Fantasy audiobooks

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Dorothy Parker

Narrated by: Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodar...

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A variety of work from one of the most quotable of all twentieth-century authors—the inimitable Dorothy ParkerAuthor, poet, screenwriter and outstanding member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker was known for her quick wit, keen observations, and remarkable insight into the human condition. Regarded as brilliant, but known to... Read more

Drowned Wednesday

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With his unlimited imagination and thrilling storytelling, Garth Nix has created a character and a world that become even more compelling with each audiobook. As Arthur gets closer to the heart of his quest, the suspense and mystery grow more and more intense . . .

This is the third audiobook in the thrilling, triumphantly imaginative Keys to... Read more

The Prydain Chronicles Book Five: The High King

By: Lloyd Alexander

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sword of Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon in the kingdom of Prydain, has fallen into the hands of Arawn-Death-Lord. Now Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and Price Gwydion lead an army against the powerful lord. After a winter expedition filled with danger, Taran's forces arrive at Mount Dragon, evil's stronghold. There Tara is forced to make... Read more

Going Postal

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Pratchett’s] books are almost always better than they have to be, and Going Postal is no exception, full of nimble wordplay, devious plotting and outrageous situations, but always grounded in an astute understanding of human nature.” — San Francisco ChronicleThe 33rd installment in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry... Read more

The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Four of beloved author Neil Gaiman's delightfully scary, strange, and hilarious children's tales read by the author, now available unabridged. This collection includes:The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish: An unforgettable story that will take readers on a journey into the murky mind of a young boy and the perils of striking a bargain.The... Read more

Abarat - Abridged

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!A journey beyond imagination is about to unfold...It begins in Chickentown, USA. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold.When the answer comes, it’s... Read more

Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy

By: Jenny Nimmo

Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This semester at Bloor's Academy brings a few changes. There is a new art teacher, Mr. Boldova, and a new student, Belle, who lives with the Yewbeam aunts and seems to have a strange power over them.

Emma and Charlie soon discover Mr. Boldova's secret identity: He is the older brother of Ollie Sparks, the boy who lives in the attic of Bloor's... Read more

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Clive Barker, author of The Thief of Always, delivers an epic battle filled with fantasy and adventure that readers won't want to put down!All things in their time . . .Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of... Read more

Chainfire

By: Terry Goodkind

Narrated by: Jim Bond

Length: 26 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now, in Chainfire, Goodkind returns with a novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in... Read more

The Evil Elves

By: Bruce Coville

Narrated by: Ryan Sparkes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Moongobble must complete one last Mighty Task before he is accepted into the Society of Magicians. But this one is a doozy: he must retrieve "The Queen’s Belly Button"—an enchanted stone that has turned an entire elf village bad! Soon Edward and Moongobble—along with Urk the Toad, Fireball the Dragon, and the Rusty Knight—are off on their... Read more

Wild Magic

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Tamora Pierce

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This first volume of the Immortals Quartet tells the adventures of Daine, a young girl who is on the edge of discovering her own magic, and her strange connection to the animal world. This brilliant fantasy will sweep listeners into the richly imagined world of Tortall. Read more

The Wee Free Men

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year By the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.A nightmarish danger threatens... Read more

Stravaganza: City of Stars

By: Mary Hoffman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Georgia is an ordinary girl, living in London with her mother, stepfather, and bully of a stepbrother, and coping with the difficulties of growing up. But her life takes a sudden change when she buys a tiny figurine of a winged horse, and suddenly finds herself swept up into the world of the Stravagante. The tiny horse becomes her magical... Read more

A Hat Full of Sky

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The second in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic—not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this.What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature... Read more

The Wishsong of Shannara - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FANTASY TALES OF ALL TIME. NOW AN EPIC TV SERIES.
 
An ancient evil is stirring, intent on the complete destruction of all life. The Druid Allanon sets out on a dangerous journey to save the world, reluctantly aided by Brin Ohmsford, daughter of Wil Ohmsford—for she alone holds the magic power of the wishsong. But a... Read more

Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Samantha Spiro, Emilia Fox, Maxine Peake, Chiwe...

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of Much Ado About Nothing, some handsome soldiers return from battle. Yet one soldier finds himself locked in a merry war of his own...

In Shakespeare's comedy of wit, love and miscommunication, Beatrice and Benedick and Hero and Claudio are pushed into and pulled out of love, their friends playing cupid with... Read more

Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Alan Bennett

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Tumble down a rabbit hole into the extraordinary world of Lewis Carroll’s childhood classics with these delightful BBC Radio readings.

This classic collection includes two of Alice’s exciting adventures, brought to life by the incomparable Alan Bennett.

Alice in Wonderland
Young Alice leads an ordinary sort of life until, one day, she follows a... Read more

A Midsummer Night's Dream

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Becky Simpson, David Threlfall, Full Cast, Samu...

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In this BBC full-cast production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius and Helena run to the woods and stumble into a life separate from time itself.

Fairy magic wreaks havoc and midsummer madness takes over as lovers tread the delicate line between fantasy and reality.

Sylvestra le Touzel stars as Titania in this delightful... Read more

The Prydain Chronicles Book Four: Taran Wanderer

By: Lloyd Alexander

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Taran, the assistant pig-keeper who wants to be a hero, goes questing for knowledge of his parentage, hoping that his journey will ennoble him in the eyes of Eilonwy, the princess with the red-gold hair. Accompanied by several loyal friends, Taran begins his search when three wily enchantresses of the Marshes of Morva send him to consult the... Read more

Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest,...

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction
 
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
 
Cloud Atlas... Read more

The Secrets of Droon: Volume 1

By: Tony Abbott

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Secrets of Droon is an ongoing epic saga published for listeners who enjoy fantasy at its most exciting and engaging. This much-lauded series was cited by the American Booksellers Association as one of the top ten works to read while waiting for the next Harry Potter, and will finally make its audio debut in Fall 2004. Fast, whimsical... Read more

Legends II: Volume III

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Jason Culp, Pete Bradbury & Michael Emerson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Fantasty fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, the acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy finction, the long-awaited second volume is here.

Each of the bestselling writers represented in these selections from Legends II returns... Read more

Quicksilver - Abridged

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Simon Preble & Stina Nielsen

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: Yes

Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.It is a... Read more

Mattimeo

By: Brian Jacques

Narrated by: Brian Jacques & A Full Cast

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mattimeo should have been named "trouble." Always getting into mischief and quick to lose his temper, the young mouse seems an unlikely candidate to take up the great sword once wielded by the legendary Martin to defend Redwall Abbey's peaceful way of life. But when Mattimeo and his friends are kidnapped by the fierce fox Slagar the Cruel, the... Read more