10 Audiobooks That Go Above and Beyond Just Narrated Words

If you're looking for a truly amusive communicative backed by an unthinkable narrator, I can't urge Dungeon Crawler Carl enough. It's 1 of my favourite LitRPG books and is perfectly bonkers from commencement to finish. The communicative follows a feline named Carl and his ex-girlfriend's feline arsenic the world gets overtaken by aliens moving an ongoing intergalactic crippled show. It's a truly amusive work with astonishing extent arsenic you get further into the series. The full happening is elevated adjacent much by narrator, Jeff Hays, who brings each of the brainsick characters to life. It's 1 of those books wherever the audiobook mentation truly is better, successful my opinion.

There are presently 8 Dungeon Crawler Carl books successful the bid with a ninth connected the mode successful May. The bid has already been picked up for a TV adaptation and is getting its ain tabletop RPG.

The Harry Potter books person had galore antithetic iterations astatine this point, including aggregate audiobook versions. That being said, the caller full-cast audio editions are thing wholly caller and worthy your clip adjacent if you've work the books aggregate times. The formed features high-profile names similar Hugh Laurie arsenic Dumbledore and Riz Ahmed arsenic Snape. The accumulation worth is besides wonderful, with tons of small inheritance details and noises mixed into the experience. I've listened to the archetypal 2 books successful this format and perfectly loved it.

The archetypal six books person each received the full-cast audio treatment, with the last publication releasing connected May 12, 2026.

Project Hail Mary is getting a batch of attraction these days acknowledgment to the caller Ryan Gosling movie, but everyone I've talked to maintains that the publication is inactive better. While I haven't watched the movie yet, Andy Weir's sciency abstraction caller is 1 of my favourite sci-fi books of each time. What's more, the audiobook assemblage consistently lists Ray Porter's rendition of the communicative arsenic 1 of the champion successful the industry. Some listeners person adjacent gone truthful acold arsenic to accidental they person occupation listening to thing other aft Project Hail Mary, truthful beryllium cautious with this one!

Brandon Sanderson has produced 1 of the astir palmy phantasy publication franchises of the modern age. I can't urge his Cosmere beingness enough. But ironically, it's his sci-fi bid I'm recommending arsenic 1 of my favourite audiobooks. Skyward is the communicative of a young miss named Spensa whose imagination is to go a aviator and combat the aliens who person been attacking humanity for years. It's a fast-paced communicative that falls determination betwixt Ender's Game and Star Wars, with narrator Suzy Jackson genuinely elevating the emotion of the characters.

I started listening to the Skyward audiobooks portion I was sick a fewer years backmost and ended up binge-listening to each of them astatine once. The bid is made up of 4 books, with Spensa's communicative wrapping up successful the 4th entry.

The Lord of the Rings books are what fundamentally birthed the full phantasy genre, truthful it shouldn't beryllium excessively astonishing to spot them connected this list. Tolkien's enactment has transcended into beauteous overmuch each medium, with Peter Jackson's movie trilogy starring the way. For those who loved the movies but don't needfully privation to work the books themselves, the audiobook is an fantabulous compromise. That's due to the fact that Andy Serkis (the dependable of Gollum) is really the 1 that narrates the full thing. Serkis does an fantabulous occupation of doing each of the voices without straight copying the formed of the movie. His rendition of the books is precise well-received connected the LotR Reddit, which tells you each you request to know.

Jim Butcher had been penning The Dresden Files for years and the books person consistently been 1 of my favourite reads. The bid has the close premix of municipality phantasy and noir transgression thriller that makes for a alternatively entertaining work (or listen). The communicative follows a Wizard based successful Chicago who makes a surviving solving magical-related cases for clients. The narration is done by James Marsten, who starts to deed his stride successful publication 3 of this series. If you're looking for longer bid to truly excavation into, I highly urge starting with these.

There person been a full of 18 Dresden Files books successful the bid truthful far, with the astir caller summation arriving conscionable this year.

I'm a large instrumentality of romantasy books, and Throne of Glass is 1 of my all-time favorites. Sarah J. Maas has gotten much attraction successful the BookTok assemblage for her ACOTAR series, but I recovered Throne of Glass to beryllium overmuch much suitable to a wider audience. There's surely immoderate precise intimate moments successful the series, but the communicative is much astir quality and worldbuilding than the romance itself. Following Celaena's communicative from slavery to champion is thing you tin easy perceive to without getting too worked up and Elizabeth Evans does a terrific occupation with narration.

If you privation thing a spot steamier, it's worthy noting that A Court of Thorns and Roses has a acceptable of full-cast audiobooks that are rather good. With ACOTAR publication 6 and 7 connected the mode aboriginal this year, there's ne'er been a amended clip to go a instrumentality of her work.

I haven't really work Pierce Brown's Red Rising series, but it comes highly recommended. Our phantasy publication expert, Scott White, has it listed arsenic 1 of the champion books for Brandon Sanderson fans to work next. The communicative follows Darrow, a lowly miner connected Mars who rises from the tunnels to the halfway signifier of a revolution. It's the cleanable premix of sci-fi and enactment for anyone looking for a thrilling abstraction saga to beryllium afloat absorbed by.

As for the audiobooks, the assemblage is simply a spot divided connected which ones you should perceive to. There's the modular narration version, voiced by Tim Gerard Reynolds, arsenic good arsenic a full-cast dramatized version. Many fans assertion the Reynolds mentation to beryllium superior, but it truly depends connected what you're looking for successful your audio experience.

IT is 1 of the astir fashionable books by Stephen King. It's gotten aggregate movie adaptations since it's merchandise backmost successful 1986 and adjacent a spin-off bid (Welcome to Derry) to transportation connected its layered themes of suspense, relationship and terror. If you're a instrumentality of fearfulness and are looking for a spooky audiobook, there's nary amended starting constituent than IT. Sam Weber's narration goes supra and beyond, with galore listeners calling it 1 of the champion audiobooks retired there. One Reddit idiosyncratic went truthful acold arsenic to accidental this astir Weber's performance: "You tin archer he’s wholly invested, knows each quality truthful good and brings the communicative to life".

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire bid is easy 1 of the astir fashionable stories connected the satellite close now. It spawned the Game of Thrones TV amusement and assorted HBO spin-offs that fans conscionable can't get capable of. If you've watched the amusement and are looking to dive into the root material, I'd decidedly urge starting with the audiobooks first. The narrator, Roy Dotrice, does an fantabulous occupation astatine bringing the combat scenes to beingness and making adjacent the astir infinitesimal details much enjoyable. The audiobooks, successful my opinion, are overmuch easier to bask than the dense novels themselves.

I can't speech astir this bid without mentioning that it inactive isn't finished. Fans person been waiting connected the adjacent publication successful the bid for ages present and Martin has said helium mightiness not decorativeness it. Roy Dotrice has unluckily passed distant arsenic well, truthful if the bid ever does get finished, it volition request a caller narrator.

What are immoderate of your favourite audiobooks close now? Let maine cognize successful the comments.

Jacob Kienlen is simply a Senior Audience Development Strategist and Writer for IGN. Born and raised successful Portland, Oregon, helium has considered the Northwest his location for his full life. With a bachelor's grade successful connection and 10 years of nonrecreational penning experience, his expertise is dispersed crossed a assortment of antithetic popular civilization topics -- from TV bid to books and the latest Pokémon games.