The best young adult audiobooks, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best young adult audiobook in our dataset is Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan: 4.70★ across 74 ratings and 12 estimated listening hours. We scored every published young adult audiobook in our dataset: 199 qualify (young adult-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 14,186 listener ratings between them. The top 20 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 20
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan
About 12 days at an hour a day, 6% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1) by Scott Cawthon
About 12 days at an hour a day, 39% longer than the average horror audiobook.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
About 16 days at an hour a day, 34% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
About 12 days at an hour a day, right at the average fantasy length.
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
About 12 days at an hour a day, right at the average science fiction length.
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
About 15 days at an hour a day, 29% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
About 22 days at an hour a day, 93% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
About 6 days at an hour a day, 32% shorter than the average young adult audiobook.
Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
About 9 days at an hour a day, right at the average young adult length.
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
About 11 days at an hour a day, 30% longer than the average young adult audiobook.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
About 10 days at an hour a day, 19% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
About 14 days at an hour a day, 57% longer than the average young adult audiobook.
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
About 12 days at an hour a day, right at the average fantasy length.
Solitaire by Alice Oseman
About 11 days at an hour a day, 28% longer than the average romance audiobook.
The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
About 15 days at an hour a day, 26% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson
About 17 days at an hour a day, 37% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Heartstopper, Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
About 12 days at an hour a day, 37% longer than the average romance audiobook.
The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass
About 9 days at an hour a day, 8% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
About 21 days at an hour a day, 142% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
About 25 days at an hour a day, 192% longer than the average romance audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published young adult audiobook in our dataset qualifies: 199 books. Each is scored by its Open Library listener rating weighted by its rating count: score = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), where R is the book's rating, v its number of ratings, and C = 4.03★ the mean across all 2,195 published books we measured. Fewer ratings pull a score toward that mean, so a high rating on a handful of votes can't outrank a slightly lower one backed by hundreds. A book ranks here only when its own Open Library subject data confirms the young adult shelf; surfacing in a young adult search alone doesn't qualify it. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-10-12; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All young adult audiobooks we measured
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