The audiobook gap
Which books have no audiobook?
Most books never get recorded. We check Audible’s catalogue for notable titles, publish what we find, and show you how to listen to the ones nobody narrated.
1,555 books checked182 with no Audible edition61 not in English1,227 narrated in English
Never recorded
Books with no audiobook
The Catcher in the RyeNo audiobookWatchmenNo audiobookQuotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tungNo audiobookThe Black Book of CommunismNo audiobookNauseaNo audiobookThe Diary of a ChambermaidNo audiobookThe MousetrapNo audiobookFoucault's PendulumNo audiobookMother Courage and Her ChildrenNo audiobookThe Fox and the HoundNo audiobookExistentialism and HumanismNo audiobookThe Brothers LionheartNo audiobookAnotherNo audiobookThe Little Golden CalfNo audiobookBusiness is businessNo audiobookJamiliaNo audiobookParis in the Twentieth CenturyNo audiobookThe VisitNo audiobookWind, Sand and StarsNo audiobookThe Bad BeginningNo audiobookThérèse DesqueyrouxNo audiobookSmith of Wootton MajorNo audiobookThe C Programming LanguageNo audiobookMio, My SonNo audiobook
Recorded, but not in English
No English audiobook
Audible lists 61 of these in another language and never in English. If English is the language you read in, they are as unlistenable as the ones nobody recorded at all.
The Threepenny OperaGerman only
Mat'Mandarin_chinese only
The Twelve ChairsRussian only
The EgyptianSpanish only
MomoGerman only
Lost in AmericaGerman only
Pedro PáramoSpanish only
Night FlightFrench only
War with the NewtsCzech only
The Island of the Day BeforeSpanish only
No ExitFrench only
L'homme révoltéFrench only
2010: Odyssey TwoSpanish only
The Chase of the Golden MeteorRussian only
Of Human BondageSpanish only
The True Story of Ah QMandarin_chinese only
YermaSpanish only
Letter to His FatherSpanish only
The Moon and SixpenceSpanish only
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedSpanish only
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids BriggeGerman only
Like Water for ChocolateSpanish only
AmokDanish only
EdenGerman only
Beneath the WheelGerman only
Rama IIFrench only
The Fatal EggsRussian only
L'Oeuvre au noirSpanish only
The Time of the HeroSpanish only
Die schwarzen BrüderGerman only
The Gospel According to Jesus ChristSpanish only
Accidental Death of an AnarchistItalian only
El TúnelSpanish only
AtomisedFrench only
The BatSpanish only
KnulpItalian only
MistSpanish only
The Life Before UsFrench only
Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved ReturnsGerman only
Mona Lisa OverdriveGerman only
Count ZeroGerman only
AlcoolsFrench only
Anne of InglesideSpanish only
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982Spanish only
AusterlitzGerman only
Dog YearsSpanish only
ContemplationSpanish only
KrabatGerman only
Decisive Moments in HistoryGerman only
CrabwalkGerman only
La Symphonie PastoraleFrench only
The ImmoralistFrench only
The Razor's EdgeSpanish only
Der UntertanGerman only
MephistoGerman only
The Bad GirlSpanish only
Merry-Go-RoundGerman only
Platero and ISpanish only
Aunt Julia and the ScriptwriterSpanish only
IllusionsFrench only
AndorraGerman onlyAlready narrated
Books that do have one
The Little PrinceAudiobook exists
The Lord of the RingsAudiobook exists
Nineteen Eighty-FourAudiobook exists
Animal FarmAudiobook exists
The HobbitAudiobook exists
The RepublicAudiobook exists
The AlchemistAudiobook exists
The Old Man and the SeaAudiobook exists
The Da Vinci CodeAudiobook exists
The StrangerAudiobook exists
The MetamorphosisAudiobook exists
The Great GatsbyAudiobook existsA book nobody recorded is still a book you can listen to.
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