Recommended Audiobooks from Hoopla

Listening to audiobooks can be a great accompaniment to everyday activities, from exercising to crafting to doing the dishes, and make chores more engaging. Audiobooks (and ebooks) are always available on Hoopla, so there is no wait to listen.

If you’re not sure where to start on Hoopla, here are some recommended popular audiobooks, featuring some of the best narrators, from our Youth Services staff.  We’ve pulled out titles that also begin series, so if you like the first one, you can progress through the series.

Jump to a category:

• Picture Books and Easy Readers
• Chapter Books and Popular Series
• Tween
• Teen
• Adult Titles with Teen Appeal

Kids

Picture books and Easy Readers

• Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews
• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty, read by Bahni Turpin
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, read by Sissi Aisha Johnson
• The Pete the Cat series by James Dean, read by Lewis Grosso
• Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola, read by John McDonough
• Locomotive by Brian Floca (Video readalong)
• The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, read by Thora Birch
• The Pinkalicious series by Victoria Kann, read by Eliana Shaskan
• Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin (Video readalong)
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorrell, read by a full cast
• Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman, read by Bronson Pinchot
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems, read by the author and Jon Scieszka
• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, read by Peter Schickele

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Chapter Books and Popular Series

• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate, read by Adam Grupper
• The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett and Jory John, read by Adam Verner
• The Ramona series by Beverly Clearly
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman, read by the author
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, read by the author
• Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
• Allies by Alan Gratz, read by a full cast
• The Winterhouse series by Ben Guterson, read by Sophia Amoss
• The Warriors series by Erin Hunter
• The Nancy Drew Diaries series by Carolyn Keene, read by Jorjeana Marie
• Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd, read by Cassandra Morris
• The Rainbow Magic series by Daisy Meadows
• The Whatever After series by Sarah Mlynowski, read by Emily Eiden
• The Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce
• The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce, read by the author
• The Captain Underpants series by Dav Piley, read by Len Forgione and Dazjon Freeman
• The Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell, read by Lana Quintal
• The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry
• The Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland, read by Shannon McManus
• The I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis
• Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson, read by Levar Burton
• The 39 Clues series by various authors and readers

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Tween

• New Kid by Jerry Craft, read by a full cast
• The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta, read by Soneela Nankani
• Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris, read by Carrington MacDuffie
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, read by the author and Derek Jacobi
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, read by Khristine Hvam
• The Last Musketeer by Stuart Gibbs
• George by Alex Gino, read by Jamie Clayton
• Lost Boy by Tim Green, read by the author
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, read by Laura Credidio
• The Ice Garden by Guy Jones, read by Billie Fulford-Brown
• The Unteachables by Gordon Korman
• The Willow Falls series by Wendy Mass
• The Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren
• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler
• The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen, read by Charlie McWade
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, read by David Kelly
• The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, read by Jeff Woodman
• Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin, read by Will Patton
• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, read by Robin Miles
• Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, read by Rebecca Soler, Jonathan Davis, and Marc Thompson
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Steve West and Fiona Hardingham
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, read by Alan Cumming

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Teen

• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, read by Bahni Turpin
• What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, read by Noah Galvin and Froy Gutierrez
• With the Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo, read by the author
• Zenith by Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings, read by Jordan Clair McCraw and Stephen Dexter
• Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynne Barnes, read by Katherine Littrell
• This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender, read by Ron Butler
• Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter, read by Brittany Pressley
• A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro, read by Graham Halstead and Julia Whelan
• The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton, read by Rosie Jones
• The Gilded Wolves by Rosania Chokshi, read by Laurie Catherine Winkel, P. J. Ochlan
• All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney, read by Priya Ayyar
• The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen, read by Rebecca Soler
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber, read by Rebecca Soler
• Spin by Lamar Giles, read by a full cast
• Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson, read by a full cast
• Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson, read by Katey Rudd
• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka and a full cast
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, read by Christian Coulson
• Not Your Sidekick by C. B. Lee, read by Emily Woo Zeller
• Black Wings Beating by Alex London, read by Brittany Pressley and Michael Crouch
• Ship It by Britta Lundin, read by Amy Melissa Bentley and Rudy Sanda
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi, read by Priya Ayyar
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, read by Sneha Mathan and Vikas Adam
• Renegades by Marissa Meyer, read by Dan Bittner and Rebecca Soler
• Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno, read by Almarie Guerra
• Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy, read by Eileen Stevens
• Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro, read by the author
• The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe, read by James Fouhey
• Dodger by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
• Jackaby by William Ritter, read by Nicola Barber
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, read by Evan Morton
• Scythe by Neal Shusterman, read by Torsten Michaelis and  Ilka Teichmuller
• The Raven Boys series and sequel series Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton
• Sadie by Courtney Summers, read by Dan Bittner, Galbraith Zackman, and Rebecca Soler
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas, read by Bahni Turpin
• The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, read by Steve West
• Pride by Ibi Zoboi, read by Elizabeth Acevedo

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Adult titles with teen appeal

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, read by Dan Stevens
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Stephen Thorne
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, read by the author
• What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe, read by Wil Wheaton
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab, read by Steven Crossley’s
• Bellwether by Connie Willis, read by Kate Reading

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