If you take say a Harry Potter audiobook on 7 CD's, each with 30 or more tracks your can import these into iTunes - but it handles these as the same a set of music tracks.
You can adjust the import settings to use a lower bitrate for a smaller file size (as the spoken word can be compressed more than music) but itunes does not handle CD audiobooks very well.
If you are lucky it will play each disk and track in the right order, (you may need to create custom playlists to do this easily), and it's unlikely that you will ever want a selection of these "tracks" played in a random order with your music.
Audiobooks purchased or downloaded from the store are found in their own section of itunes. These are recognised not by the Genre property but by being in m4b files rather than m4a (regular music and imported CDs) or m4p (DRM protected music files). All of these type are essentially the same using the AAC compression type of the mpeg 4 standard.
You can convert your CDs using itunes or other programs to a set of m4a files, then combine these into a m4b audiobook file.
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