What do you want to hear tonight?
This Month's Drop
Voices Worth
Losing Sleep Over
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
Narrated by Soneela Nankani
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Historical"His voice never once let me forget I was hearing a story that deserved to be shouted from a mountain."
19h 4m
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing
Two narrators. One war. A love story that will leave you breathless at 3am.
Narrated by Rebecca Soler & Teddy Hamilton
Trust Us
Our editors picked one title for people who can't sleep.
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Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano
Narrated by Various Artists
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by Suzanne Elise Freeman
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Memoir"She reads her own grief and it becomes yours. The most intimate six hours I've ever spent with a book."
6h 12m
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
Ray Porter's performance has been described as "the reason audiobooks exist." This is the one.
Narrated by Ray Porter
James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room —
Read by Dan Butler
Priya Nair
Senior Editor, AudioDrop
There are audiobooks that entertain you, and then there are audiobooks that reach through the speaker and reorganize something inside your chest. Dan Butler's reading of Baldwin's 1956 novel is the second kind.
Butler never performs the grief — he inhabits it. The Paris streets feel cold. David's self-deception feels suffocating. And when Giovanni finally speaks, the tenderness in Butler's voice is so precise it's almost unbearable. I finished this on the Q train at midnight and sat three stops past my apartment just to stay inside it.
“It's the best 5 hours I've spent with a book in years. I've recommended it to eleven people this month.”
The Drop Process
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and a story that sticks.
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No credit card. No commitment. Just a voice and a story.
Real Listeners
The people who
needed this most.
AudioDrop wasn't built for everyone. It was built for the moments when you need a human voice that isn't trying to sell you something.
Delores Reyes
Night-shift ICU Nurse
Philadelphia, PA
6:14 am
Listens after shift
I finish a 12-hour shift at 6 a.m. and I can't unwind with TV — it's too much. AudioDrop gives me a voice that isn't asking anything from me. I'm asleep within 20 minutes.
This month: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Literary Fiction
Marcus Webb
Long-haul Commuter
7:51 am
“I've listened to every true crime podcast twice. AudioDrop is the only thing that makes the 94-minute commute feel short. I've missed my stop four times this year. Worth it.”
This month: James by Percival Everett
Historical Fiction
Aisha Okonkwo
Chronic Insomniac
2:07 am
“At 2am my brain won't quiet. Music doesn't work. Podcasts make me anxious. A novel read by someone who actually cares about the words? That's the only thing that works.”
This month: The God of Small Things
Literary Fiction41,200+
Active Listeners
94%
Finish Their Monthly Drop
4.9★
Average Narrator Rating