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The best romantasy audiobooks, ranked by the data

Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best romantasy audiobook in our dataset is Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas: 4.78★ across 32 ratings and 20.8 estimated listening hours. We scored every published romantasy audiobook in our dataset: 77 qualify (romantasy-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 3,394 listener ratings between them. The top 15 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.

77books qualify
3,394listener ratings behind the list
14avg hours (est.)
1,081combined hrs ranked (est.)

The top 15

  1. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

    20.8 hrs est. · 4.78★ · 32 ratings · weighted score 4.32

    About 21 days at an hour a day, 151% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  2. Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

    19.9 hrs est. · 4.63★ · 41 ratings · weighted score 4.30

    About 20 days at an hour a day, 140% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  3. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

    13.2 hrs est. · 4.41★ · 44 ratings · weighted score 4.21

    About 14 days at an hour a day, 20% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.

  4. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

    20.1 hrs est. · 4.62★ · 21 ratings · weighted score 4.20

    About 21 days at an hour a day, 142% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  5. Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

    16.1 hrs est. · 4.48★ · 31 ratings · weighted score 4.20

    About 17 days at an hour a day, 94% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  6. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

    22.7 hrs est. · 4.42★ · 38 ratings · weighted score 4.20

    About 23 days at an hour a day, 173% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  7. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

    15.7 hrs est. · 4.25★ · 92 ratings · weighted score 4.17

    About 16 days at an hour a day, 89% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  8. The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

    12.3 hrs est. · 4.59★ · 17 ratings · weighted score 4.17

    About 13 days at an hour a day, 48% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  9. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

    11.8 hrs est. · 4.24★ · 98 ratings · weighted score 4.17

    About 12 days at an hour a day, 42% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  10. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

    23.7 hrs est. · 4.60★ · 15 ratings · weighted score 4.16

    About 24 days at an hour a day, 186% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  11. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

    20 hrs est. · 4.42★ · 24 ratings · weighted score 4.15

    About 20 days at an hour a day, 141% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  12. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

    11.6 hrs est. · 4.73★ · 11 ratings · weighted score 4.15

    About 12 days at an hour a day, 40% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  13. Replay by Ken Grimwood

    9.9 hrs est. · 4.35★ · 26 ratings · weighted score 4.14

    About 10 days at an hour a day, 19% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  14. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

    15.1 hrs est. · 4.50★ · 14 ratings · weighted score 4.13

    About 16 days at an hour a day, 82% longer than the average romance audiobook.

  15. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

    23.8 hrs est. · 4.33★ · 24 ratings · weighted score 4.12

    About 24 days at an hour a day, 187% longer than the average romance audiobook.

How this ranking works

Every published romantasy audiobook in our dataset qualifies: 77 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 2,178 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 romantasy shelf; surfacing in a romantasy 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 2026-08-17; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All romantasy audiobooks we measured

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