Libro.fm [6], the platform that enables independent bookstores to sell digital audiobooks through a co-branded online storefront, has introduced a new monthly bestseller list. The debut April 2017 list is based on sales through more than 300 independent bookstore locations during the previous month.

Libro.fm’s blog [7] features audio samples of all the titles on the April list. Audiobooks preceded by a star (*) also appeared on the Great Books on Sale [8] list.

April 2017 Audiobook Bestsellers

Fiction

1. Lincoln in the Bardo [9] by George Saunders (Penguin Random House Audio)
2. A Gentleman in Moscow [10] by Amor Towles (Penguin Random House Audio)
3. The Underground Railroad [11] (Oprah’s Book Club) by Colson Whitehead (Penguin Random House Audio)
4. Exit West [12] by Mohsin Hamid (Penguin Random House Audio)
5. *Seveneves [13] by Neal Stephenson (Brilliance Audio)
6. Commonwealth [14] by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
7. Norse Mythology [15] by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
8. Small Great Things [16] by Jodi Picoult (Penguin Random House Audio)
9. *Raven Boys, The: Book 1 of the Raven Cycle [17] by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Audio)
10. .Edgar and Lucy [18] by Victor Lodato (Macmillan Audio)

Extended List (Fiction)

• Before the Fall [19] by Noah Hawley (Hachette Audio)
• The Girl Before [20] by JP Delaney (Penguin Random House Audio)
• The Woman in Cabin 10 [21] by Ruth Ware (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition [22] by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• The Hate U Give [23] by Angie Thomas (HarperCollins)

Nonfiction

1. Alexander Hamilton [24] by Ron Chernow (Penguin Random House Audio)
2. *The Measure of a Man [25] by Sidney Poitier (HarperCollins)
3. Hillbilly Elegy [26] by J. D. Vance (HarperCollins)
4. When Breath Becomes Air [27] by Abraham Verghese and Paul Kalanithi (Penguin Random House Audio)
5. *Stiff [28]by Mary Roach (Tantor Media)
6. *The Universe in Your Hand [29] by Christophe Galfard (Blackstone Audio)
7. *Following Atticus [30] by Tom Ryan (HarperCollins)
8. Between the World and Me [31] by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Penguin Random House Audio)
9. The Book of Joy [32] by Douglas Carlton Abrams, Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu (Penguin Random House Audio)
10. Lab Girl [33] by Hope Jahren (Penguin Random House Audio)

Extended List (Nonfiction)

• The Princess Diarist [34] by Carrie Fisher (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Tears We Cannot Stop [35] by Michael Eric Dyson (Macmillan Audio)
• No One Cares About Crazy People [36] by Ron Powers (Hachette Audio)
• The Gene [37] by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• South and West [38] by Joan Didion (Penguin Random House Audio)

Indie bookstores can also offer their customers [39] a monthly audiobook subscription through Libro.fm’s new membership program. Customers try their first audiobook for $0.99 and pay $14.99 for one audiobook each month thereafter. Other benefits of the program, which launched March 1, include:

• Access to more than 70,000 titles
• 30 percent off additional audiobooks
• Free Libro.fm iOS and Android app
• Membership credits that never expire
• DRM-free (listen on multiple devices)
• Superior audio quality (2X industry standard)

Libro.fm is fully integrated with IndieCommerce [40], and a co-branded storefront is fast, free, and easy to set up.

For more information about creating a storefront, visit Libro.fm’s indie partners page [41] or contact Mark Pearson [42]. Booksellers can also learn about Libro.fm’s offer for Independent Bookstore Day here [43].