Caroline Peckham is one half of the bestselling duo behind the Zodiac Academy series, and her books hit differently as audiobooks. The narrators lean hard into the chaos, the rivalry, the slow-burn tension, and the found-family dynamics that make her fantasy worlds so compulsively readable. You feel the banter land in real time, and the emotional gut-punches, and there are many, tend to sneak up on you harder when someone is reading them into your ears.

If you love romantasy that refuses to be quiet about its feelings, this is your corner. Peckham’s co-written series with Susanne Valenti run long, often past twenty hours per book, so they reward listeners who want to live inside a world for a while rather than just visit it.