bimonthly magazine dedicated to covering and reviewing audiobooks, has named its Best Audiobooks of 2022. ![]()
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