Ep. 8: Let's Talk About Genres: How Do We Define Audiobook Categories?

What’s the difference between a thriller and a mystery? When is something an autobiography and not a memoir? Our editors break down the “rules” of genres – and the books that epitomize each of them. Can't get enough Audicted?

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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

Confessions by Kanae Minato

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Katerina by James Frey

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Still Life by Louise Penny

Circe by Madeline Miller

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

Hounded by Kevin Hearne

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Assault and Pepper by Leslie Budewitz

Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

Convenience Store Women by Sayaka Murata

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

The Liar's Club by The Liar's Club

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin