If you're looking for the perfect gift for the audiobook lovers in your life this holiday season, we've got extraordinary recordings and special collections to appeal to every listener on your shopping list.

Sci-fi fans will flip for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy box set (including the Audiobook of the Year Award-winning third volume). For fellowship fanatics, The J.R.R. Tolkien Collection offers the ultimate set of Middle-Earth magnificence with The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Tales from the Perilous Realm, as well as bonus features like a hand-drawn map.

Mystery lovers will delight in the classic chills of The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection or The Essential Agatha Christie Stories. For more clever sleuthing, check out Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, most of which are available for the first time on CD, exclusively from BBC Audiobooks America.

History buffs will want to own The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, brilliantly voiced by veteran actors Richard Dreyfuss and David Straitharn. From the past to the future, usher in a healthy new year with Anti-Cancer, which offers a new lifestyle for better living.

Pop culture junkies will want their own audio copy of Slumdog Millionaire, the year's top Academy-Award winning smash film, or the beloved blockbuster Jaws. Got a friend who won't put down the remote control? Try tempting the TV lover with audio tie-ins for Torchwood, The Mighty Boosh or Monty Python. 

Classic lit lovers will be swept away by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Little Dorrit, and The Canterbury Tales (an unabridged collection translated by the renowned Burton Raffel).  But if you really want to impress a loved one with lush listening, try the massive Complete Arkangel Shakespeare set of dramatizations of all 38 of the bard's tragedy, history and comedy plays. It's enough to keep anyone's ears happy until the next holiday season!