Since our new feature Send this Book launched last year, our members have been sharing their favourite listens with friends and family so they too can experience the same highs, thrills and shocks that come from a great audiobook. Joining in is easy. Take a look at the most shared books by genre below, listen to something that grabs your attention and spread the word via the Audible app. No credits? You can always add to your wish list so your next pick is ready and waiting!
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More highly shared listens
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Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales
- By: Beatrix Potter
- Narrated by: Gary Bond, Michael Hordern, Rosemary Leach, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall443
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Performance341
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Story344
The 23 tales in this set have never lost their popularity and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore...Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, the Flopsy Bunnies, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Tom Kitten, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck and many more.
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Lovely recordings but shame about the metadata
- By Anouska on 28-10-17
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall909
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Performance804
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Story803
What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with.
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One of the best books I have ever read.
- By anne levine on 11-12-16
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The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep
- A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
- By: Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Roy McMillan
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall185
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Performance129
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Story131
The bedtime audiobook parents are raving about! The author of the global best seller The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep is back with another story using all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques to make bedtime a sweet and tender end to each day. Your child joins Ellen the Elephant on a journey through a magical forest that leads to sleep. Along the way they meet different fantastical characters and have calming experiences that will help your child to relax and slip into slumber quickly.
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great story but....
- By Sam Oliver on 06-11-16
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Douglas Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,473
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Performance1,171
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Story1,169
A boy who only gets to eat cabbage soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner finds a Golden Ticket that will take him into Willy Wonka's magical chocolate factory. Joining him on the tour are four horrible blighters: Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop, Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat, Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive little gum-chewer and Mike Teavee - a TV addict. With a chocolate river, crafty squirrels and mysterious Oompa Loompas, Mr Wonka's chocolate factory is the strangest, most magnificent place Charlie has ever seen.
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a truly wonderful book
- By MR on 10-06-16
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Matilda
- Narrated by Kate Winslet
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,219
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Performance2,647
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Story2,646
Matilda is the world's most famous bookworm, no thanks to her ghastly parents.Her father thinks she's a little scab. Her mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And her headmistress, Miss Trunchbull? She's the worst of all. She's a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded Chokey. Despite these beastly grownups trying to push her down, Matilda is an extraordinary girl with a magical mind. And she's had enough. So all the terrible adults had better watch out, because she's going to teach them a lesson they'll never forget!
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Cooooool
- By Becky on 13-01-15
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The World's Worst Children
- By: David Walliams
- Narrated by: David Walliams, Nitin Ganatra
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,703
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Performance1,976
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Story1,989
Read by David Walliams, with Nitin Ganatra as Raj - listen to David perform these 10 cautionary tales introducing a delightfully dreadful cast of characters. Are you ready to listen to the World’s Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls!
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Entertaining for kids and adults
- By arrnoosa on 02-01-17
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The Christmasaurus
- By: Tom Fletcher, Shane Devries
- Narrated by: Paul Shelley
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall843
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Performance701
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Story704
Puffin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher, read by Paul Shelley. The Christmasaurus is a story about a boy named William Trundle, and a dinosaur, the Christmasaurus. It's about how they meet one Christmas Eve and have a magical...
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AMAZING
- By Amazon Customer on 20-11-17
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Going Solo
- Girl Online 3
- By: Zoe Sugg
- Narrated by: Hannah Tointon
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall181
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Performance164
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Story162
The third book in the number-one best-selling Girl Online series by vlogger Zoe Sugg, aka Zoella.
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Emotive story
- By Anonymous on 07-04-24