Your Favorite Audio Stories Of 2017 On NPR One

At NPR, we know there's a difference between the news that you listen to, and the stories you love.

This year, there was a lot of news that grabbed your attention: several major hurricanes; a new president in office who is ripping up the conventions of Washington; and terrorist attacks both at home and abroad. But we also reported on stories that help us understand how to make our lives better and what makes us human beings tick. The former types of stories we feel we need to know about, the latter we enjoy knowing about.

We can track your favorites by allows listeners to mark stories as interesting, or share them. We also can see how long you spend with a story. (.) That means we can rate NPR's top audio stories based on so-called "listening rates" and also by "love rates." We collect this data to learn about how to present our stories more effectively.