EXCLUSIVE: A summer full of splashy book adaptations from The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 to I Know What You Did Last Summer has sent viewers flocking to Spotify to listen to their source material.
The streaming service has measured some massive increases in audiobook engagement in the two weeks following the releases of The Hunting Wives, We Were Liars and more, the company tells us.
Leading the trend is May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives, which saw a 605% increase in global listening in the two weeks following its arrival on Netflix July 21, 2025. The 8-episode first season of the show stars Malin Akerman as Margo Banks, Brittany Snow as Sophie O’Neil and more.
Next with a 521% increase in global listening is Lois Duncan’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, which got a remake treatment starring Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt and more. Hewitt, Geller, Prinze Jr. and more led the 1997 film adaptation of Duncan’s novel.
E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars splashed onto Prime Video June 18 in a binge release with all eight episodes, and two weeks later, the audiobook saw a 217% increase in global listening on Spotify. Lockhart also wrote a prequel book titled Family of Liars, which provided grounds for a potential second season of the show. Prime Video’s head of television Vernon Sanders told Deadline that a writers’ room is at work for Season 2.
Last, but certainly not least, comes Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. Two weeks following the Season 3 premiere with two episodes, Han’s first book increased in global listening by 163%, the second book, It’s Not Summer Without You, saw a 122% increase and the third book, We’ll Always Have Summer, increased in global listening by 90%. The show has now reached its halfway episodic release with five episodes left to go including the finale.
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This engagement trend can also be seen with new seasons of popular shows prompting rewatches of previous seasons, like with Netflix’s Wednesday for example, which saw Season 1 become the second-most-watched show on the streamer last week following only Season 2 Part 1. It can be seen in theatrical releases, too, for film franchises like Jurassic World, which saw Jurassic World Dominion get a boost in streaming viewership following the release of the Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali-starring Jurassic World Rebirth.
The numbers from Spotify provide another example of cross-platform engagement with IP.
