Welcome to the Cup of Tea’s Best Books of the Year, where I list the best of the best books I read this year.

Good writing makes a story come to life. But when it come to an audiobook, it’s a great narrator that brings a book vibrant and truly transports you to another world. Listening to audiobooks is always a pleasure, whether I am commuting to work or doing work around the house, listening to an audiobook is just as powerful and captivating if you were reading the book in print. Just like years pass, I listened to great audiobooks that really entranced me from beginning to end and I have a strong feeling that you will enjoy them as well. So here they are, my favorite audiobook listens of 2023:


The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

Narrated by: John Keating & Alana Kerr Collins

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

Narrated by: Jessica Regan, Stephen Hogan, Sara Lynam & Liz Nugent

The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone

Narrated by: Joe McFadden & Eilidh Beaton

She Started It by Sian Gilbert

Narrated by: Sarah Ovens, Anne-Marie Piazza, Ione Butler, Billie Fulford-Brown, Sarah Cullum & Ella Lynch

The Drift by C.J. Tudor

Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Nathalie Buscombe & Rachel Handshaw

Penance by Eliza Clark

Narrated by: Hollie-Jay Bowes, Anna Gilthorpe, Emily Goldie, Evie Hargreaves, Salima Saxton & George Weightman

Perfectly Nice Neighbors by Kia Abdullah

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

The Gifts by Liz Hyder

Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton

Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

Narrated by: Olivia Vinall

Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters

Narrated by: Dami Olukoya & Debra Michaels

Outcasts by Claire McFall

Narrated by: Chloe Pirrie

Win Lose Kill Die by Cynthia Murphy

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

We Don’t Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

Narrated by: IIKane

Honorable Mentions


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