New York Times Audio Fiction Best Sellers 2018 Complete List Page 1

There are 90 books in the New York Times Audio Fiction Best Sellers 2018 list. Here are the 30 books ranked from 1 to 30.

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1. Little Fires Everywhere

Weeks on the list: 30

by: Celeste Ng
Release date: Sep 12, 2017
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An artist with a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.

2. Ready Player One

Weeks on the list: 30

by: Ernest Cline
Release date: Jan 01, 2011
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It’s 2044, life on a resource-depleted Earth has grown increasingly grim, and the key to a vast fortune is hidden in a virtual-reality world.

3. Then She Was Gone

Weeks on the list: 22

by: Lisa Jewell
Release date: Apr 17, 2018
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Ten years after her daughter disappears, a woman tries to get her life in order but remains haunted by unanswered questions.

4. The Outsider

Weeks on the list: 22

by: Stephen King
Release date: May 22, 2018
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A detective investigates a seemingly wholesome member of the community when an 11-year-old boy’s body is found in a town park.

5. The Woman In The Window

Weeks on the list: 21

by: A.J. Finn
Release date: Jan 02, 2018
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A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.

6. Something In The Water

Weeks on the list: 18

by: Catherine Steadman
Release date: Jun 05, 2018
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A documentary filmmaker and an investment banker must decide whether they should protect a secret.

7. The Great Alone

Weeks on the list: 16

by: Kristin Hannah
Release date: Feb 06, 2018
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A former prisoner of war returns from Vietnam and moves his family to Alaska, where they face tough conditions.

8. Before We Were Yours

Weeks on the list: 16

by: Lisa Wingate
Release date: Jun 06, 2017
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A prominent South Carolina lawyer, researching her grandmother’s past, learns about a Tennessee orphanage that kidnapped children and placed them for adoption with wealthy people. Based on a real-life scandal.

9. The President Is Missing

Weeks on the list: 14

by: James Patterson Bill Clinton
Release date: Jun 04, 2018
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President Jonathan Duncan, a Gulf War veteran and widower, takes on adversaries at home and abroad.

10. Where The Crawdads Sing

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Delia Owens
Release date: Aug 14, 2018
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In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect.

11. Sharp Objects

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Gillian Flynn
Release date: Sep 26, 2006
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Fresh from a stay at a psychiatric hospital, a newspaper reporter returns (reluctantly) to her hometown to cover the murders of two girls.

12. The Handmaid’s Tale

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Margaret Atwood
Release date: Feb 17, 1986
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In the Republic of Gilead’s dystopian future, men and women perform the services assigned to them.

13. Shelter In Place

Weeks on the list: 13

by: Nora Roberts
Release date: May 29, 2018
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Survivors of a mass shooting outside a mall in Portland, Me., develop different coping mechanisms and face a new menace.

14. The Wife Between Us

Weeks on the list: 11

by: Greer Hendricks Sarah Pekkanen
Release date: Jan 09, 2018
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The events surrounding a hedge fund manager, his ex-wife and his fiancée are told from several points of view.

15. Dark Sacred Night

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Michael Connelly
Release date: Oct 30, 2018
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Detective Renée Ballard teams up with the retired detective Harry Bosch, who is working on a cold case.

16. The Alice Network

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Kate Quinn
Release date: Jun 06, 2017
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A pregnant American college student and a French spy join together on a mission in London in 1947.

17. Norse Mythology

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Neil Gaiman
Release date: Feb 07, 2017
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A retelling of Norse folklore.

18. Crazy Rich Asians

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Kevin Kwan
Release date: May 20, 2014
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A New Yorker gets a surprise when she spends the summer with her boyfriend in Singapore.

19. The Singularity Trap

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Dennis E Taylor
Release date: Jul 11, 2018
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The survival of the human race hinges on an asteroid miner and unlikely hero named Ivan Pritchard. 11 hours, 22 minutes unabridged. Read by Ray Porter.

20. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Gail Honeyman
Release date: Jun 05, 2018
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A young woman’s well-ordered life is disrupted by the I.T. guy from her office.

21. Every Breath

Weeks on the list: 9

by: Nicholas Sparks
Release date: Oct 16, 2018
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Difficult choices surface when Hope Anderson and Tru Walls meet in a North Carolina seaside town.

22. The Reckoning

Weeks on the list: 9

by: John Grisham
Release date: Oct 23, 2018
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A decorated World War II veteran shoots and kills a pastor inside a Mississippi church.

23. Origin

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Dan Brown
Release date: Oct 03, 2017
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After reconnecting with one of his first students, who is now a billionaire futurist, symbology professor Robert Langdon must go on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.

24. Artemis

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Andy Weir
Release date: Jan 01, 2017
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A small-time smuggler living in a lunar colony schemes to pay off an old debt by pulling off a challenging heist.

25. Red Sparrow

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Jason Matthews
Release date: Jun 04, 2013
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A Russian intelligence officer trained in the art of seduction becomes entangled with a young C.I.A. officer.

26. The Fallen

Weeks on the list: 8

by: David Baldacci
Release date: Apr 17, 2018
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Amos Decker, known as the Memory Man, puts his talents toward solving a string of murders in a Rust Belt town.

27. Mavericks

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Craig Alanson
Release date: Jan 01, 2018
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The sixth book in the Expeditionary Force series. 17 hours, 21 minutes unabridged. Read by R.C. Bray.

28. Lethal White

Weeks on the list: 8

by: Robert Galbraith
Release date: Sep 18, 2018
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The fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Detectives Strike and Ellacott investigate a crime a young man may have witnessed as a child; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

29. An American Marriage

Weeks on the list: 7

by: Tayari Jones
Release date: Feb 06, 2018
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A newlywed couple’s relationship is tested when the husband is sentenced to 12 years in prison.

30. Past Tense

Weeks on the list: 5

by: Lee Child
Release date: Nov 05, 2018
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Jack Reacher explores the New England town where his father was born and a Canadian couple now find themselves stranded.

Last updated on December 9, 2021