Spotify keeps finding new ways to help you discover content, and this time it’s audiobooks getting the spotlight treatment.

The streaming giant just launched weekly audiobook popularity charts, available to both free and Premium subscribers. If you’ve ever loved checking Spotify Wrapped at the end of the year or peeking at your daily listening stats, think of this as the same idea applied to books. Real-time rankings showing what everyone’s listening to, updated every week.

And the current number one pick might genuinely surprise you.

Audiobook Charts Live Inside Spotify’s Audiobooks Hub

Finding the new charts is simple. They live right inside Spotify’s dedicated Audiobooks hub, so you don’t need to go hunting through menus.

Spotify weekly audiobook charts covering US and UK genre rankings

Both US and UK charts are available right now. Plus, Spotify breaks rankings down by genre too, covering romance, mystery and thriller, self-help, science fiction and fantasy, biography and memoir, business and careers, teen and young adult, religion and spirituality, history, and parenting and relationships. So whether you’re a thriller fan or a business book devotee, there’s a chart waiting for you.

The company’s director of audiobook partnerships and licensing, Duncan Bruce, put it plainly in a statement: “As we’ve proven with Music and Podcasts Charts, when content is easier to access, discover, and enjoy, the demand grows.”

That logic makes sense. Spotify’s music charts have helped launch plenty of songs into mainstream awareness. Now audiobooks get the same discovery engine working in their favor.

Free Users Get Access Too

Here’s something worth knowing before you assume this is a Premium-only perk. The audiobook charts are open to everyone, including free Spotify users.

However, there’s a catch on the listening side. Premium subscribers get 15 hours of audiobook listening per month baked into their $13 monthly plan. Free users can still browse titles and check the charts, but they’d need to buy individual audiobooks to actually listen. Spotify does offer a solid selection of titles available for purchase, so it’s not a dead end for non-subscribers.

Spotify Premium includes fifteen hours audiobook listening plus one hundred million songs

For context, Spotify Premium already includes access to more than 100 million songs alongside those audiobook hours. CNET’s editors currently rate it their top pick for best music streaming service, so the value proposition holds up pretty well.

Wuthering Heights Is Topping Both the US and UK Charts

Now for the fun part. Sitting at number one on both the US and UK audiobook charts right now is Emily Brontë’s 19th-century romantic classic, Wuthering Heights.

That’s not a typo. A novel from 1847 is beating out everything else on a modern streaming platform.

The reason isn’t a mystery, though. A buzzy new movie adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi has sent interest in the source material through the roof. It’s a classic book-to-film bump playing out in real time across the charts.

Wuthering Heights tops Spotify charts driven by Margot Robbie Jacob Elordi adaptation

Rounding out the US top three are James Clear’s wildly popular self-help book Atomic Habits at number two and Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller The Housemaid at number three. Not a bad top three for anyone looking for their next listen.

Spotify Has Been Building Out Audiobooks Since 2022

Spotify didn’t stumble into audiobooks overnight. The platform launched its audiobook offering back in 2022, and it’s been steadily adding features ever since.

Two worth knowing about: Recaps, an AI-powered catchup tool that summarizes where you left off in a book, and PageMatch, which makes switching between a printed copy and the audio version much smoother. Those are genuinely useful features for anyone who bounces between physical books and audio depending on their commute or routine.

The new weekly charts feel like a natural next step in that build-out. Discovery has always been one of streaming’s biggest selling points, and audiobooks arguably needed that boost more than music did. Most people stick to authors they already know or books they’ve seen recommended elsewhere. A live chart changes that dynamic a bit, putting new titles in front of listeners who might never have found them otherwise.

If you haven’t explored Spotify’s audiobook section yet, this might be a good excuse to start. At minimum, you can browse the genre charts for free and see what’s capturing people’s attention this week. And if Wuthering Heights has been on your reading list forever, well, the algorithm is clearly telling you something.