The Fault in Our Stars Audiobook by John Green
2013 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
John Green's The Fault in Our Stars follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager living with terminal cancer, through a love story with Augustus Waters that is funny and devastating in the same breath, told in prose sharp enough to survive its own sadness.
Why the audiobook wins
Kate Rudd's narration is the reason this audiobook is often ranked above the novel itself. She finds the exact register Hazel's voice needs, wry and unsentimental, then lets the cracks show only when Green's writing earns them. You hear Hazel's breath catch around her oxygen tank in a way the page can only describe, and it changes how the whole book lands. John Green himself reads the author's note, a small, personal touch that bookends the story.
This one rewards a quiet, uninterrupted listen. Save it for a solo drive or a night when you can sit with the ending rather than have it interrupted, because Rudd's performance builds to a close that hits harder heard than read.
Rudd won the 2013 Audie and Odyssey Awards for this narration, and it's easy to hear why within the first chapter. Eight hours, one credit, and a book that has made a lot of people cry in their cars.
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