Recommended Listening, Viewing, and Websites: Listening

Each year the American Library Association honors books, videos, and other outstanding materials for children and teens.

Each year the Audio Publishers Association (APA) honors the best titles in audio publishing. Awards are given in twenty-seven categories including Audiobook of the Year.

This annual award is given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.

Each year, YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks committee selects and annotates an annual list of notable audio recordings significant to young adults from those released in the past two years. The name of the list became Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults with the 2009 list and was previously known as Selected Audiobooks for Young Adults.

Selections by Booklist's editors for the best in youth audio choices.

The Notable Children’s Recordings list includes recordings for children 14 years of age and younger of especially commendable quality that demonstrate respect for young people’s intelligence and imagination; exhibit venturesome creativity; and reflect and encourage the interests of children and young adolescents in exemplary ways.

Chosen by the editors of Booklist, this represents the best audio for adults this year.

Focused on the experience of the audiobook, the members of the Council select titles that offer notable listening experiences. The winners are selected by the Listen List committee under the auspices of the CODES section of RUSA.