Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, a wonderful combination of journalism and oral history that celebrates the generation of Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and brought America to the forefront of world politics, science, and art, leads off our collection of the top nonfiction audiobooks of the year. It was a great year for fiction in audiobooks as well, including several extraordinary new audio editions of classic works. Some of the best featured authors reading their own works; others come to life through the outstanding performances of some of the world's great actors. See our picks for the most outstanding of the year.