Jacob Shymanski

A bunch of them are AI slot, but that's another topic.

But there are more books coming out than ever.

And because of social media and algorithms and everyone being put in their own little bubbles...

it's harder to get recommended things that are niche and sort of out of the mainstream and it doesn't really matter that there's a way wider selection and huge diversity of genres and sub-genres because we're only hearing about books that are in our bubbles right and the best way to get good recommendations is to get them from friends from word of mouth people not algorithms

Today, we're assembling a roundtable of longtime friends of the show to share with you our eight favorite audiobooks of the year.

This is Audiobook Cafe.

I'm Jacob Chayamahitsky.

Today, I'm with Amir Khan.

How's it going, Amir?

Good.

Hello, everyone.

Nice to be back.

We got Sarah Ellis.

Hey.

And Ramya Amuthan.

What's up?

Yeah.

here's how it's gonna work we're going around the table twice the first time for our favorite audiobook of 2025 so this first round the book must have been published in 2025 and we're doing this because we want to show you that there are still good books coming out nowadays and for the second round you just have to have discovered it in 2025 it can be published any year all right so first round favorite audiobooks to be published in 2025

Who wants to go first?

Okay, not everyone I want.