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.
The top 15
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
About 21 days at an hour a day, 151% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
About 20 days at an hour a day, 140% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
About 14 days at an hour a day, 20% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
About 21 days at an hour a day, 142% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
About 17 days at an hour a day, 94% longer than the average romance audiobook.
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
About 23 days at an hour a day, 173% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
About 16 days at an hour a day, 89% longer than the average romance audiobook.
The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
About 13 days at an hour a day, 48% longer than the average romance audiobook.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
About 12 days at an hour a day, 42% longer than the average romance audiobook.
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
About 24 days at an hour a day, 186% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
About 20 days at an hour a day, 141% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
About 12 days at an hour a day, 40% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Replay by Ken Grimwood
About 10 days at an hour a day, 19% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
About 16 days at an hour a day, 82% longer than the average romance audiobook.
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
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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