Entertainment audiobooks are the ones you put on when you just want to have a good time, no agenda required. This category pulls together comedy memoirs, celebrity tell-alls, pop culture deep dives, and the kind of breezy narrative nonfiction that makes a three-hour drive feel like twenty minutes. The performances matter enormously here, since a funny book read without timing is just words.

If you loved Tina Fey’s “Bossypants,” narrated by Fey herself in 2011, you already know what this category does best. Look for authors who recorded their own work, because that’s where the real magic lands.