You’ll Fall for these! Audiobook Recommendations October to December 2025
As the leaves turn golden and the air gets crisp, I find myself reaching for audiobooks that match the season – stories that feel like wrapping yourself in a cozy blanket with a warm mug of something sweet, or ones that give you delicious chills perfect for those gloomy, grey October and November nights. This fall’s audiobook releases have delivered both in spades!
From enchanting fantasies that make you want to live in their magical worlds to atmospheric tales that capture that end-of-year mood, I’ve found some absolute gems this season. Whether you’re looking for something to keep you company on those increasingly dark evening walks or a comforting listen while you’re baking cookies, I’ve got you covered with my audiobook recommendations for fall 2025.
This post is still being updated with my favorite new releases in November and December 2025.
October 2025: Creepy and Cozy
The Keeper of Magical Things
By Julie Leong
Narrated by Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
Julie Leong’s new novel is cozy fantasy at its finest! I could not turn this book off because it so perfectly let me observe the re-building of the little village of Shpelling.
Destroyed, forgotten, and left behind, even the cats and bees had abandoned Shpelling when Mage Aurelia and Novice Certainty arrive with a load of minorly magical artifacts from the Guild of Mages. Certainty has the most interesting magical ability, as she can talk to objects and coax them to do things.
From here, the story, the town, and the relationship between Certainty and Aurelia unfold like blossoms in spring. This is a genuinely delightful book that I cannot recommend enough!
Of course, the absolutely outstanding Natalie Naudus played a big part in making this audiobook so enchanting.
Perfect for: My fellow fans of Natalie Naudus narration and cozy fantasy!
Related article: My favorite Cozy Fantasy Audiobooks
Mr. Collins in Love
By Lee Welch
Narrated by Joel Leslie
Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
You can’t really call this a trope, but it’s something I enjoy immensely: When books explore how someone, who we – as readers – know seems unlikable to others, functions on the inside!
Mr. Collins is one of the most infamous unlikable-to-others characters in literature. So, Lee Welch exploring how this man ticks, if there’s an angle to his weird actions that makes him relatable, is absolutely delicious to me.
Mr. Collins in Love is a beautiful, slow-burn gay romance that takes its time focusing on this complex character, his motivation, his thoughts, and feelings, and gives him a chance to redeem himself. It’s a very special book that’s leaning a bit more toward Fiction than a traditional Romance novel. It also very realistically draws a picture of how a Happily Ever After could look for a man like Mr. Collins in the early 1800s.
Joel Leslie has a breathtaking range as a narrator and adds his part in making Mr. Collins a full-fledged, relatable person.
Perfect for: Jane Austen fans ready to see a new side of a most awkward character, anyone who loves thoughtful LGBTQ+ historical romance, and fans of neurodivergent love stories!
The Everlasting
By Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by Moira Quirk, Sid Sagar
Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
The Everlasting is an absolutely delicious love story full of timey-wimey stuff! The story unfolds beautifully as we get to know the kingdom of Dominion, historian Owen and legendary lady knight Una.
It’s difficult to properly gush about this book without giving too much away. You will just have to trust me (and pretty much every other reviewer, haha). This book managed to pull me in from page one, just to leave me wide-eyed and in awe after it ended with a feeling of “oh my god, what just happened?!”
Moira Quirk and Sid Sagar turned this epic book into such an enchanting audiobook that I cannot recommend enough to you!
Perfect for: Anyone who devoured This Is How You Lose the Time War like I did, and love their romance with a side of time-bending complexity.
November 2025
Her One Regret
By Donna Freitas
Narrated by Victoria Villarreal
Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
I was arriving back home from a walk with my dog, when I reconsidered and went on another round, only so I could continue listening to this audiobook!
Donna Freitas gives us a very intimate and raw look at three young women, Lucy, Michelle, and Julia, who all experience motherhood very differently. We also get the point of view of Diana, a retired detective who is still haunted by the cases of a woman who was kidnapped and never found, and a woman who was found but then drowned with her baby.
This book moved me so deeply because it asks uncomfortable questions about regretting motherhood but never goes for cheap thrills. The claustrophobic atmosphere is built through Julia’s unbearable feeling of being stuck and Michelle’s despair over having lost her best friend.
Her One Regret tells several stories and does each of them justice. Victoria Villarreal did a breathtakingly good narration that kept me deeply invested in these characters.
