Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks of 2022

Audiobooks are companions and comfort, entertainment and escape, exploration and education, and most of all, listening to an audiobook is the profound pleasure of a voice in your ear, telling you a story. Each December, AudioFile editors cap our year of listening by selecting AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks. Below, you’ll find our picks for the Best Audiobooks of 2022 in nine categories--we celebrate and thank the talented authors, narrators, producers, and publishers who worked together to create these marvelous, moving, and memorable audio experiences.