Now that you’ve seen our Best of the Year picks (at https://www.audible.com/Bestof2018, if you haven’t), hear what went into making the list. The Audicted Editors discuss the audiobooks that were sweated and argued over, listened and re-listened to, and talked endlessly about to finally determine the best. Plus: a special guest appearance by Amazon Book Review editor, Adrian Liang, to talk about how her team of editors came up with their “best” choices.

The books the editors discuss in this episode are:

Educated by Tara Westover

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Small Fry By Lisa Brennan Jobs

Heartland by Sarah Smarsh

If You Love Me by Maureen Cavanagh

Dopesick by Beth Macy

Rising Out of Hatred by Eli Saslow

The Poisoned City by Anna Clark

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Circe by Madeline Miller

Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Children of Blood and Bone by Tom Adeyemi

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera

Obsidio by Amie Kaurman & Jay Kristoff

The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz

Lincoln in the Bardo By George Saunders

See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

West Cork by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Evil Has a Name by Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, & Peter McDonnell

The Radical King by Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

The Dark Between the Stars by Atticus

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar

The Poems of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Outsider by Stephen King

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent & Sarah Vladic

Parker: Selected Stories by Dorothy Parker

The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal

Out of My Mind by Alan Arkin

Jingle Bell Pop by John Seabrook

The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia

Zero G by Dan Wells

Alien by Tim Lebbon