Perfect for: Fans of character-driven, feminist fiction and anyone who appreciates honest, raw explorations of motherhood.
Deadly Ever After
By Brittany Johnson
Narrated by Kimberly Woods and Marcella Cox
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
I love a good fairytale, and Deadly Ever After is just that, as we accompany two princesses through a kind of purgatory afterlife forest.
And we have a quite literal opposites attract situation here, as Princess Amala is everything we have come to expect from fairytale princesses: Sweet, quiet, gentle. Kha’dasia is the opposite: Rough, strong, wild. And the two struggle to form an alliance, as they have to brave a track through the weird forest to reach Amala’s prince, so they can share true love’s kiss and bring both princesses back to life.
Alas, this is a sapphic love story, so things with the One True Love prince aren’t quite what they seem! Kimberly Woods and Marcella Cox brought all the tension and emotions out in this amazing adventure / court intrigue fantasy!
Perfect for: My fellow fans of sapphic fairy tale retellings and enjoy their happily-ever-afters with a twist.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
By qntm
Narrated by Rebecca Calder
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
Describing this book as intense doesn’t quite capture it. Rebecca Calder’s voice and delivery, that matches perfectly with both the files and the people in this novel, is breathtakingly good! If she had more audiobooks out, I instantly would have gotten another one.
The story itself is wild (for anyone who – like me – is not familiar with the SCP Foundation). So, for the uninitiated, what this book deals with are antimemes: Entities and ideas that are instantly forgotten once encountered. They are on a scale from “precious animal that protects itself by not letting itself be remembered” to monsters that can bring about the end of humanity.
But how do you fight a war against a wildly superior foe that you can’t even remember? I will likely listen to this book a second time, just to make sure I don’t have any unexpected holes in my memory!
Perfect for: Sci-Fi listeners and anyone looking for something unique with a perfect narration!
Isn’t It Obvious?
By Rachel Runya Katz
Narrated by Tamika Katon-Donegal, Leon Nixon
Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
Isn’t It Obvious? takes my most favorite “In Love, Online – Enemies IRL” trope and teases it right there on the cover! And then Rachel Runya Katz goes and does beautiful things with this theme.
Ravi makes a horrible first impression on Yael as he climbs out of her bedroom window to dodge her roommate after a ONS. Kevin, on the other hand, the designer Yael is emailing with about her podcast, turns out to be her dream guy. He’s thoughtful, caring, and talented, and the two can’t stop messaging each other.
I found this book kept an amazing balance between giving us that tropegasm and pretty healthy communication. I also really liked Yael! Tamika Katon-Donegal brought her to life so well, and I always adore Leon Nixon, especially with an accent!
Perfect for: My fellow fans of the Online Love trope and anyone looking for a bi-for-bi Romance novel!
To be continued…
Fall 2025 Audiobook Trends
Looking at this fall’s releases, I’m noticing some fascinating patterns. Cozy fantasy has absolutely exploded this year. And we’re seeing more complex, literary approaches to the genre. These aren’t just feel-good stories; they’re exploring themes of belonging, loss, and redemption while still giving us that warm, comforting feeling we crave as the weather turns cold. Cozy fantasy is really becoming a genre all of its own now. Excellent news for us!
Time-bending and non-linear storytelling seem to be having a moment in 2025. I had already talked about that in my spring trends, and I’m excited to see that it wasn’t just a blip, but seems to be continuing as a new romance theme. These stories are demanding more from listeners, asking us to piece together narratives across timelines, but the payoff is incredible!
I also absolutely applaud that it has become standard to cast two narrators for all dual point of view audiobooks, regardless of the gender of the characters. We’ve seen it now with Deadly Ever After, but also in Timothy Janovsky’s 2025 Christmas romance A Mannequin for Christmas. And I feel it adds so much more depth to an audiobook when the two main characters have clearly distinct voices.
What an exciting year this has been for audiobook fans!
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Looking for more audiobook recommendations? Here is my complete Best Audiobooks of 2025 guide!
You can also browse my favorite audiobooks from earlier in 2025:
Winter Audiobook Discoveries
Spring Audiobook Gems
Summer Listening Treasures
Eline Blackman (pronouns: she/they) fell in love with books as a child – with being read to and reading herself. 11 years ago, she bought her first Audible book. It was love at first listen! An average of 200 audiobooks per year has become the new normal, and you will rarely see Eline without a wireless earbud. Romance and Fantasy are the go-to genres for this audiobook fan.
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